9-18-07
This morning I finished a class three patient with very tenacious calculus. It was a good experience and I was able to go deep subgingivally. I had to ultra sonic and then hand scale then go back through and utlra sonic and hand scale again. Some deposits would not come off! It was tricky, but very cool to see the difference in her mouth since I cleaned last week. In the afternoon I saw a good patient who was half class 5 and half class 2. I missed a lot of spots when the instructor checked and I realized that I had not gone subgingivally enough interproximally in the col area. So I will make it a goal to go deeper in to the col and really adapt the toe of the instrument to the tooth at all times.