October 2, 2006 (My Birthday!)

My goal for today was to adapt the instrument better to the teeth. I am getting a lot better, but I think I am still not pushing hard enough with my probe because I am afraid of hurting my patient. We practiced doing probe readings on each other. When instructor Carter checked my probe readings, I was 1 mm low on some of them. I just needed to push a little harder and go a little deeper on some of them. My goal for next time is to push hard enough to get into the base of the sulcus.