Last day of clinic!

This semester has flown by!!! Today went really well. I did my very last PE today so everything is passed off. I also have plenty of extra quads which is great! I only wish more of them transfered over to next semester. I'm still trying to figure out how I'm going to go about doing clinic next semester. Part of me wants to just go board hunting and do screenings until I find the mockboard and board pts. I need...but I feel bad making so many people wait to get their teeth cleaned. What to do??? I guess I'll figure it out as I go. One more semester!

Lab

Last week went really well. We had lab in the morning and it was fun to learn how to transfer people from a wheelchair to the dental chair. We also got to take turns pushing eachother around in the wheelchairs down the hall. It was pretty fun and sooo relaxing. Unfortunately after such an easy morning I was in no mood to do any work in the afternoon. It did end up going really well though. I was able to complete 3 more quads of a 3 and 1 of a 2, so that was good!

Fabulous!!!

Today was fabulous! Everything went soooo smooth. I finished 8 more quads, and 4 PEs...plus some x-rays. It was great! Both of my patients were really good too. :) The only problem is I still need to pass off the blood glucose PE...hopefully someone will let me do it on them soon!

Finishing up!

Last Tuesday I saw my two 1A pts. that I needed. They were the cutest little girls! (4 and 5 years old.) It was a lot of fun! They had questions about everything and were soooo excited to get their teeth cleaned. Good job to their parents for helping out with that! They did such a good job, especially when I was taking their x-rays. That can be really hard for kids sometimes...especially since their mouths are so small. Even adults have a hard time biting down all the way with film in their mouths. They were great!

I was lucky to have a patient in the morning who really wanted me to take a full mouth set of x-rays, so that was awesome! (I really needed more PAs.) It looks like I have basically all the requirements done that I need. Just a few more PAs and the blood glucose PE. Maybe I'll get to do those this coming Tuesday. :)

3 Patients!!!

I had 3 patients today! Yea!!! I was only finishing up 2 of them in the morning and then I had a patient in the afternoon. It was great! A total of 9 quads today! My dad got to come in too! :) I was so happy! I love having my family come in! I almost have all the requirements I need, including the PEs. Things are looking good!

2 Patients

Last Tuesday we had a lab in the morning, and it was soooo relaxing! It was great! Now we have more PEs we can pass off too...since we learned how to do more of them. :) The afternoon was another story though. I was finishing a class 3 patient and her husband was going to come in if I ended up getting done with her cleaning early. We were going to call and let him know if he should come in or not. Well...he decided to just come and stay after he dropped her off. Then I felt really pressured to get him in and get his OD done. It all worked out ok, but I felt kind of crunched because of how long it took me to finish her. It probably didn't help that I had somewhere to be right after clinic, so I was feeling pressured by that too. Oh well. Everything ended up being OK. Finishing her cleaning completed all my exams that I needed, and I did 3 PEs. :) Really not too bad...just a little crunched on time.

Mock Board #1

I passed my first mock board!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was soooo excited! It was a little crazy at first because of various things out of my control and my patient ended up being about a half an hour late. She did her best to get there though and I'm really glad she made it! I knew my patient would qualify, but I also knew it would be difficult because I had already cleaned one of her quads. I'm really glad I had a heads up about what it was like cleaning her teeth before I got to the mock board because it helped me understand how thourough I would really have to be and how hard I would have to work. It's interesting how different patient's calculus can be. No one really understands what I'm saying until they've had a patient who's caluculs just won't come off. Anyway, it all went very well! Passing this mock board has helped me feel a little bit better about boards, but of course I'm still really nervous for that to come. It will be a lot more stressful so hopefully my nerves won't take over and I'll be OK. I'm glad I have a few more months to practice before I have to do the real thing!