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Thursday, May 18, 2017
Last Semester as a First year!!
Time has been flying so first. This is the first week of my last semester as a first year. At the end of this semester I will be bringing in my very first patient to the clinic for a FMX or full mouth Series Radiographs! I'm not sure where I'm gonna find this kind of patient but I can wait!
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Wednesday, May 3, 2017
WHAT A BLOODY MESS! BLOOD ALLOVER?
Today,for the first time since we started hygiene school last year September 2016 we got to explore each others mouth in sextant 5.
Its all easy and nice seeing the instructor demo how to do it and then have us the students try the same on the typodonts. Why?
1. Typodonts don't bleed
2. Typodonts do not give you feedback
3. Typodonts don't ouch when you prick them wrongly.
4. You can concentrate on checking your ergonomics for a second without looking whether your working end is buried deep in the tissue.5
5.Just because.
HOWEVER, when today we had our fellow classmates on the seat and it was time to explore a real, breathing,worried,overworked dental hygiene student it was the first sign that we meant real business.Boy! I even broke a sweat and my instructor cautioned me on being over gentle. It's the closest I ever got to see the explorer get buried way deep in the gingival tissue like that. Most times when you got to the hygienist for a cleaning you do not get to see what they do as you are the patient.
Well, today as soon as my clinic partner buried the explorer on the tissue I bled right away and it's a lot of bleeding.
I have been using a water pik floss which I was made to understand is as good as no flossing and so could have been one of the reasons for bleeding. I also I'm due for bi annual cleaning which I should get soon. So from now o will use the thread floss and watch for the results.
It's been a long day with the class running from 9:30AM to 5:30PM because we had to have a Radiology class to recover a class time we missed on Presidents day or something and by the time we were taking our last bite wings I was ready to call it a day. I'm waiting to see how my last bit wing of left molar is going to look like as I got an error message while taking it. I depressed the exposure button too quickly.
Anyone remember their first time working inside each others mouths with instruments? How was the experience?
Its all easy and nice seeing the instructor demo how to do it and then have us the students try the same on the typodonts. Why?
1. Typodonts don't bleed
2. Typodonts do not give you feedback
3. Typodonts don't ouch when you prick them wrongly.
4. You can concentrate on checking your ergonomics for a second without looking whether your working end is buried deep in the tissue.5
5.Just because.
HOWEVER, when today we had our fellow classmates on the seat and it was time to explore a real, breathing,worried,overworked dental hygiene student it was the first sign that we meant real business.Boy! I even broke a sweat and my instructor cautioned me on being over gentle. It's the closest I ever got to see the explorer get buried way deep in the gingival tissue like that. Most times when you got to the hygienist for a cleaning you do not get to see what they do as you are the patient.
Well, today as soon as my clinic partner buried the explorer on the tissue I bled right away and it's a lot of bleeding.
I have been using a water pik floss which I was made to understand is as good as no flossing and so could have been one of the reasons for bleeding. I also I'm due for bi annual cleaning which I should get soon. So from now o will use the thread floss and watch for the results.
It's been a long day with the class running from 9:30AM to 5:30PM because we had to have a Radiology class to recover a class time we missed on Presidents day or something and by the time we were taking our last bite wings I was ready to call it a day. I'm waiting to see how my last bit wing of left molar is going to look like as I got an error message while taking it. I depressed the exposure button too quickly.
Anyone remember their first time working inside each others mouths with instruments? How was the experience?
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