Sometimes I feel like I need to reintroduce my title when I start my post, I don't know why I do but I do so therefore I'm going to continue doing it. So... Today in clinic we learned the ins and outs of posterior scaling and guess what? I really liked it and felt pretty good about it! Monday was the day from you know where but today made up for it. I guess that's why you have to have bad days so you can appreciate the good ones. I didn't get a ton of practicing scaling on a patient (Misty) but I did a little and practiced on my typodont and I feel like I'm FINALLY sort of getting angulation down. I don't know why I struggle so much with it but I'm sick of it so hopefully I'm catching on! I also need to work on using my mirror for indirect vision and working on more difficult surfaces- Not just mandibular surfaces towards me. But scaling was fun and I'm really looking forward to scraping large amounts of calculus off of my patient's teeth :)
Oh and another great thing about today- I passed off my probing PE! I was so nervous for it but I did it! I wasn't able to do a whole quad in under 3 minutes but I did mine in under 4 so I felt pretty good about that and I can see I'm catching on, slowly but surely. And thank goodness for Misty, she is just the sweetest nicest thing and puts up with me and all my crazy instrumenting. Well know today was good and be happy because I am- Happy and smiling :)
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