9/20/07 Clinic

Today I saw my class 4 patient again this morning and I saw a class 5 this afternoon. My class 4 I only cleaned one quad and it took me 2 hours to clean it. It was exhausting and I was very worn out by the end of the appt and not sure that I had the energy to see another patient this afternoon. My afternoon, class 5 patient was very nice and a not very difficult one. I got her done early and it was another good experience.

9/13/06 Clinic

Today in clinic I saw my dad this morning and a spanish speaking patient in the afternoon. My dad of course was a good patient and he ended up being a class 2 patient for me because he had bone loss which is something that we couldn't see last time since we weren't able to take x-rays at the last appt. My afternoon patient was, let's say very difficult. I was hoping that he would be a class 3 and he turned out to be a class 4 patient and a very difficult class for at that. He had a lot of mobility and furcation involvement and a lot of calculus. We got started on tooth #30 because it had an abcess and needed to get taken care of asap. It was a good experience and I learned a lot.

9/6/07 Clinic

Today I saw a 1A and a 1B patient. It was good to start a little easier and get back into the groove of things but I wish that I might have been able to find some higher classified patients to come in but I am having a hard time finding patients. I found that everything pretty much came right back to me and I could remember how to do everything from last semester that I was worried about remembering. Overall it was a good day.