3/28/12

My first class III.  I have always been intimidated thinking I wouldn't know where to start with this. I did ok. and learned some things. I like the graceys, learned to go more subgingival and when removing the calculus apply a little twist to the end of the instrument and it worked much better popping it off. It is more diffucult not to see it and sometimes I felt like I didn't get low enough. I finished 3 quads and she was an excellent pt. I am finding that it is easy to become emotionally attached to the pt. I had a good day, and feel like I am learning lots.

03/21/2012

Goal: my first class 2, my goal is to use my graceys, triple bend and pass off to pe's
I got a lot done today. I loved the graceys on the posterior and wish I had used them before now. I also passed off the 2 pe's I needed and used the triple bend. The pt was very sensitive so I aslo switched to the slim line. The only thing I feel bad was I was rushed to finish the quad and feel that I missed too many areas. I look forward to next clinic day to finish working on her without all the other paper work and xrays to take up my time. She seemed happy and commented her mouth felt better on that side. It was a good clinic day.

03/19/2012

Goal: Complete a full mouth, using good horizontal angulation on bicuspids
I had to us schick to complete my requirements it didn't go so well because his mouth was small and I just couldn't get the size 2 to work out. We tryed every way we could but it didn't work out. I am not pleased at all with them. What I learned was to use scan-x