Give Kids A Smile Day

I volunteered at the Give Kids A Smile Day today. It was great but tiring! We hygienists had half of the clinic while dentists had the rest. There were so many people there lining all of the hallways that at times it was hard to weed your way through them to where we needed to go. The sad thing was that even though we had so many volunteers that we still had to turn away people starting at 11:00 cuz there were just too many.

UDA Convention

I attended the 2010 UDA Convention last week. I went to a class called "Work would be great if it weren't for the people". It was ok. She talked a lot about different personalities and communication in the work place. I also volunteered at the Crest booth for a couple of hours on Friday and listened to a few of the table clinics. Over all it was a good convention. I've always enjoyed going especially when I meet up with my Dad and his office for lunch on Thursday!

WHOA what a day!

I was very busy today! First I had to be CA in the am clinic session and by myself too. Mr. Solomon was very nice and helpful. Then it was my clinic session. My goals were to finish Bobbi who had 2 quads of 1B left and I also had lined up Alison my 5 yr old niece to come in-she would be my first 1A of the semester. I also wanted to pass off the sel polishing PE and possibly the sealant PE. I accomplished everything! I was unable to do the sealant on Alison because she was pretty much done and ready to go by the time I was done with her cleaning but Emily had a patient that needed several sealants and was kind enough to let me do a couple. So including the CA PE I actually passed off 3 PE's and cleaned 2 patients today! The surprising thing was that I was done with my patients by 3:00 too.

YEA Class 3!!!

So a couple of weeks ago I had my mother in law Danna in. She had deep enough pockets for a class 3 but not enough tartar without xrays so we had to classify her as a class 2 then. Today she returned and I took some bitewing xrays on her and it turns out she is a class 3!!!! I am so happy about that! I was able to use Gracies today for the first time on a real patient. Still can't do the ultrasonic without the patient being too sensitive. Maybe next week! Yyyyeeeeaaaa!!!!

Danna

I saw my mother-in-law Monday. It was so funny getting her scheduled cuz she's retired and not used to keeping track of days or times any more. She even had Bryan call her Monday morning to make sure she was up in order to get there on time. She was great though! I wanted to classify her as a III because she had several 5-7mm pockets and Angelique did too until after she was gone we were talking about how she goes to the dentist every 6 mos for a cleaning so she's being maintained and needed to reclassify her as a II. Dang I thought I'd have my class III!! Have to try again!

Bobbi Jo

On Wed. I saw Bobbi as my patient. She let me take a full mouth set of xrays on her which I needed! I thought that because she hadn't had her teeth cleaned for at least 2 years that she was going to have as much or more build up than Bryan had but it turned out not to be true. She hardly had any! I finished her OD and 2 quads of scaling but then ran out of time. If I only had another 15 min I would have finished her up all in one appt! But it was not to be. I was feeling really good about the day due to the xrays and also I didn't hurt her nearly as much as the patients in the past. I think I'm starting to get the hang of this after all!!!

Kim

My sister in law Kim came in for me last Wed. I was determined to get her done in 1 appt because she had taken work off and was using leave to come in. The good thing was that she didn't need xrays so that saved me some time. I was a little frustrated with our instructor Julie when she was checking for calculus because she told me of a few areas and I couldn't feel what she was feeling. I've been able to feel what I've missed up until now. I was able to finish Kim even though I was 20 min. late walking her out.

New Patient

Today I saw a patient that I didn't know at all! No family or friend. She was sixteen and really nice! I was able to do bwxrays and get her cleaning done all in one appt but she didn't have much to clean. I so want to be faster because I feel bad about making people sit there so long. But I also want to be better at my adaptation because I'm still hurting patients.