Back to Reality

Yes here I am back in clinic from a wonderful vacation. Spring Break was great but it got me a little too excited to be done with school for a bit.. Only 4 more weeks I can do it! Speaking of.. Only 4 weeks! I'm stressing and keeping my fingers crossed that I get a class III REAL soon! I just keep telling myself it will work out and I know it will some way or another.

Well today I saw my dad and my little brother. I did a full mouth on my dad with Schick.. And yes it was awful. Mostly on the maxillary anteriors. The new sensor would not get the apex of the teeth no matter how I adjusted it, kind of frustrating. But I was so grateful my dad was my patient. He was extremely patient and easy to work with. I got them done.. I can finally check off some PAs! And I managed to get out of it without having to take any retakes. Oh and I also passed off my blood glucose PE on my dad :)

After I finished my dad I saw my little brother. He was a great patient! Very cooperative and easy to work with. He even let me take two BWX!!! Today was nice because I feel like I made some progress something I need to work on is to be more calm. I was pretty nervous today so it didn't run as smoothly as it should. But afterall it is good to be back and I'm glad it's only for 4 weeks. Until next time.. I'll be smiling :)

A Bad Day

Well I definitely had a bad clinic day this last week.. Luckily my mom was my patient and was very patient with me (a patient patient, haha!). I think my problem was that I felt really rushed. I was trying to shove to many things into one clinic session (two PEs, a pano, and scaling 4 quads). Hopefully one day I'll be quick enough to do it all but I'm definitely not there yet. I ended up doing only 1 PE and scaling 4 quads- I missed a whole bunch of spots though, I think that was the most discouraging part. I was definitely holding back tears but it's over with and hopefully I have learned my lesson and it will only go up from here. And.. I leave for my cruise on Saturday so I can't wait for that! I'll definitely be smiling all week (starting after I finish my test tomorrow). Until next time....

Thank Goodness for Good Classmates

Lucky lucky me.. My patient decided to cancel last night therefore I began to panic. I called and texted a bunch of people that told me they would be willing to come in.. BUT of course none of them could come in today. I had to do some Facebook therapy and lo and behold Olivia posted something about having a patient if someone needed one. I hurried and called her and she got him all scheduled for me. I couldn't thank her enough. She had already performed the OD on this patient so I just had to scale 4 quads. He was a 1B so it wasn't too bad, I still need to work on my adaptation though. I passed off TWO PEs today!!!! Air Powder Polish and Diagnodent.. It is so nice to get those over with! Today was pretty good.. I found I need to get better with being familiar with teeth numbers and making sure I don't miss any calculus on the anterior teeth. I feel like I'm making improvement each clinic session so that's good! We only have 9 left.. I can't believe it! But I'm still smiling- whether it's because I have no idea how I'm going to get all my requirements fulfilled (especially my Class III) or because I'm happy I'm going on a cruise in a week, I'm going to leave up to your imagination :)