1B. finished. it was ok.

my patient hasn't showed yet and we are wasting time.... I cant afford to have them not come.... I have requirements that need to be met....... um....... hopefully my pt. shows. I just got word that my pt is here and filling out paper work. Whew! That was a close one. I believe my patient is a 1B. Wahoo... an I get another one. I would so rather a 1B than anything else. I'm excited to work with Vining. Haha I better air dry the calc on the lower anteriors. Haha.

Vining is awesome. Very helpful and positive. My patient had a lot of dark staining on the maxillary anteriors on the lingual especially in the grooves that was hard to get off and that took some time but I got my patient finished. Nice. And.... guess what? No deposits to note! Its days like this that encourage me when other days in clinic seem to suck way beyond anything. I do have one thing to commment about though... that is the time grade that we get for scaling and x-rays. I dont think its accurate. We are given 30 minutes for a 1B however, this time does not account for time that is spent in conversation... building a raport... or the time instructors chit chat with patients. I think that it is important because it keeps the patients coming back but I dont think its accurate for our grading. Oh well. I have come to not care how long it takes me as long as I finish. I can worry about how long it takes me when I am comfortable with what I'm doing. It doesnt do any good to rush through stuff and not actually clean the teeth.

Better day in clinic. Good thing too because I was dreading coming in today.

I was super frustrated in clinic. I better leave it at that. Class 1B. Finished.

my nice patient from last wednesday came back. Super patient (haha in more ways than one) and super nice. class 2 exam. HOpefully I do ok. Honestly, I dont think grades count anymore so I really dont care as long as I get enough quads done to graduate.

dude i had a class 5 patient. plaques is almost more annoying than calculus because it would move around but not stick to my instruments to take it out. oh and i tried my loupes for the first time. i got dizzy and they kept sliding off my nose. nice $975 purchase. anyway i'm late so i'm outta here.

oh man

if I had any other patient in the chair I think I would have ran out in tears today and not come back. Those stupid digital x-rays.... oh man I hate them. They dont freakin fit in the mouth and trying to get anterior pa's with that stupid thing. Ha, Yeah right. My patient was super understanding though and really helpful. I only got as far as x-rays but I did a full mouth series which is good. I was wondering how I was going to get all my pa's in since I cant get any of my patients to pay for x-rays. I was pleased. He's coming back next wednesday.

wow. I keep forgetting to blog. today we didnt have a patient. we did a lab. it was a nice change not to have a patient. we learned the diagnodent and ultrasonics. oh, how spesh.