Great Day:)

I was able to see three patients today horray. 1a, 1B, and a 2 quads of a 4. I was really tired but it was good to stay busy all day. I learned alot and i mean alot on my class 4 I could not believe how hard that calc was I have seen a 4 before and it was not even close to that hard. wow I was beat I think my patient was too. I would ultrasonic and ultrasonic a gain and stuff was comming off but there was just so much. and it was so sub gingival and black so it was awesome to be that deep in the pocket and be able to get stuff out. One thing I should have done was take intraoral pictures cause it was so clean when i was done, it looked beautiful:) I mostly used my graceys they do wonders in deep pocket and they were still super sharp since i just got them for boards. i patient blood sugar was so high it was kinda scary the doctor okayed it but it still made me nervous i keep asking him are you sure you feel okay and he would say yes I feel great but I wanted to be on the safe side. I learned so much and I am so glad I was able to treat this patient before I was done with school cause I learned alot that will help me later in my career.

Phys consults suck

so I am not feeling to productive today i seen a 1 b and did a physician consult for about three hours suckie... I felt so bad cause my patient wanted his teeth cleaned so bad that he stayed the whole time and was not even able to get anything done. but I finally got the fax and we will be good to go for the next visit. but it was a lesson learned so that when I am get in the real world I just may have to do one and now I know how and what I need. bless jamie's heart she let me pass off air powder on her which is not so much fun i remember having to do it last year for someone. and then I got a sealant done wahoo. it comming down to the wire and we are so close I cant wait

Mentor project

I really enjoyed going and doing my mentor assisgnment I didnt learn alot that I didnt already knew what I watched the flow of things and picked the hygienist brain to good tips for when I am in her shoes here in a few months. it made me really excited to start practicing and seeing more patients. I know ill be a little over whelmed at first but I thinking ill start to really get the hand of it after a few weeks. I liked to watch and see how they chart and what their order is in the way they run an appointment. i was really amazed in how well the the doctor and the hygienist both did an oral cancer screening that way nothing was over looked. I really enjoyed this office and hope the next one will be just as good

VA

I had a new experience I scaled well tried to scale a 10 mm pockets it was of been even deeper but that is as far as my probe was going to go. I tlked to the periodontitis and he was so nice and was telling me the plan and when we should really refer to a periodontitis he say when you have a few pockets that are deeper than a 6. if you only have one or two he said that we can usually maintain them by just seeing a hygienist in a regular practice by any moe than that we should really refer. I seen stomitis on the soft palate from smoking it was nice to see in real life since I have only seen it in a book. I cant believe how hard stain is to get off  it sucked and it was not fun. I also had my patient on nitrous and i think I was breathing it in also I got way sick and had to leave, this is weird cause it happened to me last time I used it on a patient too, plus its hard to work around . well thats my day:)

VA

Another 3 patient day again I keep telling myself that they are just preparing me for private practice which is so true, I have to say the that Professor M is so sweet all she does the whole time we are at the VA is give nice comments and tell us how ready we really are for the real world I sure hope she is right. I passed off my nitrous oxide it thought that it was going to be hard since it has been so long since we practiced it but it was pretty easy since the va has it already set up all you have to do it hook one hose up and turn it on and you are ready to go. So that was nice to get that done hopping for another experience my next va trip. all and all the day went great.

Mock

Wow it feels good to be done with the last mock board. I am still terrified for the real thing even though I really have been doing this for two years now. I do think I had a little less stress on this third mock board I have now gotten the paper work down and the tray down I hope it goes this smooth on real boards. I was a little frustrated today cause I missed probing errors not a ton but I did miss a few which I feel like that is something that I can work on and try a little harder not to miss. took process of care yesterday so now one less thing to stress about it feels good to be almost done whaooo!! I am getting excited to see what life brings me next I hope no mre schoolI need a little break:)

Happy Valentines Day:)

It was such a great day today found my board patient which took all morning doing calculus charts and xrays cause he is going to be my mock and board which will be a wonderful advantage to see how well the tarter comes off. one thing I am worried about is that I had a hard time feeling his cej I hope I can find it better once I remove the calculus. in the afternoon I found my class four I cant tell you how excited I was!!!! well he is truely a case of agressive periodontitis and its too the book mobility, major boneloss in the lower anteriors and moderate boneloss in the posteriors. I looked a the bacteria under the microscope and he did not have alot of white blood cells and not much plaque but lots of spirochetes swimming around. and then his red blood cells were very interesting they were not like a cherrio anymore more like a circle with bumps on the outside very strange so it was a sign of the bad bacteria this patient did have and why it was agressive. I hope to see some major improvements at the next visit.