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!

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!

Concepcion

Man today was a doozy! My patient today was one of my previous patient's mom's from Tooele. She was coming SO far so I scheduled so I could stay all day and hopefully finish her. Well, I wasn't sure if she needed a full mouth set of x-rays and since she spoke broken english but mostly spanish I was a little apprehsive about explaining it to her. So Kim said that I could do the OD first and then decide about what type and how many to take. When Kim came to check the OD she said that she was a perfect board patient!! So, I got ahold of Emily Stapp to come check so I could know what I was going to scale today. Instructor Vining came over to talk to my patient in spanish about being a board patient on another day and taking a full-mouth. It was great b/c I didn't have to explain!!! (What a cop-out!!). So I took the FMX and excused her for lunch. When we came back I was told that I should do the left side so Emily could do the RS for boards. Well, she had some seriously tenacious caculus!!! I got the LL quad done and had like 6 mistakes. (Boo) So I tried to fix it, but coudldn't get it! So Kim came to help me. I started to ultrasonic on the UL quad and time was getting thin. I asked Kim if she could just finish so that my patient didn't have to drive all the way back for one stupid quad. So Kim just finished for me. I had Instructor Vining come do the OHI and I didn't even get to do fluoride! What a mess! So after a FULL day in clinic I only got 1 quad of a class II. It was all-in-all a good day!