A little better luck this time...

My appointment in the morning was a class 2! I finally got some perio!!! So I talked to perry and he said that she could possibly be a mock board patient, so that is nice but at the same time I just don't know if she completley qualifies!!! Oh that scares me so bad! Oh well... no stress. My afternoon was a 1 B teen and it was nice to see that I am so much better and quicker!

My goal for today is to get better at indirect vision, still not comfortable with that one!

Not another one....

So I had a husband and wife come in today.... yep, you guessed it, 1B. I'm over now by 12 quads! What am I going to do for perio! I just cant seem to get anyone! And the thing about these two is that they had ridges of calculus, and it was not all sub gingival! These guide lines seem pretty sketchy to me! ha ha! I did have a great fun time with the linguals, I really like using a toed instrument to just pop it off the middle where a tip is too much!

Little better luck this time...

Today I just could not find a patient for the morning appointment, I don't know about you guys but it seems like no one wants to take those.... I guess I wouldn't want to either, way too early in the morning for me. I had my mom come and save me in the morning, and to my surprise, her lingual bar was much easier to clean then the other, so maybe it has to do with the individual more. It was really rewarding seeing her come back for her six month recall and to see all of the improvements of some of her pockets and bleeding. Not to mention that she was really excited to see all the hard work that she started doing is paying off too! My afternoon pt was older and a challenge for me. She was a complete naturalist, so that meant I got re-educate her about x-rays, thank goodness for digital..., talk her into fluoride, and all the other fun stuff that we do. She was actually really receptive of me, I think it is because I listened to her side, and then said that why don't we do that and try adding a few of mine to it too. It will be fun to see how her perio might increase or decrease by her next recall.

First set of patients

Well, I have officially survived a full day of clinic, no more of this half day stuff. I am not having very good luck to begin with though, I have had both my patients cancel on me... one to mow the lawn....(yeah, thats right!)... and the other for a dentist appointment they forgot about. So I luckily got saved by my cousin and her boyfriend. They both turned out to be 1B's but a person is a person and that is 8 quads that I would of not had before. I did find that lingual bars are a lot harder then I remember them to be. If anyone has any tips of a good way to instrument them I would love to hear.

My goal for this clinic is to organize myself. Last year I learned from a second year to create a basic package of papers for pts so that you don't have to keep grabbing them each one, I think I will try that for a start.

Start of a new clinic

I really thought that after this long of a break for summer I would not even know how to hold a mirror let alone an explorer.... but much to my great excitement I found out that it came much easier to me then expected! I really enjoyed the chance to get use to clinic again with the first week before I had to see a patient. There was so much to do and relearn!