Chad

February 25, 2009
Today I finally finished up Chad. Man he was fun to work on. I'll miss having my buddy come in. I was grateful for him coming in. And he was my exam patient for a class II!!! YAY!!! I learned that calculus is really tenacious sometimes and that class II patients for sure take more time that I thought they would. 3 appts later.....

Michael

Februaru 18, 2009:
Today was a blast! My patient is a drummer in a band (and a pretty big flirt!) We had fun chatting and all that good stuff, but it took me forever to do his appointment! I was a little frustrated about that! I got to take a pano on him, but that put me behind so I had to have him come back for two little quads! He's a 1B for crying out loud! But it was a great day anyway!

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!

Chad

Today's appointment went pretty well. I was able to pass off 3 PE's with the help of the amazing Emily!!! I really wanted to get Chad done today, but guess what?! Class II patients are really hard!!! I had like 5 mistakes on my first scale check (both upper quads)! I was So upset! After waiting for an insructor to come over it was already way late and I knew that I would have to bring him back yet again. Another complication is that he has class from 12-12:50 so he doesn't get here until 1. So maybe I might have been able to get him done if he had been here by 12:30. But anyway, he's the coolest and was able to come back in a few weeks. My only problem now is being able to feel calculus. She finds these mistakes and I can't find them for the life of me!!! And Chad was bleeding like CRAZY so I was constantly afraid that I was hurting him. It was more of a challenging appointment, but we lived through it.

Dawn

Today I had Dawn come in. She is such a great patient! She had practically NO calculus and besides her gums bleeding like crazy it was a great appointment. I am getting a lot faster. Besides waiting for the instructors I think that I just might be able to start getting patients done in one appointment. It went great!!!