Last week of School!

I cant believe its here! This semester has gone by so fast! I feel like I have improved a lot since last semester but I still feel like I have a little ways to go. Now the stress begins to find mock boards and board patients! Wish me luck!

Last Day of VA!!!

WOOOOO!!! Im done with all clinicals until next semester! I cant believe how fast times flies!!! Today and the Va went well... but I hate the instruments here! But all in all it went well

Done with Clinic this semester!!!

YAY!!! Im done with clinic for the semester!! I came in last Thursday to clinic because my brother in law is coming home from his mission next Tuesday so I am all done! I cant believe how fast this semester has flown by! My afternoon patient was a class 3 that needed 3 more quads done. I gave some LA and only missed a few spots! Great day!!

AM LAB

It was so nice this morning to have a lab and a break from patients! Im glad we went over emergency situations because there was a lot of things that I have forgot that are important to know. And I discovered that I am horrible at wheel chair transfers! haha I think I need to lift weights or something haha

Good Day!

Today was a really good day! My morning patient was a 1B/2 and I had no errors! And I did great on time! Then my afternoon pt char gave to me and he had 2quads of a 4 and 1 quad of a 3 left. I gave him LA and finished two quads then Candace finshed the last one.

VA

So far today has been a good day...My morning pt was a Class 5 and he had a lot of supragingival plaque that was in the stages of turning into calculus. When I first looked into his mouth I seriously thought he had varnish all over his teeth but it wasnt. It was a good learning experience but im stressing about getting my class threes by the end of the year!

VA

This morning I saw 2 1Bs. My first patient was critiquing me the whole time so it made me super nervous to scale him. Ive never had a patient do that before so it was quite the experience. I havent given any injections yet this semester and am hoping that I will soon so I can pass of the PE!!!

Great Day!

This morning I finally saw a 1B!! haha and I was able to get alot done on him. I passed of my subgingival irrigation, and blood glucose, and took a full mouth!! My afternoon patient was a class 5 and super easy so it was a great day!!!

Lab day

It was so nice to have a lab this morning and not a patient!!! Im excited to be able to use medicaments on our patients now and to do subgingival irrigation. My patient this afternoon was bleeding like crazy to I irrigated with Perio gaurd.

Mockboards!!

So yesterday I called my patient to confirm her for today and her phone was disconnected! STRESS!!! I looked at her chart to see if she had put a different number on her health history than I had and the number was the same one. SO I called her emergency contact who spoke no english, so I had Mr. Soloman call the number and the lady said she had seen my patient today and would remind her later tonight about her appointment when she saw her. I still wasnt a 100% sure that she was going to come because I didn't talk to her and I wasnt sure if the lady we called would remind her of her appointment. Today, 8oclock rolls around and no patient. Finally she came at 8:20 and then after that all went pretty well. I ultrasoniced like crazy!!!! I missed two tiny spots which definitely could have done better but I will take that! Now I'm just waiting to see if I passed :s...

Great Day!

Today went really well. My morning pt was a class 5. She had an implant that was very tender with bone loss so Prof Hanson showed me how to place arestin. My afternoon pt was my class 3 from last week and her calculus on the lower anteriors were amazing!! There was so much of it and I loved using the ultrasonic on it.

Little bit of HUMBLE pie

Okay so my morning pt is my mock board pt and I scaled the left side. I thought I did so well scaling and was feeling good until I got a scale check and missed soo much!!! And its my mock board pt....!!! Stress!!! But I think I figured out what I did wrong. I need to ultrasonic longer, especially along the linguals. The good thing about this morning was that I took a full mouth... 16 down only... only 54 more to go haha. Then my afternoon pt was spanish speaking and right after I finish up the OD she tells me she needs to leave and it was 2 oclock! The good thing is that she is a 3 and hopefully come next week to start scaling.

Great Morning!

Today I finshed my class 2 that I started on last tuesday. She was a great patient!I am really enjoying clinic so far. I feel like Im getting the swing of things a little and getting better at instrumenting. My Class 3 is coming in again this afternoon and Im hoping to finish her today.... cross your fingers! The calculus is sooooo tenacious but it has been a good learning experience for me.

