10-27-08

Today my goal was to get more practice on scaling both anterior and posterior. I planned to accomplish this by practicing on my pod partner. First we discussed the procedure for when a patient comes to the clinic and checks in and then we went on to practice scaling. I didn't have any help or anyone watching me til I was almost done scaling. I felt like I was doing a really poor job and then when I did get help it turns out I was doing everything wrong. I was either told wrong before or understood wrong. Anyway it was good that I finally got help so that I could start to learn the correct way and now that I know it makes more sense and I just will have to practice today. Next time I plan to learn to selective polish and practice more.