Mockboards

I'm glad mockboards are over; clinic seems a lot less stressful now. I was a student examiner in the morning. It was nice to be able to see the flow of things before it was my turn.

My patient forgot about the apt even though it was confirmed the day before. Of course, there always has to be something to keep things interesting. Mr. Soloman called her and she did come in, but she was an hour late. I didn't have much time to scale because she was so late and needed anesthesia, but it went okay. The injections went really well. I missed a few spots, but if I would have had more time I would have done much better, so I feel good about it. I'm really glad we get to experience the whole process a few times before our real boards.

This morning was very relaxing. It's incredible the difference it makes when we don't have a patient for clinic. The lab went well. Accessory fulcrums were easy; I've been using some of them already. It was cool to see the difference between the sonic and the two types of ultrasonic scalers. The blood glucose is really easy to use. The saliva thing was okay, but it's gross to watch. I've already placed arestin at the VA; I'm glad we talked about it today. There's not much to medicaments; they are pretty easy.

My patient this afternoon made me mad. He called last night to say he might be cancelling if he can't find someone to work for him (even though he's been scheduled for a month). He said he would call at 10:00 today to let me know. I told him to leave me a message, and to call as soon as he could so I could find another pt if he couldn't come in. He never called. I tried to call several times, but he didn't answer. I figured he probably wasn't coming so I started to look for another pt. I couldn't find anyone, but then he did end up coming. After all that he was just a 1B! Oh well.

This morning I had a new pt. She turned out to be a 1B. She didn't speak any English; I was very glad to have translators there to help. She wanted a full mouth done, so I finally got some PA's. The posterior PA's were hard because her mouth was very small. They turned out good though.

My patient this afternoon didn't speak any English either, but her son was there to translate. She was a new pt and a class 2. She will work for mockboards, Yeah! She has never had her teeth cleaned before. Her calculus is very, very tenacious. I'm kind of nervous to use her for mockboards because it is so hard to remove her calculus, but at least I have a pt.