air powder polish

Today was crazy we learned how to air powder polish and yeah I don't think I'll want salt for a long time it was gross. I liked learning how to do it and feel it can help the pt instead of rubber cup polishing. I thought it was funny how the powder got all over your face and it was starting to burn. We also had to pass off our dental screening PE and the verdict is still out as to how I did. I'm a little nervous about it. I think I did most things right but I did start to get a little confused. I worked on Whitney again and it was fun using the air powder polisher.

Practice Day #2

Today was great I really love practice days. I passed off both my intraoral PE and my OHI PE is was great. I feel like I'm finally getting more comfortable with using the correct angles. I tried the 204S on the premolars and professor Costly gave my a great way to angle for the mesial aspect! It felt really good to get a good angle. I really like the Nevi and feel very comfortable with it. I worked on Whitney today and she had great teeth and was a really good pt. It was I nice easy day where we could just practice. I think that the intra-oral camera was a cool way to show your pt something they cant see directly. I'm learning how to do a great OHI I feel like this is an important part for your pts that can often be skiped. I want to really be able to educate my pts in the future!

PT day

Today was really relaxing I was the pt all day! I felt like I could fall asleep! Sam worked on me and did an excellent job! I also passed off my universal PE but feel I could use a little more work on this area! I would like to feel more confident but I'm sure that will come with time and practice! While Sam was working on me she noticed that I had some areas with marginal gingivitis and I'm glad she told me so that I could work to keep those particular areas clean. I can really see the benefit to teaching your pt and actually showing them how to brush those areas!

Practice Day

Today was awesome we got to practice all day on each other. I worked on Sam and did almost everything we did health history's, charting, OHI, Dental screenings, treatment plans, disclosed and then got to practice our scaling! All of this was much needed It was nice to be able to put everything into a good working order. I really felt like I accomplished a lot today. It would be so nice if we had this much time every clinic. I passed off 3 PE and feel I did well and I'm getting more comfortable with anterior scaling but I need more work on the posterior. I found that it is really important to sit right my back and neck were killing me after 3 1/2 hrs being the operator! Over all it was a great day!

Dental screeing!

It was good to chart today Sarah hardly had any cavities and I was envious of her! I feel fairly comfortable with charting but would like to practice it some more. It is hard to see some of the composite if they are small. I got to practice my anterior scaling and feel like each time I practice I get better. I think I finally got the angles down. The posterior is another story though I still feel akward and can't wait for the day that I feel comfortable and confident with myself. I still wonder if maybe I'm doing it right! Hope I get it soon. I need practice practice oh and then some more practice!

Blue Teeth!

Today was so fun we got to disclose each other! Wow I had know idea I had so much plaque is really is a little crazy. I found that I'm brushing correctly but I need to brush for longer periods of time. It was good to actually do the PFI it made more sense to me once we did it in clinic. If was fun practicing the OHI and feel a little more prepared in that area.

Scaling

Today we learned how to scale and I had a really hard time keeping my stack together! I wanted to use my fingers to move up and down instead of my wrist! I feel like I need a hole lot more practice and then i might get it. I had a lot of fun but wish that I did a little better with the lingual aspect. I hope I van practice a little more this week. I also feel like I need to review all of out other pe's like probing. If only there was more time in the day!