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.