Thank you Karlie! (Cline)

My patient today was given to me by my peer pal, Karlie Cline. He's a class 5 and she didn't have time to clean him. He is a super nice man! Easy going, very cooperative and complimentary! I enjoyed seeing him today.

I didn't know what to expect when he came in because I wasn't able to look at his chart until this morning. Nothing too crazy though! He's been coming to the clinic for a very long time. His chart is thick!! Since I didn't know what I was up against as far as x-rays and dent I had no idea how far I would get today. I didn't need to do x-rays, which was nice!

I got all the way to scaling today, which is such good news!! I didn't think that would ever be possible! He had a lot of restorations to chart too. I feel very good about how far I got today. We spent a lot of time on OHI and I did pretty well with my probe depths, dent, and perio.

Stuff I learned.... it is good to get out of the norm. He has been in a lot and I'm sure he has had "c-shaped" flossing crammed into his head a million times. He still isn't flossing though. So I flossed all his teeth and explained what I was doing, but instead of having him demonstrate the flossing technique to me, I gave him the easy flosser things for him to try out. He really liked it and I think that he'll be more inclined to floss with those. So hopefully that will be a help for him!

I don't know what else I learned. I feel good though! I hope to finish him on Monday!!