Facing fears

Today I faced my greatest fear practicing dental hygiene; treating a patient with HIV. In my mind, I was a little freaked out. I tried to go to all the alterations in treatment in my mind when I realized... there are none! We already treat each patient like they have everything, and if we follow the guidelines we have been taught, we are perfectly safe. I was only able to scale 1 quad because they had to go an hour early :( I missed 3 spots on that one quad because I wasn't adaptiing distally enough on the lingal maxillary posteriors, but such is the price of learning. 

My other patient was a class V and I finished him with no errors (hurray!)