September 27, 2006

My goal for today was to have a light grasp on my instrument and not make my patient bleed. I did pretty well at keeping a light grasp, but we did probing today, and I made my patient bleed a couple of times. We practiced probing on the typodonts first, and then we got together with a partner and practiced on each other. I think the thing that I need to work on the most with probing is keeping the probe adapted to the tooth correctly. I passed off my mirror and fulcrum PE today! My goal for next time is to keep my instrument adapted correctly to the teeth.