10/4/09

Today we mainly passed off air water polishing and flouride. The air water polishing definitly is not the best tasting thing. I prefer polishing over air water. It was nice to practice. I was looking over it yesterday and I learned some new stuff. I learned that the air water polishing works great on tobacco stains and chlorahexadine stains, so I will have to keep that in mind. We learned the correct angles and techniques for sharpening our instruments. We got to use a damaged instrument so it was not as scary. I will be very scared when it come to doing my own and making sure I'm maintaining the shape of my instrument. We learned that automatic sharpeners work great, but you just go through instruments so fast. I'm getting scared for our mock boards. My goal for this week is to study the routine and make sure I have my treatment plan down in the right order.