It's Halloween...almost.

We're having our party today!! But as far as actual clinic goes, today was good. We practiced full mouth scaling and I passed off 2 PE's. I'm sick of getting my teeth cleaned, but Laurie did good.

I need a Cure-et!!

We learned how to scale posterior teeth today. It was good, I liked it a lot. It's nice to work with a toe instrument instead of a tip, less chance of hurting my patient. Emily helped me out a whole bunch! She's great. Next week I plan to pass off the adaptation and anterior scaling PE's.

Can I Take Your Picture?

We worked with the intraoral camera today and we practiced scaling. I'm feeling a little better about indirect vision. With practice I know I will get better. I passed off my dental screening PE, thank goodness. I need to make sure to remember to use the red or the blue pencil at the right time. I'm hungry, but I need to detoxify this week so I'm sticking to fit for life so that I'll feel better. It will be tough, but I can do it. My goal for next week is to pass off my next PE.
P.S. This is my cute niece Bailey. We had to trick her into wearing the mullet wig on Halloween. She had no idea.

Indirect Vision, Boo!!

I was pretty frustrated by clinic today, because I am not good at indirect vision. I for some reason can't figure out how to keep the scaler adapted while using indirect vision. I'm going to practice of Dave over the next few days, then I will hopefully have it down for Monday, that is my goal atleast.
This was last year's friend halloween party. I just thought I'd share something fun because I'm kind of frustrated right now.

Scale

We finally scaled for the first time today, it was awesome. I'd like to thank Holly for the fun learning experience I had on her. I made her bleed a bit, but she was nice and didn't care. It feels good to finally be able to do what we came to school to do. I'm glad we worked up to this slowly, so we were ready and kinda knew what we were doing. My goal for next time is to pass of dental screening. So i am going to study up.

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Disclose Everything!!

I don't feel like today deserves a larger font because we didn't do very much, yet we were busy the whole time. I brushed this morning like I usually do and then we put disclosing agent on our teeth. I had a PFI of about 37%. Looks like I need to brush better. I enjoyed today, but I wish I could have had time to pass of probing PE, that is my goal for next time.

Today we did charting, which is pretty easy. It's hard to tell composite fillings unless you dry the teeth off really good. I need to pass off probing on Monday. I'm ready, but we ran out of time today. I love having Emily as our TA, she's a better hygienist than most real hygienists. She taught us some great technique which includes: when exploring the the lingual of the UL you can fulcrum on the buccal. It makes it so much easier to keep the explorer parallel to the long axis of the tooth. I went to Subway for lunch today, of course, and I met Meredith and Jamey there so we ate together. It was fun. We discussed whether it is right or wrong for a woman to work outside the home. We all believe it is ok and people that tell you otherwise are insecure of their own homemaker status. I'm sure this issue will be discussed further in the future.
Joni

Cavity Free is the Way To Be!!

Today we did charting, which is pretty easy. It's hard to tell composite fillings unless you dry the teeth off really good. I need to pass off probing on Monday. I'm ready, but we ran out of time today. I love having Emily as our TA, she's a better hygienist than most real hygienists. She taught us some great technique which includes: when exploring the the lingual of the UL you can fulcrum on the buccal. It makes it so much easier to keep the explorer parallel to the long axis of the tooth. I went to Subway for lunch today, of course, and I met Meredith and Jamey there so we ate together. It was fun. We discussed whether it is right or wrong for a woman to work outside the home. We all believe it is ok and people that tell you otherwise are insecure of their own homemaker status. I'm sure this issue will be discussed further in the future.
Joni

Sweet Relief!!

My probe and I made up today! I feel so much better about life now that I've figured out how to probe and I feel way more comfortable with it. My goal for today was to figure out probing, so goal accomplished! Gina was a very good pt and unless she was being nice, I only hurt her a few times:) Today was a complete success. We finished early and when Kim checked my depths I was never more than one off, which is good. My OD for Gina was: Generally healthy with discrete papillary on the D of #4 and the M of #14 with a 99% BFI. Good job Gina!! Well, I will pass off probing on Wednesday and there are no other PE's to pass off today so I'm spent.