Dental Screening Friday April 3,2009

On Friday I came in special to find my class III patient. At first this was very discouraging because I had to turn my patient away due to uncontrolled diabetes. The appointment was very long for both the patient and I. We had to try to get a physician consult, but was unable to get it. I did learn a lot of things this day though. I had never faxed a physician consult or had a patient with uncontrolled diabetes. We also had to take the patients blood glucose in the clinic. I was able to watch a 2nd year student perform this on the patient. I feel that this is going to help me for next year having already seeing the process. After turning my patient away I was a little discouraged because I had come in on my day off from school and did not get my class III, but then one of the 2nd year students came and said that she had 4 quads of a class III. Both Candace and I needed 2 quads so we were able to split the quads to fill our requirement. I feel like the patient will be very reliable due to he is deporting in a couple of weeks. I hope all works well on Wednesday.