Mockboard #2

So in clinic on TUesday we had our 2nd mockboard; which is where we clean a patients teeth and get graded on it like we would when we take the real board test to get our license. The first one I failed last fall, but I picked a patient from Mexico who had never had her teeth cleaned, so she was tough. And this mockboard I chose a pt. whom I had just cleaned his teeth last year, but I don't think he had brushed his teeth since. I only missed 2 spots of calculus, but I traumatized the tissue in 3 spots so I got marked down for that :( Tissue heals, big deal! So I'm not feeling incredibly confident about this huge board exam coming up.

Today I went to WSU and we did this "Give kids a smile" service. A bunch of dentists from the community volunteer and poor kids from downtown ogden come to the clinic and we clean their teeth, take x-rays, and do any dental work they need. It was a really cool experience. There were tons of people and I got to assist a dentist; it was fun to do something besides clean teeth. It was also really sad because some of the kids had so much decay. We treated one little 8 yr old boy who's permanent molars, which he's only had 1-2 yrs were just completely bombed out. Some people just don't value oral hygiene. We gave all the kids toothbrushes and taught them how to use them, so hopefully they'll use them.

Oh and I learned about this cute website from my friend Casandra. It's cutestblogontheblock, and I have a link to it. But she has some free backgrounds you can use, or for a small fee she put my blog title and cute pictures up at the top. I'm just not good at all that Html so I would prefer to have someone else do it for me. Doesn't it look good:)