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.

:S

Today I had a very class II patient. Any by very I mean it was almost class III but not quite. I took 4 digital BWX with that chunky sensor. Then got through everything with the help of Mr. Solomon translating for me. I scaled the 2 lower quads (which apparently I forgot, you're supposed to scale an upper and lower in the same side. whoops) and then had about 7 missed areas! I seriously thought I got it all when I explored. Prof. Costley showed me that I wasn't adapting enough to feel properly. So I rescaled and still missed 4 areas. She said I was able to make the deposits smaller but I didn't get rid of them. :S I need to use more lateral pressure and get more subgingivally.

2 in 1

I had 2 patients today. My friend came in at 8 and I took a FMX phosphor plates on her since my other pt wasn't coming in until 9. She needed to be done my 10:30 for a test so I just got through the OHI. She is a class V so I'm excited to get those requirements.

Completed

Today I started and completed my patient all in one appointment! She was on time which was nice. We got started right away and she had a very small HHX. Then she had an incredibly healthy mouth with hardly any calculus. We took 4 BWX with phosphor plates and I handscaled and ultrasoniced the lower anteriors because of the lingual bar. I missed 3 areas of calculus which is ok for me considering I scaled the whole mouth.
Then at the end I was rushing through the walkout to get her out on time. I accidently added the BWX on the statement twice so Mr. Solomon had to change it in the computer. Then he told me my patient wanted to talk to me. She said she wanted to reschedule for her 6 month cleaning. I was kinda in shock cuz I was expecting her to never want to come back since its such a long appointment...and I was like...you want to reschedule with me?! ha ha whoops...she said yeah so we scheduled for next semester. I'm kinda surprised that someone would want to come to a three hour appointment. But thats cool