Productive day

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.

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!!!

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. ;)

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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.

Let this be a lesson to everyone!

My morning and afternoon patients were both confirmed last night and then they were both majorly late for their appointments today. I am so annoyed!!! Its like c'mon...don't be mad at me if I can't finish your entire class 2 mouth today if you only give me an hour and a half and you're a new patient!!! AHH! and then I get in trouble for being late on check out...when I was done half an hour before but the instructors never came over to me. This morning we had 3 instructors...but only 2 were to be found and they were over in other pods that they didn't belong to...so I got left out...and therefore late...and therefore a got in trouble. Not very fair if you ask me.

Easy VA day

Another easy day at the VA. I'm getting pretty lucky that all my patients have been showing up. Some of the other girls haven't had very good luck with VA patients. My patient this morning was a very easy class 2 and my afternoon patient was a class 1b. He was pretty conversive. We talked about skiing a lot. He is profesh is sounds like. I didn't have any scaling errors but I don't credit that to my skill. I credit it to the lack of deposits on my patients. The big news of the day is that Staci and I beat Kami's own score at the Ragdoll game on her iPhone. ha ha I feel pretty good about that. ;)

Class 4

This morning I had the nicest guy come and be my patient. He ended up being a class 4! We gave him some anesthetic and the I started working on the LR quad. He was a really nice guy and very patient. I hope he's willing to come back next time so I can finish him up. I told him that once the anesthetic wore off he'd be pretty sore. I was down in pockets of 7 and 8 in most of the posterior. Then my afternoon patient canceled. He called at 12:05 to tell me he wouldn't be able to make it to the 12:30 apt. I guess I'm lucky that he even called. So I scrambled to find another one. Luckily my step-dad came up for me. What a nice guy!