HARD day!

This morning I saw a class 2 and did and OD and finished 1 quad so hopefully I can get her done next week then this afternoon I saw my class 3 that I started last week and oh boy her calculus will not come off. It took the entire afternoon to do one quad and Dr. Naylor and Instructor Wold both had to come in and scale. Its a great learning experience I will just be so glad to finish scaling her mouth! Thank goodness my patient is so great and always has a good attitude.

1st day of clinic

Last night my morning patient cancelled so I called every patient that Tory emailed me and no one could come! UGHHH So I called everyone I could think of and finally I scheduled two 1As a brother and a sister. Well 815 rolls around and the mom is outside with the boy and she didnt bring her daughter and when I finally seated the boy the mom said they needed to leave by 9! My patient was only three, he did pretty well but after 15 minutes he was done. So after 9 this morning there wasnt really anything for me to do!! I hope my afternoon patient comes!

Kinda tough

Today was kinda hard. I finished my class two patient. She speaks spanish and a little english. I had to pick her up from Morgan becuase she did not have a ride down here which was okay since she is a super sweet lady. The lower left quad was a peice of cake but the UL was another story. I could feel all of the calculus but I could not get it off! After some help from Angie with the ultrasonic it finally came off but it was so frustrating that I could feel it but no matter what I did it wouldnt come off! It was a good learning experience though. I am so excited for school to be over YAY!

Not too exciting

My patient that I did some sealants on called me a few weeks ago and said her sealants came out so I figured I would just work on her today. When she came in only one sealant came out so it didnt take me very long to re do it. I sharpened my instruments since I have all semester :s and then kim was nice enough to let me take a set of bitewings on her patient!

1A s

So today I originally had two 1a s scheduled that I got off the recall list, when I called their mom to confirm she cancelled for the 3rd time! I was not happy! So I told her sorry I dont have room this semester......... So i called my sister in law and luckily she let me bring in my neice and nephew so it ended up working out and was super fun to work on them. My sweet husband cancelled all his plans for today so he could watch them while they were here and to also take them home-- Overall today was great

Good Day!

Today I scaled UR for my patient which was a class 2/ Class 3. It was good to finally get her done. She was the sweetest lady! Mrs. Neely was nice enough to let me take a pano on her since I needed 1 more pano for my requirements. I was so so glad because I didnt know who I could take one on so that worked out great! SO SO excited for the end of the semester! YAAY!

Interesting Day!

Okay today my brother came in and could only stay for an hour and I still needed to do BWX and scale 3 quads so I was hauling to get him finished but luckily I did! I was so so glad he came in because my 1A pts that I had scheduled for today cancelled! GRRRRRRR But oh well it worked out. Also Savanna had a pt coming in at 2 to get the "dirt" he claimed was on his teeth after his cleaning. Ya it was pretty much staining interproximally that was actually stained filling. So ya couldnt really get that off! haha I passed off the air powder polisher today which is my last PE!!!!! ( besides the clinic assistant pe that I still need) Today was a great day!

Good day!

today was a good day finally! One of the reasons is because I didnt have to take bitewings on my patient!--- And I finally felt the calculus come off! My patient had a ton of calculus on her lower anterior linguals it was so fun to watch chunks come off from the ultrasonic! So glad today went as well as it did

First Class 1A

Man today was so great! I did my 1a exam 2bwx and passed off 3 PE's I could not believe how much plaque my patient had!

Another 1B

Today I saw a girl that was 14 and was super nice. My bitewings I took were so crappy!! grrr... She had hardly any build up at all so things went really smoothly. She was my first patient that I had to take awhile on her health history with all the meds she was taking. Im starting to stress out about finding a class 3 ... I hope i will find one before the end of the semester! I am seeing a 78 year old a wednesday so I m hoping she shows and hoping she is a class 3

Okay day

Today my brother came in which was great but he only could stay till 930. I finished OD and wanted to start xrays but the room was full so I started on the LR quad and finished that instead. I was able to pass off a PE on Alisha and do a sealant on her. Thanks Alisha!

