Last 1st year clinic!

Today was my last clinic because I have to take off another clinic day this semester. I saw the mom of Char's patient. They were like 15 minutes late. At least she was a recall patient so that alot of the chart was already filled out. I also had alot of time spent waiting for my instructor. It always seems to happen when you are trying to hurry. She was classified as a class V. I haven't scaled a class V before so I didn't know how much time it would take. I didn't even start scaling til after 9:40 and the first scale check is at 10:15. She was way sensitive so it was going really slowly and I was starting to worry if I would even finish one quad in time. Then my instructor used the Oraquix and I just scaled like crazy and finished all four quads. This patient allowed me to meet and pass the minimum 65 quads for the semester. It feels really weird to be done with first year. I'm excited and scared to move on the second year. I hope it is as great as this year has been.

Are you sleeping?

Today it felt a little weird to be in clinic. I took last clinic off because I had used other clinic days earlier in the semester. It was weird to come back for only one day of clinic. It makes me wonder what it will feel like to come next semester from having the whole summer off. Anyway today I saw another friend of Abby's. He was so nice and he has really good Oral Hygiene so it was a really easy cleaning. He kept dozing off so I think it must have been a good appointment.

Under pressure

So today I saw my professors daughter. I was worried about passing off my air-powder polisher pe and I needed to do another sealant so my Professor volunteered her daughter. It made me nervous to work on my Professors daughter. She had braces so it was difficult to probe and scale but she really didn't have much calculus. I stress OHI and then used the air-powder polisher. It is amazing but I hate putting patients through that. It was nice to pass of my remaining requirements.

Last Class II this year!

So I was stressing that I wouldn't find another Class II patient and I needed two more quads to meet my requirements and just the other day my peer pal Katie found a Class II that she wasn't going to be able to see. So she gave him to me. I was so excited becuase she had already done the OD on him and that ment I was going to be able to just start scaling. It went well and I finished him in one appointment.

Easy patients

My patient that was suppose to come in today canceled on me so Abby was a gem and found me a patient. It was a pretty easy patient. They were a recall patient and they were a 1B. The patient never flosses so there was a lot of bleeding when I scaled but, it was a good appointment and it was nice to have an easy appointment.