02/29/12

Today i am seeing my uncle Justin. My aunt says that he has a lot of calculus and that he really needs a cleaning. He doesn't remember his last cleaning, so this should be interesting
goals for clinic

1. pass of gracey- area specific PE
2. accurate probe depths
3. figure out how to suction the water out while working the ultrasonic

How clinic actually went:
Clinic was really good today, Justin is a IB but had quite a bit of calculus. It was really fun to use the ultrasonic and see chunks flying. I hadn't cleaned that much calculus before and it was really fun. He told his wife later (which i found out from my mom) that he didn't feel much at all and that i was much more gentle than the last hygienists he went to. That made me feel really good, especially because i only had one small error on supra of #24 which was not really rough, just a bump. I felt pretty good about the day and feel like my skills are improving. I did get a couple probe depths wrong and it does frustrate me, i have never been off before and the last two patients i have been off a little on. I also wasn't able to pass of gracey PE because of time.

02/08/12

Today i saw a women that i kinda know and she was very nice. we didn't get very far with her cleaning. at the end of the appointment she was upset we couldnt clean her teeth today. It was kind of frusterating for me.Her health history took me 45 minutes because she was on so many medications for so many different things. She was my first diabetic patient so i wasn't quite sure the information that i needed to gather from her. We got through her OD but that was it. No scaling. Next time we will finish her up.

02/27/12

Today i am finishing my grandma's cleaning. She will be a great patient.
My goals for today are

1. Pass of Ultrasonic 1 PE
2. Pass of selective polishing PE
3. Scale all four quads
4. Scale systematically and reach inside the col.
5. Minimal errors

How clinic actually went:
Clinic was awesome. I scaled all 4 quads with no errors. I passed off both PE's and i felt like clinic went really went. My grandma actually has a bridge that is failing and it was interesting to see that. She has visiable exudate coming from the crowned abutment and it was a great learning experience.

02/13/12

Today i finished my first 1B in one appointment. I was so excited...I coulnd't imagine myself accomplishing that. I went over on my time and got marked on that but who cares, i was on top of the world. My patient was off the resource list and very nice, he was missing his maxiallary cuspids so maybe that was why...i had 2 less teeth to scale. I will see him again in 6 months

02/22/12

02/06/12

My patient just called and canceled this morning. It is so frustrating when i just confirmed with her a couple of days ago. She said that her car broke down, which is a viable excuse but it is makes my life very hard. I also got amanda and chelsea to take her boys so they all could come in at the same time and so i had to give them the bad news too. It sucks for all of us and makes clinic very stressful. I called my grandma and she said that she would be able to come in. Thank heaven for family, I don't  know what i am going to do when i run out of family to work on.
My goals for clinic today

1. Take a full mouth x-rays (conventional)
2. Get through my OD
3. Pass off instrument sharpening PE

How clinic actually went: My grandma was amazing. She was so nice and let me take a full mouth x-rays on her. I took conventional film and am now done with my PA requirements and both my schick and conventional technologies. All my films were diagnostic and out of the 20 i took i did not have to retake any. I was very happy about that. I didn't get my instrument sharpening passed off and will need to do that next time. I missed some restorations class 5 on the facial cervical region but other than that my OD went well. She is coming in in a week to finish her up.