I Love Being CA

I know that some people really don't like being the CA, but I love it!  I really like Mr. Saloman and I think he likes me.  All day long he kept telling me what a great job I was doing.  He even asked if he could clone me.  I told him I didn't think my husband would like that very much.  I haven't been the CA at Weber since last spring and I loved being in the clinic with the girls I don't see as often.  I had a great day with you guys!  I hope I made clinic run smooth for you ladies.

My Thursday clinic was a pretty good day.  I had my first 1B of the semester.  I am still not as fast as I would like to be on simple cleanings.  I think my problem with him was that I kept going over and over certain areas because they felt rough.  Even Jen Wold checked some areas because they felt rough.  She came to the conclusion that it was just his dentition.  I now have 22 sets of bite-wing x-rays and 40 PAs.  I just need to have my parents come in for a full mouth series and I will be close with my PAs.  My afternoon patient was a class III in 3 quadrants and a class IV in the other.  Lots of calculus.  I used my triple bend and actually liked it today.  I have had bad experiences in the past, but it just reminded me that I need to keep trying something again and again.  This gentleman had several areas of 7, 8, and 9 mm pockets.  I didn't have any missed areas in the half of his mouth that I cleaned.  I felt really good about that.  Jen told me there was just a little bit of deposit supragingival on the distal line angle of 29.  I got in there, got it off, and half of his mouth was clean.  I also have 21 quadrants of a class III/IV.  They keep saying that the class IV patients will come.  I sure hope so because I still need an eaglesoft patient.

On Friday, I showed up at 8 am to do a screening on a patient that might qualify for boards.  Her appointment was at 8:30 am.  8:50 rolled around and she still hadn't shown up.  Mr. Saloman called her for me to find out that she had forgotten about the appointment.  I have her scheduled for Jan. 26th to do a screening.  I sure hope that she comes.  Looking at x-rays from a year ago, she has many spots of radiographic calculus that were never scaled by my peer pal.  If she doesn't qualify, I am going to be a little more stressed.  Needless to say, I showed up at 8 am for no reason.  I could have slept in a little.  Darn!  I did help the other girls by making charts and cleaning rooms, so it at least counts as service hours.