It's Here!

It came! After 15 weeks of learning different skills, they were finally put to the test today! It was our REAL patient day today! I'll admit, I was nervous for today! The thing that worried me the most is not having diagnostic radiographs and hurting my patient. Luckily I just messed up once and it was on my radiographs.

My peer pal was my first patient, and I am so glad it was her! It took away the stress of having to find a patient and making sure my patient actually showed up! I knew that she would be there and be on time! I was so relieved when she volunteered to be my patient. I wanted to just give her a big hug! Another bonus was that she was able to help me along, and give me pointers throughout the appointment.

All in all I felt pretty good about my patient treatment day. I felt like I was able to move through the flow of things nicely and quickly. I am so glad that I signed up for radiology first! I was able to have the room available when I wanted it and get them over with. I did struggle just a little on the radiographs. I had to do two retakes. I struggled getting the contact between 14 & 15 open. Professor Costley helped me finally be able to get it and of course it turned out perfectly! I learned that I can come a lot more mesially than I would think.

Probing also went faster than I was anticipating. Plus I got a few good pointers on how to improve my probing in the future. For the most part today was not as bad as I was anticipating! I was sure I was going to totally bomb the day. But I survived and got through everything I needed to for the day. Now I can relax and enjoy Thanksgiving! :)