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Today I had a new patient that I have never met come in for the first time. Up til now I haven't had many patients but they've all been family. I was really worried about her showing up on time or showing up at all. But she came only 10 minutes late and had already filled out her health history without any medications or anything, so we could get right into it. she had just had x-rays taken so only wanted a cleaning, so that was nice and I was able to finish her whole appointment in one session. I ended up using her as an exam which was nice cause I felt like I did well and its one out of the way now, which is a huge stress relief. All my probe readings including a 4 were agreed upon and she had a lingual bar on all her anteriors upper and lower with cement on each tooth. So it was harder to get all the plaque off but I got a good score and only had to go back to a few. Which wasn't bad for my first patient I scaled on and a full mouth. I also passed of my exploring PE that day. So all in all, I had a really good day that day and made me feel like I was improving.

Good Day Finally!

So today i got a class 2 patient expecting a 1b. So I was really excited to have that for the experience. My x-rays turned out well finally, and i saw some things that i haven't got to yet. I saw quite a bit of recession, a furcation, and attrition which was pretty cool. It also helped with my OD for finding different things in the mouth like different fillings, crowns, sealants, and charting all that with the recession and the other things that were a bit unusual for me to have seen already. We also after taking the x-rays, found two incipient caries so that was pretty cool too. I didn't get to scaling so hopefully he will come back and I can finish his appointment. But he was a great patient and really easy to work with. So overall I didn't feel like I got a lot done fast, but I learned a lot and the next appointment should be much easier and faster.

First Patient day!!!

My mom came in today. She was a great patient. I didn't get much done. I only got done 4 bwx done, the hhx, od, extra and intra exam and full mouth probe. I had to retake every single x-ray. But at least the second ones turned out much better. Not great! but better. It was a little harder to take I felt like because she has bilateral mandibular tori. I got my conatacts open both times this time though so i think thats an improvement. Next time will be a little better since all I will have to do is scaling, polish, ect. No x-rays! thats all I care about, they are definetely a BIG weak point! I look forward to working on her again, but I'm still pretty nervous about anybody else. Hopefully I'll get faster pretty quick, I feel so bad having people come twice just as a favor.

First day Back!

Well our first day back we didn't see a patient. we split into groups and went to three different groups of learning. our first one we learned about the ultrasonic scaler and practiced with it on our typodonts, then we did some case studies on how to classify patients, and what to do for their OHI, then the last group we learned about our graceys and the different ways and circumstances that they can be used in. Next time is our real patient day. I've got my mom coming in but I'm still pretty nervous so we'll see how it goes.

Last day of Clinic today! We separated into 3 different groups. In one we learned about perio screening, the other was emergency procedures and the last one was how to be a CA and we signed up to do that 2 times next semester. After that we took an exam on our clinic manual. We were out a little early and it was a really chill clinic so it was nice for a last one before our next semester starts and we see patients every time. Wow. I'm soooo nervous for that one!

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.