Another Class 1B

I have finished my second class 1B patient for the semester... YEAH!!! I feel pretty good about that. I could definitely feel spots with calculus and I felt like I knew what I was doing for the most part. There was a LOT of bleeding which kind of freaked me out at first because I thought I was tearing my patients gums apart. But when I got my scale check done, McConaughey commented that she noticed that the tissues bled very easily and that she might recommend the patient use Prevident. I'm looking forward to seeing my first Class 1A patient on Wednesday. Everyone says it should be easy but we'll see...

Slow like a turtle

How am I ever going to get done with a patient in one appointment? I don't believe that it is really possible. I saw my mom in clinic on Wednesday and I had already taken x-rays on her in radiology. Given that I had that advantage I thought "No problemo, I will get her finished up, right?" Wrong! I didn't even start scaling. I think I spent the whole time probing. I honestly don't know what else I did. Oh well, I guess I'll finish her next time. Otherwise the semester is just going right along. My goal is to do the explorer PE next clinic. I just feel so intimidated by all this stuff so far like the PE's, the exams, all the requirements. I totally understand why everyone says this is the worst semester!

Like Harrison Ford I'm getting Frantic!

(To quote the Barenaked Ladies)... Anyway, I am good at making bad jokes! So speaking of frantic, today clinic was incredibly stressful for me. What I learned from clinic today is that if you don't start out calm and collected, your day is shot! First of all, I got a little bit of a late start and from then on it was crazy. I was working on a good friend so that helped me to stay a little bit calmer. I think my goal for the remainder of the semester is to be in clinic at least 15-20 min. early to be sure that I will have more than enough time to get set up and collected.