Good day!

I Love my hubby! He came in today and let me do a FMX on him. He wasn't very compliant (he was being so silly and spinning around in the chair and wouldn't open etc, ectc...) but we didn't have any retakes. I cleaned 1 Quad but his LR Quad qualified for the BOARD! I hope I can save him for myself! That would be SWEET!!!
My 2nd patient was pretty cool. She had piercings in many places and lots of recession/boneloss from a lip ring adj to #24 & 25. Only 4 Quads of 1B but a good patient!

Yet another Class V

Oh man! If I get another class V I'll scream!!! Both of my patients today were class V's but I SWEAR that they were too hard to be a class V! AND they both had the HHX from Hell!! UG! TONS of medical problems and medications. UG! My AM patient was so chatty and I could have finished sooner but she wouldn't stop talking! My PM patient was ONLY Spanish-speaking....I mean ONLY SPANISH-SPEAKING! She didn't even understand me telling her my name! UG! And she had already cancelled on me and shown up on the wrong day, but I was forced to see her. SO DUMB! So after a horendous time getting her HHX done (thanks to Midtown for having such great medical records) I started and finished! But alas....yet another class V. I'm just glad I got them done and I'll NEVER reschedule her EVER! Let her go away! FOREVER!!! I made it through and I'm super sore. UG!

MOCK BOARD?!?!

WHAT? So, I found out today that I am actually supposed to be working on getting a patient for our mockboards! Who knew? Well, the 10 or so student that already have them! Oh man! Just one more thing to stress about!
Other that that, today turned out to be ok. My Spanish-speaking patient didn't show up (surprise!-not)so I was waiting around for Mr. S to call her to see if she was eventually going to show up or not and she said that she woke up sick and didn't know how to use the phone to call me. DUMB! So Mr. S said that there was a patient who wanted to be seen if anyone could-YAY! So I had him start a HHX and didn't seat him until 9:15!!! CRAP! But the coincidence is that he was there to babysit Kelsie's patient's 6 month old girl. Well, as it turns out, Kelsie is now in the unit next to me so they were right next door! PERFECT! Well, he had radiographic calculus like I've never seen!!! It was amazing! So, I wanted to take a FMX, but he seemed to be in a hurry so we just did 4 BWX and I started. He was 2 quads of a Class II and 2 quads of a class III! YAY! I only had time for 1 quad but both he and his sister (Kelsie's patient) are coming back next week.
My afternoon patient spoke English!! I was able to talk to her!! Oh, and she had a HUGE ROCK on her finger. She is 23 and her middle diamond alone was 1.25 karats! I could see it from across the clinic! Sheesh! Anyway, she was cool, I got 4 BWX and cleaned her whole mouth. Pretty soft calculus (it's only been 1 year since her last cleaning) but her gums bled like CRAZY! SO we talked all about gingivitis and how she needs to use a power TB and Listerine. It was a good but VERY tiring day!

First day back!!

Today was our first day back to clinic and I think I got a little of everything today! My first patient was M.... who came into the clinic to make an appt and a 1st year lead her back to the wet lab where Shalyce and I were sitting and so I scheduled her. She spoke some english-enough that we could communicate pretty well. She came with her caravan of 2 kids-which she wanted to come back with her. Luckily for me (unluckily for them) Abby and Kelsie didn't have success with the am patients and it wasn't too crowded having 4 people in my operatory. She told me she hadn't been in for 10 years (I did a little happy dance-the happy tooth dance as Prof A calls it) and asked if we could do a FMX!! Well, she agreed and I was off to set up the x-ray room. I set up the 18 x-ray plates and went to get my patient. As I went to put a film in her mouth she pops out a lower partial denture! Oh man! So I decided I should probably check to see what other teeth she had. Well, she had 4 upper teeth and only 9 lower! So, needless to say my dreams of a FMX were shattered!! But I got 6 PA's and then it was off to clean. She was only 2 quads of a class V, but I got her done and got to clean her partial for her. Her kids were pretty funny people and the little boy never stopped talking!! It was a good appt.
My 2nd patient was an older gentleman that ended up knowing my gramps! He was sweet! He was really patient with me and just let me go to town on his teeth. His appt felt forever long-but he was a little trooper and hilarious!! I got him all done today and he was 2 quads of a class II and 2 quads of a class V. It was a pretty productive day.