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!!!

Mommy!

My mom came in today. I wasn't going to ask her to come in because she has insurance and she just went in late November/early December. Well, she said that her teeth were feeling dirty and wanted to come. So we didn't take any x-rays and she had NO calculus. I declared her an exam patient and I got all 4 quads done and 1 PE. It was a pretty successful day all-in-all. I feel like I'm getting that hang of it....kind of....

Angie Part 2

My patient for today cancelled last night at 9 pm. I was SO mad! SO called Angie and asked her if she could come in today. She said she'd love to! YAY! So I got to start right in on scaling. I wanted to start on the Lower Linguals (where the MAJOR calculus was) but I couldn't get an instructor to come over, so I just started on the upper anteriors. When Prof. Costley came over I passed off my ultrsonic PE and my explorer PE. It was a blast! I LOVE blasting off all of that calculus....I think that hygienists are sick in the head maybe a little bit....Anyway, so I also feel like I'b being a little more careful than I need to be....I take WAY too much time just being cautious, but for now I feel like that's ok. It went well today. I'm super excited to have another patient done! YAY! Now home to my baby!

Angie

So I saw my first patient today that I didn't know!!! EEKS!!! I was SUPER scared! She was a really nice 19 year-old. The x-rays went perfect and the OD and OHI took a little longer than planned. She had TONS of calculus on her Lower anterior linguals! It was a SOLID WALL of CALCULUS! It was a blast!!! I used the ultrasonic for the first time today. I was SO scared that I'd take off all her gums and the cement for her lingual bar. I kept looking around for an instructor but there were none to be seen!!! So I just acted like I was a big girl and a long-time dental hygienist and went at it. It was fun! It took longer than I thought it would to blast off the calculus but it was fun! I only finished the LL quad, but MAN was it fun!

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So today I saw Cami. I had done one quad of scaling on her last semester for our real patient day, so I just had to finish the other 3 quads. It went pretty smooth. I was way nervous and took my sweet time scaling, but she had NOTHING! I wish I had just gone a little faster, but I didn't have any mistakes on my scaling with all that time and thoroughness. She was a fantastic patient. Wednesday I'm seeing a patient I've never met before...SCARY!!!

We're back!

Well, it was real patient day....for REAL! From now on it is time to see real patients! Dawn came in today and was my wonderful patient! I had her health history done so we got started right away on x-rays. No retakes (LOVE the phospher plates!!!) It took me WAY too long to do the probing, but my OD check went ok. (Emily is the TA-love her!) I didn't get to scale yet, but now all the stuff is done. It was a great day. Lots of people had struggles with the x-rays today....first day back. It was a great day!