We worked on emergency preparedness today. They said we will role play with these assignments during our 2nd year which will help because although everything is understood and seems easy today it doesn't sink in just by someone telling me about it...

Today was our mock patient day and I felt super stress.. It was okay, everything was good until I got to posterior scaling. It is just hard, that's all there is to it and it's dark in there, and scarry, and wet and sloppy and..... okay I know it will get better, just more practice! I will just try to have confidence in myself and take it from there.

We did a PSR today. I am getting better with probing. I also did the air powder polishing again and burnished Denae's cheek. I did the fluoride tx again as well and charting. It was a busy day and now I am running very late!!

Sealants were awesome. I really felt like I was doing something that I could figure out! I did 2 of Denae's teeth and have 3 more to go!!

We are the lunchladies!! Truly. We did the air powder polishing today and after that I am glad I was dressed in all that garb.....what a mess. I don't know how effective it was, I didn't notice a difference but maybe it would be noticeable on a tobacco chewer or something.... Another day down and I am feeling better about hygiene already!

Ultrasonic scaling day - this was way fun! It was much easier because the instrumentation doesn't involve as much adaptation or angulation and it gets the job done, pretty much. I feel like it was okay today and I did a pretty good job.