mock board

Well, this was an experience. I had so many mixed feelings coming in today that it is hard to even describe what I was feeling. I was nervous about getting x-rays done cuz I had to take 9 PA's before I even got started. So I barely finished those and then I had to rush checking my patient in, which I was 3 minutes late, luckily no more! After that I was concerned that he might not qualify in the single quad and that I would have to do more teeth, luckily he qualified and things went well there. So I got out my heavy duty ultrasonic and started blasting the heck out of this guys calculus because it is some of the most tenacious stuff I have ever encountered. It was amazing, I just saw chunks of it flying off. So then I went back in with my graceys and fine tuned. I thought that I could feel this massive chunk between 30 and 31 so I was just going to town there. Finally I pulled out my probe to check probe depths and I felt a few more clicks so I went back in for those and then I felt confident enough to send him for the final check. Luckily I passed, I only missed one spot so I felt pretty good about what I had done. I didn't know what to do with all the paperwork however, so I'll have to fine tune the little things and get more signatures, but it sure was a confidence booster to pass the first mock board. I just need to focus on honing my skills.

Down to the wire!

Ack! It is getting close to mock board! I had been calling my patient nonstop for a week, with no success, and so have been a little stressed. But a miracle happened yesterday. A patient of mine that qualified as a mock board, couldn't come on the day of mock boards so I had him scheduled to clean this morning. Well, yesterday when I called to confirm him, he said that he thought we had scheduled him for a mock board and he could come on that day! What a miracle! I had been racking my brain about who to get for mock board, and here was my answer! So today I cleaned a woman who was a 1B and my grandma who was a class V. It was a great day!

labs are good, labs are great

I liked labs when I was 8 (Labradors that is!) Today was a fun experience, very calm and unstressful! We learned about right and left ultrasonics, sonic scalers, glucose testing, caries rick assessment and placing medicaments. I liked using the hot dogs to place the medicaments! It was a fun object for our lesson. In the afternoon I actually got to place a medicament on my patient with a 10 mm facial pocket. It was great! Today was an all around great day.

OD

Today was interesting. My first patient informed me at 8:15 that she needed to leave by 9:00 am, so I rushed through x-rays and did the best I could with the time I had. I think she may even qualify for a class 3 patient. Well Shandee and I then got to hang out and set up for the afternoon, which was a fun experience. We had 14 sealants that we shared on a great little girl. After that I saw my grandma for an OD check and I will scale her later in the semester. So it wasn't really a wasted day, but I really wanted to get some scaling done. Hopefully next week will be more productive.

Tenacious!

Hola! I am feeling um kindof different. I am having a really tough time getting tenacious calculus off of teeth. So today I had another really difficult patient in that the calculus just wasn't ready to let go of its ties to the tooth. I thought it would be, but it wasn't. So, my forearms now hurt from all the force I exerted, but the calculus finally succumbed to my way of thinking and left it's warm home for the wide open expanse of the garbage dump. Anyway, I just need to be a lot more thorough before I ask for my scale check. Other than that, my day was pretty good. I shared a class 5 with Tiffany and that was good gravy. I just want to be efficient, I want to be good, even though I know this is the time for me to learn, I WANT TO BE PERFECT NOW!!!!