POLISHING!!

Today was a fun day! First of all we all had to put on a plastic apron, and a hair net! It was great! We all did a little photo shoot , lucky I took my camera! Then we started Air/ powder polishing, which as all new to me, I had never even heard of it! Powder was everywhere by the time we were finished! I was able to practice on Jen, I hope I did ok on her! I had never had it done on me either and it was a weird feeling, can't say I would ever want it done again on me. It didn't taste the best, but Jen did awesome! I know there were a few girls who ended up with a few sores! Then we practiced using a prophy angle, which I have done quite a bit doing kids cleanings! Today was also used fluoride varnish. I have never had it put on me, nor have I ever put it on somebody! I don't like it! The feeling on your teeth is not a clean feeling that you would hope to have after a cleaning! It was a fun day! We are almost finished for the semester!! Yeah!!

Treatment Planning!!

Today was a relaxing day, thank goodness, because I have had other things to worry about such as pro. Costley's test and they are stressful! So I needed a relaxing day! Today we learned how to do treatment plans on Eagle soft, which was pretty easy. I also had to pass off OHI to Pro. Demmings, which I think went great! We also had time to work with people in our pods to practice our dental screenings, so we could pass them off! So i passed off two PE's today! I love doing that because it makes me feel caught up!

PRACTICE DAY!!!

Another practice day!! I am so grateful for these practice days you have know idea! Kristen was my clinic partner today and she did awesome! I am starting to feel more comfortable in the order and the way were suppose to do things, which makes me feel a tiny bit better about seeing my first patient! I still don't like charting at all, I guess I am going to have to get used to it! I still don't think I have practiced some things as much as I should, such as probing, I only had time to probe one quad on Kristen today when we were suppose to do a full arch because our time was up!

A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING!!

It was a long day in clinic today, but a good one! Today we went over everything that we have learned so far, we started with charting and health history! Extra and intra oral exams came next, then dental screenings probing, and OHI! I felt that it was a good thing that we went through all of this because I kept wondering what the heck are we suppose to when we get a patient! So I was glad that we finally put all of what we have been learning together! I feel bad for the people who are going to be my first patients next semester, because they are going to have to visit me a few times before I actually complete everything on them! I also passed off posterior scaling, which was a huge relief! I feel like i still need tons of practice with it, but I passed it off, so that's a start!

DENTAL SCREENINGS!

In clinic today we learned about dental screenings! This was kind of a relief for me because it was a difficult task to do! Wahoo! The last couple times in clinic had been kind of stressful with learning posterior and anterior scaling and probing! So this was a piece of cake and I enjoyed it. I also had time to practice posterior scaling for a min, which I really needed! I also was able to pass off my instrument design and classification! So all and all a relaxed day!

DiScLoSiNg!!!!

Today in lab we put disclosing agent on our patients, which was fun to watch everyone walking around with a blue mouth. It was interesting to see how well we all do brushing and flossing as well. I was nervous to see what my mouth was going to look like since I had drank a coke right before lab. It was also fun today because we were paired up with someone other than someone in our pod, which was kind of nice for a change, not that I don't love the girls in my pod because I do, it was just a fun change. Kelsi was my patient today and pro. Costly actually put the disclosing agent in her mouth, because I am at pod #10 and it is the demo pod. So Kelsi got to have everyone watch her get her mouth turned blue. So I actually didn't get to put the disclosing agent in her mouth, but that's ok. Then we had to figure out the plaque free index. We also had a lot of time today to practice our scaling, which was really nice. I was able to pass of my anterior scaling, which I wasn't expecting to do, but I did. So that is really nice to have out of the way. So I felt that it was a successful day in lab, I love to get PE's out of the way!

Posterior Scaling!!!

Well today is the day that I had to pass off probing and exploring! I was really nervous going into class because I have been so nervous to pass these two things off. Needless to say I ended up passing both off, with only a few errors! WaHOO! Today we also learned how to use our Barnhart instrument. Posterior scaling was a bit more rough than anterior scaling. For so reason I could not get my wrist to work today and kept using my fingers to pull my scaler. I was a little frustrated today at myself, but I will work on that.

AnTeRiOr ScAlInG!!

Anterior scaling was kind of fun today! I enjoyed learning this procedure. I was able to flick some calculus off my typodont, which I have been DYING to do. Jen and I were pod partners today. She did a very good job. I must say when it came to my turn to practice on her I was a little nervous. I didn't want to stab her with my scaler that's for sure. After a few deep breaths, I went for it. I think I did ok, but well have to ask Jen how she felt about it. I also had some time to practice my exploring and probing which I have been needing to pass off, I just have been so nervous too. I was really worried because the PE said we had to pass off a quadrant in 3 min , and I didn't think that it was possible for me to do that. I learned though they just had started the 3 min thing this year and it was just a trial. So I must say I was really relieved to find that out. It turned out I didn't have enough time to pass either of these off anyway! So I ended up having more time to practice before Wednesday.