Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Two patient in one session...what was I thinking?

Today my sister was suppose to come in so I could complete her appointment. However, it turns out that she got a cold sore...of course! So instead my mom brought my 7 year old niece and my grandpa who is edentulous. I thought it would be no problem to get them both done. I started with my niece and the cleaning went really well. She was wiggly and she didn't like my mirror in her mouth at all. She has also had some pretty traumatizing appointments in the past so all in all she did really well. I declared her as an exam so I took my time wanting it to go well. I probably should have hurried more. Then I saw my grandpa. I wasn't sure what to do because I wanted to take a pano but then I would have to take his dentures out and if I did that I would need to start my PE and that required an instructor so I kept waiting and waiting because my instructor was busy with OD and scale checks. It took a very long time and finally I had to ask another instructor to help me. I was way stressed because by now I had wasted alot of time. I took the Pano film and it was fine. Then I walked my patient out and finished cleaning his dentures the rest of the way and then I still had to chart. If it weren't for my awesome pod partners I wouldn't have made it through the day.

1 comment:

Ryan and Katie Poulsen said...

Two in one day already!!! I am fully impressed Staci. You are hauling girl, keep it up!