Class 3 actually means Class "candice stinks at being a hygienist"

So obviously today was my class 3 patient. First item of business, she is thee cutest lady. Super sweet and kind. Second item, her calculus sucks. End of story. So she is so strong and patient with everything! I love her! April did her left side, and I am doing her right. We split this patient because I gave her the name while April did the screening because I could not. So it worked out perfectly. Anyways, today I worked so so hard on her mouth! I felt like I was getting so so much off her teeth and you could feel how smooth her teeth were, then it came time for a scale check. I missed spots...whats new. But these spots were DIFFICULT!! Honestly, I never understood what people meant by "tenacious calculus" until today. For the first time, I felt, and observed tenacious calculus removal. One word....SUCKS. Seriously, this stuff would NOT and I repeat NOT come off her poor teeth! It was like cement literally stuck/glued on her teeth!! So then you get lil ole me, 1st year baby student who thinks she has enough strength to get it off...wrongo. News flash candice, You dont. I was putting so much lateral pressure on the tooth (well atleast I thought I was) and then I had Karen and Sam come watch/help me. They gave me great tips and helped me feel for the rough areas. I would love to know why, why on earth does calculus, well atleast the hard spots, always like to be at the deepest end of the pocket!! Seriously! Cant we catch a break?!! Geez! Anyways, after I tried this specific spot, which I felt like it was tooth anatomy, I had karen take a stab at it. She pulled and pulled and still got nothing, so she figured it was tooth as well. Then sam went, and said the same thing, and then we got the big boss....costley. She came over and after I saw her strenght go at that tooth for about a good 5 minutes, she finally got it off. Apparently, it was burnished calculus...and might I add it sucks to get off. Clearly. I mean I had 3 people over helping me get this specific area off!! THREE PEOPLE!! Not two or not one....THREE!!! I swear I thought Costley was about to straddle my sweet patient just to get that calculus off!! It would have made a good laugh for the day!! Anyways, I was the last person to walk out my patient, and everything else. I felt good in some areas today, but horrible in others. I am drained. My low back hurts, and surprisingly not my shoulders. My baby fingers need to hit the gym, if you know what I mean. They are PATHETIC. I gotta get some protein or something in them, to help boost their strength! Ü I see my class 3 on monday...oh heaven help me. I dont like this, I wish you could snap my fingers and become good/strong. Will I ever be like the instructors or second years?!....who knows...I am hoping and waiting for that day.

Seester time...

Yep guess who stopped by and paid a grand ole visit to Pod 1, operatory 5....My sister.
Oh how sweet is she?! Ya, wish I could say she volunteered, but nope, miss hygienist here cant hustle and get a girl done in one appointment. (Ok lets just refresh ourselves and realize that she was my first patient E.V.E.R., so I CLEARLY had no idea what I was doing...besides the Health history part....psh who am I kidding, I didnt even know that!) Ok so today I hustled and got her all done in less than 1 hour, then I was able to do 3 pes on her and put some sealants!! Cute friend Erin decided to jump right in and get a sealant done as well...holla! She is great! Well not much more to say about todays appointment except that.....I LOVE HER!! And I think I found her a cute boy to marry, Lakens bro in law. (that is as soon as he gets home from the mish....but that stinks since he ONLY GOT HIS CALL LIKE LAST WEEK!!!) So she will have to hold out for 2 years!! The things you get to see when you are CA!! P.s. That is thee most dreaded job ever!!! To have to sit and listen to "you know who" for like 15 bajillion hours ramble on about who knows what!! It is ridiculous, straight up R.I.D.I.C.U.L.O.U.S! One down, one to go, and pray that it is over faster than fast!! Class 3 comes in on wednesday, I am peeping my pants!! Super nervous, but I guess all I can do is jump right into that bundle of fun....YA RIGHT!! Later!

