Community Service

Today I was able to go serve at the community food pantry. This is my second time participating at this event. I learned that they see over 500 hundred family's a month with I think is amazing and what a great opportunity this is for the people how really need it to come and get food. The sad thing is that they only get to come once a month, you get alot of food but not enough for a months worth. I can tell its getting closer to the holidays more and more food keeps getting donated which is wonderful I just wish that it would be donated all year around rather than just at the holiday time cause people need to eat all the time not just when it Christmas. But more people feel like giving and are in the holiday spirit this time of year. I am grateful I was able to go serve the community that I live in and make a difference I someone elses life. Merry Christmas to everyone and goodnight.

Colgate

Today we had the Colgate Rep come talk to us, I remember her from last year and all she talked about was Triclcsan and how wonderful of an ingredient it is and they are the only ones that have it in their products. I have always been a Colgate buyer but I really did not know why I just liked the taste. Today she talked about a new product well kinda new  it called sensitive pro relief it was Colgate advantage but they changed the name for a marketing purpose so try and sell more and make consumers buy it cause it look different. I did learn that you have two ways to treat hypersensitivity one to occlude the tubules and that is in office but only lasts a short time so that's why you want to use a potassium nitrate to help prevent the sensitivity from returning and if you keep using the colgate pro relief this will do it for you other wise one the tubules are no longer occluded then the sensitivity will return.   I actually really liked what she had to say and i will keep it in mind for future knowledge.

CA at the VA

I would rather be cleaning a patients teeth instead of charting it makes for along day at the Va the best part is that we get to go lunch and the other good part is this is my last day in slc for a whole month horray!!!! and that is great driving down her lately has been nuts crazy driving condition today was so foggy until we hit ogden so the rest of the drive was great. i got to practice the psa and I think I am starting to really get the angle better now katie was nice to show us how today I think I just over think myself so then I mess up the angle but hopefully I can practice this next week at the clinic and pass off me Pe since it is the last day to do it. lets pray i can pass it off and I have a patient that really needs it. I have really noticed how much faster we are getting at the va and wsu its amazing we are getting so good way to go us!!!! happy thanksgiving everyone lets eat turkey:)

VA day

Va was good and bad today. the good day of it i was able to give an injection for dr. fisher and i got two panos and a few PA's that is the good new now the bad I seen two more 1B's suckie!!!!!! I really have seen way to many 1b's I am like at 40 plus quads  and their is nothing i can really do about it cause you get what you get. one reason why seen one b's is good is that is what i will most likely going to see in private practice. but no spots missed and lots of xrays and really nice patients so it was a good day just wish I could have seen harder patients.

Lab

Materials lab was really fun today I got to make bleach trays and I have done this before but I have never used block out and I think that is a really good idea cause then the bleach sit in those area where the block out was at what a good idea. then I also learned to get a wet paper towel and dab the material once it has sucked down I guess it give it the contour, not really sure if it mad a difference  or not but good idea I also learned how to make a temporary from a little prefab clear thing and then you trim it to the right height and fill it with the material one thing I didn't like was that it look along time to set up and in a real office i think that would take to long to do it that way, but if you didnt have a tooth to take an impression of then this would work great but takes awhile.  overall I learned alot and had a fun time.

NO MORE 1 B'S  I HAVE SEEN 4 PATIENTS THIS WEEK THAT WERE A 1 B;( AND I HAVE A FEELING THAT I WILL BE SEEING EVEN MORE BEFORE THE SEMESTER IS OVER. NOT GOOD, NOT GOOD! WELL FOR SOME REASON TODAY IN CLINIC I USUALLY STRUGGLE ON THE LOWERS WELL TODAY IT WAS JUST THE OPPOSITE NUMBER 14 WAS THE END OF ME TODAY I MISSED THE SAME SPOT ON BOTH OF MY PATIENT SO AT THE END I TOLD THEM THAT I HAD TO GET THIS DOWN TODAY WHAT I WAS DOING WRONG SO I CAN FIX IT. I LEARNED THAT I NEED TO SWOOP THE BARNHART TO BETTER ACCESS THIS AREA. SO THE GOAL FOE NEXT WEEK IS TO SWOOP MORE SO I NEVER MISS IT AGAIN.

Mockboard #1

As the day started I was nervous not because I was worried about my patient coming cause they called two times the day before so I knew they would come,  but for the fact that I am still needing help with instrumentation and I may just fail and today would tell me where I really need to improve on. You would think that would not make me nervous knowing where improvement was needed but it did. I was student examiner first and i didnt know how to chart the calculus and was way confused but I figured it out after we were done and then when I got to feel to see if she missed spots i was way off and found different spots than her they said that was normal cause students think anything is calculus but it may just be the cej. well the afternoon came and my patient was a half our early bless hearts but at least I knew they were their. I got through the paper work and got my xrays and still had time. horray! I nerves calmed down and I made it through the cleaning and got my results and I passed with 81 % I missed the distals of the molars in the quad so know I know next week that is my focus. I am glad we have theses practice tests to help prepare for the real thing.