Real Patient Day!

Today my goal was to understand how an appointment goes when it's with a real patient instead of my pod partner. I was really nervous because my mom thought she had a cold sore and so I made her and my sister come just in case. It turned out not to even be a cold sore. I was also nervous that I would have enough time but, things went just fine. I started by having my instructor check my health history then I was approved to take 4 bwx and I went to take them and my mom has the craziest teeth. She is missing her maxillary cuspids, her right mandibular premolar. Plus she has enormous mandibular tori, like they are almost touching and the stick up like huge balls. However, I got the bwx on the first try:) Then we proceeded to the extra and intra oral exam. Then I did a full mouth probe and I missed a few depths and I'm still struggling a bit with that then we went over OHI and that took a lot of time because she was really interested and we discussed a lot of different things. Then it was time to dismiss her and chart. The day went very well. I didn't have time to scale but she's going to come back next semester and I will get some good practice then:)