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.

Wednesday

Today is the lat day of the clinic week! And I would say it went pretty well. I passed off my probe PE HALLELUYAH!!!!  We did polishing and the Air Powder polishing.  Wow not to fond of that.  It was everywhere.  All over my face and our tip kept leaking so my ear was full of water and my neck was soaked.  I was like ok I've had enough of that.  I felt like I was exfoliating my face, actually I still do.  Its stuck like glue.  Well today is my long day so off to radiology.

Monday

Well another Monday has come and gone.  We had a guest speaker today and had a great lunch.  It was another practice day today and I love those they make me feel so much better.  I am done with Costleys test so that is great I am going home to study for classes tomorrow.  We have a head and neck quiz on the parts of the skull so I need to study that.  Till next time

Wednesday

Well I enjoyed today a lot.  I was the operator and I passed off 4 PEs and failed my probe one.  Man that one is hard for me but it was so nice to practice today and put everything together.  We did health history so long ago it was nice to do it again.  Writing in the chart is a little more difficult than I expected. so much to know.  All in all though I loved this day to practice it was good.  Well off to radiology and finish up the week.