Last Mockboard!

Today was the last mockboard. I can't believe that this semseter is almost over! My patient was an alright patient for mockboard. Her calculus was pretty rough, but I think I did a pretty good job. I have not seen what my score is yet, so I guess I will have to wait for that to really see how well I did. Anyways not to much more than that to say. I am doing 2 screenings on Firday hopefully one of them will be my board!

3-17-09

This morning I was able to see a class3/4 I was able to scale the right side of his mouth, and also do some LA. I am glad that I was able to do LA because he was so sensitive. When I was probing during the OD, he kept pulling away from me which was pretty annoying. He also seemed very nervous, and his mouth was quivering the during the UR quad. When I got down to the LR quad he seemed to relax and do a little bit better. He is coming back to finish up the left side in April. My afternoon patient canceled and I was unable to find another patient. I was able to study for boards most of the time, which was nice and a little stressful. I can't believe how soon boards are. Well that is all I can think of right now, better get back to studying.

3-3-09

So today was a pretty productive day. This morning I was able to see my brother who was a 1B. He had been wanting to get in and get his teeth cleaned and I could not find anybody to fill my morning appointment today so he was able to come in. This afternoon I was able to see a patient who is most likely going to be my mockboard. She has pretty tenacious calculus, and had a few 6 mm pockets. I am going to try and find somebody who is more ideal, but if not I will use her. I was able to get my ScanX PA's completed on her also which makes me glad considering I was done with PA's last semester. Today was a overall good day!

Done with class 3's

So today in clinic I saw 3 quads of a class 3 in the morning and 2 quads of a 4 in the afternoon. It was a really good day in clinic and I only missed 2 spots on the class 4. I felt pretty confident with my scaling and exploring. I decided that from now on I am going to treat each patient as if they were my board patient. Sometimes I feel that I get in a hurry and don't check after I scale the way I should. I felt liked I checked well today and in the end I seemed to do better than usual. Now for my requirements I just need another class 4, and 2 1A patients. Hopefully those will come my way.

Day of class 3's

So today was a relatively good day considering that it has been a blizzard outside all day long. This morning I had a lady come in who was a class 3 in all quads. Her lower quads qualified for mockboard and board. The only thing I am a little nervous about is I cleaned all the upper teeth so I will not beable to add any teeth if I need to from another quad. I am still going to look for another patient that qualifies just in case she won't work out for both. In the afternoon I was able to clean 1 quad of a 3. He had to leave early to go pick up his kids from school, but will be back next week for me to fininsh. He looked like such a healthy patient, but had a lot of calculus. His gums did not look inflamed or anything though. Well time to go home.

2-10-09

So today was an overall good day in clinic for the most part. I had my class 3 patient coming in this morning to finish her last 2 quads. She ended up coming about 2 hours late which made me annoyed. I was able to get her finished thank goodness! I am glad that she is done cause she was a pretty difficult to deal with. This afternoon I was able to see a patient again that I had seen last spring semester. I could not believe how much improvement there was in her probing depths. This is the first time I had seen a patient back and it was really cool to see the improvement. It made me excited to go out into private practice where you see many of the same patients over and over. Anyways it was an overall good day considering the circumstances.

Good day in clinic.

So today was a very good day in clinic for me. I had a patient come back that I had done an OD on last semester, and scaled two of her quads that were a 3. I was also able to give her anesthetic, and she qualified to be my mockboard! My afternoon patient had canceled last night so today when I came to clinic I was able to schedule someone. She ended up being a class 5 patient so I used her has my last exam. She hardly had any plaque and was extremely clean. She was missing quite a few teeth, and told me that she had to learn the hard way before she started to take care of her teeth. Janel had some patients that also needed sealants, so I was able to complete the last sealant that I needed for this year. Hopefully my patients will show up next week, at least I won't worry about needing a mockboard, that is a great feeling. I had been getting discouraged these past few weeks since many of my patients had either now showed or canceled. Today made everything better! I just always tell myself that in the end it will all work out.