September is OVER!

September is practically over! We made it through the first month of Dental Hygiene! That is an accomplishment for me. Today in radiology we took the other side of full mouth x-rays and we did more probing in clinic. My long day is over for the week. Now I get to go to work till midnight!

Probing!

Today we learned how to probe. It was a little hard for me to be able to tell where the pocket ends. I felt like I was kinda making it up.. Hopefully it will get easier. I also learned I have some serious recession on #3 buccal, and it really hurts when it gets touched with metal. So I will forever try to be careful with my patients with recession.

Mon. Sep 22, 2008

Today we learned how to use an explorer. It too is a little awk!ward but hopefully it will get easyier. It made me excited to learn how to use scalers!

September 17 2008

I'm not sure if we should only be talking about clinic.. I feel like my blog is REALLY BORING. But i don't know what else to say other than what we learned that day. So today we learned dominant hand fulcrum. It was a little awkward but not too bad. OH! yesterday i was very disturbed after seeing those nasty pictures in class. The rest of the day i thought about quiting and going into consumer science education (home-ec teacher). And I do think that would be a lot of fun, but i worked really hard to get into hygiene so I think I would regret quiting the rest of my life. So I'll stay..

September 15

In clinic today we learned intra-oral exams. Unfortunately I didn't do the vocabulary assignment before class so I had never heard any of these terms before. So that was a little tricky.. Not too bad though.

September 10

My short day. I love it! Today we learned mirror positions. After school i think i will take a nap and go do something fun. Maybe a hike?

Sep 9 2008

Today has been great! It is Monday, my long day. We took bwx in radiology this morning. That was fun, my first time with digital x-rays. Then clinic was good, nothing confusing. However, after taking my blood pressure, i may want to start exercising... my four year break should probably come to an end. We'll see....

No school Monday!!!

I did these out of order, but we didn't have school on Monday for Labor Day. Instead I went to a family breakfast! I love four day school weeks!

September 3

I love Wednesdays because I only have clinic in the morning, then I'm done! Today we learned that my birth control is nowhere to be found in the DDR. Oh well. Today was nice and easy, I passed off a few PE's, it was great!