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.