Bad day

Today I pass off sealant, which was good, but I also worked on another patient and only got one quad done! boo. We switched instructors today and I missed a million spots!!!! I NEVER miss that much.. What is my deal?? Oh well, I can only learn from my mistakes. Hopefully next time I will do better.

hard day

Today I had a hard day. My patient text me last night at 10:40 PM and told me she will be an hour late..crap. So, I had John come in to do an OD so I had someone in the chair. His appointment took longer, because it turns out that he is pre-hypertensive, boo! That threw me off a little. So then, I was late seating my next patient, who is a class III periodontitis patient. She had to be anesthetized and I felt like I had no idea how to scale her teeth. It was my first time using my posterior gracey's, so that was a little different. I missed calculus on almost all of her teeth..Professor Costley had to finish scaling because I ran out of time. Geeeeeeeeez..I couldn't catch a break today.. It was one of those days that I think to myself, "what are you doing?? you can't do this." Quite discouraging. I just have to remember, we are all struggling because we are all learning. We will all have bad days along with good days. I just have to tough the bad days out.

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!

Productive day

Today I got a lot done! I love days like today!! I saw an eleven year old patient, but she had all her adult teeth, so she was classified as an adult. I took x-rays, did an OD, scaled her whole mouth, polished, placed fluoride and Michelle passed off a PE on my patient. Luckily, I had the help of Michelle and Whitney. They charted for me and setup and broke down my x-ray room. I love the girls that I go to school with. They are all so amazing and helpful. I can always count on them when I need help, it's awesome.

my patient loves me!

Today I finished my Spanish speaking patient. He is such a sweet guy!! He wanted to make sure that he got my name so that when he comes back to the clinic he will be able to have me clean his teeth again. So I said, "so you like me, huh?" just being a smart aleck, and he said, "no, I love you." It was so funny! I told him that he better come in on Valentine's Day then. I love treating patients! It makes the day go by so fast! I love it.

worth the wait.

My patient was an hour late today!!! I am having the worst luck with patients being on time! I got to take 18 x-rays on her today and she has 3 quads class III and 1 quad class II, so she meets a lot of requirements for me. She was definitely worth the wait!! She is a gagger and I'll probably have to have an instructor numb her up for me, but I am way excited to work on her. Her probing depths were crazy! A healthy probing depth is 1-3 mm and hers were 7-9 mm deep!! It was crazy. She was super nice! I love her hair. I was making fun of how thin my hair is and she said that's because it all went to my eyelashes. It was so sweet! She said that I have amazing eyelashes, what a nice lady.

My first spanish speaking patient.

I worked on my first Spanish speaking patient today. He is such a nice guy. He brought his son to translate, so it went really well. He only has 13 teeth, but he getting a full upper denture. I cleaned his bottom teeth. He ended up being a class III. HOORAY!! I am excited because this fills a requirement for me. I wish that I could have taken x-rays on him too, but oh well. He is coming back next week to finish his cleaning. Hopefully he'll come in after he gets his denture, so I can pass of my removable prosthesis PE. Here's hoping!