Prophy or not?

Yesterday in class we learned that polishing damages your teeth by removing fluoride rich enamel. Conviently I got a big cold sore today and couldn't be a practice patient. Just kidding, I wouldn't have cared. But it's funny that the prophy is what is damaging and it's all we did in our office. No hygienist, so no scaling. It's sad the patients don't know better.

The semester is practically OVER!

So I was thinking and we only have November left of this semester! It has gone by so fast. I can't believe we only have to do this 3 more times and then we will be done! That's crazy! I think it will be over before we know it!

Oct. 22

Today was the first time ever scaling on the posteriors. Pretty exciting!!! And my arm is still hurting from my free flu shot. I had better not get the flu this year!

SHOTS!

Scaling was still a little awkward today, but i'm going to blame it on the fact that I got a shot in each arm! Ya, it hurts. But it was FREE!!! Everyone go to the campus student health center. It's FREE!!!!

10-15-08

Ok, today we really started scaling on eachother! It was fun. I was worried that the sound would bother me, but it was fine. I did get a bad cramp in my hand between my ring and pinky finger. I see the importance to do things right or it will hurt you later!

SCALING !!!

Well almost scaling... We learned the instruments today and I'm so excited to start practicing! But before that we looked at some really gross pictures. I hope i get over thinking that it's gross and that I just think it's cool. Hopefully someday!

oct 8

Turns out that we are not very fast at doing an od. It took me like 40 minutes to probe the lowers! Oh well.

DISCLOSING!!!

Today was FUN!!!! We used dye to disclose the plaque on our teeth. I knew we were doing it so I brushed my teeth right before so I didn't have too much, but I still had some. The only problem was that I forgot to put Vaseline on my lips first so they are a little purple. Oh well.

It's October!!!

Today we learned that I have the most, biggest, and worst restorations. I wish I could get new teeth and try again. Oh well..