Well it came, whether I was ready or not! I saw my first real patient today . I wanted to start out easy so my first patient was someone I knew and she was only a 1B. I was extremely nervous because it has been over a month since I have held a scaler and actually been in someones mouth, I was worried I wouldn't remember a thing! But surprisingly it came back and it felt almost like I never left!
Today was a good way to start out a new semester of clinic especially my first semester of patient treatment. My patient was cooperative and helped calm my nerves. I was able to check off a set of bitewing x-rays since I was able to take 4 films on my patient! I felt good about that because now I only have nine sets to take! No big deal right? :/ And I was very proud because I also scaled one quad!
I saw some new things today. My patient had a tongue thrust device on her two maxillary central incisors. I haven't ever seen one on an actual person. And I thought it was weird that she still had one on since she is in her late twenties. She said it has been there forever and they are mostly just annoying now. She doesn't tongue thrust anymore and I guess she's never had them removed. They did make it a little more difficult to scale around and to probe around, but for the most part they were okay.
Well today went smoothly and it's over now, so now all I have to worry about is finding a patient for Wednesday! :/ Anyone have any options?
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