Bring the past to the present

Last Friday there was a lunch and several past hygienist from the program were there and shared their stories. I was really surprised that only one was still practicing hygiene...and some of them are now doctors! Thats really cool.

Charting with Axium....this will take some time

So I know we all had some training the other day with Axium. I found a site that has some PDF files that explain a lot different things with Axium. I hope it helps.

Here is the Website:

http://www.mcg.edu/sod/axium/hygiene.html#

Don't Fight it, just do it!

Hey Ladies and Gentleman :P

Time to schedule your second POH!!! And get that behind us!!! It is the last one for this semester! yay!!!

First it was Monkeys and now its probes....what are they going to think of next :P

So first NASA sent a monkey to space to test out their spaceships and stuff, now they are creating probes...? I know in class we talked about the electronic probe.  Where you place the instrument under the gingivae and it automatically gives you a reading.  In class they also said how this type of technology is very pricey and not always accurate.  I agree, I trust myself more than a machine. : P But back to monkeys in space and NASA, I found this video online that shows a type of probe NASA created.  It is a type of ultrasonic probe and they say it is better and painless compared to manual probing....I still rather do it myself : P But it is an interesting video...take a look :)

Clinic....

So does anyone else feel that there is not enough faculty for us?  Today we were practicing the sickle scaler and universal and graceys and I think I might have only gotten 10 or 15 minutes of instructions...I am not saying that that the instruction that I did receive was bad, but it just was not enough.  Especially when we could go cutting off each others gums : P I know that I would like to have all my gingivae still intact-ed by Christmas break : P

So come on faculty and give us a  little more of your time! And hopefully you will only have to grade us on our Comps once and our gums will still be here at Christmas :) (see we both win) 

Comp Number 1...

So....I failed my first competency and that was safe to say because I had you know who grading me.  I think everyone that had her grade them failed....except for one person. lol! Oo, well. I am not too worried about it since we can keep retaking it until we pass.  :) I just hope that the next competency is more organized and we have a better understanding of what makes us pass or fail.  And all the faculty members agree on pass or fail criteria.  I know of some misunderstanding with the fulcrum placement for the mirror.  Whether it should be intra-oral or extra-oral....I remember some faculty saying that you could fulcrum outside of the mouth with the mirror....so then why did some people fail their comps for doing so....?