Mock Board #3

Yea!!!!! I passed my 3rd mock board today! Such a relief! I'm hoping boards will go just as well. It was nice being able to go in the morning this time and to relax this afternoon. :) My patient was great, and so nice. I've been really lucky with the patients I've had at Weber and at the VA. They've been great. I only hope I can get some of the classifications I need at the VA so that I can see all of my patients that want to come in again before we leave for the summer. Two more months! Woo Hoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What a day!

This morning was wonderful! Jason came in!!! Yea! It was so much fun having him there! I ended up doing a cleaning and x-rays, but then I also practiced injections on him, and passed of one of those PEs along with the sealant PE and the Air Powder Polish PE. He was awesome! It was great to be able to get so much done. The injections went really well too. He has perfect anatomy...which made it soooo much easier. The best part is, he's going to be my LA Board Patient! I'm feeling more confident about boards knowing he'll be there. It's also great since all 4 injections went so smooth today. (I just have to work on my left PSA angulations a little bit.) Thanks sweetheart for everything you helped me with!

I ended up having 3 afternoon patients, and it went really well. I cleaned a 1B and two 1As. Luckily I had already done the OD at a screening for the 1B, so that saved on time. They were all really good patients, and the kids were really cute. I stayed buisy, that's for sure. I felt really organized during the cleanings, breakdowns, and set ups...but all the paper work at the end was a pain. Oh well. I'm home now and it's time to relax! :)

Mock Board #2

I passed my second mock board! Yea!!! I was able to learn a lot through this experience too, so that makes it even better. Who would have thought, I'm overadapting my instruments in some areas. I couldn't believe that when Perry told me. Ha ha ha! I gues I really took adapt adapt adapt to heart. It's been good though because now I can fix what I need to and hopefully do even better on the real board. I've found my 3rd mock board patient, which is great, but unfortunately his calculus isn't as heavy as I would like it to be. I wish it was heavier so that I could have a better idea of what the real board is going to be like, and be able to experience that one more time. Oh well, I just need to keep learning as much as I can.

Board Patient!!!!!!!!!!

I can't believe it took me this long to blog about my board patient! I finally found one! I'm sooo excited and it's such a huge relief! It's actually someone I know, which makes it even better. She went through this process with her daughter a couple years ago so she knows exactly how this all works. She's great and I couldn't ask for a better board patient!

Mock Board Pt.

I finally found a mock board pt. last week! Yea!!! That gives me a little bit more time to find another mock board pt. as well as a board pt. I'm hoping this week I'll get lucky again, because if I don't, I'm not really sure where I'm going to find someone who qualifies. I'm keeping my fingers crossed!

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!