REAL Patient Day!!

Yesterday was our first real patient day. I had Bryan come in and he was a good sport even though he'd been fighting a bad cold for the past few days. Vitals was my first obstacle, I had to retake his BP a few times cuz it was coming up higher than we expected it to be and I kept doubting myself since it had been a while since we had done vitals. Xrays were next but I didn't have a problem there and actually took some dang good Bwxrays!
It had been about 1 1/2 yrs since his last cleaning and he had a lot of calculus built up. He had a lot of 4mm pockets and bleeding everywhere and since his xrays showed he was beginning to lose a little bone made him a class 2. Good for me bad for him! I only got through the OD and barely explained OHI before I had to walk him out. No cleaning today! But I told him that next time we can just go directly into the cleaning.
Overall it was a good experience. I just felt rushed even though we had 2 1/2 hrs to do everything! Now I'm looking forward to cleaning all of that calculus off his teeth!!!