tough patient

Today I worked on a thirteen year old girl who had a lot of calculus! She was classified as a 1B (healthy adult), but she was pretty tough. She was such a trooper though! I passed off my ultrasonic scaling PE on her, which is awesome. I can't wait for the day that this all becomes so easy to me. It is so hard right now, but I know that we are all still learning. I hope that she doesn't get discouraged and think that every appointment will be this hard. She hadn't had her teeth cleaned in a very long time, so she had a lot of buildup on her teeth. I explained to her that if she comes in every 6 months, it will be a lot easier at every appointment. She seemed to believe me, I hope she does!