Another class 3

Today in the morning we had a lab, I wish we would have done the lab during class time or something so we didn't have to waste precious clinic time. Oh well, in the lab we went over subgingival irrigation, accessory fulcrums, curved ultrasonics, peizo ultrasonics, caries risk assessment and blood glucose testing. It wasnice to relax and learn for a change. For the caries risk assessment I go to be the one who chewed on wax and got to spit in a cup for 5 minutes. It was interesting. Then no one else in my group wanted their finger pricked for the blood glucose testing, so I did that too. I am glad to report that my saliva was at a great pH and the flow was also in the normal range. My blood glucose was an amazing 100. In the afternoon I had another spanish speaking patient, and I'm pretty sure she was illiterate. It was very sad, she needed help filling out her health history form ,she could not read it or write on it. Luckily one of the first year students, Karina, was there to observe me that day. She was sent from heaven, she spoke spanish and was able to help translate everything on the HHx and fill it out. She help me throughout the entire appointment, she was amazing. Anyway, so it turned out that this patient was also a class 3!! I was so excited and I was able to get one quad scaled and I did anesthetic on a real live patient for the first time! I did and IA and a mental on the lower right! The IA was a little difficult because first of all her anatomy was not very definite so it was hard to see, then I hit bone twice before getting to the proper depostion site! It was a great experience though. I got one quad of a 3 done she will come back and I'll do the other 3.