Birthday day!

Its my birthday folks! Yep on a clinic day! Yuck! Seriously, who would ever choose to have it happen like that?! Not I, but unfortunately it is and I am living with it! I started the birthday festivities last friday and partied all througout the weekend! Oh ya thats how I do it! I am partying all week long as well...i mean hello this is my birthday week, might as well appreciate being born!! And that is exactly what I am doing! Whoop whoop! Jazz game tonight, oh ya!
Anyways, clinic....
Well I had my friend Treston come, he has pretty big teeth and so cleaning is going to be nice, atleast I hope so. He is a 1b, but this is just fine, I need to get ready for what is ahead of me right?! Clinic still scares me! I am not a fan, but it has to be done right? Anyways, I could have started and finished a quad, but waiting for an instructor check kind of stinks, especially when it takes ages! Oh well, next time I will get him all cleaned and ready to go wednesday! Thats the goal, and to speed up my scaling time.

Ultrasonic = BEST FRIEND!

One thing I absolutely love is the ultrasonic!!
Today I had Nic Green (my monday patient) come back in so I could finish his teeth!! I will be honest with you, I was so nervous to finish him. He had so much calculus on his anterior teeth on the lingual side that it started to become a brownish dark yellow color!! It was so so bad. The first time I have ever seen anything like it! But I was excited to get it off! My goal was to finish his whole entire mouth before 2nd scale check. I started to use my SH67 because his calculus was tenacious, but after trying to scale and realizing I was not going to get anywhere with it, I asked Sam the TA if I could use my ultrasonic. Now lets be honest, we only tried it out in lab so I had no idea how to use it on a real person. The typodont does not even count. Anyways, I had her stay by me and watch me and help me. She was amazing she helped me so much! I have NEVER seen calculus come off like it did with the ultrasonic, it made my day! The little things in life right? haha I was able to scale 3 quads in 30 minutes!! Ahh that was a record for me, and I was so proud of myself. I think i will try next time to see if i can scale one quad in 15minutes. But my goal for monday is to get a quad of scaling done. I have to push myself more!! But some more good news, I missed ZERO spots today on my scale checks!!! ZERO!!! Ahh!! It made my day, I love the ultrasonic! But believe me, Prof. Costley was itching to find something I swear haha, she finally gave up because guess what....she wasn't going to find anything!! Boo ya! Anyways, today made me realize I this is what I want to do even when i think i dont want too, I really do! Until next time!

My hopes were crushed...

Ya know that feeling when you think you have something, and it turns out to not be what you were thinking? Yep thats how monday went for me. My neighbor Nic, had not been to the dentist for over 6 years! 6YEARS!!! He hates to floss and brushes every so often, uh doesnt that just scream a possible class 2?!! I thought so too, right?...well wrongo... he turns out to be a class 1b. I thought I had it!
I was able to get a set of bwx on him along with a pano!! It was awesome! That was my goal for the day, to get all that done and an OD check. He is coming back on Wednesday so I want to finish up on him! I may use the ultrasonic on him, because he has some thick calculus on his anteriors. It will be the first time i have used it on someone besides a typodont. Ü

Jessica...IS...FINISHED!!!

Yep guess who finished a patient!! This girl did!! So super happy with myself. Though I am not even fast yet, all I was happy about was finishing. That was my goal today. Was to just finish and get her done! She had a couple of teeth that were so so difficult to clean because they were malpositioned. When I think back about it, im glad I got to experience it because not everyones teeth are going to be perfectly straight. I did miss calculus on those teeth, but ya know what who cares. I am learning and that is to be expected. So what if you get a bad grade on it, so what if you get a stupid check on taleval....it has to happen in order to learn. School is tough, seriously, but somehow we will all make it through. Yep I said it, SOMEHOW we will all make it through. haha We better or else. Ü
Next time a family friend Nic Green is coming in to get his teeth cleaned. Lets see how this goes!
Wish me luck.

Clinic Days...uh

So Wednesday was our second day in Clinic.
I saw my friend Jessica. She has not been to the Dentist for over 3 years, and so this was perfect for her. She was awesome and just went with the flow. She realized it was going to take awhile and how grateful I am for that. From Monday, I decided I can NOT, REPEAT....CAN NOT expect things. Things happen both good and bad, and with Hygiene you just have to roll with the punches. It sucks, but thats what has to happen.
I decided I had to just go faster and see what I could get through with her.
I ended up taking a set of bitewings on her, scan x, and then got through and entire OD and OHI. This was big for me. I am not a speedy person, I am a perfectionist, but I feel like after every experience I will try and do somethng better and faster. This appointment was about probing. I feel more confident with it, but still i'm not the fastest. My cute friend Cesia was the CA for the afternoon and helped me probe. She wrote down my numbers and my goal was to be done in 15 min. or less. GUESS WHAT PEOPLE....15 minutes I was able to probe the entire mouth!! oh ya!
I may look back at this later and just laugh, but hey its an accomplishment.
Yes, I did have someone writing down for me, which in all honesty, is SO HELPFUL!! Probing stinks, lets just put it like that. Anyways, it went good. I wish I could have gotten to scaling, but that will happen next week!
Requirements are scaring me, but im just hoping and praying everything works out for me.

Am I cut out for this?

So today was the beginning of patient treatment semester!

Today I learned not to put expectations on how much you get done in one appointment.
I can not control what happens, if something goes wrong, etc.

I had in my head to finish my sister that was my goal for today.
It did not happen. I have never taken calculus off and so I spent too much time
figuring out what was calculus and if I felt calculus, etc.
It was just a frustrating day.
And it definitely did not help that we had an instructor who takes an ETERNITY to do an OD check. One gal in our pod had to wait 45 mins for an OD check!! Seriously who wants to be waiting for an OD check for 45 minutes. It cuts into our scaling time!! AHHH today was seriously probably one of the worst days yet. And even better, its only day one.

I say this all the time, but HEAVEN HELP ME!!!

BACK to The GRIND

Welcome back ya'll!!
It feels so good to be back......YUCK! No it does not!
Believe me when I say, I feel like everything slipped out of my ears while on break. I was so burnt out that I shoved all my books in a corner and never looked back. Regret any of it....uh nope.
So today was our last FREEDOM clinic day. Ya no more fun from here on out....sad! We learned how to ultrasonic scale today which was fun after I understood the concept of "its like a probe" Thats when my light bulb came on! Honestly I could see how Hygienists like to use this over hand scaling because it is so nice you just go and dont look back. We also learned about Graceys! Those instruments are super nice! I love them!
My goal for monday is to finish Kendra. To pace myself and focus. Lets hope monday turns out ok.
To be honest, this semester is scaring me! I think this semester might kill me. It will be a miracle if I come out alive haha jk But seriously, this is going to be one rough 4 months.
I CAN DO THIS!!! Do my best and forget the rest.
Well not forget, just work better and harder at it!