spic and span

selective polishing! That was fun! I feel like we are getting somewhere in clinic. It's great. The fluoride varnish is kinda gross feeling after it dries. Don't really care for that but wow! I am in a great mood!

Boo!

Halloween is in the air.... people are dressed in costumes and spooky music is playing.

Eh, halloween is over-rated.

We practiced our scaling technique. I thought I was doing ok until Costley came over and showed me what to change. I am frustrated with it now. Will this EVER feel normal? She makes it look so easy.

At least we get a really good lunch! I made Taco Soup... My favorite!

More scaling

Posterior scaling today! A little more tricky than anterior but not too bad. I think I have picked up on scaling better than anything else. That could be because by now I am getting more used to instrumentation, positioning and fulcruming. Quien sabe??? Thus far I have made 6 contacts for patients in the spring!!!! Hopefully they follow through. That would be nice.

New Clinic Partner

Clinic was fun today. I like how we went from start to finish through what we have learned. It helps to keep things organized in my brain. We also learned the intra oral camera. That was pretty sweet! Looks like posterior scaling for wednesday.

Scaling today! It was easier on my pod partner than it was on dexter I thought. I have a lot of struggle with indirect vision and also anything in the 8:00 position. My wrist hurts. I hope that goes away!

Instrument Classification

Tiffany was my patient and we went through HHx, HHx/Rx, OD, OHI, Tx, and Status/Rx. We disclosed, PFI, BFI, and then went over our instruments and classified them. We sterilized our scalers... maybe that means we will actually learn scaling Wednesday!

Plaque Master

Clinic today was kinda eye opening as far as burushing and flossing goes. We used the plaque indicator. That was interesting. My tongue was pretty n purple! I think I will use that stuff on Haloween and not brush it off. I need to practice exploring and probing for the pe pass off next week.

charts...again

today we learned how to chart what is in our mouths like extractions, fillings, and then we made a perio statment. Clinic went by fast today. It seems like for being in school for a month and a half we really dont know that much about instrumentation and it's hard to believe that we will know enough to have patients next semester.

Open Wide!

Clinic went better today. I observed my peer pal yesterday and realized that she doesn't know everything either. She said this is a continual learning experience and not to expect to get everything on the first or second try. When I came to clinic today I kept that in mind. We did a full mouth probe on our pod partner. I felt better about it today than Monday and I really liked having instructor vining watching everything and helping me correct my mistakes. That was effective. He said I need to not be so hard on myself. That is probably true. I still can't see the markings on the probe to get a really acurate reading but sh!! Don't tell. I have a hard time seeing small details. I think the clinic observation was effective for me and will help me as I go along.

Probing

Bad day in clinic. I am really frustrated because anything intra-orally just doesn't click for me. I'm beginning to not like clinic much because I can't see and I don't understand what is going on. I can do the book work no problem but when it comes to clinic I suck.