Polishing Day

Wow so I have never used the air powered polisher before and so today was a first and it was nor plesant I hated it. it was so painfull I would hate to have it done to all of my teeth if I needed it. but I love the selective polisher it is so nice compaired to the air powered one. so yesterday I did not know that you only polish the teeth that need to be polished so that was new to me, I have always just polished every pt so matter what so I am glad I learned this today and in class yesterday.

10-25-10

Today in clinic it was a more of a practice day than anything which is always wonderful we also passed of OHI pe and intra oral camera. I feel like I really understand how to explain in lamens terms what a cavity is and the formation and process the tooth goes through. but when it comes to Periodontitis it is a little harder for me to explain to someone what periodontitis actually is and to know how to incorporate the flip chart in to my explanitation of what it really is. I love the intra oral camera it is great for the pt to see what the inside of thier mouth really lookes like. i know in private practice it would have been nice to get to use it more but we never made time to actually use it. so that is what I hope to do when I start seeing pts 

Wed

What a day i was able to pass off four PE"S it was nuts I totally feel like I understand the how to scale posterior teeth last week I hated using the barnhart but now I feel like I understand how to use it thanks to instuctor Hafen she helped me out a ton. know I get into the col which before, I know I was not getting the col, well I got to practice more today which is always good. well that it for today

Monday Oct 18

All I did today was sit in the chair and be the patient, it was really long and I kinda got light headed being down that long, but one good thing is that we did ohi again today and my PFI was tons better than from last time so that makes me feel good now I know that the way I am brushing is the correct way. yeah that is so exciting. well wed I will be working on a patient for the entire time im glad we are getting to be able to actually run through a procedure like we would normally do. well that it for today on to radiology.

Wed Clinic

SO WHAT I LEARNED TODAY WAS HOW TO CHART OND TRANSFER TO THE PT CHART IT TAKES ME BACK TO WHEN I WAS IN DENTAL ASSISTING SCHOOL AND CHARTING ON PAPER IM NOT UST TO THAT ANY MORE. I ALSO WAS ABLE TO FULL UNDERSTAND THE PROBING CONCEPT AND NOW I FEEL SO MUCH BETTER ABOUT IT. AND THEN WE WHERE ABLE TO PRACTICE ON EACH OTHER I MOST PRACTICED USING MY ANTERIOR SCALER AND I AM FEELING SO MUCH MORE COMFORTABLE ABOUT DOING IT. WELL THIS IS THE END OF THE WEEK FOR US AND I AM SO EXCITED CAUSE IT IS FALL BREAK. YEAH!!!!

Disclosing Agent

Wow I could not believe what I saw when we did disclosing agent I thought I was a some what good brusher but after disclosing I found aout that I really need to improve on my brushing technique in the anterior region of my mouth. you would think that I would be a good brusher in the front because they are easy to reach and floss and the back are alot harder to get to but come to find out my posterior teeth looked awesome hardly any pink spots. so my goal for this week is to bush in those spots better and then disclose again in a couple weeks and see if I have improved.

Barnhart day

Today we learned how to use thwe barnhart in the posterior teeth, I thought it was way easy on my typodont and was doing the right strokes but then poor mollee I got to work on her again this week and to start I hurt her a few times and made her bleed but by the need we had a lot less bleeding. so yeah me. we also learned how to treatment plan on eagle soft which was way easy and came naturally. so at least one thing came easy this week. well the clinic week in over so I have got to practice like crazy this weekend.

wow im so stressed

Wow im am so stressed out so today we learned how to use the sickle scaler it was so hard I m trying not to get frustraited but It is kinda hard I think I am getting it and then an instructor comes over and I m not doing it correct Im so glad we have them to help us. prof Coastly is amazing at teaching us how to do it correctly she takes your hand is so gentle and I totally understand that one tooth when she gets done. I wish she could be by my side that whole time. Well I am going to take home my scaler and practive like crazy and try not to stress about it, it is only the first day of scaling.