Scalling

So today we scaled on a real person. As usual, my nervousness came out causing me to have a major laugh attack before I finally contained myself, took a deep breath and just did it. I don't know why I do that. I laugh when I get nervous and I honestly can't stop. Whatev.
None the less, I really enjoyed it. We only did the anterior teeth. That was pretty good. I got in and scraped some calculus. I don't really know, but I'm sure it was pretty much sheet calculus, or whatever people who keep their teeth clean get.
OH! And, it was Halloween today. We had a costume party all day. I was a lumberjack. It was pretty fun. There were some good costumes. It was really fun. I won a tube of toothpaste for my costume. It was great!
Now I'm so super tired...yet, I must do my Dental Hygiene homework. It's really thrown me off to have to do that homework two days early. I had my schedule down. Oh well, it's all fabulous!

Until next time....

Community Oct. 27

Okay, so insurance is something I totally don't understand, at least all the techincal stuff. I do however understand that there are a lot of people in our country who are not getting the health care that they need because they can't afford it so it is not available to them. I know of an older woman who is not getting the adequate medication that she needs because her insurance will only cover so much causing her to reduce her pills from 3/day to 1/2 per day. So it will last her twice as long. It's a hard thing to see them have pain but they try to deal with it the best they can.

Engagement Pics

Hey Everyone! This is just a sampling of our pictures. You can view more at www.overturephotovideo.com/clientgalleries/petersen-riley However, they are the proof's so there's quite a few.

Scalers!!!!

So....today in clinic we practiced with our scalers. We learned the differnce between supra and subgingival scalers, gracys and bernhards. It was AMAZING let me tell you! (did you catch the sarcasim?) Truthfully it was good to practice, but it got a little boring...scaling for two hours...I hope that never happens in real life. I'm still feeling...not awkward, but I'm not 100% sure where to position the instrument and if I'm using the right end. I just don't want to scrape someone's gums off. Yikes that would be painful. I think I just really want it to be Friday so I can go to Logan! I'll be so glad when my weekend affair will be over and I can see Rob everyday!
Today we also did the intraoral camera. Now that was cool. I think I would really have some fun with that! I'm excited to use that! I'll keep you posted. bye.

Light grasp!

So today in clinic we just pretended to go through a real appointment as far as we could get in an hour...I got to probing. I feel like I'm getting better, and I do feel comfortable, but there were some parts that felt so awkward. So, I'm going to take my instruments home and practice on my brother... :). Lucky boy! We've mostly just done that the last couple days in clinic and it's really helped! That way we can get down what we know with out continuously adding things on to our knowledge when we don't have the previous stuff down. Anyhow, it's great! Bye!

Now I'm all fired up!

So today in Community health (it was our first day) we talked about our class project for this year. There's this school that started up for Dental Hygiene. Needless to say, it's a little crazy! They aren't accredited yet and are making it seem as though they are...YIKES! Poor gals! But that's not really our problem. What bothers us with this little situation, is that 50 more people per year will be competing for our jobs out in the real world. That just frosts our cookies! Utah already has a super saturated job market for dental hygiene, there are so many of us! So the truth is...we don't really need another school in Utah. I know this sounds bad, but our class project is going to be doing research to help the Utah Dental Hygiene Association (UDHA) find stuff that hasn't been done to show the ADA that this program and others like it are not needed and shouldn't be allowed to continue. We are going to do it in a very professional way of course. I'm just very interested because out of all the hygienists in Utah only 20 are actively involved in UDHA. There just aren't enough of them to do all they need to. So here we come to the rescue. What's even better about it is I'm planning to work with Prof. Hansen and do even more of it for my Bachelors thesis. Yay!

Paperwork

Okay, today in clinic all we did was paperwork! Lots and lots of paperwork. Granted we had a really hard patient, it kept us busy for 3 hours...and I didn't even finish. At that rate, I won't have time for a patient. So...I've got to get the stuff down so I don't have to ask so many questions. Otherwise...I might have to do more than one appointment per patient, and I don't know if they'll want to come back! Yikes!

Disclosing...

So today in Clinic we used disclosing agent to find those dirty little plaque monsters in our partner's teeth. It made our mouth all blue and then purple and then pink! Wow, three colors! Then I passed off my intra-oral examination...not as hard as I thought it would be. I'm super tired though! I was falling asleep in the chair while Desiree was disclosing my teeth...yikes! I know one thing is for sure...I'm taking a nap before I go study tonight. I've got a lot of studying to do. Not to excited for that, I've got to finish reading anatomy, gather my thoughts about my ethics paper to present tomorrow, and do my Dental Hygiene homework because we are switching class from Thursday to Tuesday. And to top it all off, I really miss Rob already! I'm so happy for this weekend affair to end! January 13th, we can totally make it!
BYE BYE!

Charting

So today we charted, that was fun! I have quite a few cavaties....But I Brush Brush Brush to keep the bugs away! Some of the teeth I looked at were so perfectly matched I couldn't even tell if they were there. Crazy! I wish mine looked like that!

Engaged!

Now we are engaged! YAY!
(This is just a reinactment)

Probing

Okay, so I slacked off last week, APOLOGIES! But today was good. We worked on probing. Just one quadrant thank goodness! OH, interuption on some personal news....I got engagged over the weekend! Okay back to business! So probing was good. I think I'm starting to feel the sulcus, so that's good. Desiree and me worked on telling each other when they felt the probe and I think that helped me. I'll try to get more familiar with it. bye!