Sealants

I was nervous about doing sealants, but it was a lot easier than I expected. It was fun. I really enjoyed doing sealants. I've never had a sealant before, so I can get 14 of them. Two of my teeth can't have them because of staining in the grooves, but the rest of them can. I only got three done though; I was the patient first, so it took a while for the dentist to get to us since we all needed him at the same time. When I was the operator he got to us a lot faster; I was able to to five sealants on my partner. I did four occlusal and one buccal.

Air powder polishing

We did air powder polishing. I didn't really like it. I don't know if I was getting the angles right. I really didn't like it being done on me. It tasted aweful and it stung my lips and tongue. It worked good though. Before we did it on each other we tried it on a penny; it made it really shiney. It was cool. When we were finished everything was covered with salt. It made a mess.

sharpening & ultrasonic

Today we learned how to sharpen instruments and how to use the ultrasonic. It was a fun day. We didn't work on each other, just on the typodonts. I was nervous about sharpening my instruments; I didn't want to ruin them. It was pretty easy though (hopefully I did it right). I'm glad we learned the ultrasonic this semester it will help when we have patients (from what I've heard anyway; I haven't actually done it on a person yet). My chair is broken. I joined the Emily pod today. I hope it gets fixed soon. It's nice having all of my stuff in the same area!