Well, there you have it, my last mockboard finished and done. I didn't even have a patient until 3 days ago when Natalie Burghardt called me to say she found one! I happened to be in the building so I was able to take x-rays that same day. Today my mockboard was in the afternoon which I think helps me do better because I get the morning to calibrate my exploring to the professors and examiners. It was a very good experience to clean that quad. She was a class III but I still scaled her rather quickly. The calculus was the type that just melts and oozes off when you hit it with a powerful ultrasonic, but underneath there are little highly calcified rocks of calculus that you have to go back and do a very deep and thorough hand scale to remove after. I was concerned because the patient had a rough CEJ that could have felt like calculus and her tissues looked very loose and kind of beaten up (but it was from her oral health status, not my scaling technique). I thought I might get docked for missed "CEJ" calculus and tissue trauma but I didn't. I actually didn't miss a single spot!!! I'm so excited to have the last mockboard done and I'm actually kind of excited for the real Boards. All I can say for now is WREB: Bring it on!!! I'm ready for you!!! (except the written parts... :) Good luck to everyone with the LA mockboards next week!!!
Thursday, February 25, 2010
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