Mock Patient Day #3

Today we had another mock patient day. I was the patient and was so grateful for that! I wanted to be able to watch how everything went again. Megan worked on me and she did a great job! I am getting a little nervous for real patients.... I just don't feel ready.... Oh well at least my husband is my first patient so if I mess up I wont be so embarrassed! Wednesday I will be the operator on Megan... hopefully it goes well :)

Air Poweder Polisher, Intrument Sharpening, and Sealant PEs

Today we passed off PE s for the majority of the time. For some reason instrument sharpening isnt clicking so well for me when it comes to all the different instruments....... We went over PSR and how to do a patient screening. Its weird to think that we only have to pass off one more PE for this semester... It has gone by so so fast

Air Powder Polish and Sealants

Today was a lot of fun. The air powder polisher in my unit wouldnt work and so it took forever to figure it out but after that it all went well. Although I dont know how much I will use it on my patients because it tasted like you had a gallon of salt in your mouth... ya pretty sick. Ive done a few sealants in my office so it wasnt too new for me. I think sealants are one of my favorite things to do minus the salt :) The semester is almost over! YAY!

2nd Mock Patient Day

Today I was the patient and it was way nice to sit there all clinic! :) Mckenna did a way good job with everything! I learn something new everyday that we need to put in the tx record, and on the blue and green forms. Watching her scale in clinic made me want to get out of the chair and practice scaling too! We also learned how to sharpen our instruments but we had like no time to do it so Im not quite a pro and sharpening yet ha

Mock Patient Day

Okay when I found out I was an operater I was a little nervous but it actually turned out to be way fun! It took a long time and I still didnt scale the whole mouth... okay I didnt even finish a whole quadrant! It was nice to be able to see how everything runs..

Selective Polishing!

Today was a lot of fun! We did selective polishing on half the mouth then we brushed each others teeth on the other half. It was surprising to learn all the cons of selective polishing. I didnt know that it was just to remove stain! haha Today was a lot better.... maybe because I didnt scale :) Im going to try to practice this weekend on my husband. lucky him!

Scaling.... Scaling.... Scaling

Okay so I need more practice and I need to have more confident in myself! Today we used the disclosing tablets on each other and then scaled from there. Hopefully one day I will be able to see calculus without the tablets :)