Oh wow!

Today I had a great day! I found a mock board patient and totally had a great light bulb turn on for the ultra sonic! I just found that the addaption became clearer and easier. I felt that going over it a couple of times helped a lot and also turning it off and feeling around with it helped so much! I didn't miss any spots with this technique and you could see the calculus in the x-rays everywhere!

I think I'm on a streak of bad luck

Today my patient in the morning called after her appointment started 15min ago that she was sick and not coming in. At least now I won't get sick from her. I commenced on trying to find another paitient but to no luck! Then in the afternoon my patient didn't come even though I verified yestereday. I was in luck that a family did have an extra child so that I was able to see her, oh and boy was she fun! I learned a lot about controlling children today and not getting annoyed with them. It was a good experience!

?What type of fluoride?

Today we were able to do a lab in the morning and then see a patient in the afternoon. I really like lab days, it's nice being able to practice with others and just see how Im progressing with the others. I loved being able to try all the different types of fluoride, but after I got them all on my teeth I started getting sick to my stomach! Weird! Anyways, its all good now. I thougth it was great how each brand had so many different things about it to taste, to how it spread. That just made it solid in my mind to try many different brands and not be biased.

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!