January 24

Today started off as the worst day ever. I had a flat tire and my patient cancelled. Stupid! In the morning I tried to find a patient, but no one could come in, so I just helped people. Towards the end of clinic Prof. Alexander called me over and had me screen a Midtown patient that looked like they would qualify for boards. I checked him out and he looks pretty good. If anything he could be good for my mockboards. Yeah!

This afternoon my sister came in to have her sealants done. Laura didn't have a patient, so we worked on her together and passed off all the long PE's like air powder polisher, diagnodent, and sealants. It was really good to get them done. Even though today wasn't a very productive day I feel like I got a good amount of stuff done.

Jamuary 17

Today was a busy clinic day! I didn't have a morning patient as of yesterday, so i helped out Valerie and Kim who both had patients with people who wanted to come in. Valerie's patient wanted his wife to come in, so I saw her at 8:00 and then Kim saw a little boy whose brother came in too and I saw him at 9:30. It was madness. They were both fairly easy and went well. After lunch I saw my cousin. He is super funny, and it took longer than I thought it would just because he talked a lot. It was more difficult than I thought it would be because he has a lot of decalcification and rough surfaces, but it went well.

One thing I really need to work on is my ergonomics. My back always hurts when I am working on a patient. I have been trying to be more aware of what I am doing to hurt it, but I just need to be better.

January 10

This morning my I ended up without a patient. It was frustrating because it was the first day of clinic this semester, and I didn't want to start it up this way! This afternoon made up for it though. I had a woman who I thought was a class five, and had tried to get her in last semester as an easy patient. It worked out much better to have her come today because she ended up being 4 quads of a 4. I finished 2 quads and it went really well. It will be really great to be done with that! Yeah!