I love my Hubby!!

Dave came in today to get his teeth cleaned. I'm a little bit mad at his dentist (who won't be named) because Dave went in there after his last cleaning almost a year ago to have some areas checked that had obvious decay. The dentist said that he didn't need fillings. Well, today I took x-rays and found that he has multiple cavities that have gotten bigger and one of them may need a root canal. Needless, to say I am not amused!! Too bad we don't have dental insurance because I didn't think we would need it while I'm in school. It's only 2 years, I thought we could make it restoration free.
What I learned today:
Do not use the ultrasonic on 1B patients. From my experience they have all said it's too uncomfortable. I also think that it takes too much time. I could have finished Dave's cleaning in half the time if I would have used the ultrasonic on the mandibular anterior and hand scaled the rest of his mouth to deplaque. I'm just too worried about missing calculus so I refuse to not give each pt my full effort.

My last pt no-showed which is good because I need those requirements next semester.

I'm Spent!!

I have officially completed all of my requirements for this semester as of right now. What a relief. Now I just hope that I have this good of luck next semester, especially with finding a board patient. Time is flying by, thank goodness, because I'm not sure I could take too much more of this. I was telling Dave that I don't even want to be a hygienist anymore. School has seriously sucked the life out of me. He made a really good analogy. He said, "It's like driving, you have to sit through boring classes and then they stress you out on driving tests. You get so nervous driving in the beginning and it seems so hard that you almost don't even want to drive anymore. Now that we're done with drivers' ed and we've been driving for a long time, we can talk on the phone, put on makeup, and eat while driving and it's no big deal." Hopefully that's how hygiene will be.

No More 1B's

I do not like cleaning 1B's, they are not fun and I think they are kind of hard. I really need to work faster on my 1B's. I spent way too much time exploring. Jamey and I practiced giving each other local anesthetic, Instructor Perry is intimidating. He taught us a different method than Prof. Hanson and I don't know which one is better.

Mockboard Day!!

I didn't know if I could do it, but I did. I passed mockboards with an 88!! What a relief. There was a huge piece of calculus on the distal of #30 that I couldn't remove for the life of me, I tried everything. I also missed a piece on the mesial of #31. Time flew by me, it was crazy how fast 2 hours went by. I felt bad for my patient so I payed for her cleaning. I need to remember not to write my patients first name on their x-rays. I swear everyone I talked to said they caused tissue trauma, but none of us got marked down for it. My pt's gums were all torn up, I don't know how to prevent it though. She had never had her teeth cleaned in all 42 years of life, yikes.