Practice, Practice, Practice!! Day 11

Today was a well needed day of practicing exploring and probing.  I had to remeber how to do it again, but after I got the hang of it, it became easier.  Getting better slowly.  Oh and also today we organized our instruments and learned more about each instrument.  Maybe one day I will know the names of them all... maybe ha! Im sure I will sometime.  I was looking at our module for next clinic and I think we get to start to learn how to scale.. YEAH!! So excited for that! Next blog you'll see how that went... Until then!!!

Wahoo.. Day 10

For clinic on monday we learned the explorer PE.  Then of course we practiced.  Thanks Kelsey for being such a great patient for me to practice on.  I have to learn to turn with the curve of the tooth faster so I dont poke the gums.  I think this is easier than probing though.  I still need lots of practice with both.  But im sure will have many times to do it to get good at it. 

9th Day of Clinic!

Today was my very first day of probing!!  I was so scared!  I need alot more practice.. ha probably like years before I am a pro at probing, well at least thats how I feel right now.  But hopefully after some more practice I will at least feel confident to probe real patients.  I need to practice getting the angles right when I am getting the measurements for the col area. Practice makes perfect! 

Day 8

Today in clinic we learned how to do intra oral exams and how to fulcrum our instruments.  Wow, I learned I have alot of habits I need to break to do the right fulcrum.  I practiced alot today, but I still need more practive.  Hopefully one day it will become easy to me.  Then we had a guest speaker about being a member of the ADHA.  Well until another day of clinic...

Day 7 of clinic!!!

Today we did extra oral exams and learned how to use our mirror and how to use a fulcrum.  It was a fun day! The time just flew by.  Health histories are starting to make more sense to me now.  We didn't have time to pass of the health hisory PE, so I will have more time to practice it and I will hopefully really have it down by the time we pass it off.  It is so fun to be actually working on eachother.  Im glad we have the oppurtunity to go to the womens health center and do extra oral exams becuase it made it much easier to understand today.  Well until next clinic....

Day 6- Vital Signs

We are really getting in the swing of things in clinic.  Today we learned how to do vital signs.  We practiced on eachother and also reviewed our health histories.  I did not pass of my health hisroty PE today.  I feel like I need to review it more before I do it.  I have afraid I am going to forget to put something down for the health history so I need to practice practice practice. Practice makes perfect, Right?  Well another day of clinic down, lots more to go! Yeah!! :)

5th day of clinic

I am really enjoying clinic.  Its fun to apply those things we learn in class.  Today we went over how to do health histories and how to chart them.  I need to for sure practice this.  I think it will come with experience and as I do more it will become easier.  Then I passed off the post session PE and the positioning PE.  Every thing is coming together.  I can't wait until I get to see a real patient and do everything!!

Day 4

Today in clinic went really smoothly.  We learned our new PE's and practiced them.  We learned at what times we look at what teeth.  I need to go home and practice it now.  We also learned what to do for the at the end of  the day to get the clinic ready for the end of the day.  Then we passed off PE's.  It was a good day in clinic.