Well today I had my last class 3 exam patient so thats a relief to get that done. This way im done with all my exams, and I got a lot of PE's done too. Now I pretty much just have the horrible ones to do, like the saliva one, diagnodent, and all those ones. They're the definite dreaded. I think I'll just bring Jesse in one day and try to pass off all those one's so i don't have to take the time to wait for my patient to spit in a cup and check how their flow is!:)

VA Day

today was a great one for the VA. My first patient we got done with 2 quads on a 3 because he had to leave early. But I was ok with it. Then after him Connie asked if I wanted to do one quad on a class 3 she had for root debridement. We got that done as well so it turned out good. Then I got a class 2 after lunch and finished him but with those 3 patients I got to do 4 injections plus x rays, and lots of pe's done. So that was pretty exciting.

Horrible

My afternoon patient today was pretty atrocious. I thought she would qualify to be a class 3 with all the calculus spurs on the x rays along with bone loss. Then our instructor still said a 2, which was fine but was just saying how hard and tricky they would be and they would actually be harder then a 3:< So....after finishing one quad I wanted it checked to see how I was doing but she wanted me to keep going and finish. I missed soooooooooooo many spots it was crazy! I don't even know what to think. So someone I should have had finished that day, has to come back AGAIN. A pain for the patient and myself. I also chose her to be my eaglesoft patient and knew to take digitals, but then on some random thought I switched to conventional! What was I thinking? Not the best day I've ever had.

cold sores!!!!!!!

well last night my 8:00 patient canceled so scrambling all night to find a patient we finally found somebody to come in. I thought she would be a class 2 and had gotten her name and number from the health connection. Meanwhile, her name was also on the recall list and so to of us thought they were our patient. Turns out she was a four! so we were going to split the quads but then after we got her laid back in the chair there was a tiny little cold sore on her lip. So there went my morning patient once again! No quads. I've about had it with cold sore's, premedications, and patients that don't show up.

Easy day

I had my mom come in today who is a 1b. Its funny how they seemed so challenging last semester and now I feel like I don't do anything to even clean hardly on 1b's. There's just not much to it compared to 2's and 3's. I wish they were all this easy and fast. One day I guess.

wow!

Today I had a patient who had a kidney transplant. He had not premedicated and said he was told last time he was in the clinic that he no longer had to. Well I couldn't start anything on him until we had contacted a dr for the go ahead. The patient wasn't happy about this at all and was getting really frustrated with us wasting his time. he couldn't understand why it was such a big deal and wanted to sign a waiver saying he didn't care and to go ahead with treatment. The nurse I talked to was not overly helpful in the least and we had to try about 3 different doctors before we got the right one, with the not so helpful nurse. We then had to wait for a call back but then they would not tell me anything until i walked back into clinic and had him use my cell phone i was on to confirm who i was and that he was there. In the end it turns out he absolutely DID need to be pre-medicated they said. After that he was much calmer and appreciative but this took the entire clinic time and once again....NO QUADS!!!!!

not the best day

Today my patient came that I planned on using as a mock board pt. we were going to take her x rays and clean the rest of her teeth. Well it turned out she had a tiny tiny little cold sore on her lower lip. She wanted us to do it anyways because she said it was healed but the scab kept coming of. so... we got to accomplish absolutely nothing. But she still sat in the seat for a long time taking up clinic time trying to decide whether we could in fact work on her or not and having Mr. Solomon come in and out trying to explain to her why we had to have her leave. Mock boards are in only a week so I wasn't real confident about having her come back with it healed and as luck would have it I screened a patient after her that day and she is now my new patient for that day. But I still got no quads in or anything overly effective. But I'm glad I at least have a good patient for that day.