Ultrasonic Scaling!

Today was our first day in back in clinic after the holiday break. Today our goal was to learn how to use our ultrasonic scaler and our Gracy's! First Sam showed us how to set up our ultrasonics and showed us the right amount of water that we would to have come out. You want a drip with mist! Then she let us all set up our units. Then she showed us on our typodonts how to use the ultrasonic in the mouth. She made it look very easy. Then it was finally my turn to try. I admit going into it I was pretty nervous because I thought it was going to be hard. Then as I started doing it I realized it was super fun! I am nervous now to do it on a real patient now though, because I have only done it on the typodont. Then we learned how to use our Gracey's instruments. We have a 1/2, 13/14, 15/16. I had no clue how to use these until today. I learned that 1/2 goes with the anteriors, 13/14 for the distal and 15/16 go for the mesial. I just need to remember that now. I had a difficult time with the 13/14, but I think I started to get the hang of it.

The thing that made me feel best about today was, Pro. Costley telling us that one of the goals for this semester was to learn how to feel calculus, which made me feel great because I don't think I have felt it up to this point, and I want to know how it feels! It made me feel great that everyone else felt the same way as well!