TODAY WAS LAST DAY OF 1ST YEAR DENTAL HYGIENE SCHOOL!!!

Feelings right now

After exactly a year since starting DH school today marked the last official day of first year. Thursday 21st of Sept 2017. Probably next year a time now I will have my board exams done and maybe looking for a job or working.

This semester has been the toughest for me in DH school so far. I have had so much going on that I barely survived getting above the cut point in Oral Pathology. Our cut off points are 75%  and for the first time I got a score below 80%.

But to look at the positive side of things, I'm done with probably the class which I consider my personal least favorite; Dental Nutrition.
So far I have been a bit lucky with my patients at the clinic with minimal cancellations. mater of fact I saw my first class IV patient this week. I'm looking forward to working on removing his stain. Also I got to see Lichen Planus in one of my patients.

I'm looking forward to doing Oral pharmacology as I have a lot of pharmacists in my family and I hope to get a lot of support and score a straight A.
Next semester the first years will be coming in...It's next week Thur by the way and I also hope to make a few of them come in for a cleaning as a way to increase my patient pool.  

Thanks for stopping by and see you next semester as we see what it brings!

DO YOU REMEMBER YOUR FIRST TIME?

Hello folks!
It's always a pleasure to share with you my journey in hygiene school.

Well, today was new day for last semester as first year. Until Sept  25th,well one day before my birthday, I will be a first year for the last time. We just had a long break (4 days). yes, that's a really long break for hygiene student in summer.
So far my patients have been showing up( Check previous blog posts) and see how my parents were not showing up and how frustrated I was.
So today I did my first case of arrestin...placing antibiotics into a periodontal  pocket over 5mm.
It was so much much fun
Tomorrow I get to get my first pediatric  patient. A 9 year old girl. Keep it tuned here to know how that goes.
So far getting more comfortable with the scaling but I haven't taken any radio-graphs on any of my patients yet. 
Its amazing to think that next year time like now we should be done with the whole course so keeping eyes on the price.
This semester  classes are
Oral pathology
Dental materials 2
and Clinic 2.
We also have to present for our dental Table Clinics. I will talk about my project  for clinic in another blog  post
Cheers!
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No patient for second day straight!

Well, patient showed up but was not due for adult prophy which should be every 6 months. Unfortunately I had to suffer a very bad and draining afternoon.
Hoping for better things next week before I drop out.
Joking!!
Take care

GET DENTAL HYGIENE PATIENTS IN EXCHANGE FOR WEED? NO WAY!! NOT HAPPENING!

I don't get to update as much as I would like because most times there is no time to;
Okay, Let me be more honest..because even when there's time I'm too exhausted to do it....Okay,I can do better than this, because even when there is time I'm too lazy to do it!!
So here's a recap of what has been going on and from now hence forth I'm going to be updating every week at least or everyday...Really?

1. We have started seeing real patients in clinic and so far I have been very unlucky with my patients because the very first few patients should be close friends and family members but being out of town, out of state,out of the country or should I say continent: places you almost against all the odds. So I had to depend on public patients who can be very slippery as first few weeks you are still in learning mode and the patient need to be someone very patient(Did you see what I did there?)  or someone who can tolerate your inexperience and also probably ready come back for multiple appointments. So my patients have been cancelling the appointments several times and like today the patient showed up LATE and was RUSHING me so we didn't get that far. The afternoon one ended up cancelling and I had everything set up and ready for them...No more frustrating feeling than that.

2. Mrs. Ross, one of our best instructors (She's among the 3 that found and developed the hygiene program) left last week. She was literary a walking experience and knowledge and she will be greatly missed. She went back into clinical practice. She's wished good luck and hope to meet her somewhere in the corridors of DH.

3. I QUIT my job yesterday. The job was emotionally, physically and mentally draining me so much that for the 16hrs that I was there on weekend it felt like 61hrs!!! That  way I would dread going there and would be thinking about it all day Fridays and Mondays even after I left I had serious  job related hangover..not good for a dental hygiene student taking Dental Embryo and other classes and having to hustle for patients. For now my NEW JOB is working on my small online business HERE

4. WEED FOR PATIENTS. I decided to go out giving fliers to the community in a bid to get more patients in the clinic and I managed to give out well over 150 fliers. Well, that's not the NEWS. The news is that while passing out the fliers in Downtown ERIE to some young people they made me an offer. How about I find them stressed out college kids who need to relieve school stress by smoking some of their high grade weed and then they would give me 2 patients per customer they got from me...What?!! END OF ME TALKING TO THEM>>>I WAS GONE BEFORE THEY COULD SAY ANYTHING ELSE...IF THAT'S THE WAY TO GET PATIENTS I WOULD RATHER DROP OUT OF SCHOOL THAN GET IN TROUBLE.
Thanks for reading and I hope to keep you all updated on the goings on in my program and feel free to drop a comment in the comment session below. Also if you are an hygienist share different ideas of getting more patients to my seat without someone trying to get me to do ANYTHING OUTSIDE THE LAW OR ETHICS.

OUR 2ND YEARS PASSED THEIR CLINICAL BOARDS 100%!!!

Last Friday we had a chance to see the second years take their final clinical board exams. We were so lucky as we got to see what exactly goes on when you bring in a class 3patient to be your dental boards patient.
Once you take the vitals of the patient you get to have the doc approve them and they they are taken to an examination room where 3 diffrent docs examine them after  you  choose  any sext you want to work on.
Well, good news is that our big sisters. the second years passed- 100% that is the whole class. We are vert excited and happy for them and also under pressure as we are challenged to perform as good as them.
meanwhile next week but we will be seeing our first Rad patient in the clinic. Next month we will then start seeing real patients in the clinic. We have made a lot of progress and looking forward to see real patients.
Finally today we applied fluoride treatment on each other for the first time.
**This was a quick post to update whats been going on as we have a ton of homework to do and also lot's of tests coming our way so no much time.
Thanks for stopping buy.

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!
Keep Tuned!

Trust Me!

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?