Cancellation

I called my patient last night to confirm her appointment and she said that she'd left a message with the clinic that she wouldn't be able to make it! *grr*

So I called my dad and luckily he was able to come in! *yay!*

He has a complicated health history so I know this is going to be a tougher appointment. He also needs to premed so my goals are;

1) Get through the OD
2) Get through my first truly complicated HHX
3) Not get flustered by the amount of time it will take me to get through the HHX

Overall I did meet my goals. I wasn't able to pass off any PEs, but I did do a FMX (minus 4 because he'd already had those done) I missed more spots of calculus than I'd like, but since he was a class II it won't hurt my grade too badly. The HHX was a really good experience for me,(though it took nearly an hours) and I feel like i'm no longer afraid of complicated health histories! (Though I'm still afraid of the time they take up!)

Amanda

CA duty and *hopefully* a complete 1B!

I have yet to complete a patient in one appointment, so my clinic goals for this clinic session are;

1) Complete my 1B patient in one appointment.
2) Pass off Instrument Sharpening PE & 1 other PE.
3) Not be too tired after being CA in the AM to reach my goals in the PM.

*after*

Being CA was actually not too bad! I was ready to go after it and did pass off my instrument sharpening and CA PEs! I didn't finish my 1B in one appointment, so she will have to come back on the 29th.

This was certainly a learning experience for me! She had extreamly mal-positioned teeth and calculus that just would not come off! Instructor demings taught me to use the spoon end of my Barnhart to get calculus off the straight lingual, so that was awesome. I got through the OD and got to scale 2 quads on her, and for how tough the calculus was I'm really happy with that :)

Still Slow

My goals for today were;

1. Get the OD done on my 1B
2. take 4BWX
3. Pass off exploring and universal PEs.
4. Work on my fulcrums!

I met all of my goals and even got to scale a quad! I still feel like i'm so slow! There are girl's who have finished a whole 1B in 1 appointment... I guess I just don't understand how! I felt like I went as fast as I could today, but still only got to scale 1 quad. I need to just stop worrying about what other's have done and just concentrate on my requirements and my personal goals. I also am going to be doing 4 sealants on this patient so that made me really really happy!

I am having a hard time opening up contacts on pre-molar bitewing. X-rays are just not my strong point. This weekend, I am going to go over positioning in my radiology book from last semester and do some research on the internet. I really want to be good at this!

I've never gotten to scaling after an OD before so I didn't have my pt brush her teeth before she left and she had smurf mouth! I guess that's something to learn for next time!

Emergency patient... daycare style!

Sooooo my goals for today WERE going to be to get the OD done AND scale 1 quad on the guy I had coming in. He cancelled 1 hour before clinic. I called all of my emergency patients, who couldn't come in so there was only one choice; run to daycare and grab my toddler.

I was VERY hesitant to do this. The two times I have brought him anywhere near the dental hygiene department (once for the halloween party and once to drop off a paper) he was super scared. BUT, an uncooperative patient is better than no patient at all, right?

He was SO GOOD! He kept his mouth open and held still for the most part. He didn't get scared when I scaled him OR when I took BWX on him. He even opened up for the instructor! I am so proud of him! I decided not to try two kids because I wanted to take my time and make this a really good experience for him. This was his first dental visit!

I got to do a sealant on Jennifer's patient, and that's really the only part where I ran into some trouble. He wanted to be holding onto me the whole time I was doing it! Luckily, Karlie is an angel and distracted him by making a balloon out of a glove! Overall, a good day :) Lucas told me "That was fun, can we do that again tomorrow?"

Let's hope my wednesday patient doesn't cancel, I REALLY don't want to push my luck by bringing in my two year old!