Good day...mostly!

So today I had a 1B patient with braces, and her five month old baby was very upset the whold appointment. Karlie had her four year old son, and when she was done she held the crying baby for a long time. The best part of the day is that Sharli did a screening for me today and found my class III!!!!!! YAY! THANK YOU SHARLI! Now my goal is to help everyone else find theirs. It is so stressful to find all of our requirements. Sigh... I'm so relieved. Now I hope I can finish her!

Two in one!

Today I finished up my mom's last two quadrants and passed off a few PE's. I did the explorer and anterior PE on her! Then my grandma came in. She has had dentures since she was in her 20's. She so little and cute. So Jen Reese did the bottom denture and I cleaned the top one. Her OD was the fastest one I've ever done! Then I was able to pass off the removable appliance PE on her! After our clinic, I stayed for the afternoon so I could pass off my peer calculus removal PE. Kristin was so nice and let me squeeze into her appointment. THANK YOU KRISTIN! Today was a good day, not too stressful, but I was able to pass off four PE's! YaY! Almost done!!!

So my patient was my husband!!! OH... cute! It was a very straight forward appointment and fun! He was an easy 1B and a great patient! It took him a while to come in and see me, but he finally did! Thanks for comin' in Babe! Love ya!

Pretty good day

Today I had an eight year old patient. I was able to fulfill my last sealant requirements and do the diagnodent PE. He was a very good patient and was cooperative with all of the running around I was doing. I had Miriam do his bitewings because she still needed to fill those requirments and I am done with all my bitewings. I am now done with all requirements except my class three. Everything else is just extra quads! Yay! I really hope I can find a class three to come in and be willing to come in for multiple appointments. That's my huge goal for this semester!

Thanks Ins. Kirsten

So I had a class two patient returning for three quadrants. I was able to finish him in a little over an hour and a half. I missed a couple spots and had to go back and then I got him up and out of there. I then had my 12 year old niece come and I started off with bitewings and then rushed to get her finished in one appointment. I made her my last 1B exam and was able to get her done in a total of about 25 minutes. It was awesome because Ins. Kirsten really helped me get these people in and out! I was able to get 7 quads done in one clinic! YAY!

Ah... mondays

I really don't like mondays very much. We have less time to work on patients and fewer instructors to pass things off. I had a returning patient that had sheet calculus and all of her lingual anteriors. I really do not like sheet calculus, it is very difficult for me to get off. I scrape and scrape and rinse and dry and what do ya know, there's still some there. Anyway, I was able to finish this patient and pass off two PE's but that was a chore and a half. Well, my goal is to keep passing off PE's every clinic day that I can so I'm not freakin' out at the very end. I really don't like monday's, they're very discouraging. Well, wednesday should go much better I hope!

Good Day!

Today I had my class II exam patient!!!! It went really well! She was such a good patient, she was so nice and so easy going! I was also able to pass of three way over due PE's. Now I have like 5 done, I have like 15 more to go AH!!! I really need to get a move on that:) But today was very productive for me! I can actually go home feeling good today! Yay! Thanks Instructor Kirsten for all your help, and all the TA's. You're all so helpful!

Yay, a productive day!

So I had a 1B patient and was able to get through the appointment with ease! I was really happy because she still had calculus and I was able to get it off and I didn't miss any spots which made me feel really good. I've been trying to be really thorough and I think that I just usually take too much time trying to be thorough, but with this patient I felt thorough and a little faster than usual. It was a pretty good day. The only down side is that I had to wait over 20 minutes for my OD check, so I couldn't really get started until I had that done, but at least I finished and had some time to spare. Ah... I just need about 11 more of those days for clinic this semester. HA HA! Yeah right.