Being the patient

I rather enjoyed today.  I was able to be the patient all day today, as well as on Wednesday.  I just got to relax in the chair while Marianne worked on me.  Today was our first taste of what it is like to walk step-by-step through the appointment process.  It takes forever.  We didn't even get to scaling today and I was in her chair for over 3 hours.  Probing is my least favorite thing about having my teeth cleaned.  It is so tender to go under the gum line with a pointy instrument.  I will do my best next week to be gentle and walk softly around the tooth surfaces.  I was floored that I had some pocket depths that were 4 mms!  How could someone who is so into teeth have a 4 mm pocket depth?!?!  I don't get it.  I wonder what I have done to cause pockets that deep.  I hope that next week my two operator days will run smoothly.  I hope that I have the chance to do some scaling. I feel bad that next semester most of my patients will have to come back for multiple appointments, because I won't be fast enough to get them done in a 3 hours period of time!  Yikes!