Sealants!!!!

Today in clinic we learned how to do sealants and we got to do some on each other for free! We also practiced polishing.  Today was a good day of clinic and lots of fun. 

Air powder polish, selective polish, and Fluoride Varnish application

Well today was a lot of fun... and messy!  It was the first time I've ever used the air powder polisher and watch out that stuff has a mind of its own.  I think I sprayed more water out of megan's mouth than in it.  Sorry meg. :)  We also polished and used varnish.  The varnish stuff is nasty feeling! It's still on my teeth, 4 hrs seems way to long to leave this stuff on, well I guess we have to experience it all before we do it on our pt's.  HaHa. Well see ya all tomorrow!

Treatment Planning

today in clinic was very chill and fun. We were able to practice anything we wanted on each other.  Also we passed off  P.E.'s and learned about treatment planning and how to enter them into the computer.  Well everyone have a great day and study hard for our test.

Practice,practice,practice!!

Today was another pt. practice day, and we also passed off some P.E.'s  I really like these practice days because I feel like I'm getting the flow of everything a little better.  hope we can continue doing this!  We talked a little bit about our OHI kits and I realized I should prob. get started on that.  It's crazy how the semester is almost over it feels like it went by so fast.  Well everyone have a good night studying for our exam in the morning.  See ya all tomorrow!

Patient practice day!

Today was really fun... we got to go from start to finish with a whole appointment.  We started out by reviewing the health history.  Then we did a extra and intra oral exam.  Then probed a quad and had the professor come check it off.  Then we did our OHI, used disclosing agent and educated our pt. on home care.  Then we practiced scaling. In the end we charted everything and cleaned up.  It was a great learning day and I was very happy we did this.  Thanks everyone for all the help today! Have a great night studying our skulls! See ya in the morning! :0)

Screening!

Today in clinic we talked about charting all the patients cavities, fillings, missing teeth, and a lot of other things.  My patients... was boring because she only had two fillings and some sealants.  Not much going on in her mouth!  HAHA Well I really like wed. clinic I feel like I learn a lot and the instructors have great advice! Thanks for the help! Have a great day everyone

Brush, Brush, Brush, and Dont Forget to Floss!

Today in Clinic we were able to use disclosing agent and see where we didn't brush as good, then educate each other on brushing and flossing better.  We also were able to pass off P.E's and practice scaling.  I feel like everything is coming together so much better and it's a great feeling!  Everyone have a great day studying for radiology! See ya tomorrow! 

Curet Scalers

Today in clinic we talked about Curets.  It was fun learning how to use them on the posterior teeth.  I thought it was harder then using sickle scalers on the ant teeth.  Also I'm happy I was able to pass of my identification of instruments P.E.  one more I've learned and been able to get out of the way! It's crazy how you can look at the P.E.'s at first and they look really scary and then you get the technique down and it's not that bad, well at least so far. HAHA well everyone have a good night studying for Costley's class. See ya all tomorrow! :)

Ant, Scalers

Well... Today was a lot of fun! I loved scaling Megan's lower ling... with that ling bar and all that was so much fun. Thanks meg for putting up with all of it.  Also great job on passing off your probing, you did great!  Well I cant believe we are this far along into the semester and we've learned so much! Great job everyone and have a great day today!!!!