Have You Been Probed?

This morning, I had a younger patient who happened to be 2 quads of a class II and 2 quads of a 1B. He was pretty interesting he was way excited about the cool technology we use at the clinic but he doesn't really like the dentist. He had some super sensitive gums so i had to hand scale his full mouth while he was wincing and bleeding a bunch! I still finished early and just hung out waiting for my fellow students to finish so we could all go to lunch. Of course, my 1:00 patient showed up at 11:00AM instead so Diane walked me through the umpteenth pano because apparently I still don't know how to do them... Her walking me through it actually caused more problems because she was trying to do so much that the machine was starting to malfunction. It was 11:30 by the time he sat in the chair to be cleaned so Kami Hanson did it for me so that we could get out for lunch.

When I got back from lunch, I discovered that nobody cared enough to reset up my unit for the afternoon and Diane decided I should do the note and charting for this patient that I didn't even see so I was working on setting up my unit and making the note when my patient showed up. Kami wasn't going to give me another patient but then Staci volunteered to not take the patient so I ended up with the 33 year old patient that was half german, half venezuelan and even though it doesn't matter to me since i am very happily taken, I must say he wasn't ugly. Staci helped me chart and of course, being as awkward and dorky as I am, I said the most awkward, stupid question I could have possibly asked a patient that close to my age. When getting ready to perio chart, I picked up my instruments, turned to my patient and said flat out: "have you been probed before?" (seriously??? it sounds like some kind of creepy dental pick-up line! Yuck!!!) The three of us all started laughing our heads off and my clever patient, having picked up on my sarcastic demeanor today said "you mean by aliens? ...well there was this one time..." I was seriously dying it was so funny! He was an easy 1B and I finished him pretty early but on my way back to my unit from walking him out to the front desk, the assistant Sharrah asked me if I gave him my number. (yes, everyone was talking about him because it's not very often that we see patients under the age of 40). I teased Sharrah back claiming I gave him hers and then I proceeded to tell Staci she should definitly go for him since he's a lot closer to her age bracket and she is single... Yeah, probably not going to happen because I didn't exactly see her running out to the parking lot after him. You missed out Staci! hehe.