Last VA with the best group! and good times to come

Aw today should be a sad day ... because I no longer have my awesome VA group that builds me up and makes me smile...

Patients weren't that great today even all class 5's.... like I need anymore of those but it was good conversation. I always hear the best stories and the nicest things from my patients that it makes me feel really accomplished when I'm there. After patients we all went out to lunch! which was funny because e all decided on a place to eat and then totally split up and got what we wanted from different places. Ha Ha Ashley and I had a great time downing popcorn and water at Wingers while we were waiting for our food to go. :) It was a good day .... lol until my husband got off work late and I ended up having to wait at the VA until 5:30pm lol and being engulfed by strange elderly men who insisted on talking to me until my husband got there lol. Oh my it was interesting. ...

Oh well Thanksgiving break is upon us ! and as a great surprise I have received my LOUPES! Talk about early Christmas but I am way stroked! I've been wearing them all over the house anticipating thursday wear I can use them on my final patients of the semester! WOOT WOOT! Well I better get to enjoying my self I have alot of Thanksgivings to attend and I need to prepare to be stuffed ! Hope every one has a fabulous holiday! And Thank you VA Girls for all the good times!

:) Later

Thanksgiving break and the end of semester finale

Well Clinic the other day wasn't my greatest because on my class 5 there was a huge pocket that I just happened to not catch and missed the piece of calculus all the way down in the furcation. GRR! will I ever not miss one spot... at least it wasn't like last week where I had a class 3 with the most tenacious calculus I've ever seen! and I missed the whole quad..... and that was due to my lack of time and my pride telling me to do the whole mouth before even getting checked... ugh ... when will I learn. The lesson to be learned from this is definitely feel before check and be sure to get that extra turn while scaling the distal line angle or mesal line angle. And besure to not drop you 15/16 gracey before you scale a three lol.

 So I'm happy to report the quiz is done today and I am enjoying relaxing for my Friday afternoon. Yes, I will start studying immediately tomorrow for dental materials so I might happen to take the test sooner than anticipated. But for now I'm at work and I get to make blankets tonight for my new little cousin and I'm happy to have a break :)

I'm honestly so in shock of how fast the semester has flown by and I'm excited to go to the VA right before Thanksgiving! I really enjoying helping the people there, they work so hard to serve our country and I'm just honored to be a part of that organization. I'm really Thankful to be in this program aswell, I believe it has really changed my life for the better and I hope I can walk away a strong force in research and clinical care for patients.  That is all for now ... until next time :)

Almost there and it feels great!

I can't believe it I graduate in just a few short months for the Weber State Dental Hygiene Program... all I can say is WOW! I think it's finally coming to life my dreams and goals, after I got married I think I was a little in shock because I knew that was once step closer to the rest of my life and now here it is I will finally be able to travel and see new places and do the humanitarian work I've always wanted to do. It's a little surprising that everything is falling into place because I know there were a lot of times I felt not good enough or smart enough to accomplish some of the things I've done in my life. I'm just so blessed and happy to be living my life and enjoying all the new things that much bachelors is going to open up for me. I can't say I wasn't sad after senior pictures the other day because I realized I'm going to miss all these girls so much! and I've made some really great friendships and I'm sad that it's almost over. Well that was just a short thought of mine that I wanted to share and a special shout out to the Weber State 2011-2012 DH girls. I know that this will be the best and final semester! Woot! :)

Curse you anteriors!!!

So lately anteriors has been my weak link! I'm trying my best and I swear I'm doing the best I can but it seems like that spot always gets me. I have now given the explorer the back seat to my air and water. I feel like I get a lot more done and I'm more efficient the more air I spray! It definitely helped me today on my second patient so I'm banking on it from now on.
Today was alright I guess patient wise I finished my mockboard and saw a huge change in tissue as well as my class 2 patient who did not speak a word of english. In the afternoon I did my best to pass off as many PE's as possible but with no success since I guess my patient didn't have a need for the diagnodent .... I don't think that's right but you go with the flow I guess. Anyways at the last part of my day when my patient had left I realized that I now need to schedule two a days and searched for people to help. In my luck Karlie had some sealants to spare and I got to do 4 of them. So I guess it all kinda worked out, until next time ....

Clinic bust!!!

So here I am conquring the world with my class two in the morning! I'm scaling I'm using N2O I'm teaching, I'm passing off PE's, and I only missed two spots in the whole mouth, I felt like I was on top of the world and then... came the afternoon. ....

My patient came in and I was looking forward to an easy class 5 and to get a little bit of a break but I happened to check her blood glucose and just like that I couldn't see my patient. Not only was her fasting glucose 170 but when I had the oppertunity to check she was 243! Yikes! We can only treat people like this in emergency situations I was worried that I wasn't going to get the requirements done before the semester because I'm completely booked. Well as it turns out I needed one more 1B and one of the translators happened to be there. I grabbed her as fast as I could and got her in my chair. It didn't take long and I got 4BWX but when I got my scale check.... I MISSED ALL THE LOWER ANTERIORS! Gees can you believe this? Well sheet calculus is the devil and that ruined my perfect day... I guess better luck next time

Mockboards OHHH YEA....

Well after I had nightmares all last night, that I thought would never have I woke up for mockboards in kind of a rush. I got there and I do have to say the paper work was a little flustering but MY PATIENT SHOWED UP! Yes every one that was the highlight of my day lol. I have had the worst luck this semester and to finally have something go smoothly was awesome. That was until I cleaned my patient and saw her gums were rampaged!!!! YIKES! I was in such a panic I have never had a patient look this beat up after a cleaning. So my job soon went from Calculus removal to cleaning up that papilla. After I spent my last half hour  making her not bleed I gave her to the deciding factor of the examiners. Well turns out I did everything I was supposed to do and that some times that tissue is so trapped by that calculus deposit that by the time you clean it, it's unavoidable damage. Professor Alexander just explained to me to place a comment to the examiners in the comments box "tissue friable." Man that put my terror to ease and I was able to buy my patient perioguard and send her on her way. So I guess that day of fluster turned out to be one of my best clinic days! Funny how things work out lol Congrats to all the WSU DH students who did their best which we all know they did no matter the score!

Epic Fail...

You know those days when you have taken every step to schedule 4 people for screenings, planned your precious clinic time and knew everything was going to be alright and then BAM! ...... no one shows up..... Alas this has been the third time that my patients have decided to not come in, probably they couldn't understand or the translator didn't stress it enough but wow what an awful streak I have had. I try every time I have a translator by my chair to teach me different phases in different languages, with no success sadly. It's like my mind has closed off and can't incorporate any other words or phrases.

So I guess the only thing I have to report about today was I cleaned my first 1A of the year. She was the cutest little girl and she did such a good job but I thought it was really odd that her mom didn't want to come back with either one of her kids. I spent most of the appointment running back and forth asking her questions and explaining brushing and flossing. Her little girl thought mouth wash was good for some times when they didn't have time to brush their teeth. I explained that they need to be keeping their mouths really clean because her new teeth were coming in and we want to have no complications with her baby teeth and cavities. I definitely told their mom to please bring them into the dentist and stressed that baby teeth are important to keep and need to be watched and checked regularly. Her mom wasn't too concerned but I again stressed seeing their dentist. No scaling advice for her.... my instructor just reminded me to remember that even kids can have calculus.... which she did...

Well another wasted day I think in the future I'm scheduling two people at a time maybe that will work.
Until next time ...