11/23/09

Wow! today we finally got to work on our real first patient. It was a good experience for me and luckily I had a patient (my sister) that would let me know if I was hurting her. I thought the hardest thing today was probing. For some reason probing takes me such a long time and I'm always so scared I'm hurting my patient. It was really fun to scale and actually see and feel some calculus. When we were practicing on each other we all had really clean mouths so it was harder to see. My goal this week is to work on probing my typodont and see if I can use indirect vision and get a little quicker at that. Overall, today went great! I finished one quadrant of her mouth so she will have to come back for some more fun!