Last Clinic day

Well today was the last clinic day for this semester whoooo! Wow, I can hardly believe that its over.  I thought it would never end and now that its here I cant believe its the end already.  We had the last clinic test today which I took and am happy to have that over with.  I am so amazed at all the stuff I have learned this semester.  Some of it I look back and think wow that was so long ago.  Now comes the time to stress over next semester.  I am already stressin about patients and where I am going to find them all.  Well cheers to the next semester and having finished this one (almost). 

Wednesday

Well I have been operator all week.  It has been such a good experience.  I got to scaling today and scaled all quads. Karlie was my patient and she was really awesome.  I really appreciated her feedback.  If I was doing something wrong she had no problem telling me.  It was good to get in the mouth and really see what I am doing.  I need to get a better sequence going though.  I think this will come with time though.  The charting is really confusing there is so much to remember and I forget.  Next week I am the patient so I get to watch and observe and really have some things sink in.  This week I was a little nervous but I am so happy for the experience.  It was so helpful. 

Wednesday

Today was the wonderful air powder polisher PE pass off.  Man I love that thing. Ha! Ha!  I totally sucked at it.  I couldnt get the pedal pushed down all the way and I got water all over Marianne.  I felt real bad and told her so.  Thank goodness she is so sweet.   We had a real awesome pod rap and Marilyn is amazing.  She carved us all teeth.  I dont know how she finds the time to do all she does.  Well I got fluoride again and it was like glue again all over my teeth.  However, we did the gel and I really liked that better.  I have decided Im not to fond of varnish.  The gel was orange vanilla flavored and I thought it sounded gross but I really liked it.  Well I am signing off on another clinic week.  More to come later.

Monday

Well another monday has come and gone.  Today was a long day. Everything seemed really crazy.  We did sealants and I now have a wonderful sealant on #4.  I learned something new today which is always good.  I did not know that if the sealant is to high you can use a toed instrument and scrape off the excess.  I thought that was pretty cool.  That would have been nice to know when I was placing sealants in the office.  We also had to pass off the polishing PE and get fluoride.  I got the varnish and wow it looked like I had cottage cheese on my teeth.  It was actually a little wierd so I wiped it off.  I couldnt talk with people with that stuff all over my teeth.  Anyways one day down 4 to go.