Boards!!

I cant believe that WREB has come and gone! For basically two years we have been hearing and getting ready for boards and now we are basically done! That is, if I passed then I'm done. I have not been able to study at all for the national board until I know what my results are for clinical! The suspense is killing me! I honestly have no idea of how well I did! I will not be suprised with any score! This stinks...

Feb 9 2010

We are getting so close to the end of the year! After today we only have 2 1/2 clinic days till boards! I'm kinda freaking out because I don't have a mockboard or board patient... it's kinda a problem. I also only have 2 quads of a 3 or 4, I have a lot of requirements left and I don't know how I'm going to finish it all. I'm hoping that graduation will come around and I it will have just worked out. It would also be nice to pass all my boards...

Mockboard!

Yippee I passed my second mockboard! This was not a really difficult patient but it really helps my confidence. All I really care about is passing the real thing, but I guess this makes it more likely.

Snow Day

So it's always a gamble driving from Logan and through the canyon in the snow. The problem is that it's dangerous and takes twice as long to get here, but my patients never seem to be able to make it from Ogden. Oh well, can't really blame them because I wouldn't want to risk it if I didn't have to.

Last Semester!!!

We started our last semester this monday and I'm SO EXCITED TO GRADUATE!!! This is my 6th year of college and it has been a long road. In a few months, school will not be my number one priority.

Finished Research Project!!!

This project has been much much more stress than I anticipated! I made it way more difficult than it needed to be.. But it's done!!!! The good thing about doing this is that I find it really interesting and it was so much fun to get my surveys in the mail and read different doctors opinions. Although I generally disagree with 90% of the opinions, it was still interesting to read.
For the most part, the dentists agreed that Rx toothpaste is a good method of prevention and is helpful before people have rampant caries. Yet, they did not want to put a very high percentage of their patients on the paste. I just don't get it. If we know it can help, it's easy to use, why wait till MAJOR, permanent damage has been done. Thats not prevention. Anyhow, I find my results very interesting and would be happy to share them with the junior or senior class to complete this course.
The steps I took to compile this data are as follows:
Gather information, write survey, called and talked to my brother and uncle to make sure they didn't think it sounded accusational, emailed survey for faculty approval, go to staples and buy paper and envelopes, post office to buy stamps, stamp and address 35 envelopes to myself, go to copy center and make copies, grocery store to buy candy canes.
10 hrs.
Hand delivered 35 surveys. Drove to Providence, Logan, N. Logan, Smithfield, Righmond, Hyrum, Nibley. Three docors were hanging around the office when I delivered the surveys and brought me back to talk about what they think and who needs Rx toothpaste. Talked to each 15-30 min.
9 hrs.
Read Surveys as they were mailed back.
2 hrs.
Analyze data and count up results.
6 hrs.
Supprisingly, I don't remember anything about excell. I should have gone to that refressher class we had. I spent hours trying to figure out how to make a table on my own, hours trying to learn from the Microsoft tutorial discs, went to my husband's neice's house to have her show me. She couldn't figure it out, finally, sorta made up my own tables in the most difficult way. So this took a long time and was super frustrating!
9 hrs.
Before making my PPT, I called and talked to my friend who works at the health department. She works in the community wellness dept, and they are given loads of money to increase population wellness. Yet, they don't do anything related to Rx toothpaste. Hello prevention saves money, it's cheaper than drill and fill. Talk about stimulating the economy. I also talked to someone at the hospital my mom works at. My mom is a recovery nurse and estimates they would see around 15 medicaid children in the O.R. for they dental work each week. Due to Ins. changing, these doctors can no longer afford to see these children in the hospital. We talked about how much money it would save the govt. to put these children (who can use it safely) on Rx toothpaste and help prevent these really sad cases of rampant caries.
2 hrs.
Made a PPT. This required to redo some of my tables because not all the info would fit in a ppt slide. This also simple task proved to be very challenging. I also added some of my opinions.
6 hrs.
So yes, now I think I'm done and would love to share my findings with classmates and hopefully influence them to recomend Rx toothpaste to at least their patients with active caries. (despite my results, I don't think this is being done). I would also like to hear a good answer to why if patients can use and safely store Rx toothpaste, why they would not want everyone to use it.
The End!!! :)

11-5-09

Counting down the weeks!!! Only three more weeks of this semester! (if you don't count Thanksgiving week). I'm super excited for Christmas! This was a pretty good day today. I did three quads of a class 3 this morning and a super cute pregnant 1b in the afternoon.(which I actually needed)! A good day!