Tough Patient

My patient today was tough. He had some very tenacious calculus and I took over two hours on the two quads all together. I think the biggest thing I learned with him is to ultrasonic until you feel that it's smooth, then handscale, and then ultrasonic again and keep checking the teeth with an explorer. I had to take my gloves off and run my hands under cool water to get my tactile sensitivity back before I did my final check for calculus. I think I did a good job getting it all off in the end though. :)