LAST DAY OF CLINIC!!!

Today was the last day of clinic!!! We learned all about how to be CA's for next semester. We also had the chance to write evaluations on how we felt our first patient day went! At the end we had to take a clinic manual test, and I hope I did well :) YAY! Next semseter here we come...

Step Two....Work On Real People

Today I was an actual hygienist working on an actual pt :) My dad was nice enough to drive up from Salt Lake to see me. Things went smooth for the most part, the only catastrophe was when i went to take x-rays! I had to retake my two premolar shots and when i went to put my retakes into the scan-x machine, i put them in at the same time :( It took one of my retakes but wiped the other one clean, and I couldn't re expose my pt so i was just short one good x-ray. Oh well, you live and learn right? Other than that I LOVED it, I want to do it all over again :)

Patient Day #2

Today was great! I didn't really have a ton of yuck on my teeth and Michelle is such an awesome clinician that we were done about 2 in the afternoon. Michelle was so nice to let me have more practice time on her that she let me work for a few min. on her mouth :) it was a great day!

LAST PE PASSOFF!!!!

Today i passed of my last PE! It was sharpening and it was supper easy :) I am so excited for this semester school work to be over, but i wish we could continue to go to clinic through the break. Im nervous that i will be rusty when i return and I still want a ton more practice! Im sure it will be fine but im just getting a little anxious :) I realized that next time I have a pt in my chair it will be my first pt. YAY!

Mock Pt. Day #2....(I'm So Sorry Michelle)

Today was kinda a wreck for me! On one hand I was so grateful for this mock pt day, but on the other hand, I felt like it was more of a learning day. I wanted so badly and I thought I was prepared to just have instructors help me in a few areas, but instead I was needing help on almost everywhere in the mouth. I was a little disappointed in myself. I am truly grateful that I was able to practice on a peer, but I'm more nervous than i was before to work on an actual patient and I'm double guessing myself if im even ready.

Mock Pt. Day #1....(Good Luck Michelle)

Today was the first real run through for how to do everything! I read in my clinic manual last night so that I could review everything and I felt ready for today! I felt it went ok, there were silly little things I forgot but it was mainly because I was a little nervous, but overall, my pt. survived and so did I :)

Sharp...Sharper...Sharpest!

Today we learned how to sharpen our instruments! It was helpful that we had little sheets showing us the angles that we needed to hold our instrument and the angle we needed to move the stone. It was not as hard as I thought it would be because I felt that I understood how to check for dullness and use light to see if I had sharpened it enough :)

Seal em up ;)

Today we did sealants on each other and I was working with both Brooke and Kelsey! They both did a sealant on me and I got to do one on Brooke! It was a ton of fun and I wished I had more time to practice sealants.