Stupid Blog!
Everytime I try to get into my blog I have to enter a new password or it says my e-mail is wrong. Go figure. Yesterday, no one fainted at the VA and now I'm way over on my requirements except for three that I need for PE's. I'll do what I can to compete them next week as todays patient's were all kids. Boy what fun; rug rats, curtain climbers, small annoyances. My son outgrew the backseat of my Porsche so I had to sell it. The promissed Mustang never materialized. See where I'm coming from? I'm not real fond of kids, but it is part of the job. I did study up a little on tooth eruption dates though. Megan the eight yearold was as well as her sister Alexis were textbook right on time. Megan was missing her thirds. Afternoon I had another 8 year old with a bit more calculus. Amazing how much they can build up at such a young age. Pretty productive two days however with a gain of 22 quads.

I've had two very good days with three patients at the Va and two at WSU. Everyone showed up as expected for a change. I'm looking forward to finishing all my requirements and my neighbors kids are on my ist to see at 8 am on the 29th. I also had another experience with anesthesia so that make three witht the two from the VA . I like it! Caused a little tissue damage onone patient. I was in a bit of a hurry and need to watch my angulation. Other than that all is well. Two more VAdays and Two more WSU days.

Pretty fruitful day

Morning was ok, seemed more like busy work and something that we should have gone over long brfor this. Why don't we practice more of this in additional clinics? A practical application/learning experience would be beneficial. The afternoon patient I have has been a good experience for me having done just one quad at a time. I hope to do the last two quads this next appointment and finish him up. I guess I will be able to do the anesthesia on him at that time. He returns next week.

Mockboard day

I wasn't sure how I might do, but in the end I did prety good. Scored 82% with a bit of confusion on the paperwork. I can see that I need to use my loops when checking the probe depths and rexamine my ability to see and record recession. I left three spots of calculus on the distals of 1/2/3 even though I really went to town on them. I just didn't go deep enough on 1 and on 2 and 3 I did not adapt the scaler far enough interproximately to make contact. Timewise I was ok as I was very agressive with the ultra sonic and large ridged scalers. Didn't use the Nebraska and Mt. Jack very much as the calc was substantial and those light instruments wouldn't do the job. I'm sorry I wasn't of much use with Sarah's digital x-rays. I havn't asked her how she scored. I also checked her patient and it was pretty difficult to say if there was calc or not. Dr, Naylor and I did agree on a couple of spots though.