The last day ever but even better....

I PASS!!!!!! So today I saw my little brother and so I was able to pass all of my last requirments and pe's off with him!!! My goal for this great summer vacation is to get my little brother to brush and floss so much more!!!! Yeah SUMMER!!!!!!

Last class 3!

I was really worried today that my patient would not show up! Last time she was schelduled they just forgot. She did show up today and might I add really early! I finished scaling a 1B. I finished my goal and got her mouth scaled in less then an 30 min! Now lets just hope I get faster then that! My class 3 then came in and Julie and I finished her 3 quads since I had an extra for her. I cleaned one quad without her assisting and then the next with her help! Talk about amazing! It would so be great if we could help assist with eachother with our harder paitients! It lets your mind focus on what is to be done and not so much on the little things! Not only that but in return you get to have their suggestions as they help you and then watch how they do things when its thier turn! It improved my scaling by the hundreds!!! It deffinatly was an eye opening day! Today I will admit that my goal is to go home and figure out what is wrong with me! I'm not feeling well today.

WAKE UP!!!!

Today my paitient kept falling asleep on me!!! Therefore shutting his mouth... talk about annoying! I finally got him done! Today was the first day that I felt I actually did some damage with the ultra sonic! I was getting chunks off the back of those linguals!!!! It was textbook!!! I still have a long ways to go with instrumenitng but I am feeling a lot more confident in where I am now. I can't imagine with two more semseters behind my belt and a lot more patients! Its going to be good learning next year. Goal for today is to go watch the scaling movie cause I know Im not so overwhelmed now that it goes all over my head!!!

one more day out of the way.

Today my paitient no showed on me!!! I was lucky to find a friend that I could talk into coming and getting up to an OD done before she had class, then, my luck even got better and my peer pal who needed a cleaning came to clinic to find anesthesia... and found her way in my chair!! I got her done in the normal under an hour!!! Oh my gosh! I'm getting so much faster!!! Good thing I have 4 months to remeber these skills!!! Does this scare anyone else????!!!!
The whole master copy of my schedule thing went well and now I will go and make one for PE's.

OH goodness!!!

Today my patient that has cancelled on me a couple of times I gave a second chance to have her teeth cleaned. Only to find an excuess 30 min before she came in! So to keep her coming pretty much 28 dollars later.... but it got my classifications done and I REALLY had no other way to pass if she cancelled. I did learn to start with the harder quads first... not really to make them see how much better their mouth can feel...but.... so if they cancel on you, you at least have the harder quads counted!!! My goal is to go home and make a list of all quads and xrays.

Thanks grandma!

Today I finished my dad! That was fun driving up here with him and now lunch!!! I wish he had a weekly recall! Today I tried what we talked about in class and did the ultrasonic first and then went through and hand scaled the things I missed. I feel like I still have to go over everything afterwards, I still find a lot of things on the interproximals. Anyone have any suggestions? Oh and my cute little grandma let me borrow her dentures so that I could clean them for her! She is so cute!

Two kids! They were great!

Today I was able to clean 2 childrens teeth. The little one was pretty scared of the chair when they first came in but older sibling made it fun and showed that it was all going to be ok so in the end they could not wait to jump in the chair. Its amazing what psychological tricks you can play! I did notice that their gums took on a different color and consistancy. My goal for this time is to go and find all of my x-ray patients and get their paperwork done and caught up in the books.