Easy day time to do some PE's

So today I saw the mom of one of my 1a patients last semester. She was way nice and she had like nothing to clean. She was nice enough to let me pass off some of my PE's so I did my accesory fulcrum and my diagnodent. Everything went really smoothly and I even finished a bit early. Then in the afternoon I was suppose to have my patient that showed up at the wrong time for her last appointment so I had to reschedule come in. She told me when I schedule her that she didn't have a phone anymore but to trust her that she would come. Well...you guessed it she never showed. So tori called one of her friends to come in and it turned out I know him from work. He was also super easy and I was able to place a sealant and pass off two PE's. He was a good sport because just about everything that could have gone wrong did. First the etch wouldn't come out so we tried like three tips and two different tubes til final with alot of effort I was able to get some etch out. Then it wouldn't wash off his tooth so I just kept rinsing and rinsing til finally it was clear. Then I place the sealant and the light didn't work. I got a new light and cured it. But, after all that it must have gotten wet cause it popped right off. So I placed it again and then it was high so I took it down til he could bite normal again. I've placed a ton of sealants without any trouble but of course cause I was passing off a PE everything went terribly wrong. Oh well at least it's over!

Lab/two patient day

so today we had a lab session in the morning we practiced ultrasonics, perio files, oraquix and medicaments and blood glucose and caries risk assessment. It was helpful to see how all that works in the clinical setting I feel more comfortable using them on an actual patient now. In the afternoon I finished two of my patients. One was two quads, class III/V and it went well I had some spots that I missed but I swear it was mostly the tooth anatomy. Then at 2:00 I finished up two quads of a class V he is such a nice patient and I will probably see him again in the spring. oh and prof. hanson tells me I shouldn't stress so much cause I am a good clinician but I can't help it I'm a stress case it's how I get things done. Haha

1st Mockboards woot woot!

so wouldn't you just know it my mockboard patient cancelled on me the night before. First I couldn't get a hold of him is number was invalid so my parents drove to his house to see if he would be coming and he said he would but he had to get work off. My mom was suspisious of the way he was acting so she left my number. Later he called to tell me he couldn't get work off so he wasn't coming. I was so mad that he knew for a week about the appointment I told him how important it was for me and he told me he would be able to come but didn't bother getting work off. I was lucky that Denver had another patient that qualified. However I knew that ment it was going to be a long hard day. . I had never seen the patient before and I had no idea what I was in for. He had been screened and had x-rays so at least I knew what quad qualified and I didn't have to deal with taking x-rays. But of course he didn't understand a word of english nor had he ever had his teeth cleaned in his 75 years of life. It was a difficult cleaning he had calculus everywhere and some of it was so tenacious that I could feel it but nothing I did even made a dent. So I sent him to the examiners fully knowing I had errors. Kami examined him and came over to help me remove what I had left. she said she was way impressed with what I had accomplished because this was a hard patient and she knew what I had started with. She helped me and even tried herself. but alas we are still not sure that we removed them. It was a really tough challenge and of course I failed my mockboards. It was too difficult and I would never have used him for the real board but when your patient cancels on you the night before you get what you can and deal with it. Hopefully this happened now so that I wont have to deal with it on real boards. I'm crossing my fingers!

What a day

So my patients today were suppose to be mother and daughter. They speak spanish so it was difficult to communicate with them so I was relieve when my first patient showed up she seemed to be an easy 1B however she had burnished calculus and I had a ton of errors however this was a really good learning experience I think I am starting to know the feel of burnished calculus better. My afternoon appointment was suppose to be her mom I had confirmed just the night before that they would both be coming but when she hadn't shown up at ten minutes the start of her appointment I called to see if she was still planing on coming and her number was disconnected. So I scrambled to find another patient and I found someone that said they would be able to come in about 20 minutes. It was about 1:00pm so I said that would be great he has to pre-med but I told him to take it and then come and by the time we got through the initial paperwork and everything it would have been and hour. He didn't actually show up til about 2:00 so I hurried to get x-rays and it was tough. He had a tiny mouth and he needed vertical bwx I had to take both molar shots over because it was difficult to get back far enough. While I was in the middle of that my originally schedule patient showed up her daughter had told her that her appointment was at 2:30 not 12:30. I finished the x-rays and rescheduled her for another day. Then I start into the appointment and my patient tells me he is schedule with another student sometime in novemeber. At this point I'm so frustrated with the day that I can't quite figure out how becuause no one was his prefered provider and he was on the resource list. But, I find who it is he is going to see and I tell him I will see him since he is already here and has already taken the pre-med. I was able to finish two quads with no errors eventhough I only had like 30 minutes to scale. I rescheduled him and after his appointment I called the other students she understood that it was not my fault and everything was fine. Man what a day!