Cleaned Brittanies teeth today and she was a good sport and let me do blood glucose and diagodent on her as well. I didn't get as far on my mockboard pt as I would have liked to because she showed up late. My class 3 this afternoon went well got her finished and placed a lot of Arestin in her mouth. I wish LA was as easy to administer as Arestin is. I am looking forward to having tomorrow off to catch up on some sleep, house work and homework.

Mockboard

I had my first mockboard today and it was very humbling. I missed ten sites of calculus. I really thought I got everything. I felt around with my explorer before I submitted her and I obviously didn't know how to feel for it. Prof. Hanson said she was a hard patient but I think I really just suck at scaling. In my defense though she bleed a ton and I couldn't see a whole lot with the hand instruments. She told me I wasn't going deep enough. So I failed my first mockboard and got a really low score. The only positive part about this is I hope I can only get better.

VA

Quite an interesting day at the VA, both my patients were anti-fluoride so I had to remember all my teachings from Prof. Costley on the benefits and have good explanations on to the importance of fluoride. I did convince one guy to do the varnish the other was pretty hard headed. They were both very nice guys I had great conversations with both which made the day go very quickly and with ease. My second patient was very set on me leaving the church and believing in the apostasized church. He was very knowledgeable so I wasn't about to disagree with him so I listened to all his stories and he seemed pleased to have a listening ear.