To much stress

There is too much stress that I have coming toward me. Anticipation of boards sucks!!! I totally can't wait till they are over, but there is a big hurtle to get over till the finish line. Only one more semester. I can do it.

My last va day

My last va day is coming up. I am so excited. Also I am excited to be done with classes. I can not concentrate because I am getting reved up about boards. I just want to study for those and not class any more. I have a plan to study with Tandem every Monday after classses and every Friday when there are no classes.

preparing for the last day

I have all of my requirements, so the last day of clinic i have put two people down to just take xrays and probe, and right now i forgot what that word is. Oh well. I am hoping that one of my friends that has never had his teeth cleaned can be my board patient, i guess we will find out the last day of clinic. I hope he is because I have been planning on that for months.

So close

So close to the end of this semester I can taste it. Only one more clinic session and one more VA day. I really feels like this semester just started. I don't understand where the time goes. I am getting scared for boards though. I will start studying for boards over christmas break with tandem.

My patient cancelled

I have had very few times of having a pt cancell on me. She was a quad of a class 3. I had to find a patient at lunch and he turned out to be a class two. I feels like any thing I see besides a class 3 is a complete and utter waste of time!!!! All I want in class 3's. But luckily I did find a lady in the bathroom today that has never been in for a cleaning and put her on my schedual. yea

Yea another 3

So I have all of my exam quads of a 3, but I am thinking ahead to next semester. We need tons. I got one quad of a three today, couldn't be more happy about it. My next appt no showed though, wish I could be working on someone right now. I think that I have a revelation today that I do not mind doing xrays. I was afraid of them before and thought I had a disadvantage to everyone because they had all taken them before being assistant. But I kind of like them now.

Va

Today was a good experience. I was probing a gentleman with no significant pockets. Took xrays and found calc on the distal of his 2nd molar (didn't have his 3rd). Cleaned it and then the probe went down into an 8-9 mm pocket-wooh, surprize. I was able to place some arestin in there. Found out that the tip of arestin is fat and doesn't easily go into the deep pocket. Had to use another cartriage of it and try again. Now i know to squeeze the tip.

That was my last class 3 exam

yea, now I have all my class three exams done. But I still need to find more class threes to do next semester and multipule board patients. Yikes! I need 6 patients that are class three because I have already seen 3. But that seems like a huge undertaking. I don't know where I will find them but they are out there. I will do a sceening on two patients the last day in clinic this semester to help me.

MOre PE's

Yea, I did two more PE's today that were due this semester. Blood Glucose and Diagnodent. Those ones were stressful to me for some reason. I'm glad they are over. I did one more quad of my class three exam. And a full mouth of a class 5. I only need one more quad of a class 3 exam and I will be golden, or maybe that was the last one I need to check....

Last clinic

I had a question that I need to ask and I want to write it down before I forget it. For anesthesia boards am I supposed to say "aspirating", then wait how long to say "negative aspiration"? Immediately after or wait until the examiners say "Proceed". Perry said just wait, but does that mean before or after I say "negative aspiration"?

sitting pretty

I believe to have all of my requirements right now. Not to say that I am done. My patients still have to show up so that I can clean them and get their quads counted. But if they do than I will have all my requirements! I was so unlucky last year that I definantly deserve this good fortune. Hopefully my lucky street doesn't end!

First injections

I did my first injections on my patient. it was a little scary up until I did them because she tells me everytime she comes in that if she sees a needle she will punch me. So I covered the needle and had her close her eyes until I was finished. It was great. I want to do more now. I did an IA and long buccal. It couldn't have gone smoother!

Mock boards

Mockboards is over and it went well. I got a 77 which is passing. Would have got higher but i handed in the wrong x-rays (the one without my bitewings). I kept the ones with my bitewings. Guess bringing her back in an extra day to take her PA's becaue no one told me too was for nothing. Oh well, Alls well that ends well. I did learn alot and that is all that matters.

Injections

I just typed this and thought I posted it but it did not and erased it all. The moral of the previously typed story was that we are allowed to do injections on patients now and I will because all of my patients are class 2, 3, and 4. So yippy! The only problem I have now is remembering where my fingers go for retrations of fulcum. I think it is thumb for IA and straight index finger for PSA (with an X across the face)

That last post was off

I am starting to like clinic better now. I think it's because I had a really good day today. I finished 1 quad of a class 4, and one quad of a class 2 exam (with a full mouth series that I didn't have to pay for). The best part was that Perry help me today. I like it when he is constantly quizing you to prepare you for boards, and that he sits with you and helps you find/get off the calculus that you left. I am gunna be bummed when he is not my instructor any more.

How it'

Meet my goal today

I meet my goal today of declairing a class two as an exam. It has been the first two I have seen, so of course I would. But now I believe to have all of my exams declaired. Now I just have to hope that these people show up so that I can finish their cleanings. My next goal is to find more class 5's. I need to see three more.

Back to School

This is the second clinic session we have had, and I must say it is going better then I had anticipated. I got two quads of a class III, and two of a IV! how exciting. And I have my mock board pt! I am getting lucky this year because last year I was extremely unlucky and had to add a stressfull clinic session the last day. I have to find more II's and IV's and declair both as exams, that is my goal.

Last blog of the year

We had our last class from Perry. I will miss that class. He is a great teacher and fun to learn from. I am actually sad that the first year is almost over, but excited to be able to sleep again. Lets just cross our fingers that both of my pts show up tomarrow.

