Completed my first class II

So my pt who is mentally handicapped came back in today and I was able to scale all four quads but it took me the whole time in clinic. He was classiffed at his last appointment as a class II because of his calculus. I am glad that instructor Vining is now over my pod in clinic. It is nice to get a guy's perspective, plus I feel like he is helping me with my instrumentation alot. I only had two spots I missed in all four quads when he did my scale check. It seems to me that I miss the distal of #29 alot so I am going to try to catch that next time I clean.

Another Cancelation

So my patient a guy I work with named Rudy canceled on me yesterday. Luckily I was able to get this lady my peer pal had reffered to me in. Her name is Christina. I was able to get through OD take x-rays and scale 2 quads. So I felt pretty good about that. I was hoping that she would be classified as a class II or a class IV patient because she had a lot of bone loss and furcations. But Instructor Hafen said she would only classify her as a IB because even though she had bone loss and recession she did not have disease or pocketing. Her recession was from brushing too hard. But it's all good. She is going to bring in her son with her at her next appointment so that I can start on him once I finish her.

Took a PANO

Manuel came back today and I was able to take a PANO for his wisdom teeth. Awesome. It came out great too! i finished scaling him but I went slightly over time and got talked to by instructor Vining about finishing on time. I only had half a quad left though when time for patient walkout came so I wasn't going to bring him back for half a quad. I felt like going a little over on time was a much better option even though I got in trouble.

Kim is Done

So today Kim came back in and I was able to finish cleaning her. I was supposed to also clean her son, but Stephanies patient didn't show so I let her take him. It sucks though because I have to find one more kid to clean now. But Stephanie reffered Kim to me when I had a patient cancel last minute a couple of weeks ago, so I felt it was only right for me to let her clean Parker (Kim's son) since her patient didn't show.

Things are looking up

Today I had a patient who was from honduras. His name was Manuel. He is in his early 20's and very chill. THings went well I took x-ray and got through the OD but I was not able to get to scaling. He is comming back in a week and I may be able to take a PANO on him because his wisdom teeth are comming in. YEAH a pano!

Again Seriously!

So today I had a patient cancel for the third straight clinic session in a row. Kim was supposed to come in so I could finish her and also bring her son for me to clean. She called me this morning and said that one of her kids was sick and that she could not come in. I went to campus early and tried calling a bunch of people to try to get a patient. No Luck! Then I walked around campus and asked a few people, still no luck. So I ended up having my wife bring my two year old son Aiden up. He was really good at first but toward the end he got board and non cooperative. That made things really rough. After she was done crossguarding I had Jenny come in too. I got through the Oral Diagnosis (full mouth probe and extra and intra oral exams)on her so all I have to do is clean her the next time I can get her in. I am so sick of people canceling on me. I cannot believe that it has happened three times in a row. I am about ready to go crazy. On a positive note I did pass off an explorer PE today and Charolette the senior student that passed me off said that I was the best one that she had seen at using the explorer all day or something like that.

Another Stressful Day In Clinic

So this morning I was supposed to have a previous patient come back so that I could actually clean his teeth. I only got through the Oral Diagnosis and x-rays before we ran out of time last time that he was in. Anyway 8:00 came and he wasn't there so I called his mom about 8:10 and she said that he had had a siezure that morning (he has epilepsy and he gets them all the time) and that they wouldn't be comming. Luckily I had called Vaden a guy I work with the night before and scheduled him to come in partway through clinic because I figured that it would not take me the whole time to clean my first patient. So I called Vaden and asked him to come early but he still wasn't able to make it before 9:00 which was only like 30 min earlier than he originally planned. So I lost an hour of clinic time and was not able to complete Vaden which is fine I wasn't planning on completing him today but it sucks that I had to waste an hour of clinic time and that I still have to bring my first patient back on anouther day and hope that this doesn't happen again. I really wish I didn't have to schedule all my own patients. It is too stressful.