Catching Up

     Today I realized how long it has been since I posted.  Oops!  The past few weeks in clinic have pretty much all been the same.  My morning patient comes, then my afternoon patient cancels last minute or doesn't show up.  It's so stressful.  I always have a stomach ache on Tuesday because I am so stressed out about my patients showing up.  I hope the whole semester isn't like this.
     Last Tuesday I finally had a week when both of my patients came.  That didn't last long though because today both of my patients cancelled.  Yesterday afternoon when I was calling and confirming my patients my morning patient cancelled and I couldn't get a hold of my afternoon patient.  I was able to find someone else pretty quickly who was willing to come in at 8:00 am.  About 20 minutes after clinic started this morning the CA came and told me that my afternoon patient had just called and cancelled.  Luckily David was able to come in for me in the afternoon.
     On both of my patients today Professor Alexander gave me some good advice about using the ultrasonic scaler.  I need to remember to roll the instrument in my fingers and move on my fulcrum to adapt to the interproximals and the line angles of the teeth.