if you thought i hated xrays before, now i really hate them

So hubby came back again today, cold sore is gone thank goodness, and I attempted a FMX using the phosher plates. So i was so nervouse about working the computer and the plates so i will blame it on that for now but my xrays sucked. I only retook 4 cause professor snow made the others work, but really katee are you serious? the occlusal plane on every single picture was completely off and my contacts sucked it up BIG time, what the? did i not take an entire semester of learning how to take these idiot things? and i could've sworn that the rin kit was designed that even idiots could get a good film, and even with them i couldn't get a good xray! but congrats to kelsey for only having 1 retake on her full mouth, maybe you could teach me sometime. Anyways, I got the full mouth done in 35 minutes, that could also be the problem I was trying to be so fast (not like 35 min. is fast but I was rushing) deep breaths and quality films is my goal for next time. But the good news is, is kyle is finally done!! After 3 long appointments, i finally got him all scaled! So another goal is to work on my spead on probing, hopefully i can invest in the loops and that will help on time.

JUST MY FREAKING LUCK

So my husband had a cold sore all weekend and I made sure he caked that sucker with medication day and night and he was even taking oral medication to get rid of it in time for his appointment monday. So, sunday night it looked great, scabbed up and looking good. So he shows up for clinic, I seat him, decide I better have Costley take a look at the cold sore before I get started, and she bared tidings of great joy, it went something like this, "He needs to reschedule"...what? Oh don't you worry, sometime between the time I said good night to him the night before, and the time he arrived at clinic, a new piece of crap cold sore had developed. So, I very calmly, proceeded to bite my cheek to preoccupy myself so I wouldn't burst into tears, walked him out of the clinic, and very casually walked around the corner and started crying. What do I do? No patient? So I call everyone I know and most people wouldn't answer and didn't leave a message, cause lets face it, they needed to be here a HALF HOUR AGO! So I get a hold of my daddio and I'm holding it together and ask him what he has going and he says he has a bunch of meetings, so I start crying and tell him i need a pt. and he cancels all his appointments and makes it by 9:00! HERO OF THE DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! I ended up getting his OD done and OHI and, he turned out to be a class 5!! Nice. He will be back next week to finish up. Hellish day turned good. thanks dad!

Nice and smooth

So today went perfectly. I felt so good about it. My pt. was my sister, who was a class 1B thankfully, and she was so easy to probe, chart and scale. She maybe had 3 areas where I actually needed to scale. So I was able to get her entire appointment done, beginning to end. I really needed this after my husbands appointment last time I was wondering if I even knew what the heck I was doing. Just goes to show each apt. will be different and you will learn new things for each.

Class 2 LR Quad

So my husband was my patient today, I was so happy he came cause I am soooooooooooooo scared to work on a stranger. So before he got there, I was like, maybe I'll have time to scale his whole mouth and take a full mouth radiographs? It was a returning visit so i thought i could do it. Well, i was very mistaken. Let's just say it took me 47 min. to finish ONE QUAD!!!! You heard me right, one quad. I used the ultra sonic so that was fun but awquard. Still need to practice with that. I missed 3 spots subgingivly and 2 spots supra and i actually felt good about that considering how much freaking calculus he had. So, move forward, learn from it and move forward. My goal for his next visit, finish 2 quads!

welcome back

back to school. break was pure heaven. just not having to study or take tests made the break amazing. so first clinic day felt good. felt good to be back. we learned how to use the ultra sonic scaler and i have been looking forward to using it so it didn't let me down, it was fun. i'm excited to try it on my hubby tomorrow. he's probably not, considering we got to practice it for about ten minutes, but hey, apparently that's all we need. we also learned about all the different gracey's so that was good info, good instruments that make our jobs easier. always nice. am i scared for patient's you ask? hell yes. my goal is to remain calm. consistantly use my oils and calm down.