Warm Fuzzies

Yesterday Claudia, one of the assistants from midtown dental clinic, came up to me and told me that they had seen one of my patients and that she was just bragging about how godd I was and how gentel I was. Then today Dr. Bingham from midtown told me the same thing along with how well the tissue had reponded, it made me feel really good and made me feel that what we do makes a difference.

Toddler Tornado

So this morning I finished up two patients one of which was the last quad of my mockboard patient. This afternoon my patient cancelled so I had my wife come up last minute. She had no one to watch my kids so she brought Aiden my 2.5 yr old and Ellie who was born last week. Ellie slept in the carseat most of the time and was very well behaved except for a breif stent when I had to take a break because she was crying and wanted to eat. Aiden however was very mischevious. He had a hard time sitting still even with a coloring book and a glove filled with water that I gave him to play with. He kept trying to push buttons on the dental chair and stepping on my rheostat and ultrasonic foot pedals. He even somhow managed to unscrew the top of the faucet on the sink (which is motion activated), so all of the sudden the motion sensor went off and the faucet went off like a giser. It was very hard for me to keep my composure. Somehow though I made it through the day and even got all four quads done on my wife Yeah!!! Jenny commented to me on how much better she felt I was then when I brought her in last semester. That made me feel really good, and gave me hope that I am getting better.

Special Needs

My patient this morning was a special needs patient that Eric had seen yesterday and refered to me because my patient canceled. She was somewhat mentally handicapped and had a caretaker. I found it to be a very different appointment because of her mental state. When she first opened her mouth she had plaque caked all over the quad that Eric had cleaned the day before. I asked her if she had brushed and she told me yes. I'm pretty sure she was lying. I've heard alot of mentally handicapped people will do that just like little kids do sometimes to avoid being in trouble. Anyway I used some dislosing agent on her and showed her all of the plaque. I then went over toothbrushing with her and taught her some ways to better access the areas she was missing. She was a very nice lady overall tihngs went well. This afternoon I saw my mockboard patient again and got two more quads done on her. It was a good day.