1a angel!

Goal: get a hold of my pt and her mother to comfirm appt. she's 4yrs old and will be my exam pt.
accomplished: i had a backup because it was scaring me that i couldn't get a hold of my pt's mom and i was grateful for that. Jessica also said there was a 14yr old coming with her dad who would need her teeth cleaned.. so i had some options.. i just really needed a 1a though. miracle happened and they showed up right on time!! it was great.. i was just so excited that i totally forgot to declare her as my exam pt.. bummer! I have one more that i can do-but still.. besides that the appt went perfect.. this little girl was an angel..

CA

Being a CA was SO relaxing in the beginning of this semester. I was so grateful to not have to worry about getting a pt that afternoon. I was also excited to feel like an assistent again.. i kinda miss it! I felt prepared to do all the requirements/my favorite was to call the girls to let them know that their pt was here. It was also fun to talk to the pts as they came out to pay for tx. some of the pts were super funny and didn't talk much. I can relate to that, i don't say much after someone has been messing around in my mouth-i get a little irritated and quiet-so it was entertaining. the only thing i would say needed improvement was that we were told that we were done, and we hadn't done everything on our list so i had to check and double check to see if there were more things to do.. and there were.. Over all, i can say that i am excited for my next CA day in april! April 16th-tax day!

never been better..

Yesterday the pt who was my very first pt came in to have his teeth finally cleaned.. He has been out of town and just barely returned. I was so excited to see him again and think of how much my skills have improved since that first clinic day. He was surprised when i told him that he wouldn't have to come a third time because we were able to finish all 4 quads of class 2 in that appt.. I was also excited! the best part was to see that he had been doing EXACTLY what i taught him to do in our OHI. When he came in back in January he had a BLACK coated tongue-how about that for a first clinic experience! and I got him using a tongue scraper everyday and his tongue was a beautiful pink this time. He also has been brushing 2xday and flossing with glide and rinsing with listorine daily.. this cute man is 74 yrs old and didnt know much of what i taught him.. it was fun to see that old dogs can learn and do new oral hygiene care.

grateful for a backup!

The night before this appt i was totally stressing and about in tears as i frantically called all of my pts to see if anyone could come in the next morning.. My class 3 pt wasn't going to beable to show and it was totally unexpected. I was so so so grateful when at 10 o'clock at night, i was able to get a hold of a pt who would beable to come in. The best part was that he was RIGHT on time, brought his wife (who is another of my pts and who talked to me during his tx) and they were SUPER excited about learning ANYTHING and EVERYTHING about the mouth.. they loved that buccal is like buckle it is the front of the tooth... funny.. because of missing teeth he only ended up counting for 3 quads-i didn't need any of them, but i was grateful for the experience. I missed lots of spots of calculus and Prof. Costley really helped me to feel and remove them.. She is good at this and i really want to learn a lot from her. One thing is when exploring, i need to roll that tip right into the col and use ONLY the tip to feel-it's better that way..

class 2 exam pt

goal: that my pt shows up and i can finish his tx in a good time and with minimal mistakes
acheivement: exactly that!!
today went really smoothly and i am really grateful. My sweet pt came in this morning because he knew that he needed to premed and he didn't have his Rx filled. He came and got 2gm Amox and was all premed by the time the appt started. We got him right in the chair, did a quick visual extra and intra and then got right started with tx. I hand scaled all his anteriors and then got my instructor to pass off my ultrasonic PE. That went really well. She even told me that if interproximally i would turn the ultrasonic just so then i could reach in a bit deeper and it worked.. poor pt though had lots of water going everywhere.. I then hand scaled all quads and my scale check was with only 2 mistakes. Phew! I want to work on my speed cuz it took me 50min to do it all.. but i also don't want to miss deposits..

class 3

Goal: have my roommate be my class 1b patient today, 4bwx and fm hs, pol, ect.
accomplished: my roommate failed her appt and i was going to just do the intra oral camara PE and the peer reviewed PE.. i was going to help chart with one of the girls and then my prof came over to tell me that she had a pt for me.. GREAT! He was the husband of a pt being treated right then and he was going to be just waiting.. I hurried and got his info and HHX and we started.. I could see from his tissues, and xrays that he was going to be a class 3.. it startled me to see my probe going in 7-8mm!! OD was definately class 3 perio.. I was grateful, suddenly, that my roommate wasn't able to show and i decided right then that perhaps i shouldn't react to such things so negatively.. i need to know that everything is going to be alright-i'll keep doing my best.. I really stressed to him the importance of cleaning his teeth and flossing.. he speaks mainly spanish so it was Super fun to try out my portugues/spanish mix.. it worked most of the time..