Last clinic session

I was nervous that my class IV pt wouldn't show. I needed her last 2 quads to meet all my requirements. She did show and I was greatful. I worried about the deadlines of everything and am glad to have met them all. Now that everything is over, it is with emotion that this is the last time for doing clinic with the professors. I have really enjoyed my time here.

Mock anethesia

Things went really well!!!! I felt confident. I knew where I messed up when my needle card slipped and slid into the sharps container. :( Ill have to practice that one.....

Hard Patient

This afternoon I was finally able to do an OD on my last mock board patient. I really struggled with her for mock boards. Today after doing probe depths and taking time to get a closer look at things, I am convinced it is concrete on her teeth. She literally has calculus caps on the rest of her posterior dentition. I am grateful she was given to my by someone who has already screened her and that was the best quad for mock boards. I feel bad for the condition her teeth are in and know that it will take quite a bit of work to get the rest of her clean. I secretly was hoping that she was a board patient. But I do not think I want to set myself up for a failure if I used her as a board patient. Keep looking!

Last Mockboard

I really self doubted myself. I felt I was just burnishing the calculus. I did better than I thought though.

Hard Day

Today I was able to see my two older sons since they are on spring brake from
SLCC. I tried got a pano on each one of them so that meets my qualifications for panos. I really had to run through them. I am glad that I know that they are pretty clean so doing each one of them as a new patient made it possible.

This afternoon I had a class IV and was able to get 2 quads done on her. I did LA, which I needed as well. She was very nervous about today but towards the end of the second quad, she was falling asleep. That made me feel good that she was comfortable and at ease. It was a good learning experience in that she has tons of malocclusal problems.

3-3-09

I was able to get my last class II exam done. I got 3 PEs done. I was hoping to get 4 PEs done but 3 is good. I would like to get all my PEs done this month. I still need to find a mock board patient as well as a board patient. That makes me a little nervous right now. There still is time.

Mock board

Today I did my mock board. I think it went pretty well. I missed two pieces of calculus. I did get the areas that I wanted clean though which made me feel good. I also sharpened my instruments right after because I worked on him so had to remove his tenacious calculus. This afternoon my patient cancelled. I was able to get a patient that came to midtown for and exam. She was a class II. She had a 2 month old baby and was lactating. She had moderate perio that we deduced was do to hormones and had a hard time cleaning her as she bled quite a bit. She was a good experience!