Mockboard #3

Today was our last mockboards!!! Everything went really good today, I made some small calculus errors but I passed so all is well!

Search for 4's!!!

So I'm in need of class 4's!! I'm just crossing my fingers that 8 quads will come my way before school ends... which is sooo soon. I cant believe how fast this semester is flying by. My morning patient at the VA to day was a class 5 like usual but he told me his molars hurt when he bites down. The doctor came in and shined a light on the buccal surfaces of the molars and they all had fractures. It was really neat to see. If the light doesnt shine through the tooth then it means there is a fracture... I thought that was good to know and something we can do to see whats going on.

Board Patient-

Yesterday was quite a day. This morning I had 3 patients scheduled for a screening. Two of the patients were husband/wife and the wife was a board patient last year. So I was sooo excited to see her. Well she didnt come because she had a cough and her husband ended up being a 2 with not enough calculus. Then my 3rd patient I had looked in his mouth before and I knew he had tons of calculus. He walks in around 830 and when I go in the hall to get him he is gone. I asked if any knew where he went and they said he went to get his ID for a parking pass and 40 minutes later he comes back with his ID that he had to meet his wife to get!!! Stress!!! Charolette helped me out so much with him and I was able to do his screening, probe, take xrays and start on one quad. He just had way too much calculus for boards it was just everywhere. So I was again stressing because I really thought one of those three patients would be my board patients. Long story short Tandem screened a patient for Pam and Pam had already found one so she gave her to me. SO happy! She speaks spanish and Im not quite sure if she gets how important it is to come...... Im just praying it will all work out.