So today was one of those days I have been needing. Last week was horrible with all the cancellations and no shows, and now because of all of that I could not sleep last night!! It was horrible!! Relying on other people to determine your grade is ridiculous!! Its sad it has come to that!! We rely solely on these patients who cant even keep an appointment, to determine our grade in school!! Sounds ridiculous!! Anyways...enough venting..
Today I saw my sweet lady who is 2 quads a 2 and 2 quads a 3. She was SO close to cancelling on me last night, but I made her pull through!! She came in (a half hour late, might I add...) and I began scaling. She was bleeding...SO SO BAD!! I had her start rinsing with Chlorohexidine last week and so you could tell it was helping!! I finished her first quad really quick, and only missed one spot!! I was so happy!! Then I saw that I had 40 minutes to finish, and I did not want this poor lady coming back, so I hustled my butt and kicked it into gear and guess what....I got this woman FINISHED!!! And the best part, I missed that one spot out of all 4 quads!! It was so great!! I ultrasoniced the whole mouth and then went around and handscaled. I have NEVER used my explorer more than I did with her!! I remember we were taught to close our eyes and with light pressure feel around the tooth!! I did that today and oh my heavens, why have I not been utilizing it that way!! I felt SO MUCH calculus that I supposedly thought I got off!! Nope I didnt, so I went around and got all those areas and then asked for a scale check!! Alexander even was impressed at how well it was all cleaned!!! I felt proud...that one moment I never get...I cherished!!
Now for this afternoon, I was worried, because this patient no showed on me last week!! And I need him for my mockboards, so I needed him to show up!! Low and behold, he showed up!! Thank heavens!! He is super nice and the calculus is definitely there!! I did my screening on him and I actually felt the calculus!! He works 100%. I wish I would have waited until April to clean him, so then I wont have to worry about a board pt. But unfortunately he wants to be cleaned!!!
He qualifies for mockboards, so I am super excited!! Thats all I need, and I wanted a real mockboard patient so I can get the full experience!!
Today was a good day for me, I guess its the makeup for last week!!
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