Let's be honest. Right now, you just can't get around it. We're desperate and cynical and the chalkboard in our lab says it all. I really just need 8 class II restorations that don't have to be pretty progress exams and finish my root canal and then I can handle whatever fixed I'll need to remediate; I will avoid operative remediation at all costs.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not blowing off any of my patients that need treatment that I don't "need" to do. I still have a denture patient with a one week recall appointment to do that's been sick, another denture patient ready to start extractions, my Nanna who's ready for her treatment, and a new patient coming in for a prophy. I'm just being very deliberate about scheduling the appointments that I need to make it to the finish line or as close to it as is humanly possible.
So, this week I'm back in clinic. Lots to do:
Monday: Fixed PE, perio rotation
Tuesday: class IIs, class III
Wednesday: no clinic
Thursday: class IIs, fixed PE
Friday: class III, finish endo (please, Lord!)
"Get your progress exams done" is the mantra from the head hancho, so that's what I'm aiming at this week. One crown is a gold survey crown that *will* be seated by the end and the other is a PFM that will most likely be seated - that one I really need to impress that day since I have OD rotation all next week and the porcelain deadline looms upon us. I would LOVE to impress both of those this week, but I don't have assistants lined up, so who knows.
Rotations left: OD (next week), Pedo (May), OMS emergency (May)
Endo: 1/2 - finish #19 on Friday????
Fixed: 3/13 - #4 sent to the lab, cut 5 and 6 this week
Operative: 39/50 (5/13 class IIs) - 3, maybe 4 class IIs this week?, 2 more class IIIs this week
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Progress Exam Status:
Fixed 0/2 (2 this week)
DONE - Perio, Operative, Oral Surgery, Endo, Removable
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D3 Finishes!
Finished with DAU!
Finished with Perio! (2/4 to graduate, 1 tx planned)
Finished with Removable! (4/9 to graduate, 2 in progress)
Finished with Nitrous! (3/6 nitrous to graduate)
Finished with Oral Surgery Extractions! (46/100 ext to graduate)
Finished with Pre-Prosth! (4/6 preprosth cases to graduate)
All assisting is complete!
The strange, exciting journey of a young woman from teaching to dentistry.
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