PE Day!!!

So it is 8:15 and my patient is still not here.... and he is my class 2 so I need his quads.... I call and he thought it was at 1! how in the heck did he get that from 8 or 12:30! We've never had a 1, well anyways, he says that he can come in in the afternoon and ironiclly my patient cancelled for the afternoon, so I was able to do 5 PE's today between my 3 patients! Oh I am so excited! This week has been a luck double cupon day for me!!! Hopefully my luck keeps going!

I finally had some relization when it comes to xrays today! Hopefully my bad luck is over with!

PE Day

Bring on the LA

So, what starts as a bad day, can really turn around at the VA. My patient in the morning was just a class 5, which I finished early so that maybe I could get some perio on my second patient... But there was not an extra one so I went to the dental and was able to do some injections... and to my great suprise there was a full mouth extraction that day for dentures!!! Oh yeah! I got to do 15 injections on one lady! It was awesome to be able to just go through everysingle injection in the mouth! I just have to remember that on the IA to really end over the premolars (even if they don't have them).

Oh Man!!!

So I sure hope that everyone else has those days that no matter how hard you try you completly screw up your x-rays! It didn't help that on one particullarly hard pre-molar shot I open the door and my patient says..."sorry, I moved"... therefore the biggest cone cut! so I probably failed those with my other horrible two! What a boosting self esteem moment! Anyone have any fool proff ways that you can get great bitewings? I need it right now! But he did end up being a class 2 and I think a very challenging one so I am excited for the challenge!

I did not like the sonic scaler today in lab, I felt that the tip did not access the pockets of the teeth very well, extremely loud, and not very effective all around. The Piezo I thought was comparible to the ultra sonic but it was harder to adapt those tips around the tooth for sure. I think I will just stick with the ultra sonic for now!

She Came!!!

I got to finish my class 3 today, but this time she was late an hour and a half, not the hour she was the appointment before! I was getting really scared, but then her son called and told me she was on her way. So I was able to get done a 1A before she arrived, that way not a waste of time! So today I finished my requirments for 1A's and sealants! Oh yeah!
I learned so much today about instrumenting from Prof Hanson, it was wonderful being able to have her sit right there with me and correct all by bad habbits that are becoming more permenent every day... I guess I was doing a lot of wrong fulcrums and strokes, but now it makes so much more sense, deposits are so much easier to get off, and so much less tissue trauma! With her watching me at the VA I just might be able to learn how to correctley scale and maybe not fail the boards! Amazing!

My goal for this session is to go home and review lateral pressure and fulcruming, or at least as much as I can on a typodant!

Just keep scaling!

Today was a stressful day but I can't put my finger on why it was... I did do 2 quads of a class 3 with the most tenacious calculus that I have ever seen! It was amazing that it could get such a great hold onto the tooth! her sister is my mock board so hopefully it's not genetic. I really liked how my instructor came and helped me and gave me some tips. I would really like to see more of that happening, I just don't feel confident in getting off all of the calculus all of the time. I'm sure that will come with more practice and guiding.