Found: One Board Patient

I got lucky on Tuesday. I had to find a patient for 8:00 and pulled in someone new off the resource list. Well guess what? He meets the requirements for boards plus I'll use him as a mock board too! He's really nice and speaks English too! I'll have to numb him up for cleanings with how jumpy he was with probe readings though. Only need to find someone for the Feb. mock board and I'll be set!

Yay for Dayna!

My patient this afternoon no showed on me but luckily Dayna had an extra patient show up who I willingly took off her hands! He was 13 and his mom had taken him to the DDS in August who told him he needed sealants and she wanted to get them done. Hallelujah for me! I needed a patient to do my sealant PE on. 5 sealants and a cleaning done on him in 1 hr. 15 min. Thank you Dayna!

Found class III!

I am so happy! I was able to find another patient with class III to finish my exams for this semester. This means if everyone shows up for their appt's I will meet my requirements with no problems for this semester. I did have to dismiss my first patient this morning which is my other class III patient because he woke up with a cold sore, dang! He felt really bad even though I told him there's nothing he could do about it. But I was able to pull someone off the list and get another 2 quads of class II and bw x-rays done.

Done with II's & V's

Ok so I'm done with II's and V's now, I even have 4 quads over for requirements. This means I'm done with all 1A's, 1B's, II's, and V's. but not with III's & IV's. I need that DH god to smile upon me and open the heaven's with class III's PLEASE!

First Mockboard

We had our first mockboard and it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. It seemed like another day at clinic except with more paper work. I lost 2.5 points because I forgot to put 0's in the boxes for recession and I missed 3 highlighted spots which gave me a score of 79 so I was happy to pass!!!!

Happy child day!

Today I worked on nothing but children! The only thing that bothered me was that it took me all morning to get a 9 year old done. It wasn't the cleaning itself that took time, that was only a half hour. It was waiting for the mother to do the HH, taking xrays took a little more time than normal, then we had Dr. Naylor come over and do an ortho eval which she then wanted a pano for as well. It's a good thing Jen was able to take his sister or I wouldn't have been able to get both kids done! This afternoon I saw my 2 nephews. It was Porter's first time having a cleaning so he was a little nervous and didn't want me to "turn his teeth purple". He giggled through the cleaning though so all was well!

Patient panic!

I had my patient cancel and had the whole day of clinic open for today at this time yesterday. I was able to call and fill my afternoon but couldn't get anyone for the morning. I ended up sticking my hubby in for the morning, then get notified during his appt that my afternoon patient had to cancel. AWWWWWW! I went up front and asked Mr. Solomon if anyone needed to get in, he tried a couple of people with no luck. About 10 min later he came back and told me he was able to find someone after all. YEA! Hopefully a day like this NEVER happens again! Fingers crossed!