Whoever invented conventionalfilms...should be kicked....HARD

So obviously you can tell I had to take a FMX with conventional. Wow, if that doesn't kill ya I dont know what will!! That is forever and eternity long!!! Seriously, I swear cavemen used those films. Not normal humans!! Those puppies are D.I.N.O.S.A.U.R.S.!!! My cute lil mama came in today and patiently sad while I took a full mouth on her!! She was so cute and so patient! It took me less than an hour to take all the films, but then I had to do 4 retakes. Yuck! But while I was waiting for my xrays to process, I must tell you two cute stories of my cute mom. So while I was waiting for my xrays, I decided I should check on my mom to make sure she didn't up and leave me. Leave me with 18 xrays to pay for. Because we all know that those types of things can happen in Dental Hygiene...only in Dental Hygiene. Well to carry on with my story, I peaked in and low and behold my mom had snuck out and grabbed her book from the clinic that she brought, and was just sitting ever so cutely reading her book in the xray room. I must have been boring, because really, who reads?! Jk! And then the second cutest thing that happened, (do you like how im using "cute" so much?....its annoying I know...I will try to stop) while I was taking xrays on her, she stopped me and said, "Candice, I am SO SO PROUD OF YOU!!! This is so neat, you got into the program you wanted, and are now doing something you love!! I am so proud of you!!" I must have you know, she was teary eyed when she said this!!....awwwww how stinkin sweet is she?!! I almost had the water works acomin'!! Golly mom!! Anyways, it was so fun to have her come in and meet my pod peeps and cute friends!
P.s. if you all must know, she thinks you are all adorable. Until next time!!

Phew...that was a doozy!

Sooooo...today I was nervous. Nervous for clinic. Why you ask?....well we only had ONE WHOLE WEEK OFF FOR SPRING BREAK!! I will let you in on a little secret, sunday night I was getting all my crap together to be prepared for the week and I was thinking about clinic (whatelse would I be thinking about?) anyways, I thought to myself...uh I don't remember how to start an appointment!!! AHHHH!!! How to start an appointment, are you kidding me?!! So I was scrambling just to remind myself! I pulled out every book you could think of, just kidding, but I did pull out my little mini pocket size clinic manual! Ü Wow! Seriously! It was only ONE week and I forgot. Good riddins, what is S.U.M.M.E.R going to be like!! YIKES!!! Study I guess!......hahah uh lets be honest, will I study?...N.O.P.E. Its sad when you already know you are set up to fail. Yikes.
Ok so today I saw my studdly big, little brother. Ü Did ya catch that?! Fun huh, he is super tall, well taller than me, but who am I kidding, thats not hard to beat. He looks like me, we are practically twins minus the shaggy hair...and facial hair, and other things Ü but nonetheless we are siblings. I love this little guy, and he loves me because he had a day off from school today, and what better thing would he want to do than get his teeth cleaned by me at 8am....ok not him but the madre made him. Which I am so grateful for!! He loves me and he loved it!! So today was the very first time I finished a 1b in one entire appointment! But I must say I had to "buckle down" and get going. I had to do a pano (conventional might I add, which SUCKS BALLS!..SORRY for the vulgar language...get used to it, this program brings out the worst) which took ages, and then 4 BWX. He was THEE perfect patient!! Huge wide mouth!! Nothing hurt him!! I love my broseph!! Then after all that was finished we got to work!! I disclosed him, and scaled!! Passed off a pe and finished his cute little mouth!! And I must add, I missed ZERO spots!! Hallejuah! It was good!! I worked all the way up until the last minute, but it doesn't matter, I finished him!! Plus got BWX, my last Pano, and a PE passed off!! Thank you brother for everything!! Oh and huge shout out to my awesome pod people who I love with all my heart!! They always help clean me up and get me out of there on time!! Thanks guys!! GREAT CLINIC DAY!!!!

Can we be done yet?!

