My patient failed to attend for the second time in a week so my demonstrator told me to be co-operator with my peer was kind enough to let me do so. The patient had heavy staining due to chewing betel nuts since they were young. The plan was to scale a quadrant each with my Read More…
“Kalimera”
Upon arriving at perio clinic and looking through my patient notes I noticed that the patient was of the same nationality as me. Once I saw this I was excited to greet them by saying good morning in greek “kalimera”. The patient heard this and thier eyes lit up with happiness and continued to speak Read More…
My First Restoration!
On the Friday before lockdown restrictions were tightened, I performed my first restoration! The patient was a 14-year old that had many carious lesions thought their dentition that needed immediate attention. There was a mix of feeling excited to finally perform a restoration on a patient with being nervous about not performing it well. I Read More…
Assisting a patient from the same nationality as me
Before we ever started seeing patients I used to always think about just how exciting it would be to treat a patient from the same nationality. I could not wait for the day that I opened my patient’s file and saw that they were also Serbian. I always thought it would be so exciting to Read More…
Covid and cold sores
As we wait for this lockdown to finally end, I have been thinking about ways COVID has changed our experience in the clinic and I remembered a time when I was assisting an operator who had a very eager and motivated patient. The patient was very excited to get a clean as she was feeling Read More…
Gatekeep Gaslight Girlboss
With all this time I have now in the this lockdown, I’ve had a chance to really reflect upon some experiences with different patients I’ve seen within the DTC, and it’s time for me too share with you all of my favourites (if I’m allowed to have them) and which ones have provided me an Read More…
PAEDS!
Most of my appointments in the DTC have been paeds. Whether this be through fate or simply sheer coincidence, it has solidified in my mind that paeds is going to be my favourite area to work in. I had quite a nervous child come in for her first appointment with me needing 2x FS, she Read More…
All about communication
A 14-year-old patient presented to me on 06/08/21 with his mother. The main reason for this visit was related to ortho treatment based on what the mother mentioned. It was a new patient with blank histories and a dental chart. This session was quite important and helpful in terms of facing new things to do Read More…
Management of an Older adult
My periodontics patient that presented was 94 years old and was suffering from dementia. They presented with their wife who was also a patient for the day and their son. From the beginning of the appointment, my patient showed a lot of anxiety to be separated from his wife so my peers and I decided Read More…
Communication
The night before my clinical session I had to take my girlfriend to the emergency. Coming home at 6am I was contemplating whether I should take the session off. But who am I to turn down a 3 hour session of clinic experience. I decided to push through and come to the session. Feeling exhausted, Read More…