Finally a 4!

Today I finally saw a four!!! YAY!!! This patient was a little hard to work on because his tongue was a little large and his lip did not want me to retract it no matter how hard I tired. It all worked out though. I was able to use nitrous on him and passed off that PE.

LA Mockboards

LA mock boards went really well today. My patient was running late so Shalyce was so nice to be my patient and it all went so well. I passed both of my injections, but I need to have a better angle towards the midline on the PSA. Prof. Alexander told me to pretend that the needle is on the path towards the opposite eye and to pretend like there is an "x" over the face. That really helped out so much! Im excited to try it!

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.

Another day of 2's

This morning my patient told me right at 10 that she had to leave so I was only able to finish 2 quads but luckily I did pass of my anesthetic pe on her. My afternoon patient is my 2nd mockboard and I scaled her left side which went pretty well. Hopefully the 3s and 4s will be knocking on my door soon!!!!

STREESSSSS

Well my morning patient was pretty easy and I was able to get him done by 10. I am really starting to stress out about finding a board patient. I feel like everyday someone else is finding one and I'm not! Everytime I go to look at the recall list all the good patients are gone!!! And I am stressing out about finding a class 4 not quite sure where im going to find one. Oh well Im just going to pray that everything will work out.