KIDS KIDS KIDS!! I saw the two cutest little "grandpa" boys today for clinic! These two little boys I already knew and they were super excited to get their teeth cleaned....well there mom was! Ü I say "grandpa kids" because they are so so TINY!!! There mom dresses them up in the cutest sweaters, cardigans, cordiroys (not sure on spelling). They just are so darn cute!!! The oldest boy is 4 and the youngest is 2. Lets just say seeing kids is a WHOLE DIFFERENT BALL GAME!! You arent so much worried about getting your instrument straight or if your gingival descriptors are right or not!! All you are worried about is having them open up long enough for you to brush their tiny baby teeth!! Oh...and trying not to get bit!
Hudson was my first patient and he was so perfect! He held his mouth open so I could clean off the little calculus and plaque he had, and then he became a little irritable. I was like "child, I barely have begun! Chill for one second." So I thought to myself, if I was a kid, what would I want to play with. So then my little brain was a workin. I looked around got my big hand mirror and had him play with it! Well he is 4 and so holding the mirror ended up putting it up to his face so close, I could not even get to his mouth!! So I was onto the next plan...plan c....I looked around again and guess what....I SAW THE WATER SYRINGE!! Everyone loves water, especially little guys who love to drink out of cool things!! So I told him if he would let me look in his big dinosaur mouth and see his big "rectangle teeth" (that is what he told me they looked like after he saw them in the big mirror) he could get a drink of water from the fountain!!! HIS EYES LIT UP!!! MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!! I was able to look in and finish my scaling, then he looked up at me with his tiny big eyes and said, "candice,....can we be done?!" I felt so bad, (keep in mind it had only been like fifteen minutes, silly boy! But to a little kid its seems eternity!) but i wanted to polish to be safe, I got everything!!
So I told Huddy, "Do you want me to make your teeth tickle?!!!" What?!! Candice what just came out of your mouth?!! Your teeth to tickle?!! What the...! Ok ok, lets be honest that is the first dang thing that came to my head!! And guess what....IT WORKED!! DONT JUDGE, BECAUSE GUESS WHAT...YOUR GONNA WANT TO USE IT TOO!!!
Lets just say Huddy was THRILLED, ECSTATIC!! So mission #2...a.c.c.o.m.p.l.i.s.h.e.d.
He was so so good and yes we finished him and yes he was spick and span!!
NEXT UP....NASHY BOY!!
Well I saved him for last because I knew he was gonna be a rebel!! He sat up in the chair so perfect, and we went for a little ride...yep you guessed it....UP AND DOWN!! He just sat there so still with this smile on his face and enjoyed the ride!! Makes me laugh just to think about it!! Anyways, he wanted his lightning mcqueen toothbrush because hudson got one too so I opened it and asked him to brush for me!! He put it in his mouth touched two teeth and then handed it back to me!! hahahaha He was donzo!! So I tried, and guess what...I got no wheres!! So I decided to use my fingers to pry open his mouth....BAD IDEA!! He opened and right as soon as I got my pointer finger in his baby mouth....BAM!! HE CLUNCHES DOWN AND STARTS TO GRIND!!
OUUUUUUUCCCCCCCHHHHHH!!!! MAN ALIVE THAT KID HAS SOME CHOMPERS!!! I pulled (i mean I literally...pulled) my fingers out of the JAWS OF LIFE!! He was good the rest of the time, but man was that the quickest appointment ever!! I finished though!! 2 kids booyah!!!
sorry so so long, enjoy this fun story!!! Clinic is fun, full of memorable moments!! Chao!

Old lady car smell....ya..yuck.

So my dear old little lady class V came back today. I needed her to come back because it had been forever since she had been in to the clinic. Well...her daughter usually brings her but she did not have another day off, so this girl decided to pick her up herself. Yep...I did just that. Some random stranger I decided to pick up and clean her teeth. To the normal everyday person, they would be freaked out...but to us Dental Hygienists....thats normal....right? HAHA
Whether it is or isn't, home girl did it anyways!! She was so sweet and kind, and did not pull out a shank and kill me with it, so I was in good hands. BUT.....the one thing she did not have going for her, was the "OLD LADY STANKY SMELL". Wow. Its that smell of elderly ladies who have that stench that NEVER goes away. You can wash and wash and never get that smell to come out. I hate that smell because I have memories of my great grandma smelling like that and giving me wet, kisses. UGH. To say the least, I dont like that smell. And out of all days, today my nose was just not happy with it. Thank heavens it was 50 degrees outside, so when I took her home I rolled down all the windows and jammed out to Flo Rida. haha (Yes, if you must know, my car still smells, not as bad but every now and then you get a little whiff of it....)
Ok to get on with my story, clinic was great. Finish cute little old lady class V. She was great! She had lots of plaque, so that was bad, but overall she was easy. I am happy to have my class 2's all finished, well the requirement for it that is. I scaled faster and felt good about today!! Wednesday will be interesting...I am seeing two little boys a 2 yr and a 4 yr. Yikes. I am excited and nervous!! Hope all goes well!!! Now I must be off to the showers to get rid of the grandma smell.
* To all my dear friends, if I EVER...and I mean EVER begin to smell like that smell you know I'm talkin about....PUHLEASE get me to VS to buy some perfume and make me shower in it...ok...thanks*