Goal: Complete my partial PE and anything above that would be great!
Actual: 4 quads IB, 4 BWX, and Partial PE
Today was such a crazy day! I had Mark confirm this patient the day before because she speaks spanish. She mentioned that she was unable to come until 10:30am. I didn' think anything of it and said it was fine. He looked at me funny and said Really? That wasn't enough of a clue for me I guess. I went home Tuesday afternoon still not worried about what Wednesday was going to bring. It wasn't until Wednesday morning when I realized what I did. Walk-out is at 10:45am and I was going to complete a full OD and partial cleaning! YIKES! I knew this wasn't going to work.
I showed up to school on Wednesday and immediately walked into Prof. Costley's office. She was putting on her makeup for the day (this woman is always perfect it doesn't matter if she is wearing a business suit or scrubs! I don't know how she does it!) Anyway, I explain my situation and she tells me to have Mr. Soloman call this patient and see if she can come in earlier or reschedule her and find a new patient for the day. Even though I am close to having my requirements completed, I am still required to have a patient in my chair every clinic session. Mr. Soloman talks to my patient (thankfully she answered) and explained the situation. She asked if she can come in at 12:30. I ran to ask Prof. Costley if this would work and she said YES! AH! I couldn't believe it! Mr. Soloman had her come in at 12:30 and sure enough she did!
I worked on other homework for the time being which worked out well actually. I had Stephen bring me lunch since I wasn't planning on beign there the whole day.
When it came time to get set up for clinic, I noticed a hispanic girl with a young boy in the waiting area. I didn't think anything of it other than, she is way early and how nice for someone else not to worry! I walked into clinic and had to set up a different chair because I was going to be in a right-handed unit for the overflow since it was a different group and different clinic session and my left-handed unit had another left-handed classmate in it. This didn't seem to be a big deal other than the chair wasn't set which bugged me! 12:30pm comes and my patient ticker turns yellow saying my patient is here and ready. I go out to the waiting area and sure enough this patient that I saw in the waiting area was my patient! As I was walking back, I thought to myself, "She's kind of young to have a partial but maybe her partial is her lateral incisors" since that's pretty common. I remember she can't understand anything I say, so I go ahead and try and show her what I need to do. She was very compliant. Somehow I was able to communicate whether or not she had a partial and she nodded her head no..... oh no! I laid her back and sure enough she had NO PARTIAL!!!! Frantically, I run into the radiology room where Kayla was and tell her (she was the one who gave me this "partial patient". She asked if I had the daughter or the mother. I assumed daughter since she was young. She told me there was a mix up because the daughter was supposed to see Karlie and the mother was supposed to see Kayla who found a different partial patient so she gave this patient to me.
I ran to Prof. Costley and gave her the news. She told me to call Karlie and ask her what she wanted me to do. 45 minutes after 12:30 I got it all figured out. The daughter and mother (who actually is a grandmother) live in the same household and have the same name! Karlie didn't need her and told me to go ahead. Meanwhile, McKinlei had a patient who had 2 partials! Prof. Costley told her about my situation and then had me come over and do my partial PE with her! I couldn't believe it! What chaos! It's amazing how everything turned out!
Anyway, I was able to take 4 BWX on this patient and complete 4 quads of Class IB... and get my partial PE taken care of on a different patient! Sheesh! This girl was so sweet to be patient while I worked out the bugs and was so grateful I was able to complete her i none appointment.
You ask what about the grandmother? She is now scheduled with Marie (another classmate who needs a partial patient) in April! WOW! How does stuff like this happen?? Only in the Dental Hygiene Program! HA!
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