A Very Good Day!

Today was a very good day :) I still feel like im the slowest one out there but I know each clinic im improving and getting faster so that makes me happy. Today my patient was a 16 year old boy and he was pretty much like a statue so I felt like I talked a lot to myself :) but he was very patient and did a good job sitting there for such a long time! Im excited that im starting to get the hang of all this and that today was such a better day for me than Monday!

A Very Bad Day! (Just one a semester right?)

Today was a very very bad day for me :( If it weren't for my very understanding patient and Instructor Demings (shes so awesome!), I would have cried my eyeballs out! The day started out pretty bad, and it was almost one thing after another that seemed to get worse. Thank goodness we have the rest of the semester to improve :)

The Slow Poke

Today was the first day back with a new patient. It was actually not as bad as i had envisioned it going. I was going to have my mom come in today, but instead got my brother :) I knew he would be an easy patient so i treatment planned getting two quads done today but only got to one. Guess i need to pick up the pace cuz i read on other blogs that they finished four!!! Practice makes perfect!

Spring Semester Day #1

Today was the first day back! I was a little nervous about coming back because i was afraid after that long break that i was going to forget everything. I think i still need more refreshing but I'm sure I'll do fine :) We learned about the TalEval system in a little more detail and I'm super excited to be doing it. I'm a little nervous for Wednesday, but thank goodness its just my mother and she will love me no matter what!

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!