Clinic 1/30/06

Hey! Today was so easy. I was clinic assistant! I was loving the break from the stresses of having a patient. It was really easy and Mrs. Campbell was nice to help me out with stuff.

Clinic 1/25

Hey, so I had a really good patient today. All I had to do was scale 2 quads and polish. She was allergic to fluoride so I didn't do that. I totally sucked at scaling. I had to have 3 scale checks and even then I couldn't feel some of the calculus that was there. Ughhh..it was nice and really fun to actually get it off when I found it though!! I really need alot more practice with scaling of course. I'm sure other people feel this way but I really really know it. So anyway, it went pretty well overall. CA on Monday, I'm excited for the break :)

Clinic 1/23

Hey! I finally was able to finish my patient today! I took 4BWX, 1PAX, scaled, polished and fluoride. It was such a great feeling to finally be done. Hopefully I will be able to do the same tomorrow. I hope I don't have to probe!

Clinic 1/18

Well, interesting day! I took a set of bitewings on my patient today and ended up having to retake the molars because he had wisdom teeth and he didn't know about! So that took a bit of time. When getting an OD check, my patient suddenly became my peer pal's mock board patient! I was totally excited for her and very willing to give him up. I'm hoping to get really good at probing so i don't hate it so much. That is my goal :)

Clinic 1/11

Hey! Well I started into the semester with a new patient today. Things went ok but of course I forgot a couple of steps here and there. Not much else to report..can't wait to be a pro at this ;)

What? Christmas Break is over already?

Wow, that time sure flew by! I can't believe it's already time to come back to school. I guess the faster we start back up, the faster we'll be done. I'm having a hard time being positive lately, is anyone else feeling the same way? I just don't really like school much. I'm trying to be better and think good thoughts.

Clinic today was kinda nice because we didn't have real patients but I was a bit frustrated because I felt like I had never done any scaling before in my life! I'm glad we had a day to get back into things before we actually see patients. My patient canceled on me today so I still need someone for Wednesday. I feel like Wednesday is going to be D-day for me. I don't know why I'm so stressed out about it. Maybe because I just don't have the whole routine down yet so I don't really feel like I know what's going on and I don't want to look like an idiot in front of a patient. I also don't want to inconvenience them by taking such a long time. Well, I'm sure I'll look back in 5 years and think...what the heck were you stressing out so much about? It's no big deal.

Anyway, good luck to everyone who reads this ;)