Today was my class 2 exam and it was tough. I'm really frustrated because I don't think I did very well. When Professor Costley did my scale check I had missed a lot of surfaces, which was really discouraging, especially since I tried really hard to use my explorer. I even went through and flossed to double check. I don't know how to get better other than practice I guess, but it's still eating me up, especially since I've been doing so well with all of my other patients. I was able to pass of my blood glucose test and my patient was a sweetheart so that made the experience a little more enjoyable.

Today I did a 17 year old and claimed him as my second 1b exam. I was able to take a pano on him because his thirds are start to come in and sometimes bother him. Another thing that was interesting about him was that he had gingivitis not from poor OH, but from heavy breathing and had pseudo-pocketing because of it. The exam went well and I'm starting to feel really comfortable with 1b patients. I've also been trying to better utilize my explorer and get better at feeling if there is calculus or not instead of just scraping every surface.

Today we didn't have patients which was a nice break. We went over how to do the removable appliance, blood glucose test, and diagnodent pe's. I've already passed off my denture pe so now i just have to get the other two done which shouldn't be too hard.

Today i just finished up karen walrdon and was able to pass off my sel polish pe. I was also able to pass off my sealant pe with kelsey's pt so today was very productive! Yay!

Today was my first 1B exam and it went really well! Everything went so smoothly and I didn't even miss any spots in his mouth! What a good feeling that was! Now I just need to continue to perfect and improve my skills! I can't slack off now!

I finished Reyna my spanish patient today. I was able to pass off my denture PE with her and had Mr. Salomon translate OHI for me, which made things a lot easier. Geez! I need to learn espanol quick!

My original patient for today cancelled, but luckily I was able to do Eric's patient's wife. She was a sweetheart and very clean. It was a pretty chill day with really new that happened or that I learned.

Today my patient had braces, which was a new experience. Luckily, she was really clean so it wasn't too bad and I was also able to get her done in one appointment. I got to pass off my air/powder polisher PE and that went really well. Instrumentation was a little different with an ortho patient and took some time to get used to, but it's comin'...it's definitely comin'!

Today Dave came, which was really fun! I was able to get him done all in one appointment, which shows that I'm progressing and getting better at this whole cleaning teeth thing! It's such a relief! Something new I did run into was a little something called sheet calculus and boy is it a bugger! I didn't even know it was there until Angelique pointed it out and it took forever to get off! Yikes!

Today was an interesting day for me. I had my first spanish patient. It made things a lot more difficult because I couldn't really communicate with her. The good thing was that she had a partial denture so that will help me pass off a PE. She also had one quad of a class three, which will help toward my requirements.