Holy Smokes!!
My goal for the day was to finish scaling Paola. She is half class I and have class II. This should have been done this appointment! I wanted to quickly do OHI since we did a lot of it last Wednesday and then scale away. I seriously don't know where all the time goes! One quadrant took me 45 minutes! That is not ok! The worst part is that I do not know how to go faster. I am hand scaling and don't really use my Ultrasonic. Maybe I should use that more. I just feel better about it and more confident when I am hand scaling.
I did learn something today though. Professor Costley was helping me scale and noticed that where I was scaling there was a 5 mm pocket. That means that my scaler should be up that far! Duh! Ha ha what a simple thing that just hasn't clicked until now.
I also heard her telling someone else that when I am scaling I should be making every stroke for a reason, not just scraping back and forth.
She also taught me an extra oral fulcrum that is going to be great to use!
I was pretty frustrated about today. Somehow I need to get faster!!!
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