Last day of clinic

Today was the last day of clinic. We rotated through different stations in groups. One was learing about the emergency kit that we have in the clinic, one was learning from Mr. Solomon about CA duties, and one was learning the PSA module. It was a pretty relaxed day. I feel like I have learned alot this semester. I am really enjoying the program. I am looking forward to the break for the holidays and I do feel very nervous about having to find people to come into the clinic next semester. Hopefully all will go well this next semester.

My First Patient

Today was our first day with a real patient. I had my brother Chris come in. I was supprised at how long I was waiting for an OD check before I could move on. This was kind of frustrating becuase I didn't even get to scaling. I did do a full mouth prode, extra and intra oral examination, did a treatment plan, and took x-rays and the rest of the time I was waiting. When I took X-rays one of the developers was not working so professor Mcconahay developed my films for me. She was developing all the conventional films. That made me nervous because if I needed retakes I would have to reset up everything. (Usually you don't have the patient leave the x-ray room until you know that they don't need retakes.) But alas I was lucky and my x-rays camne out wonderfully. I hope waiting for OD checks will take less time next semester.

Cold Sores

Today Jenny was supposed to be my patient but she has a cold sore and we are not able to treat patients with cold sores because it provides a potential mode of transportation to spread the disease. So I got to clean one of the TA's (Shaylee) teeth. It was good because she was able to give me a lot of feedback and suggestions that were very helpful. I was glad to have the experience.

I'm the patient again

I was Jenny story's patient today. She did a very good job and only poked me like once. So my full mouth cleaning is now complete. I am glad that they had us do these patient/operator days.

My Turn

Today in Clinic it was my turn to be the clinitian and Kirsten was my patient. I think that it was a very good learning experience to have the whole time in clinic as the clinitian. I was amazed however at howmuch time charting takes. Kirsten had a very clean mouth which made scaling easy. I cleaned two quads and had time to also place a sealant. It was a good day.

Patient Day

I also forgot about Monday in my last post so here it is. On Monday we were paired up with someone to simulate a real patient day one person was the clinitian and the other was the patient. I was a patient for Kirsten. She did an amazing job. I was really gald that I was put with her. On Wdnesday (our next clinic day) we have to switch. I hope that I can do as good of a job on her as she did on me. She didn't hurt me at all I was proud of her she has picked up things well.

Catching up

So I keep forgetting to write in this blog. Sometimes I feel like the hygiene department requiring us to blog is kind of a waste of time. It seems more of a nusance than benificial to me. Anyhow to get back on track I Forgot to write about last Wednesday and this last Monday. Last Wednesday we learned how to sharpen instruments manually. It's not much fun. I think I would rather use a machine. we also had to pass off our air powder polisher PE. I really hate that thing in my mouth. Its like a salty sandblaster. It was not much fun. Especially because you cannot use it on procelin or composite restorations. I got paired up with someone who had like four crowns and a buch of composites so I had to find a place in her mouth that I could use it to demonstrate how to use it. I ended up doing it on her anterior teeth and then just using water to demonstrate the angles I would use on her posterior teeth. since I could not air powder polish her restorations.