Wednesday Feb. 25,2009

Today in clinic my goal was to finish my first Class II patient in one appt. I am so happy I finished my patient and two PE's. My day ran so smooth it was nice. I saw my dad today. It was nice because at his last appt. we went over OHI. I feel bad because I feel that part of the problem is lack of education on his dentists part. My dad didn't know that he needed to floss under a 6 unit bridge that can be pretty devastating for the gum tissue. He has been seeing the same dentist for 25 plus years. The good thing is that his PFI score and OHI has increased and I am his new hygienist and I will take great care of him.

Monday February 23,2009

Today in clinic I saw my mom. She was a Class Five but IB. My goal today was to complete my patient and the ultrasonic PE. I was able to complete both. My mom was difficult to scale because she had a lot of calculus on the lingual anteriors. Overall the day went well. It was fun to use my ultrasonic again. I really haven't used it much. I feel like I need practice to become better at this scale. The good news is that I passed the PE off.

Feb. 18,2009

Today in clinic my goal was to complete my Class 1B patient. The cleaning went well. My patient has been really fun to get to know. I feel like I learned that sometimes it is hard to tell the difference between tooth anatomy and calculus. This can sometimes be hard for the instructors also. At first my instructor was going to give me two errors and then she felt that it was the anatomy of the tooth. I was happy about this because I had spent a lot of time and thought I had done well on this patient. I am also glad that we are half way through the semster. The dental convention is the next two days. I think that it will be fun to go and see all of the products and other stuff.

Monday February 9,2009

My goal in clinic this day was to get a couple of PE'S passed off and finish my patient. I was able to get my patient finished this day, but not pass any PE'S off. The reason that I was unable to pass off any PE'S was that there was a snow storm and my patient came in 30 minutes late. It was nice because my patient did not need any radiographs this day so at least I was able to finish her. I feel like I need to get faster. I was glad because I only had 1 error at scale check, but it took me one hour for the cleaning. I need to get out of turtle speed.Hopefully this comes with time.

Monday February 2,2009

Clinic on this day was a lot of fun. I saw my first patient that I did not know in the clinic. She has very nice and I think sometimes that it is easier to work on someone that you don't know than someone that you do know. My goal for the day was to pass off some P.E's. I was glad because I was able to pass of the instrument sharpening and the denture prothesis PE's. I feel pretty good about the semester so far. The charting is getting easier and I feel like I'm finally starting to get the hang of things and get into some kind of routine. I am excited for tomarrow because I'm bringing my husband in. It will be nice to start radiographs and also give him a good cleaning.