03/28/12

Today i am finishing Jade, the patient i saw last week. I should have probably also scheduled someone else because i only have one quad but it seems that i takes me forever with class III's so i decided to possibly just finish early

Goals for clinic

1. Finish TX
2. Pass off ultrasonic 2
3. Pass off gracys

How clinic went:
Great I finished very early and was able to sit and talk with my patient. I explained everything that was going on in his mouth. He had caries on almost every one of his teeth and I taught him the etiology of caries and perio. It was a moment that I felt I actually made a difference. It is amazing how much you can really teach when your not looking at the clock.  I missed two areas, but they were supragingivally and Costly said that even if he left right now (before i corrected them) that he recieved a FANTASTIC cleaning. That felt good!

03/26/12

Today i am seeing my peer pal
Goals for clinic

1. Complete everything

How clinic went:
Great she was so easy i finished her and had plenty of time to spare. No errors (probably because she had no calculus in the first place) and I even passed off my blood glucose PE because I had extra time. After last weeks class III"s  she was a dream

03/21/12

Today I am seeing my husbands old boss. He has a full upper denture and I am praying he is a class III
Goals for clinic

1. Classify him as a class III
2. Pass off removable appliance PE
3. Pass off explorer PE
4. Complete the appointment:

How clinic actually went:
Why i think i can finish class III's quickly i do not know. I figured because i only had the mandibular teeth to OD i could do it fast. I didn't really want to take x-rays because i was done with my PA requirements and i cant do bite wings if the patient is edentulous on top, but i had to to classify him. I would have been fine with taking 2 PA's to classify each side but my instructor wanted me to take 7... Blahhhh. So now instead of the 28 PA's we need i have 43. It was really fun to clean him though. He had a ton of calculus... there was so much on #19 that it was almost hiding his whole tooth. What would we do without an ultrasonic.

03/19/12

Today i am seeing Maria again. She is my 3 quads of a class III

Goals for clinic

1. Scale all 4 quads
2. Pass off Anterior scaling PE
3. Pass off Posterior scaling PE

How clinic actually went:
Well if 2 quads is the same as 4 then I met my goals :) I was able to pass of PE's though! This patient was such a learning experience for me. I had never had my scaler sink so deep into pockets or seen so much blood with a patient. She was such a wonderful patient. She is Spanish speaking so we didn't speak much but was very sweet. I feel bad she has to come back yet again for a 3rd appointment. But in my defence she was a half hour late. :)

03/07/12

Today I am going to be finishing Justin's other 2 quads and then do sealants on his son Noah.

Goals for clinic:

1. Finish Justin with minimal errors (hopefully none at all)
2. Reach into the col
3. Suction better with the ultrasonic
4. Finish scaling by 9:15
5. Seal all teeth for Noah and finish by walkout

How clinic went:
I was a little pressed on time... which is not unusual. I finished Justin, with no errors and I felt good about that because for a Ib he had quite a bit of calculus. But for some reason it took me awhile to do x-rays on Noah. He has a very small mouth and I got all the anatomy with one size 1 film on each side. With that said... because his mouth is so small it was hard to work in. I retook both films. My instructor forgot to tell the dentist to come over to check for sealants and i was waiting forever for nothing, It was almost time to check out and i was able to do 7 sealants in 10 minutes. I felt pretty proud about that. I was cruising!

03/05/12

Today i am seeing a new patient that i have never seen before. She was at the screening and is a IB. She will put me over on my IB requirements and i am praying that i can finish her in 1 appt, because i really don't want to use other days to go over on requirements. I have only finished 1 IB in the time allotted but hopefully i can do it today. I'll say a good prayer

Goals for clinic

1. utilize my time wisely
2. Finish this patient in 1 appt
3. Don't over scale, find calculus and only scale the areas that have calculus
4. be systematic

How clinic actually went:
I was first going to see a IB patient, the daughter of Amanda's patient. Then me and Amanda decided that we would switch because the mom was 2 quads of a class 2 that I needed....so we hurry and switched everything in the computer. We thought they were there, turned out it wasn't them so Amanda called and they said they weren't coming. Clinic really never turns out the way that you think it is going to. Both Amanda's and I's patient didn't come and Karlie couldn't see her class 3 patient because her blood glucose was like 300, and had to dismiss her. when I found out that my patient wasn't coming I called Lana. I had talked to her early this morning and she was going to bring Emma in for a cleaning on Wednesday after her dad. Emma actually stayed home from school today and Lana was worried about her missing 2 days in a week.I asked if she could bring Emma and Kate up asap and she was happy about it. I was thinking i could do two 1A's. It turned out that after Karlie dismissed her patient I was able to  help her out and let her see Kate. It worked out great because Emma took me longer than I thought and I actually was late on walkout by 15 minutes. I was able to pass of 3 PE's. Diagnodent, air/powder, and sealant. I got 4 quads of a IA and sealants (4) so all in all it was a productive day. I felt a little disoriented and my clinic seemed very disorganized. I plan beforehand what clinic is going to be like and what steps I am going to take. When it suddenly changes I feel very disorganized. I hadn't reviewed my PE's before because i didn't think that i would be passing them off for weeks, and was rusty on the material but i passed so i guess it was good, just a crazy day!!!