What a day.

Today I got a lot of stuff done! On my first patient, I got a set of bitewings, 2 PA's, the blood glucose PE, and 4 quads of a class II. This patient had some severe bone loss on two of her anterior teeth. It was kind of unusual. Dr. Naylor came and evaluated her and ended up referring her to a Periodontist for an evaluation.  I hope that she goes and gets everything taken care of. My second patient was my class IV patient. The last time she came in I got half of her mouth done. Jenn had to give her the injections, because I was not able to yet. My patient was crying very loudly when Jenn administered the anesthetic. Today, I am able to give anesthetic to my patient and I am horrified!! I have only given Michelle injections, this will be my first patient.  I am working on the left side of my patient's mouth today and am terrified to give the left PSA. I have been fretting about it all day. I decided to put my patient on Nitrous to calm her down from the anxiety of getting the shots. Luckily, I got to pass off my Nitrous PE, hooray! Dr. Hanson watched me give my injections. I did the lower ones first.  I passed off my periodontal files with Dr. Hanson and finished the lower quadrant. Then I was on to the maxillary quadrant where I needed to give the dreaded left PSA.  I PUT the topical anesthetic ON, where I was going to give the injections. Then I realized I had a problem, my patient did not have any upper molars, which are my landmark for the injection. I went over and told Dr. Hanson this and she looked and me and said, "then you don't need to give a PSA." DUH!!! Biggest blonde moment of my life people!! I can't believe I almost gave an injection that would be completely useless for me! It would be necessary if I was doing oral surgery! Hahaha. But luckily I was not performing any surgeries today.  The good thing about it is I don't think that I will ever make that mistake again!