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Today was a very productive day for me because I was able to pass beyond the data assessment check and treatment plan, and finish my patient Omar. He was my first patient, and treating him was a good learning experience. On the first day of clinic I was lost. Even though, he was a held over patient, I only got as far as finishing my assessment data collection. Every time I had to do something new, I had to stop and look into my notes. However, this helped me to be mentally, organize all the steps in my head, so for the following patients I knew exactly what to do next. For my patient Omar, I did the power instrumentation with the cavitron, and handed scale all 4 quadrants. My biggest challenge was to do the hand instrumentation in teeth …show more content…

I like this patient because she is not an easy case. Since day one, I had to be on my toes and make sure I was asking all the right questions, and documenting everything. For example, she suffers from high blood pressure and I have to ask her before staring if she took her medication. Also, in class we have been talking about risk factors that can affect the progression of periodontal disease. In her case, her smoking habit has contributed to the progression of her periodontitis. However, clinically the gingiva tissue appears pale pink with some stippling, and very minimum BOP. As I learned in class, that color, consistency, and the BOP are not effective ways to determine the presence of periodontitis. The more reliable way is probing because it will let you know for sure if there has been bone loss. In her case, I also had to take in consideration that she had gum recession and a probe reading of 3mm with a recession of 3mm is really 6mm of bone loss. On her last visit, I collected all the assessment data, and today everything was checked including her SOAP. For the future, I need to make sure that when I am probing the interproximal surfaces, I walk the probe a little more until I reach the col area. Some of my probe reading in these areas were not accurate. As part of her treatment plan, I started talking to her about the relation between plaque and periodontal disease, and the need for her to use dental floss,

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