When I woke up this morning I was so nervous for today, but when I sat down and picked up my instruments most of my skills came right back. I actually had a great day. Second year is wonderful and the instructors are awesome! My first patient I saw was a 1B and I did x-rays and did half of her mouth. I used my new instruments, which was a lot of fun. I also got to use the ultrasonic on some mandibular anterior lingual calculus. I forgot how fun it was to watch the calculus fly off. I learned several nice ways to fulcrum from Instructor Would. I felt like everything she said just clicked with me. In case anyone who is reading this cares... my afternoon went even better. I saw a Class 5 patient and was able to finished everything. That's right, everything! To top it off my patient was a lot of fun to talk with and made sure that it was stuck in my brain that I need to give her a call in January for her next cleaning. Don't you love reliable patients?
P.S. - Extra oral fulcruming is great. I wish we learned more last semester. So, all in all today was great.
