Great day!

I got so much done today I was so happy I got 5 Pe's done, 5 injections used the laser and got 2 quads of a class 3 horray!! I was pretty excited I was hoping that my afternoon patient was going to be at least a class two so I could use him for mockboards but he was a 1B not an easy one very hard one in fact lots of bleeding I even had to get him numb but to help with all tha bacteria I was able to try the laser out which was a great learning experience for me and to see how the patient reacted to it I was not aware that dental insurance would not pay for the laser to be used in private practice and how expensive it really is 100 dollars a quad yikes, I better make sure I take good care of my teeth , haha probably not going to be a problem. but I learned a lot and it was a productive day.

VA

Wow I am wore out and ready to be done for the day Ill I could think about all day was that LA test i have to take on saturday I have studied but butt off for it and so I really hope I can pass it. So I am really not so sure that I learned a whole lote today since I was not focusing that well. but I did see three patient which just baout kills me every week but i guess it is preparing me for real life in a few months. I did she something interesting I was able to treat an individual that has been into drug in the past and has just recently gotten through that point in his life and wants to change for the better very sweet and fun to talk to. but a first I was kinda thinking why did they want me him to get his teeth cleaned when I cant even scale cause their was so many caries on every surface and was a sensitive but once I got going I started to see form a differnt point that maybe that not what they wanted me to do but it was more to educate him on the importance of homecare and how he is really going to have to improve in that  area if he wants to get them fixed cause if he had a hard time keeping them clean now what it will be like when thier is a restoration on every surface with not that reat of margins so plaque will accumulate even more. when I had got done with the appointment I had felt very fortunate to have been able to see this patient I learned alot at will one day help me if  I am faced with a similar situation

Mockboard#2

I learned today that giving an IA by testbook style does not always work I learned to go more toward the Raphe to avoid hitting bone. tried it and it worked beautifully. I was able to give 4 injections which i needed really bad I was strating to get worried for mock LA cause i have not practiced very much. my patient was 20 mins late luckly he had nothing on his health history and we had already taken xrays. when I got done scaling i knew that I had missed a spot I even wrote it down I tried for ten minutes to get it off but it would not come. the calculus was so rock hard and stuck on that it took along time I had to cut into my probing time so I did not do as well of a job as I could have if I had not ran out of time. lesson learned that for boards I only want to scale one quad adding additional teeth just about killed me on time.  when I got the results back I had missed a few probe depths and recession but only one spot the spot I had wrote down. dang it at least I knew that it was still their it was not like i was not filling it. and the reason why I missed it was because I was sitting in the wrong chair position dumb mistake it came right off when I moved to 10 oclock. lots of good things learned next mock hopping for no calculus missed spots.

VA

What a day at the VA, seeing three patients really wears you out. maybe that means that I worked really hard today Ill keep telling myself that. Sometimes I wonder how I am going to do it in private practice after I graduate when I am seeing alot more than three a day. I seen some really amazing patients today I did alot of root debridment and still did not pass the Pe off. dang it!! I also seen a patient from a care facility I was pretty disappointed to find his mouth the the condition that it was in. I polished so I could probe then polished a agian to see even better and then used the ultrasonic to debride the mouth once all of the material alba was gone and I was able to see I was blown away with all the demineralization and cervical carries I guess I was not supprised but It was really sad. part was the patients  doing and not brushing but also the care facility in not offering to help him brush. sad deal:( I learned alot  and it was a a great learning experience. I love my new professor she was so confident in us and so complimenting on our work. it was a motivator for all of us.  it was a good day at the va!!!:)

Last Semester of school

Go back after a long break is always hard!! My first patient had a health history that took me 45 mins to do I looked up like 12 drugs I was at like a page and a half by the time I got it done. What a welcome back to school. haha not. I was struggling hard core for some reason I could not think of to write in the chart I dont know what my problem was. then I was time for xrays and everyone I took I would think please turn out I dont want to do a retake. and luckly they all worked horray one thing that was going good today.  The second patient of the day was a class two I had screened her last semester hoping to use her for mock boards but her calculus was not heavy enough then. but once I got started yesterday I got thinking holy cow this is probably the most calculus I have seen so far there was not a tond thta was supra but sub I was blown away with all of it it just keep comming and coming out awesome!!!! it was actually really fun I missed a few spots which stinks but I really learned alot for this patient. it was a good learning experience all day I guess you could say. Hanson drilled me on the v of my hand and how I need to use it more I always want to use the modified pen graps and it is hard sometimes to get the right angle so next week I am going to try and use it more often rather that stuggling in areas with the modified pen grasp. I also learned to use the sickel and go in after I am done and do a pop motion on the premolars under the contacts to get that last little big. what a good tip.