1/3 of the way done :)

Hi, well clinic was long today, as usual. I never realized just how draining clinic can be! Crazy..anyway. So this morning I had my class 3 come back and I cleaned her 3 quads that she had. The calculus on the bottom anterior linguals was amazing!! It took 40 years of never having a cleaning to build that stuff up. I was ultrasonic-ing like crazy and chunks were flying everywhere! It was so great. I love it when you get that. It's so cool.

This afternoon I almost didn't have a patient again because they canceled last night. But I called my grandpa and he was so nice to come in. He was pretty easy, takes very good care of his teeth. I love my grandpa. He is so nice :)

When September Comes..

Hey! Well at the moment I'm waiting for my afternoon patient to show up. This morning I had just a 1B, and he was the nicest man I've seriously ever met! I took 4 bwx and then just scaled him. He was pretty easy! Now I'm thinking this afternoon patient is a 1B also. I sure hope that she's not too late.

Tuesday I went to the VA to be the clinic assistant. That sure was interesting! It was really nice to get a glimpse of what it will be like for me in a few weeks. I really just want to go home right now. Oh well...

Ok, so my afternoon pt didn't show up. I called my friend and she came over and I just passed off the air powder polishing pe off on her. I was going to do the Diagnodent and a sealant also, but the Diagnodent batteries were all dead and it was taking so long that I just let her go back to work. bye :)

Oh WOW! (9/14/06)

Hey, well today was quite an eventful day! This morning I started out cleaning a lady that was in her 40's that had never had her teeth cleaned, and she ended up being a class 3 with some pretty gnarly calculus! It was neat but she had to leave early :( so I will have to reschedule her to get that done.

My afternoon patient was something else! I'm sure everyone in clinic heard him going on and on about how it's everybody's fault that he has the health problems that he has. First of all he walks in with a Dr. Pepper in his hand. I gave him crap about bringing that into the clinic and then he told me that he was SO thirsty. So I proceeded to educate him on how pop actually dehydrates you and that he should switch to drinking water to quench his thirst. I think a light went on! So then he was really rude and completely ignores what you are saying. He really enjoyed listening to himself talking over me and really was so rude! I had to just ignore him and keep going on with my HHX questions. He was on all these medications but didn't know the name of any of them! Well, he knew one but that was all. So after about 30 minutes of trying to get through the health history, I finally just took his BP and (luckily;) it was way too high to treat him. Oh yes, while I was taking his BP he was constantly telling me that I was doing it wrong and that the cuff was not tight enough. Oh my gosh! I was getting so irriatated by him. So when we told him that his BP was too high to treat him, he completely went off and starting getting really upset. Eventually he was told to leave but that we could treat him if he got a dr's note saying it was ok with his BP being so high and if he brought in a list of his meds. Wow, that was a long story made short. He was there an hour. An HOUR, this took!!!! Complete waste of time. Right now I'm trying to figure out what to do with him. I don't have an appt available for him until November but he needs to get his teeth cleaned asap so Midtown can work on him more. I definitely don't want to pass him on to someone else unless they think they can deal with him. I may call him and suggest that he go to a private practice. I'm kinda scared :( Any suggestions?

Getting into the SWING!

Hey!!! So it was our first day back to real clinic today with real patients. It went pretty well considering I haven't done this for 4 months! I seriously forgot so many little stupid nit-picky things! I've just gotta get into the groove of it all again. I still feel like I don't know what the heck I'm doing. Did I really go through a year of dental hygiene already? I feel like I've learned absolutely nothing. What is the deal?

Anyway, well my first patient was a guy that was a class 3 from last year. He didn't have nearly as much calculus today as he did back then and I was able to get him all finished! I was pretty excited. But I really do think I fudge and don't really get it all done. I go over everything but I don't think I'm really getting it. Do I really know how to scale teeth? Or am I doing more harm than good? Today I felt like I'd never scaled in my life! I was like a deer in headlights. I didn't know what to do!!! So it was good anyway. I was able to really get an idea of things I need to work on. Maybe I should make some goals.

My second patient turned out to be a class 2 with some freaking awesome calculus!!! She hadn't had her teeth cleaned in at least 5 years and there was so much there. I loved every minute of getting that stuff off with the ultrasonic. I love how you can just see those huge chunks breaking off. It gives me such a feeling of satisfaction. I LOVE it!

So if anyone is reading this, when are you all starting to study for boards? I really think I want to start earlier than next semester.

And it all begins again..

Hey!!! So I'm really excited that I'm a senior this year. I can't believe it! I'm not gonna lie though, I am starting this year while dragging my feet. I've totally been dreading it. Isn't that terrible?!?! So far it hasn't been bad. I just like having all my time to myself without having to do homework and studying all the time. I'm quite a bit nervous for boards this year. I really want to get organized and make myself a schedule for studying.
So we had our first clinic last week. I tried to blog then but couldn't remember my password since it had been so long! It was an easy day. We just worked on each other a little bit, watched some silly movies, and then sharpened. My instruments were in definite need of that!! I was so glad we did it. This week I have a class 3 in the am and then another patient that hasn't had her teeth cleaned in probably 5 years and she doesn't floss. So I'm wondering how that will be. I'm kinda of excited :)