Learning Exprience

Today I had to finish 2 quads of a class 2. holy cow...i was not prepared for going so deep into the pockets. I guess my other class 2s haven't had very many deep pockets or something because today was totally new for me. I had thousands of errors but it wasn't a suprise for me. i knew i would...i was having a hard time getting fulcrums and angles especially on her 3rd molars! I was retarted and made her my exam...by far the hardest class 2 i could have chosen for an exam. ha ha oh well. i still did ok and i learned a lot. it was good to be able to get that far down into the pockets and hopefully i won't be as tentative next time i have pockets.

Need to focus on my time

Today went well. My first pt had a meeting at 9:30 so we just got through OD. Then my next pt came in and I finished his Tx. I spent 20 min on the first quad. I am having a hard time with time. I am so focused on not getting any errors that I scale for years and then waste time. But I'm just not sure the difference between tooth surface if its rough and calculus. I finished the rest of his mouth in 15 min because Kim told me that he just had rough teeth and not calc. I didn't have any errors though so I feel good about that.

Yay!

Yay! Two good patient days this week! Its good to finally be in a rhythm and feel not as stressed. My patient today was just coming in to finish her cleaning as well. I scaled LL, UR, and UL. Class IB. I only missed two tiny areas total and nothing on the second scale check. I feel really good about that. My patient was very nice and she even fell asleep for a second. ha ha

Patient Finished

Today I had a patient come in to complete his treatment. I handscaled full mouth. He was LL and LR class II and UL and UR class I. Everything went really well. I only had 2 missed areas in the whole mouth which I thought was very nice.