Good day

Today was my first appointment having a patient that I didnt know and it went great. He was super nice! I was able to do xrays, finish scaling and pass of a pe....

1B

Today went really well. My patient was 15 minutes late and I was still able to finish him in one appointment which was great. He had xrays a few weeks ago so we skipped that step and went straight into the OD and scaling. I didnt miss any areas on scale check which was a first! (My patient really didnt have any calculus but still it was a great feeling to not have to rescale) All in all today was a great day

1B

Today I saw one of my good friends who was an 1B. He didnt need xrays so we just got started and luckily I finished him today. He really didnt have much calculus so that was nice. I did miss the straight linguals on the lower anteriors but instructor Vining showed me some good tricks with the McCall so im excited to use them. I passed off one PE and declared and Exam so hopefully I did good!

another day

Okay so today went okay.... I finished up my mom who was a class 2 but I was super super slow I scaled the entire time and still missed spots... I am starting to get the hang of everything. I still have a hard time determining if it is calculus or just the margin of the composite/alloy. Its great to finally get excited for clinic and not stress out so much about it!

ANother day

Another Day in Clinic

Today my mom came in today which was super nice of her becuase she is a teacher and it is a pain for her to get her lessons planned for the sub. I am so grateful for family! I got through the OD today and prof costley classed her as a 2. YAY! and UGG cuz I feel like I am getting class 2 s like crazy... Okay so maybe I have only see 2 1/2 pts with class 2 but still ha ha. I also did a full mouth today on her with the phosper plates. I will say I do like them a ton better than the conventional but it was hard flipping them around and figuring out which one goes where when you mount them but it worked out pretty well besides the fact that my mom is a gagger and it took quite some time to help your to stop gagging. Oh good times in the clinic haha. Everything is going so much better. I am not as stressed about clinic as I used to be. Yes, I am still stressed but no where to the point where I was 2 weeks ago when I couldnt sleep the night before. What a good feeling to get some sleep haha okay im just rambling now....

Exam class 2

Okay so today I worked on my dad who was a class two. It was a good experience for me....But the good news is i am finished with him and my class two exam so hopefully I passed. I was only able to pass off one pe today. I was hoping to pass off all my PEs for a class two but thats okay. My poor dad was ready to leave after 2 1/2 hours but Im so glad he came!

Full Mouth

Well today I did a full mouth with the conventional xrays . Taking the xrays took about 15 minutes and developing and mounting them took a bit longer.... say 45 minutes! Yeah I was a bit confused with 40 xrays in front of my face trying to mount them and figure out where they should go. My patient today was classified as a class two which I was super glad and super scared since prof costly told me that it would be best if I used this patient as an exam..uh... not ready for that quite yet.... but Im going to do it! So we will see how that goes on Monday. Just a tid bit nervous but oh well!

Getting better

Okay so today went a little better. I still had the intructor come in and tell me where all the clicks of calculus were then I scaled. I am starting to feel calculus a little bit.... slowly.... I used the ultrasonic today and there was some spots my patient was sensitive at but I think its because I need to adapt to the tooth more. I was very happy because one of my patients quads was a class 2! I am feeling much better about things. I cant wait until I can zip through the appointment and finish a patient in one day, OD, scale and everything!

Calculus detection!

Okay so for some reason I cannot for the life of me feel calculus! It is making me so frustrated right now...... :( I cant even feel if Im taking it off or not. My poor husband I just was poking him to death today haah. I had instructor snow tell me where the calculus was and then I went at it. I did use the ultrasonic today and I loved it. Im just gonna pray that I will be able to feel calculus someday.....

2nd Semester--- Ist Day

Well I cant believe christmas break is over! I really had a hard time getting back to school, but Im sure when I get into the swing of things I ll be glad Im here. Today we learned how to use the ultrasonic and the graceys. I love the ultrasonic! We ll see if I still love it when I use it on a real patient and not the typodont. I am so so so scared for this semester. Just the fact that I am not completely confident in scaling :(. Hopefully this semester goes well!