Last day for the semester!!

Today made up for last Thursday. I don't even want to get started on how bad of a day Thursday was. Lets just say I love the VA because its more of a real life experience...but I think all of us are having problems with certain personnel there. I left the VA crying. It was bad. and unprofessional. and rude.
Today however, was great! I saw a husband and wife. They were so cute. They were spanish speaking but both in english classes. So we spoke to each other in Spanglish and we were laughing so much. ha ha it was so fun. They were awesome patients. Both class V. I'm glad this semester is over...but I have next semester to look forward to/dread. I'm gonna spend the first 2 1/2 months looking for board patients!!

Flustery Day

Everyone had a bad day for some reason. ha ha I blame it on having a lab this morning. I think it makes us all complacent and then we can't get into a rhythm for the afternoon. (Plus I got a parking ticket for NO reason today and they won't excuse it.) My patient this afternoon was ok. Class II. Tons of bleeding but light calculus. I just feel like it took me 3 hours for patient treatment and I didn't get very much done. I spent half the time with the stupid charting and xrays. My patient had an STD so I was freaking out about infection control (although I think I did very well at covering my freakingoutness.) I was very professional while I was conducting the HHX in my opinion. I did do one thing that I am worried about. I was ultrasonicing and I was around a crown and my fulcrum slipped and my ultrasonic scraped across the crown on #6 and scratched it. I felt really bad. It was a complete accident. I think I slipped because there was so much blood. But no matter how many times I stopped to suction and apply pressure, it kept bleeding.
In lab this morning we practiced with the VelScope and wheelchair transfer. ha ha!!! Talk about fun! I haven't laughed so hard in clinic ever as I did with wheelchair transfer.

I'm glad its over.

Don't let the title confuse you...I really did have a great day! I just don't feel all that hot...so thats why i'm glad its over. I had a class IV this morning! The guy is so so nice! I only did one quad today even though I'd have time to do 2. I could just tell he was done. I would be too if I were him. He was really bloody and we worked hard. I did a PSA, MSA, and ASA on him so that was cool! I feel really confident in injections. My afternoon was great too. She was 2 of a III and 1 of a V. She was very nice and complimentary. She and her husband kept saying they couldn't believe how gentle I was. Thats a nice compliment...I just hope its not cuz I'm doing a crappy job. I also placed arestin in two areas on her today!

Another Great Day

My bestie came in today and she was great! I passed off a few PEs and finished her up in one apt. It was great. Then my afternoon patient was 2 quads of a 3 and 2 quads of a 5. He was also really nice. He had a ton of tobacco staining and I got it off with the ultrasonic. I did NOT want to pull out that air powder polisher. I think that thing is UNETHICAL!!! ha ha sorry Kami or anyone else who likes it. I actually think it does work well...but patients hate it and it leaves everything all salty. It kinda hurts...at least it hurt me when we did it on each other last year.

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. ;)