Semester 4- Winter 2023
August 30, 2023
First day back to clinic, I was challenging myself to finish a patient in one appointment but couldn’t. I felt a little disappointed
September 06, 2023
I felt sad and disappointed because I felt that I was running behind everyone in term of accomplishing requirements and competencies. I failed my FMX-20 and felt totally like I am regressing..
September 11,2023
It was a frustrating clinic day with a patient who was constantly on her phone calling her mom and kids whenever I was doing some notes … She was a holistic patient, interested into her oral health but refused fluoride treatment even though I shared with her the benefits of it.
September 15, 2023
Clinic was frustrating again, patient had to leave earlier although she knows it was a 3 hours appointment. Only positive points of the day, I got my radiographs completed.
September 20,2023
I was very excited and stressed because I was going to do SRP and local anesthesia on my patient. I enjoyed doing it and it went very well . I felt satisfied and accomplished today.
October 2nd, 2023
Clinic went well, smooth but slow. I took my midterm. I was very confident until I realized at the end that I forgot “pre-check” which is equal -15 points. So, I ended the clinic with disappointment.
October 6th,2023
Clinic went well. I was able to accomplish what I had planned and more. Finished scaling a patient and start a new patient with all assessments completed and took FMX-20. I was a little exhausted at the end of clinic, since I had monitor duties too.
October 11, 2023
I felt very “off” during clinic although everything went well. I kept having memory lapses. I even answered my faculty in French and wrote my PTEN wrong…
October 13, 2023
Had a pretty smooth and easy clinic session. I was a little scared taking sealant competency since I only had one real opportunity to do it. I remembered it was laborious… But this time, posing sealant was pretty easy and smooth. I was so surprised !
October 16th, 2023
Clinic did not go as I planned today… My patient had a panic attack on the chair and couldn’t sit still. She said she needed a break and sit up right away, went out, came back, laid down and ask to go for a walk again. Change her decision to take radiographs. At the end I decided to dismiss her because it was impossible to treat her with that much anxiety. I was sad not be able to clean her but end up finding another patient.
October 25, 2023
Clinic went well but I wasn’t satisfied about my SRP. I was ready and excited to practice more on patient so I could gaining skills as I practice more, but patient didn’t want local anesthesia.
November 1st, 2023
Clinic was challenging because my patient couldn’t open her mouth really wide so it was challenging to scale. I had a funny moment during clinic with my patient where she forgot her partial. I called her and told her to come back to pick it but she said no. I said but it is your teeth, you need it. I told her she had no choice to come and pick it up…
November 15th, 2023
Today clinic, my patient requested to no get any product recommendation. Because her oral hygiene wasn’t efficient to show progress, I still did patient education and made recommendation although I could feel she didn’t like it. I felt very uncomfortable doing it though.
November 28th 2023
Clinic was a race against the time because I planned 3 patients and needed to finish them. I was anxious that my patient wouldn’t be on time and everything would fall apart. It didn’t they were all on time and everything went smoothly !
December 8th, 2023
It was a good clinical day! Got my last radiographs requirements completed. I was very confident injecting local anesthetic - I love doing it - on my patient by myself without assistant of faculty. Hopefully, I don’t lose this confidence when coming back for spring semester.
Semester 5- Spring 2024
January 31, 2024,
First day back to clinic for this last semester, I was a little stress about not being thorough in my scaling and loosing point for missing spots or even failed the patient. But didn’t.
February, 5th 2024,
Clinic was tough, patient calculus was very tenacious. I was standing the whole appointment and wasn’t uncomfortable. I was sweating so much to scale off the calculus. My hand hurt at the end of clinic …
February 12th, 2024, I thought that clinic was going to be smooth and easy since I saw the patient 4 months ago and expected from her being good at her oral hygiene. Patient presented with more calculus than the last visit…
February 16th, 2024
It was a great clinic day before going to labor break. Everything went smoothly. Funny thing, I ended starting being in labor that night.
March 1st, 2024,
First day back to clinic after the delivery the baby, I was trying to be too ambitious. I wanted to finish a class 3 patient in one appointment but her calculus was so tenacious…
March 8th, 2024
It was a busy clinic day since I doubled up the clinic session, The morning session went well and smooth but the afternoon my patient no showed even though she confirmed and even called me an hour before the appointment. I felt very bad for my classmates because my patient was supposed to come with her children one for me and the other for my classmates. We ended up going walk around the campus to find a patient. I felt like I wasted my clinic day..
March 13th, 2024,
My clinic session went very well and smooth. I was a little anxious at the beginning because I was gonna see 2 littles kids 2 and 4 years old. My past experience with a 2 went terrible. I was traumatized.. This time the kids were so well behaved and adorable. It was so easy to treat them! They made my day !
March 22nd, 2024
Clinic went terrible. My patient came very late and I had to see both children. I finished both kids but it was chaotic. I didn’t appreciate the mom left her kid on the chair and try to find the uber… I told her that she still have to pick her son up.
April, 5th, 2024
This semester, I must have win cancelling number record.. I doubled up the clinic session to make up the session I missed from my maternity leaves. The patient in the morning could only stay an hour an half and her husband was supposed to come in the afternoon but cancelled. So I had to find another patient in the campus. I really felt like that I won’t be able to graduate because of all these last minute cancelling appointments.
April 12th, 2024, It was not a good clinic day, I had patient no show and got a bad news. My periodontal case was rejected so I have to find another patient and completed the patient in less than two weeks.
April 15th, 2024
I got another patient for my periodontal case, took impression which went way better than the fist I took on a patient. So, I am really happy about it!
April 24th, 2024, Today clinic went well. Got all my competencies and radiographs completed so I can now focus on finishing my stage requirements