Only one more day of clinic

My first year is almost over. There has been many points during the past few weeks when I have been totally relaxed and not stressed out because I had everything perfectly in order to finish the semester. Then something would happen and my pt would cancel and it fellt like a laso suddenly sinched around my feet and started dragging me back to the stressful chaotic world of Dental hygiene. But I think i am at a point right now where I will not be stressed out agian. I am almost done!

I have to double up again

I don't want to but I have to double up again on Monday. My patient bailed on me for tomarrow, so I asked If he could just make his schedualed second appointment a super long day. So yea, no lab tomarrow, which means I didn't have any lab this week. It was kind of nice! I am getting alot of homework done, so I'll take the hygiene test early. But boo for doubling up on monday!

The end is coming!!

I only have two weeks left of my first semester. It has gone by so fast and I am so excited to finally get my life back for the summer. I will be able to sleep again, cuddle with my husband play with my kids, keep my temper, cleaning my house, save some money, not be stressed out beyond belief. I am so excited for the summer!

The class III experience

It was a very good learning experience with my class three. Her calculus was so hard it was like cement. I used my universal ultra sonic on almost full blast coming at it from every direction, even doing the jackhammer with the tip on it and it was not budging! Instructor Hafen said that she had never seen that tenatious of calculus in her 25 yrs of Hygiene. I just hope that I don't get that tenatious of calculus with my board pt.

Senior took boards

The seniors took their boards today. One year from this date we will take ours. I am actually excited. Excited for the seniors excited for myself. It will be quit and experience and will be good to get all that knowledge. My group today also got onboard with Prof. Hansen to do a cool project with 3-D vitual reality imagaing for learning how to use anesthesia. It looks so cool!

class III

I worked on a class three for the first time. It was not as scarry as I thought. I learned how to use the gracy's. The 13/14 works on the distal. Start from the line angle and work back to the distal portion of the tooth. The Mesial instument works more area of the tooth. Start with a horizontal stroke from the distal line angle forward. Oblique at mesial line angle and work it mesially until your are at the straight interproximal mesial doing a vertical. Same with an ultra sonic. Horizontal stroke on linual or facial, oblique at a line angle, working into a vertical at interproximal.

Stress

Katee said it best when she was describing our experience. On sunday your anticipatory stress level rises to a critical level because you can see the whirlwind, you can feel the chaos and helplessness, because when monday hits you have to jump into the whirlwind and ride the ride until friday when you can jump out and finally let your stress level fall and take a breath and organize yourself. I feel the exact same way. I really do not think that I will get all of my requirements do either.

I got a class II

I have had all one B's up till this point with only it seems like a few weeks left in the semester, but the other day I got my class II and was so happy!!! I am feeling more confident and comfortable now. I still don't think I will finish all of my requirements by the end of the semester, but that is ok I will finish them when I can and push it!! My goal is to finish a 1B is one appt. and I will get that chance after the spring break the first monday back!

Worst day ever!!!

I failed an entire patient experience! One tiny little move cost me points for an entire patient! I forgot to have my HHXrx signed before I began on my patient. I had just sat down and had only started on my first tooth in the entire mouth when my instructor came over and in a very derogitory way exclaimed that I didn't have my HHX rx signed. Then she went and told professor Costley and came back and told me I failed the whole patient experience and that I was going to have points taken off my grade. I felt like crying the whole rest of the clinic but couldn't because it was the very beginning and didn't want to cry on my patient as I was cleaning her teeth.

It is so unfair because at least two other of my friends have told me that they hadn't gotten theirs signed before, even till the very end after they were done with the patients and when their instructors found out they said, "at least this wasn't and exam" and then didn't fail them. I had just begun! This day is so frustrating, I hate this

The best day

I hate the fact that we are on a rollercoaster. On Monday I had the worst day and today I had the best day! Sarah Wood was opposite of me, she had her bad day today, sad! I had a new patient today and I did a full mouth series with conventional film. 40 peices of film to handle and mount wonderfully! And guess what, no retakes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is awesome for those of you that don't know, I'm super cool! I think that I will be able to do the phosphor plates next time to and be ok, I think my big mistake will be a learning experience in the end!

Nail bitter

This whole semester so far(it's only been one week) has felt like two months because of all the stress of finding appointments and junk like confirming and getting HHXs to people in time to get them back. It is a lot. My goal is to get all of my HHx's out to the people that that need them for January this week! That will make my life a little easier I think!

My reason for learning

My two kids Nate and Syd are the reason that I continue on in this program, even though it's hard. To show them later in life that I can do hard work and that they should too! Aren't they cute!!!

Horrible, no good, very bad day

I have never heard so many of my fellow students say that they just want to quit because they don't think they can hack it!. Everyone had a horrible day they first day with patients. I know 4 horror stories off the top of my head that went wrong with x-rays! Me being one of them. The phosphor plates are stupid and I shouldn't have done a full mouth series with them because half of them got deleted! Hailey had to take a pano 3 times because Mr. Solomon put the wrong film where the normal pano film went. And Casey had to retake 3 of 4 bwx. This day sucks!!!!!!!!

First day of second semester

Today was great we learned about our Gracys (there are three that we have) and the ultrasonic. It was so much fun to use the Gracys I don't know why! Maybe because I feel everything that I have learned about intrumeting coming back to me and I am begining to do things without thinking. Yippy. Wensday is our first patient day and believe it or not I am not nervous! We will see what comes. My goal is to speed through probing