one more clinic day

Today I was supposed to finish my last 3 quads of a class 2 and my patient no showed. At least I have 2 class 2 patients scheduled for Wednesday, so if they both show I will have more than enough done for my requirements. Hopefully at least 1 of them shows. I'm so glad the semester is almost done. I need the break.

Almost finished

Today I finished my last 1A patient and my sealants, I also was able to finish the mom of my 1A who was just a 1B. I feel pretty good about how things are going, but I wish I could just find my last 2 quads of a class 3. I honestly feel like I have tapped all my resources. Now I don't what else to do except hope that something will come up. We'll just have to wait and see.

Gettting closer

Today was a much better day. I finished my patient that was 2 quads of a class 2 and 2 of a 3. I got her completely done which was surprising becuase I didn't think I would be able to. I missed a ton of spots, but it was a good learning experience. I need one more class 3 patients.

This stinks!!

Today was horrible! I had 3 patients scheduled. 2 for sealants and 1 to finish a cleaning. All of them no showed on me. They didn't even call to cancel. It is so frustrating because I was feeling OK about getting all of my requirements done, but now I don't know if I'm going to make it. All the second years always tell us that everyone always get their requirements in, but seriously there are a bunch of us that aren't very close, and the second years are even still asking us for class 3 patients. This is so hard, I'm just trying not to get stressed about it because I'm doing all that I can do.

Class 3

Yeah! today my patient was 3 quads of a 2 and 1 quad of a 3, possibly when she comes back my instructor said she'll check and maybe give me 2 quads of a 3. At least I'm getting somewhere. I'm so close to having all my requirements, but I also am very limited on time to finish. I know I'll get it done, I just need 1 more class 3 patient. I'm excited to clean this patient just so that I can get some experience with it. She is an interesting person though because she is very holistic. She doesn't want nitrous, anesthetic, fluoride, toothpast. She will be hard to convince that she needs to do something about her perio disease. I need to look into some of the holistic stuff to see if there is anything I can recommend that may help with her perio. She just keeps telling me that she is very healthy. We'll have to see what I can find out.