Patient

So today I was Jessica's patient for mock patient day. She did really well. She didn't hurt me at all! She scaled my lower right quad and we got finished pretty early (well on time...but compared to everyone else it was early.) ha ha She's so fantastic! I love Jess.

I forgot

I forgot to blog last Monday so here it goes. It was another mock patient day and Jessica was my patient. She was really, really patient with me. I was trying to be brave and go subgingivally but I accidentally hurt her a couple of times. I was able to get through all the scaling but I missed about 6 clicks the first time....not very efficient. ha ha. It was good though to be able to manage my time and see how fast I actually needed to go to get it done.

4 PEs

Sealants
Air Powder Polish
Walkout
Instrument Sharpening
Long clinic with lots to do. Hails was my partner. She was awesome as usual. I got about 2.46 seconds to practice my subgingival exploring and it was good. I'm feeling more comfortable it.

I'm the enemy of the cavity...!

Before reading this post you must check out this link!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU4iWJNkD68

That is an old-school clip that Lisa Simpson had to watch when she went to the dental office one day! ha ha LOVED IT!!

Anyways...today we air-powder polished and placed sealants. I have to say...I'm not sold on the APP yet...maybe its because I didn't get to see any stain get taken off cuz Natalie's teeth didn't really need it, or maybe its because the APP stings my mouth...I dunno...I'll definitely have to use it some more if it wants to win me over.
Oh...today I knocked Natalie's chart into the sink and the sink turned on...soaked her file! ha ha Whoops. Luckily everything was salvaged...even her X-rays were ok. :) just Casey being Casey (OH MY GOSH! I can't believe I just used a phrase coined by the Red Sox!!!) shh...don't tell a soul.
I'm excited that we're doing sealants. Mine definitely need to be redone. I haven't had new ones since about 7 years ago.

I got to be the operator today!

Today Candace was my patient. She is awesome! We basically did everything like last time. I'm still really, really uncomfortable with my wrist movements with my posterior scaling. I don't know why I have such a hard time with it. I'm also way too tentative with getting under the papilla in the proximal surfaces of the teeth to scale. I don't want to hurt them, and even though its not hurting them as long as I'm adapted, I'm still really nervous to go there. ha ha I'm sure in another year I'll read this and laugh at how scared and unsure I am. (at least I hope I'll laugh at it) he he It was a great day!

First Mock Patient Day

Today I was the patient all day! Candace was my hygienist and we did almost everything (besides exploring). Candace was way good! It was a fun break. We practiced applying fluoride. I had a tray for 4 minutes on one half of my mouth and then the varnish on the other half and holy cow...I don't like the varnish. It feels way weird in my mouth. I'm going home and taking it off...I know thats bad but I'll bet most of the pts that get varnish take it off so its not doing any good anyway. I think I'll always stick to foam unless I have a small child that needs the varnish.

You know you want some of this purple tongue

Yes today instead of just 2 drops of disclosing agent, I accidentally squirted like half the bottle (slight exaggeration) into my mouth and oh boy! Talk about a purple tongue!!! A deep, royal purple that still (4 hours later) is still purple! Hailey and I were partners!! wahoo! She was way good. We polished and flossed and then practiced our scaling. Everyone seems so confident with their posterior scaling and I'm still struggling. Anterior is a piece of cake for me but the posterior angles are just impossible for me to get. I can understand them when we talk about them but when it comes to actually putting it into practice, I can't get it. Hmm...hopefully one day. When that day comes I'll probably treat everyone to ice cream or something! So if you are reading this...remind me that I promised you ice cream when I got posterior scaling. ha ha Or we could just go get ice cream now...cuz I just love that stuff!