EXAM

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.