2nd year observation

This is a recording of the events that happened on Sept 16, 2008, Unit #6 in the Dental Hygiene clinic. Item #1: I got to unit 6 where Emily Stapp was anxiously awaiting my arrival. Ok, seriously.....Emily went to get her patient16 year-old patient Maria (name has been changed for protection) and the mom and lil brother came back also. After a 30 minute english to spanish translation it was decided that Emily was going to take 4 bwx and clean Maria (patient). As Emily took Maria back to get x-rays, Nick was talking to pt's mom about getting her teeth cleaned today. Well, what Nick didn't know is that Maria's mom was going to be Emily's patient in a few weeks and he had just given away one of her patients!!!!! WHAT?!?!?!?!?! So, she told Nick and he said to go tell the DH student that would be working on the mom. Well, Emily and her fellow student decided that they'd just swap patients and this student would owe Emily a patient (class II patient non-the-less!).
As time went on, Emily was deciding that Maria needed some serious OHI instructions. She cleaned and scraped and ultrasonic-ed (with the help of her lovely assistant at the saliva ejector) scraped, cleaned, scraped, polished and flossed. Maria now had the cleanest teeth she'd ever had and my time at unit 6 was over. What a experience this was. It was neat to see what goes on in the clinic for real. Emily was wonderful to observe and did an excellent job despite the many obstacles that were in her way. *applause*