Extra Patients... Oh wait, they're already yours!

Oh my gosh, what a day! First of all, I accidentally scheduled two patients for today at 8:00AM but luckily my class III couldn't come. The patient that came instead had 2 quads of a class II and 1 quad of a class III so I used the experience as an exam and it want really well. I keep having troubles with my dang fulcrum finger and I tend to roll my thumb to the side making it difficult to get the proper angulation and adaption. I was able to finish her with only one error even though she had an extremely tenacious anterior mandubular calculus bridge on the lingual surfaces. It was the kind of tough calculus that instead of flaking off, I was only able to scrape a very small grainy layer of calculus off with each very focused and intense stroke. I had to use both ultrasonic tips to finally get it all off and I still missed one spot (but only one!!!)



My afternoon patients I hadn't been able to get ahold of due to a disconnected phone line. I was supposed to have a mom and daughter. I also had another patient that I could call in case they didn't show up. Of course, I tried to call my backup and she couldn't come... then i called like four other patients and none of them could come. I was about to turn to the familial lifeline when I thought to ask Mr. Salomon if there was an extra patient lying around anywhere and to my excitement, there was! A mom and daughter that said they had been called to come in to an appointment at 12:30 today. I looked at the health history forms and lo and behold: it was my patients! I don't know how they got called or how they remembered to come in, but either way I was so excited! I also was frustrated with Mr. Salomon because he didn't see that I had put them in the schedule (granted, I had forgotten to put the daughter's name on the schedule so it kind of threw him off). I got the daughter cleaned (a 1A of course) and then I screened the mom who is just your typical class II. Oh well. Still no board patient hopes but at least I was productive enough...