lab day

it was a refreshing experience to be the student again today in clinic. It was good not to be totally paranoid about having my patient show up. I am grateful that i haven't had too much difficulty with that yet. I am also excited about what we learned today. I didn't know that we would ever use the diagnodent. I saw my dentist use it several times but never my hygienist. that was my favorite lesson of the day. I also was exctied (again) to see how well the ultrasonic works.. I like using it, but i can see that at times it would just be so much faster to hand scale and get it off. .. I have never found any satisfaction in insurance anything and today was no different. It is so frustrating to think that stupid money bla bla makes the call on what you are doing in the patient's mouth.. i'll have to deal it seems.