NO pt NO mockboard

I don't have a mockboard or an afternoon patient today and no one to screen and I don't know how I'm supposed to find someone to screen or anything. It's getting to be a really stressful semester because I can't find patients period. Most of my recall don't even wanna come back til later this semester so I am having a really hard time scheduling appointments. I know I'm not the only one with this problem which makes it even more frustrating and stressful because my grade depends on finding these patients for mockboard and stuff. I dunno what to do!

sore fingers

My fingers hurt, well mostly my fulcrum finger. My patient was tough this afternoon and I don't know what I did to make my fingers so sore, but I guess I just need to pay attention to how much pressure I'm exerting in order not to make my fingers sore.

bleeding

The last time I saw my patient that I saw today was a year ago and she was pregnant. She bled alot then, and I connected it to pregnancy gingivitis, but it was interesting because today she came back and was no longer pregnant and bled just as much as last time. I really had to explain to her that she needed to brush up by the gums and floss because I haven't seen anyone with that little amount of calculus who did bleed that much.

tough pt

I had a tough patient and I really felt like I did so well on him. I got six injections for anesthesia and did that pe and it went well. His calculus was so tough and I had to scale and check with my explorer until I finally felt like the calculus was gone. The biggest thing I learned was to just keep with the calculus and keep going over it, because eventually it will hopefully come off and it did.

no pt

My 8 o'clock pt called me at 8:10 to tell me they just woke up and they were coming. By 10 o'clock I assumed they weren't coming because they wouldn't answer my phone calls. I think people aren't very considerate that our grade depends on whether or not they make their appointments. I am just so frustrated that this is alreay happening this semester. I need to find a mockboard patient and I don't have people to screen for that either. I think that I might try and send fliers out. I'm just hoping that my afternoon spanish speaking patient is a good patient or possibly a mockboard. We only have four more months left though girls!!!

First Day of the Last Semester

I saw my fiance today. He was a good experience for a full mouth of xrays because he had such long roots that it was hard for me to get the tips of the roots of his teeth. Professor Bossenberger helped me with what I should already know how to do which is to overexaggerate the angle of the xray head to get the tip of those roots. So just increase the vertical angulation and it should help. Hope that helps anyone with the same problem I've been having with the PA's of the anterior teeth.