Today I had a patient that I didn't know. Sierra was kind enough to give me a patient since she knew I didn't have one scheduled for today. It was the brother of her patient. I was planning on him being a class 1B, but that didn't happen. The appointment turned out different than what I had planned--which was a good thing!
So my patient was a smoker... my first smoking patient. And can I just say I do not like working on smokers. I felt like I smelt like I had been smoking for days after! I knew smokers breath was strong I just didn't know it would last so long.
There is some good news in this story! I was able to take full mouth! Which was a miracle since I have been stressing about my x-rays. That means I got 14 PA's!! It felt so good to be able to cross off all of them! I was able to also get one quad scaled which I thought was an accomplishment since the x-rays took awhile to do.
I'm looking forward to Wednesday because we have a lab and I don't have to worry about a patient! It definitely will be a nice break!
His brother had the same smell :)
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