April 15, 2009

Today was our last day at the VA, Which makes me sad. I have loved the VA. Thanks to Kami I feel like my scaling skills and feeling for calculus have gotten much better. I just keep telling myself towards the tooth hhahahaha. One of my patients today and an interesting problem that I have never had before. She had a artifical spine which made positioning difficult but as long as told how i was going to move the chair before I did it everything was good. I will miss the VA I feel like gave me expeirences the weber state clinic couldnt.

April 1, 2009

Today I was at the VA and it was a fabulous day and I left feeling really good about my scaling. I did not have a morning patient but the afternoon I had two pts. Lis was sick so we had one extra so I bolted though two pts in a hour and fifteen minutes which is really good for me. I really got a good feel for the real private pratice.

April 9, 2009

I saw my grandma today which is always fun when you know the person. She was a Class V and I felt like her calculus came off pretty easy. Although she did have some rough root surfaces that even jeanie commented on. The afternoon was a little more busy, I had a 1b adult and a 1a child with sealants. I am feeling way confident with sealants esp since the sealant clinics. Overall today was not so difficult but productive.

Apirl 2, 2009

Today was our last mock board I got an 88% but still missed 4 spots which makes me very nervous. My patient is very hard he has rings of calculus around every tooth, so there is no room for error. Kami was my examiner and made me feel good about the cleaning which was nice but also made me aware that there are somethings I need to work on. For example I really need to work on moving the tip towards the tooth, it makes a world of difference. overall good day but liek I said i'm nervous for real board esp because of the difficulty of my patient.

March 26, 2009

Well today was very interesting I could not see my scheduled patients because I have pink eye in both eyes and the doctor said it is very contagious.

3/19/09

Today was hard, both my patients were class IV and needed anesthetic. They both were really good experiences for me. I learned there tenacious calculus can be somewhat impossible to get off. Both of my patients I will have to check for residual next time because it was so hard to get off. I learned that when you do a tissue eval its easier to check for residual because the tissues have shrunk down. I also realized how easy it is to get fatigue.

3/5/09

Today was a long day to be honest. I had a perio patient in the morning and in the afternoon I had a 1b and a 1a both with x-rays. This keep me very busy and constantly doing something. I felt like tearing down and resetting up twice in one appointment is alot. I cant imagine what it will be like in practice. overall good day