Today I was really hoping the patient Mr. Salomon gave me would be a class three, but of course it wasn't! Just my luck! I'm starting to get pretty worried that I won't find it and it's really starting to bug. I just hate the fact that I may fail clinic for something that's simply out of my hands! Dah! Anyways I was able to finish up my PAs i needed on this patient and pass off a couple of PEs too,k which is always a plus! Now all I really need is my Class three so please bless that he/she is out there somewhere and that I'll find them soon!

Today I did a 1B, which I think will be my last of that type of classification. It went really smoothly and I was also able to pass off a couple of instrumentation PEs that I needed to so that was good. It's amazing to look back to the first of the semester and see how much improvement I really have made. I never thought I would survive or get this far! Somehow everyone always makes it through though! I still have a lot of areas that I can improve in though...hopefully I don't lose it over the summer.

Today was great and I loved it. I got to work on a seven year old boy named Gage and he was a hoot. I barely got a chance to clean his teeth because he talked so much haha he was adorable though. I used him as my exam patient and I think overall it went really well. I didn't miss any spots and was able to pass off my diagnodent PE and do a sealant on one of his six year molars. Like I said in one of my previous posts, I would absolutely love to work in a pedo office! It would be way great times indeed!

Welp today was super unproductive....my patient that cancelled a week two weeks ago forgot to even show up this time and when he finally did he had a cold sore...great! I'm really hoping he's my class three, but who knows if I'll ever actually get to work on him! Please bless please bless! I was able to pass off my peer calculus PE at least so that was good. It's a good thing I have all my quads or I'd be in big trouble! I hate the fact that there's nothing you can do if a patient cancels and no one else can come in..extremely frustrating!

Today was a 1B and pretty easy. It's interesting to see the different attitudes people have about homecare. This lady said she doesn't floss because it hurts..haha...I told her that if she made a regular habit of it then it wouldn't hurt. As dental professionals, these things just seem so common sense to us, but we forget that most of the population has no idea how important doing simple things like flossing is.

So my patient cancelled on me today...that's cool. Luckily, I was able to get a class two off the resource list to come in and everything went smoothly from there. I was even able to get a few PAs done to put towards my requirements. It was a little difficult to communicate with my patient, since she only spoke spanish. The OHI was probably the most difficult part and I don't know how effective I was, but hopefully I made a bit of a difference!

Today I cleaned a three and five year old. The mother couldn't bring them until eight thirty so I was a little rushed. I learned today that even five year olds can have a lot of calculus. These were the first kids I've done so it was kind of fun. I could definitely see myself working in a pediatric dentist. Kids are great! Unfortunately I wasn't able to do any sealants, so hopefully they're comin' up.

Today there was a patient mix-up between Emily and I, so my patient came at the wrong time and ended up not showing. Luckily, while up at the front desk a lady walked in wanting to get her son in for a cleaning and he was with her so I was able to bring him into the clinic for a cleaning. He turned out to be borderline 1A/1B so I ended up counting him as a 1A, since I don't have any quads of that class yet. It was a good experience as far as charting and scaling went. He had a lot of build-up on his lower linguals and some really tenacious sheet calculus, but using my air helped a lot. He was a fun patient to work on.