LAST DAY! :) :) :)

Yay last day of clinic! :)
Alyse and I cleaned each other's teeth today, so this morning was pretty easy. i Passed off my desensitization and infection control PE's that I had no idea we had to do 2 of them until today!
I brought in a class 3 patient this afternoon that Tiffany had already started. I just had to clean 3 quads. I passed off my curved ultra sonic PE on her. She wasn't too bad, but I missed a couple of spots on the mandibular anteriors because i was not using enough lateral pressure.
I also got to practice LA one more time before boards! Her landmarks were a little different, so I had to go more lingually on the IA so I didn't have osseous contact.

LA mockboards

Today was LA mockboards. I had my mom come in as my patient. I passed the IA just fine, but failed the PSA. My window was not up! I still don't feel very great the PSA's, but Emily let me do some LA on her patient. I need all the practice I can get! I did the entire maxilla, so I got practice 2 more times on the PSA.

My board patient came in the afternoon. I did a full mouth and bwx on him with the scanx. I also finished his OD and UR,UL quads. He has been reliable so far, so hopefully he just shows up for boards and i'm good!

My class 2 patient cancelled on my this morning. I didnt really need him as a requirement, but I barely found someone to fill his spot! Alyse had an extra patient. She was a 1B and needed a couple of sealants. She had braces and I have never had a patient with braces! it was a little bit of a challenge with all of those brackets and wires. I used the rc/tp with the bristles and a floss threader. It was a good experience.
I had my last 1A this afternoon, so it was a pretty easy day:)
There are only a couple days left to schedule, so hopefully I can fit everyone in that I need to fill my requirements!
I need to get my board patient in here for x-rays.....

It was mockboards today and I barely got a patient at the last minute! When she got here I wasn't sure if she would qualify but she did! I scaled her UL quad and added 3 teeth to make sure. I used LA which I think is very useful and made my job a lot easier. I ended up missing 3 spots and they were burnished calculus and so hard to remove. With the 3 spots i still passed as long as i didn't mess anything else up!

My a.m. patient was just my class 2. I had already done the OD so I just had to finsish scaling. I missed quite a few small spots that were so hard to remove! Hopefully my board pt has calculus that is pretty easy to remove!
I thought I had a possible board patient, but I just found out today that the # is disconnected, so I'm freakin out again!
I have 1 and maybe 2 screenings friday, so i hope i find them!

My patient was a class 2. He had a lot of calculus that was just impossible to remove! I feel like I scaled and scaled and it just would not come off. I basically missed every interproximal spot. Instructor wold said that i was just not going interproximal and deep enough. I only got one quad done, so i will have to bring him back to finish.

I had two patients scheduled for this afternoon and neither one showed up! Luckily Jackie had an extra patient. He was just a 1B, but it was nice to at least have a patient. He was pretty easy, but had really sensitive teeth!

I keep hoping for a board patient to magically come along, but it just doesn't. I had a class 2 patient. I used the scanx again to take his bwx. I really love the scanx for bwx, I just didn't like it for a full mouth. It is quick and the films are small and easy to fit in the mouth. My next patient was a class V and class 1B. He would have normally been easy, but he didn't speak english and I could not get him to hold his mouth open! And he would fight me with his lip on the mandibular anteriors!