Hoping for a class 3 Patient!!

Goals for Today:
1. Get to scaling one quad
2. Not have to do a retake on BWX
Today I had a patient coming in who I knew hadn't been to the dentist in a really long time, and who had some health problems. So I knew that health history was going to take a long time, which it did almost 45 min, because he is on so many different medications. As I was going through the HH I noticed he had not been to the dentist in almost 20 years, so I just kept thinking oh this is good he probably is going to be a class three. So it finally comes time for x rays. My BWX were good other than, I didn't get the very distal of one of the 2nd molars, which was okay. Then we went back for the OD check and with the probe depths and everything in the anteriors she recommend that I should go take two anterior PA's, cuz she thought there might be bone loss, which there was, but the anteriors were the only places for bone loss. So my patient ended up being a class 1B on top and a class 2 on the bottom. Dang it! I was really hoping for a class three. You would think if someone hadn't been to the dentist in over 20 years, they we be a higher class. ha ha. Wishful thinking on my part. So I got through OHI and re scheduled the patient to come back the following clinic day to start scaling.