Class II's and V's

Class II's and V's are the story of my life!!! That is all I get and I have requirements for all sorts of III's and IV's and I never see any!!! What am I supposed to do I have seen pts. that have not been in for ten years and they still are not enough!! No board patient either and everyone around me is getting everything them. Maybe I am just not supposed to graduate!!! Thousands of dollars I have paid for school, and million of hoops I have had to jump through, and it is out of my control whether I graduate!!!!!!! ARRRRGGGGGG!!!! I am not happy!

The Last Semester!!!!!

So we have started our last semester and one week already down! Only like nine more till the boards! AHHHHHH!!! I am so scared that I have been working so long for this (just the last six years of my life). I hope I don't mess it all up in this last semester. I just gotta buckle down and study hard for a couple more months! Then it's Hawaii here I come!!! YEAH!!! Lets just cross our fingers!

I can't wait till Friday!

Last day of class for the semster! Yeah!!!! It is crazy to think in just four months I will be taking my boards. The stress is kicking in!!!

Last Day at the VA this semster!

Ahhhh! Relief! A break from waking up at 5:30 in the morning to come down to the Veterans Hospital! The morning and I don't get along! So it has been hard. I am trying to hold my eyes open right now. It is not working so well! Both my patients today were great! So it was a nice last day! We also celebrated by all of us girls going out to lunch! I love the girl luncheons!! One more semester and I am free!

Thanksgiving break!

NO SCHOOL! How nice!!! I am not looking forward to all the test for next week, but now is the time to relax!

Calculus really doesn't get you in the mood for thanksgiving dinner!

The day before thanksgiving I had to go down to the VA hospital and clean teeth! I saw three patients. One more memorable than the others. The patient was a class IV patient that was just there to have his upper left quad. cleaned. As a was cleaning that quad. I noticed that all of his lower anteriors were completely encased in calculus. He had just had them clean less than a month prior. It was shocking!!! I tried to tidy them up as best I could in the time I had, but he really needed another full mouth debridement. That made me lose my appetite just a little! How did it get so bad so fast!

12mm is a long way down!

On Tuesday my patient was part class V, part class III! He had a 12 mm pocket. It was my first experience with a 12mm pocket!! That thing was so deep and it was hard to maneuver around in it! I had to break out my mini graceys for the first time. They really did the trick. I could not have cleaned that pocket without them!