Birthday in clinic

Today I turned 23! Happy Birthday to me! 

Yay, finally I feel like I am not completely worthless in clinic!  Today I was able to bring in a class IV that I saw at Midtown.  He agreed to come up to the school to finish the last 3 quads of cleaning!  Yay! That means it will count towards requirements! (PS... Freaking out that there is no possible way I will meet them this semester).  I still missed five spots on him, but considering he was such a hard patient, I was ok with it!  Then this afternoon we had lab.. it was kinda long and boring, but kind of nice and stress free!

Maybe I should rethink my career path.... :-S

Wow, I thought the first week was rough and I told myself this morning that this week couldn't be as bad as that week.. Boy was I so so wrong. Well lets start with my dad.. I finished with him but not before missing a bunch of spots.. Really.. I miss that many spots on a 1B? (LOSER!)  Then I saw a 13 year old boy who I assumed was just another easy 1A.  When Lis did my scale check, I missed 12 spots... no that's not a typo.. 12 spots on a 13 year old. Well Lis gave me the benefit of the doubt and told me that the spots were subgingival and he should really be a class II.  She told me that I can't assume every child will be healthy and that I just didnt' go subgingival enough.  Well it made me feel a little better.. but really I know that I just really sucked it up.. Well I ran over on time with him and my returning class V patient got started late and I only cleaned two quads.. so now I have to bring her back for a third time to finish!

On positive note.. It was really fun to have my Daddy come in and get his teeth cleaned! He was such a good patient! I just love him!

CA

Today I was the CA.  After last week it is kind of nice to not have to stress about patients, but really considering that I did pretty much nothing... I feel so behind.. It was fun to be CA with Michelle though!

First day of SENIOR clinic!

Who better to have as your first patient back than your dad? That's right my sweet daddy came into the clinic to be my patient today.  Things started out a little rough.. First the computers weren't working for me in xrays so I took a conventional pano on my dad.. something must have been wrong with the sleeve because I had two radiopaque lines go right through it and ruin the image.. so I got to take it again!  The second time it worked, but there still were some lighter lines towards the bottom of the image.. but at least you could see the image. So after my struggles with radiology I barely had time to finish and OD and I will have to bring my  Dad (a freaking 1B) back to scale!!  Things didn't get much better for me in the afternoon.  My patient was someone that I screened at Midtown over the summer at the Women's Health Connection.  She ended up being a class V, but she told me that after xrays she didn't want to get a cleaning because she didn't have the money to pay for it all.  So she left early with only an OD.  I feel so frustrated.. I didn't get ANYTHING done!!  I hope this is not a sign of what's to come for the semester.