I finished a 1B!!!!!

So today was a super awesome day!
I was a little scared because my patient called me last night at 10:00pm and cancelled for this morning. So I begged my husband to come in because he had a meeting in Ogden this afternoon anyways. He had x-rays a few months ago so I was able to bypass that proceedure and was able to finish him in one appointment! I was so excited. I used him as an exam and I think the best part about it was that I wasn't nervous at all! I was able to think clearly and not stop and ask myself what comes next. It went so super smooth! My patient on Wednesday is a lady I work with and I think she's going to be a class 2, so I'll probably use her as an exam as well.

Yay!

Cancellation...almost

My patient cancelled on me late last night, so this morning I was struggling to find a patient. Luckily one of my friends was coming up to Ogden from SLC and he said he would come in. He was a 1b and I used him as an exam, however, I wasn't able to scale him. So he will be coming back. I did a set of BWX, and that was good to get a requirement done. I swear, I don't know if I'll ever be able to finish a patient in one appointment. I haven't done any kids yet either. I'm kinda worried. My goal is to be able to think clearly and know what I'm doing.

Update

I'm not sure why, but blogging is somewhat of a struggle for me this semester. Here is the update on my week.

Monday morning I had an older gentleman from the resource list. Very nice funny guy. He was a class 3! Plus he had a 9mm pocket between 2&3! Cool! So, it's going to be my first time using graceys! Kinda excited. I started to scale just a little bit, but I find that I'm constantly feeling like my angulation isn't right in the posterior teeth.

I need to review Neild! Holy cow! That idea just came to me. Homefully that will help me know what I'm doing, or at least supposed to be doing. Other than that I think it's pretty good. He's coming back so I can scale and finish the appointment. One good thing will be...I will now have the power of an ultrasonic scaler! We learned how to do that on Wednesday, so that will be helpful!

That's all for now!

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I finished someone today...

So today was a good day! I finished 4 quads of a class 2! Unfortunately, it was my second appointment for her. But still, I finished with time to spare, so I felt good about that. Now my grand total is 8 quads of Class 2. That's all. So, I've got to get more. I have a lot of pts who need to come back to finish so I hope I'll get them back. I also was able to get my anterior and universal instrumentation PEs done today. So I made some progress. I feel pretty good about today.

My goal for today is to practice scaling on my typodont over the weekend. Keeping the toe in position. That way when I get in a mouth I can know what to do. I stuggled with positions today too, so I need to review that too.

Monday my pt. is off the resource list. I really want to finish him, because Joelle is doing his wife and she'll be done in one appointment and I don't want him to have to come back if she doesn't. It just depends on what class he is. He's older, so he might be more difficult.

Please please please let me finish....