My first recare appt.

So today I saw my first patient twice. Does that make sense? ha ha. For the first time today, I cleaned a mouth that I cleaned last semester. Some things made me really happy about it, and others a little sad.

He got some dental work done!! WOO!! He had class 5 caries along a bunch of his max anteriors... now he has some class 5 caries along his max anteriors. So that is bitter sweet. He got some work done... but he still needs more work. Maybe he can't pay for it all to be fixed... maybe they are arrested caries now so there is no problem besides esthetics.... I don't know the reason, but I would feel horrible as a dentist letting my patient go after only fixing part of the problem.

I don't really think his home care has improved. Which makes me sad cause we talked about that a lot! I introduced him to the little hand held flossers and he really seemed to like them and I thought he was going to start using them. Oh wells.

Ending on a good note... I finished him in one appt! ha ha which is way better than the 2 or 3 appts he had last semester!!