Class 2!

So today I had my second class 2 patient. I am so glad that she ended up being a 2 in all four quads. She was acutally my hardest patient so far. It took my one hour and fifteen minutes to scale all four quads, so I need to work on lowering my time. I am glad that I just got her finished. I also passed of 2 PE's so today was a very productive day. I just hope that I can find 2 more quads to meet my requirements. I am acutally more nervous that I wont meet my x-ray reqiurements I have only taken 1 PA, so hopefully some of my patients coming in will need FMX. I really need to practice not activating with my fingers but with my wrist. My fingers got kind of cramped today so I noticed that I needed to use my wrist more. Overall a pretty good day!

3/3/08

So today was a pretty good day in clinic. I could not find a patient for today so I had my back up who is my husband come in so I could fininsh him. He could not get here till 9 though cause he had a class. I worked on my caries analysis on my patient while I waited, so that was good to pass the time. I was able to scale all 4 quads in 30 min so I am getting faster. I also passed off my intra-oral camera PE since I had a little bit of time to kill at the end of the appt. I am now almost done with my 1B requirements, I only have 2 quads left. I just hope my patients coming in are something other than a class 1B, cause I need the other requirements.

Spanish Speaking Pt.

Today I had a Spanish speaking patient for the first time. It was a good experience, and was not as difficult as i thought it would be. She was a class 1B and did not have very much calculus. I used her as my last 1B exam patient, so I am glad to be almost finished with all my exams. She had some mandibular tori that is the first time I have ever seen tori so that was pretty exciting. I was able to scale all 4 quads in about 25 minutes so I am glad that I am starting to get faster. Today was a good day in clinic overall.

Finally A Class 2!

So I am pretty excited today because I saw a patient that is not a class 1B. She was a class 2 and I am so excited. I took 4 verticle bwx on here and realized never to take digital verticle bwx. They are so hard, and do not get everything you need on them. That was a good learning lesson. I was able to scale one quad and only had 1 missed area. I was pretty excited. Today made me feel less stressed about getting my requirements done, although I still need some other classes. Today went really well, and I feel like my scaling skills are getting better every clinic session.

2/11/08

Today in clinic my goal was to complete my patient. I am happy that I met my goal, and was able to get done with a 1B in one appointment. I also used this patient as an exam patinet today. I am just trying to get done with all my exams and PE's as soon as I can so at the end of the semester I wont be so stressed. I was glad that I did not have any missed spots during my scale check. The past few times, I have been missing spots on the lower anterior linguals. I feel like I am becoming more confident and I acutally know what calculus feels and looks like. This has been something really helpful to understand. But today was probably one of the best clinic days I have had in a long time.

Clinic 2/6/08

So yesterday when I called to confirm my patient she cancelled. That is both times this week that I have had pts cancel. However, I was able to get my mom to come in again. She was my first pt and I needed to finish her lower quads. So the whole day didn't go to waste thankfully. I was also able to pass off my ultrasonic and anterior scaling PE's. It makes me feel better when I get things done. Hopefully I have some class 2 and 3's coming up I have not seen one yet. But I guess everything will work out in the end (hopefully). But today was a pretty good day considering the circumstances.

Pt Canceled

So I am so furious! My patient cancelled at the last minute this morning. He spoke spanish, so I had somebody call and confirm him yesterday evening. He said that he would be here, but then called this morning and said that he had cold sores. I wish he would have mentioned that last night. So anyways my husband is coming up at nine so hopefully I can get some stuff done on him.