This blog is reedikalus!

I no longer can access this site from school so I'll do all my bloging from home. Thursday the 25th was a a better than usual day. Patricio showed up slightly late (made me nervous for another no show) and I was eager to start on him. I only wish I could do the anesthesia on the lower quads where I needed to start. Prof. Alexander did the anesthesia on him.
I managed to do a fairly good job of cleaning some deep pockets (6+) and only two spots were found at the scale check. Prof. Alexander's tips on reaching these areas was very helpful. I need to start using my loops to see these deposits better (my eyes are not what they used to be).
Consulting with our Midtown Dentist, it was decided to do endo on #25 as it was sensitive to la frio y caliente. We still placed Arestin (minoclcline; I will not forget) 23-26 and passed off the PE (I think?). It is so easy to do and I look forward to seeing the probing results in a few weeks.
My second patient was a 1B but I still needed one so no problem. She arrived 15 minutes late and after spening an inordinate amouont of time with the preliminaries and probing she anounced that she need to be in Layton BY 3 Pm and would that be a problem. We still took x-rays and then got started right at 2 pm. I think I work best under pressure as Prof Costly couldn't find any calc at the check. I was a bit more agressive with the ultra, especially on the lower anteriors and upper buccal molar area reducing my need to do agressive hand scaling. Practing on my grasp; I'm still too heavy with my explorer. Passed off the accessory fulcrum PE on her. I managed to get all the scaling, polishing and fluoride done in 45 minutes. Need to expidite the paper work.

Too easy

Dennis winters was an easy 1b no real problems here. I get to talking and forget the time and I could be doing a pe or two. All my patients from here on are going to be exams so I should get the requiremens done soon.

Overbook.com

Today I had both Carolyn and Kerry Manning come in for morning appointments. I thought that two class 5's couldn't be that difficult. Mr. Mannings heallth history was a mile long with at least 8 meds to look up and several more listed on the HHX from before that he no longer used. Couldn't just copy the HHX info from before. Dena's patient noshowed so she took Mrs. Manning. I passed off my ultasonic PE.

In the afternoon my second patient who was coming in for a pano and 4 pa's of her 3rds cancelled. She said she was able to get into Midtown on Tuesday the 9th although I did not see an entry in her chart. My regular afternoon patient was a class three with a perio abcess on # 25. We anesthitized him with a IA block? and by infiltration around the suspect tooth after Dr. Hopkins set the treatment. It was really interesting with the cleaning out of the pocket. Lots of purulence and a bit of curettage taking place as well. I also experienced a 12 mm pocket that was confirmed by Prof. Alexander. Like the energizer bunny; it keeps going and going and going.... Patient left with peridex to keep the debris out of the pockets and upon his return on the 25th I'll start with a quad at a time until done.

A Day Of No Shows

Well this has got to be a record...Three no shows. I did walk to the library and make a total nusiance of myself among the patrons there, so it wasn't a total waste. I thought that the math lab might be a good hunting ground for potential patients; no one there at all. Criused through the Shepard Building and bothered two girls eating breakfast. "You wanna sit in a dental chair for two hours while I clean your teeth?" Or something to that effect. "I'm taking names for future patients". Another girl said she would love to have her teeth cleaned and had time right then and there. She left to get her checkbook from her car and I never saw her again. Buyers remorse. I'm going to overbook as much as possible from here on. Even if it's just for x-rays.