* 3/5 root canals
* 6.5/9 removable units
* 1/2 partials
* 2/4 perio cases, plus 1/2 starts
* 92/100 extractions, I really just need to do my progress exams and call it done after rotation in December
* 3/4 completed pediatric cases
* 1/2 community service credits
* 20/50 crowns - 8 in progress, 2 to be seated tomorrow, will wax one soon
* 74/99 filllings

Ending the Beginning of the End

This is my last full week of patients this semester.  Then I go on rotation *a much needed break* and see a handfull of patients right before the Christmas break to seat a few crowns, do a few fillings, and prophy with the best of them.

* 3/5 root canals
* 6.5/9 removable units
* 1/2 partials
* 2/4 perio cases, plus 1/2 starts
* 92/100 extractions, I really just need to do my progress exams and call it done after rotation in December
* 3/4 completed pediatric cases
* 1/2 community service credits
* 20/50 crowns - 8 in progress, 2 to be seated tomorrow, getting a gold crown ready to turn in for approval
* 69/99 filllings

School is Beating the Life out of Me.

* 3/5 root canals
* 6.5/9 removable units
* 1/2 partials
* 2/4 perio cases, plus 1/2 starts
* 92/100 extractions, I really just need to do my progress exams and call it done after rotation in December
* 3/4 completed pediatric cases
* 1/2 community service credits
* 19/50 crowns - 9 in progress, 2 back from the lab, will cast one tomorrow to seat on Monday
* 69/99 filllings - I've done a lot of fillings lately, but apparently didn't know how to read the record on Axium, hence the big jump!

The Final Numbers are In

My numbers are 50 crowns and 99 fillings.  Really?  99?  We couldn't just make it the full 100?  And we'll see just how close to that 50 crowns I can get.  This basically means I will be working my tail off until the porcelain deadline.  My entire tail.  It will all be gone.

* 3/5 root canals
* 6.5/9 removable units
* 1/2 partials
* 2/4 perio cases, plus 1/2 starts
* 92/100 extractions, I really just need to do my progress exams and call it done
* 3/4 completed pediatric cases
* 1/2 community service credits
* 18/50 crowns - 10 in progress, 4 back from the lab, waxing one up right now
* 57/99 filllings

Onward and Upward. Or Something Like That.

For a week where I only saw 2 patients, a crown, 2 fillings and 2 extractions is pretty good, right?
This week: a denture reline, crown lengthening surgery, 2 completed cases (Please, Lord!), a completed denture proficiency exam, and maybe more.  I might be at 6.5 removable units by the end of the week.  Crazy.  I may even start a new partial on Wednesday.


* 3/5 root canals
* 5/9 removable units, 1 in progress
* 1/2 partials, 0 in progress
* 2/4 perio cases, plus 1/2 starts
* 92/100 extractions, I really just need to do my progress exams and call it done 
* 3/4 completed pediatric cases
* 1/2 community service credits
* 17/40ish crowns - 10 in progress, 4 back from the lab, two at the lab as I type
* 57/100ish fillings

Because Every Crown Seated is Worth Writing About

But this one was a long time coming.  I took off the old crown sometime around April.  I impressed in May, I think.  1st attempt to seat in June.  2nd attempt to seat post re-tx endo in August?  Something like that.  Re-impressed about 3 weeks ago.  Seated 10.12.10.  Hallelujah.  My patient agrees.

Requirements Completed

* 3/5 root canals
* 5/9 removable units, 1 in progress
* 1/2 partials, 0 in progress
* 2/4 perio cases, plus 1/2 starts
* 91/100 extractions
* 3/4 completed pediatric cases
* 1/2 community service credits
* 15.5/40ish crowns - 8 in progress, 6 at the lab as I type
 57/100ish fillings

Bleh

I have my first WREB-type progress exam tomorrow and I'm trying to put off thinking about it for as long as possible.  I'm also hoping to seat another gold crown on Wednesday.  I've got to get where doing crowns this year is like doing fillings.  Quick, easy, often.  I'm booking them as fast as I can.  I have a new root canal patient that I hope will work out better than the last two.  I seriously need perio.  Seriously.  I finished Nanna's partial, I'm just waiting on lower posterior teeth to come in so I can finish up my F/F proficiency, and I have 2 other partials that just need survey crowns seated to get started.  I should also finish my 3rd and possibly last pedo case this week.

I had my phasing conference, and I'm not sure what my numbers are yet.  I'm not really sure that it meant a whole lot in the long run, except there's a list of treatment I don't have to do because those patients are unreliable or need entirely too much for me to finish in time.  I guess that's a start.

Next up on my plate: part II of boards.

Requirements Completed


* 3/5 root canals
* 5/9 removable units, 1 in progress
* 1/2 partials, 0 in progress
* 2/4 perio cases, plus 1/2 starts
* 91/100 extractions
* 2/4 completed pediatric cases
* 1/2 community service credits
* 14.5/40ish crowns - 8 in progress
* 57/100ish fillings

Because A Good Day is Hard to Come By Lately

A completed pedo case officially gets its own post.  I'm delivering a partial tomorrow.  Get excited!

Requirements Completed

* A ridiculous number of patients
* 3/5 root canals
* 4/9 removable units, 2 in progress
* 0/2 partials, 1 in progress
* 2/4 perio cases
* 84/100 extractions
* 2/4 completed pediatric cases
* 1/2 community service credits
* 13.5/50ish crowns - 8 in progress
* 57/100ish fillings


What I Never Really Have to Do Again If I Don't Want To

* pre-prosth
* stainless steel crown
* molar endo
* nitrous credits

Back on the Wagon

Since I took my blog off Facebook, Rudy can't whine about my requirements posts, so I'll start again.  It's nice to see how it all evolves throughout the year.  I seated 3 crowns today so that was kinda huge for me.

* A ridiculous number of patients

* 3/5 root canals
* 4/9 removable units, 2 in progress
* 0/2 partials, 1 in progress
* 2/4 perio cases
* 84/100 extractions
* 1/4 completed pediatric cases
* 1/2 community service credits
* 13.5/50ish crowns - 6 in progress
* 57/100ish fillings
 
Besides, what else do I have to post about?  I sure could do an awful lot of whining on this here blog, but who wants to hear that...besides, who really reads this anyway?

I Don't Know...

...what the group of interviewers thought of this when they toured through the lab today, but there you have it.  And we've only just begun...

OK, Fine.

I'll actually post about the first week back this fall.

It wasn't great.  It wasn't horrible. It was school.  BCD clinic in all it's glory.  9 months to go.

How has this week as a fourth year been any different than a third year?  I think if anything, I was given more opportunity to be the one thinking like a clinician.  In third year, you present your patient for diagnosis with what you think, and the professor tells you what they think.  You see how you disagree and learn from it.  Then you repeat with consults in every area (root canals, fillings, crowns, etc).  Once you have the final plan, you just do it. They check every little step and intervene when things get hairy.  This week, there was a lot more consulting away from chairside.  This means that your story was all the professor got before they gave you advice.  No professor looking in the mouth, no professor seeing with their eyes what you were describing.  I had to take the advice and run with it.  One day, all of it led to pulling a tooth.  Today, it all led to saving the day and seating an impossible-to-seat crown.  The crazy part was that each time, I figured out exactly what was going on in a crazy situation and made what turned out to be the right call all on my own before having it confirmed by a professor. 

They have to kick you out of the nest sometime.  And then one day, I'll have to pick up a phone if I need one of those consults.