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.

Class IV

I saw my first class IV today and it wasn't so bad, my class II I saw in the morning was harder b/c of his tenacious calculus. My class IV has been coming to Weber for a really long time so his calculus hasn't gotten to hard but he still isn't maintaining his bone levels so I am glad I got him as my class IV. My class II on the other hand has been one of my hardest pt so far. I had to use the file on his lower anteriors because nothing was coming off with the ultrasonic or graceys.

Yesterdays clinic was much better than the previous week. My patients showed up and I was finally able to see a class III. This is the first time since I started the program that while I was probing the probe dropped into a pocket. This lady had a 12 mm pockedt. I couldn't believe how the probe just kept going and going. Cleaning it on the other hand was not as exciting. It was difficult to get a scaler to go down that far. I used my file that we had just been taught on Monday how to use and then went in with my ultrasonic. My instructor said I got all the calculus so that made me happy.

Well this is my third clinic day and it is my third clinic day that I have had a pt cancel on me. I found out last night that my patient wouldn't be here so I lined a new one up and he showed up, unfortunately he was only a 1B. Then my afternoon showed up and I was very happy about that but she had a cold sore so I was told I couldn't work on her. I am so frustrated this semester it seems everyone else has patients on time and they are harder classifications so they are getting their requirements and I'm not. I feel like God hates me because this is happening to me. I have a class 4 and 3 scheduled next week, if they don't show up I will be so upset. I hope my next post is more promising.

PRE-MED

Today was definetely one I hope I don't have again for a while. This morning my 8am pt didn't show up so I finally got a pt at 10 am, one hour before I had to walk her out. I thought my afternoon can't be this bad, well it was worse. My pt was on time but she was on five meds she had just had stints put in her heart and she had high blood pressure. She was an amazingly sweet lady but trying to get through her health history was exhausting. I made it through the day though and I learned a ton about meds and pre-meds.