Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Finally! My patient came!
So this afternoon was a good change from this morning. My patient actually came HORRAY! She was a class 2 and I used her as an exam. Her calculus was pretty tough and was mostly subgingival. The calculus was pretty hard to access since her gingiva was pretty healthy. She has actually been a meth user for the past 8 years, but has been clean for 7 months. When she told me this, I pictured her mouth to be totally bombed out and decayed. I was surprised when I realized her teeth were actually not affected hardly at all. She must have had pretty good hygiene when she was using. Today professor Bossenberger showed me the best way to get calculus off that is close to the contact space. I was having trouble with this on the lower anterior linguals. It worked so well! Well I am just glad that one of my patients finally came and was actually a decent classification. Hopefully this will be the end of my unlucky streak :)
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3 comments:
yeah totally u have been sooooo unlucky with patients. I am glad that someone came!!
That's interesting that your patient's teeth weren't really affected after using meth for 8 years. That's a long time! Good for her for being clean for 7 months though. And good job on getting a class 2 exam done as well. I hope you don't have any more no shows this semester. I'm gonna miss you being in my VA group. :( I'm glad we still have the same WSU clinic day though. :)
What did Bossenberger do to remove the calculus in the close contact areas? I have trouble with that! I can use any tip she gives.
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