Real Patient Day!!!

My sister was nice enough to come be my patient for the day. I was pretty frustrated at first because I had everything ready before she got there so I could get to scaling that day but x-rays took sooo long! And they still didn't even turn out. But that took up like half my time. Then everything else just seemed to not move along very quickly. I had to redo my tx plan 3 times! I did fine on my bp r and p readings and on probing and things but it was time for her to go and I hadn't even got to scale. So that was kind of a bummer but it was only my first day and it wasn't all bad, I just got too frustrated from the very get go. It was fun having her come though and see everything and help me out being my ginnypig:)

Mock Patient #2

Today went pretty well I felt like. It went a lot smoother then my first day. We didn't have to probe so thats always nice. Then we were supposed to scale two quads, using hand and then the ultrasonic, polish, varnish and charting and all that fun stuff. So I thought it was a little easier today. Last time I felt really scattered and behind. Today we actually had time to breath and prepare our charts and everything for our real patient day next week. I'm excited to see how that goes and start having patients from now on.

Lazy Day!

Today was another mock patient day. I was supposed to be the patient but i have TWO cold sores. so I wasn't able to be the patient so my operator worked on a TA and i just recorded for her and other than that stood around and observed. The days definetely don't go by as fast when your not working the whole time. but it was still kind of nice to have a more relaxing day. especially on a wed, since we have clinics for 8 hours with our radiology clinic. So today wasn't too bad at all. Its nice to kind of see another walk through of everything to let it sink in a little more. Hopefully my cold sores will be gone by monday so i can be the patient that day for our second mock patient day.

first mock patient

Well today i struggled for sure, and definetely have a lot to review. We went through a lot of what an appt would be like. The biggest thing i struggled with was probing. I had a really hard time reading the lines at the molars and i couldnt remember everything i needed as far as charting went treatment plans and things like that. So this was helpful to go through and actually do the first part of an appt but also showed me how much i still have to work on. Hopefully the next one will go a little better.

We did the PE for the air powder polisher today which is really nice to be done with. That means we are done being ginny pigs for it:) not too fun, but my partner did good and we only had to have it done on a few teeth, not all of them. After that we did our varnish and gel or foam flouride PE. We also did learned how to sharpen our instruments correctly so we practiced on some dull ones for a while. We had a lot of extra time today to do or practice whatever we needed to so that was really nice to have some extra time.

Sealants!

We did sealants today and it was pretty fun. Me and my partner both did them a little high so we had to shave them down with a scaler but im glad we did, so we knew how to for next time. along with that we polished and did flouride again and did treatment plans for them then put it all in their charts. It was a good day for sure not to hard or overwhelming. It was fun too to look at their mouth to try and spot any fillings or previous sealants, stains, or anything like that, that cannot be sealed over. We even got to look at my partners xrays she had takent that day to check on a something that might be a cavity to make sure we didn't seal that tooth. So it was a good experience today i thought, cause the more and more we do the more i can see and grasp things a little better.