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!