Finished with class III

My class III came back today and I was able to finish her up! I was very lucky to have found my class III because many in my class still haven't found one and there's only 3 weeks left in clinic. I was going to try to pass off my Area Specific PE but didn't get around to it. Here's to hoping for Wednesdays patient having deep enough pockets for me to use them on!

PE's

Wednesdays are turning into PE days because we have the TA's here to help pass them off. Last Wed. I was able to pass of both the Diagnodent and sharpening PE's on my patient Brook. She was a 1B and I had 3 quads to finish. But because she didn't have much in the way of calculus I was able to get her done with plenty of time left over. I also was able to do the peer calculus review on Emily's patient so I'm winding my PE's down. I only have 5 left to do!

Dawn

I saw my husband's niece Dawn today. She's 16 so I knew she'd just be a 1B but my goal was to get her all done today. Whew barely made it too! I took a pano and 2 bwxrays on her and found that she only had 1 wisdom tooth which made her happy, though she'd have been more happy if she had none! She had a lot of decalcification around the margins of her teeth so I ended up having to be really careful when I scaled but really she didn't have any calculus on her teeth anyways.

Tyler and Kaitlyn

I was able to see my niece and nephew on March 10. Tyler is 4 and Kaitlyn is 2 1/2. I planned on passing off my IA exam with Tyler and everything went well. When I got to Kaitlyn I didn't know how much she'd let me do since it was her first time in the dental chair. I gave her a ride in the chair, showed her Mr. Slurpy, squirted air and water at her sister to show her the air/water syringe, and she loved it all. She sat so good for me! She even had a little calculus behind her lower anteriors that I had to scrape off. I think the hardest part was polishing. She didn't care for the taste of the prophy paste and kept gagging on it so I'd have to stop and let her use Mr. Slurpy a lot. But what she liked the most was the disclosing agent. Her mom had been saying that she wanted her mouth to turn purple like I did with her sister. So when I disclosed her she started giggling even though it didn't taste very good. For a 2 1/2 yr old she did awesome!

Dang, another 1B!

I had a patient come in on March 8 that I was hoping would be a class II for me. He hadn't been into the dentist for 3 years so I thought for sure he would be! Come to find out he has immaculate home care, there was nothing on his teeth! On with my search for another class II!

Brook

I was really hoping when Brook came in that she would be a class II that I could do an exam on. No luck. She ended up being a 1B. With how crumby her teeth are she did not have enough calculus built up to be a class II. I did do a full mouth xray on her which checked off the rest of the pa's I had to do.

Sam

Monday I was planning on getting Sam done in that one appt. That is my goal to get a 1B done with xrays in 1 appt. But it was not to be. I ended up having to retake her pano for one and then I knew when I put her on my schedule that I would be going over OH with her but not to the extent I ended up having to do. I did accomplish my first pano though!