Costley is hereby the queen of deposit finding!

To start off, I have to mention this morning, it was quite the learning experience. My patient was a class 3 with plenty of calculus, but even post administration of LA, she was so extremely sensitive. I had to be very careful with my strokes and I also couldn't use the ultra-sonic. So I instrumented with my hand instruments and it was very difficult. I leaned that sometimes you just have to get down and dirty when working on your patient. Of course it is optimal to cause no discomfort, however that is not our number one priority. Our goal is to remove all calculus deposits. From now on, I will focus on that primarily along with focusing on patient comfort.
Also today, I learned that no one can find calculus like proffesor Costley can. She is a very detailed oriented individual and she can get that explorer to do things I've never seen. She found 6-7 residual deposits. Not only could she find them, but she could get them all off too. I hope to be that good one day!

October 18

Today I had a patient with extemrely tenacious calculus. I was happy to use my right and left ultra sonics today. They really helped instrumenting the deeper pockets.

October 11, again

Today was a very successful day. I was able to complete to class 2 patients and I passed off two PE's. I believe that I am starting to understand the reasoning and that I am able to apply my skills. I feel that I am improving and I feel a lot more confident. However, I have not yet completed a class 3, so I am sure that there is still plenty for me to learn.
One day, I missed a bunch of calculus on a patient, and ever since then I have been a lot more thorough. I have found that it is better to clean in control than to just scale around in an unorganized manner. I am glad that the las few patients I have done have had no remaining calculus.
My goal is to instrument more efficiently and to know which instruments are used where. I also aim to be able to detect calculus more proficiently.