Some Good Experience

Last week I made a valiant attempt at seeing two patients in the morning.  One was my wonderful husband who needed a cleaning desperately and the other was my patient needing to get an a transplant list.  I got Trevor in and out of there within an hour and 20 minutes.  Feeling good!  My next patient shows up and still all is going well.  By 10:30 I was getting close to being done with him.  I called him a class III because of everything going on in his mouth.  Had my scale check.  All was well.  Polished, flossed, and added fluoride.  He was on his way to getting on the transplant list.  One unfortunate thing did happen during the appointment.  The amazing thing is that this very thing happened with a patient in the spring.  A composite filling came out of an anterior tooth!!!  I couldn't believe that this very thing would happen twice to me.

My afternoon patient was supposed to be a young woman.  When I called to confirm the appointment the night before, she told me she was expecting Medicaid to pay for this visit.  I had to inform her that we do not take medicaid and that she would be responsible for the visit.  She made it sound very bleak that she wouldn't be able to come up with the money.  I called my dad in a panic and informed him of the situation.  It is a little hard for him to take off on such short notice, but he was able to make it work for me.  I was able to get his cleaning down relatively quickly and then we did some laser therapy on one area.  I hope that it helps to rehabilitate his tissues and close up a pocket.  We will see him back in 2 weeks for a tissue evaluation and to laser the area again.