Surprise, Surprise......MY PATIENT CANCELLED! Both of them for the day! I am SO lucky at never having my patient show up for their appointments! Shalyce gave me one of her patients this morning (she had a mom and son scheduled). She gave me the mom and took the 12-year old and called another class V patient to come in (she's amazing). Well, as it turns out the lady I saw was the mother of my fill-in patient last week. WHAT A DOLL! She was darling!
Today was fun! We did a lab this morning and we learned blood glucose, caries risk assessment, perio files, slimline curved ultrasonics, sonic scalers, piezo scalers, accessory fulcrums, subgingival irrigation, medicament, and oraquix. WHEW! Lots of learning, but now we can do all of those PE's!
This afternoon I had a patient scheduled and when she got here she asked the front desk if they needed her insurance card and then I got blamed for telling her that we took her ins! SO UNFAIR!! So I went out to talk to her and she said that the person who took down her info a few weeks ago told her that we took her ins. So she said she'd reschedule with another office that does accept her insurance because she didn't want to pay for something that she can get for free. I totally understand. So I scrambled around to find another patient, and I did. YAY!
SUCCESS!!!!! I survived my first mockboard day. Not only did I survive-I ROCKED IT!!! I am super excited! It was awful though. I just wanted to die. His calculus was so tenacious and I was sure that I missed every spot! I gave him 2 injections and I was so nervous (he was my first patient-not student-to give injections on) and I was shaking like there was an earthquake in my arm! What the heck?! And he wasn't even very numb. BOO! But oh well, I did it. So I took the 2 hours and worked my little heart out. He asked me if I was going to pull his teeth out I was working so hard. I've never had calculus like that. Man my whole body hurts. But I had him checked and i only had 1 teeny tiny error!!! WAHOO! My overall score was 94/100!!! I ROCK!!! I know that today was too perfect so I expect that my other mockboards will be awful....we'll see. All I know is that I survived and today is over! HORAY!!!
You'll never guess what classification my patient was this morning?! You guess it, a Class V! Shocker huh? I have a LOT to be grateful for because we actually had professors in clinic today-REAL LIVE PROFESSORS! (They've been gone for accreditation) Kami Hanson was our pod instructor-love her! She gave me 3 Q of a V and 1 Q of a III because she had TONS of calculus on her lower anteriors. She was a fine patient, but isn't too fond of the suction so she keeps a cup of spit next to her and spits occasionally. GROSS! Oh well. Atleast she came.
In the afternoon I had expected to have 2 class V patients and each patient only had 2 quads. So I bring back my first patient and he ends up being 2 quads of a class III! WHAT?! So I overheard Abby say that her patient didn't come (well, both of them-sad) so I told her that she could totally see my other patient since there was NO way I'd be able finish my class III and see her.
So, this class III patient was AMAZING! He was the sweetest man ever! He kept telling me what a great job I was doing, and that he felt so excited to be having all of this attention and having his teeth cleaned. What a cutie! Well, this was calculus like I'd never before seen/felt so I had Prof. Alexander come over and help me. We got out and used the gracey's, mini-gracey's and curved ultrasonics. IT WAS AWESOME!!! I was shocked at what I was able to do and the way I had to access the pockets to get the deposits. It was amazing! I just couldn't even believe it. It was the best learning experience I had all semester! And he was just a sweetheart the whole time!!! What an exhausting 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!
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!
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!
