Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Class 2 complete

Today my mom came back again and I scaled the other two quads I had left. It took a long time for me because the calculus was tenacious. However, I feel like I learned alot today. I learned how to feel for calculus and that I was not adapting good enough or going deep enough on the mesial surfaces. I made like five errors and they were mostly on the mesial surfaces. I also learned that I was not going deep enough into the col and I learned how to check from both the buccal and lingual surfaces. I just wasn't getting all the way into the col area. In one area I scaled of a big chunk of black calculus which I would guess had been missed before. If felt good to get it cleaned and think that now that area will be healthier. I was also good to finish a whole appointment. I feel like a class 2 patient was a lot to take on this early in the semester because I feel like my skill level was not good enough but, now I'm finished and it taught me a lot and hopefully it will make my other appointments easier.

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