Today was a great day! My first patient was my patient from last week...the really nice one. I finished her up and did my subgingival irrigation on her. Then my afternoon patient canceled so my wonderful fiance came in!!!!!! I was able to do so much with him because some of those PEs I don't want to do on strangers for many reasons including...it takes a lot of their time and sometimes they may think I am not proficient in certain things. I guess thats a stupid reason...because they know we are students...but I still want to look as professional as possible. I did Oraquix, CRA, and diagnodent on him this afternoon. It was great. He is a great guy and I love him so much for sacrificing his homework time to come up and be my patient.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
What a nice patient!
This morning we had a lab so no patients! We went over extra oral fulcrums, medicaments, blood glucose testing, saliva testing, files, piezo, and irrigation. We practiced placing medicaments in cold hot dogs and the smell made me sick. ha ha i had to get out of there! Then this afternoon I had a mentally/physically disabled patient but she was so helpful and had such a good mood. She was very patient and nice. She was fun to talk to and was very compliant. She was 2 quads of a 3 and 2 of a 5. So that was nice!!!
Posted by Casey's Dental Hygiene Blog at 3:50 PM 0 comments
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
MOCK BOARD!!!
Today was mock boards! my patient came this morning and i was able to get her checked in right away. I'm glad i took her xrays on friday because i would have been pushing it to check in on time if i had to take xrays. i scaled the LL and 4 additional teeth on the UL for 90 minutes. And then even though i had 30 more minutes i was done. I'd ultrasoniced 3 times and handscaled 3 times so i figured that if i had missed a spot i'd still miss it in 30 minutes. So i sent my patient to check out and i missed one spot on the distal of 15. but that was it!!! i didn't have any probing errors so the only points i missed were 6 points for the 15D and 4 points for using my second submission. I got 90/100! yay!!!!! I felt so good about it. Then i had to stay for the afternoon to be a student examiner.
i felt really good about today. ha ha that still doesn't change the fact that i have a pounding headache from all the stress and only getting 4 hours of sleep last night. ;)
Posted by Casey's Dental Hygiene Blog at 2:37 PM 0 comments
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Untitled (mainly because I can't think of a good title)
This morning went well. My patient was on time! In fact he was early so it was nice. Then Shalyce's patient needed sealants so I got to do sealants on her. Thats awesome! Then my afternoon patient was coming back from the previous appointment. He was the one with cottage cheese plaque. ha ha luckily my OHI sunk in because he started brushing and his PFI was greatly improved. I finished him as well. I love it when patients come and are on time and are patient and happy and nice.
Posted by Casey's Dental Hygiene Blog at 2:46 PM 0 comments