Wednesday, February 10, 2010

I have to brush the lingual surfaces?!!

I had a 16 yr old girl today. She was super cute and way nice. She was just a 1B with a little calc on the lower linguals around her lingual bar. I was going over OHI and had her demo her brushing. Then I started teaching her and talked to her about having a system of brushing and going over all surfaces. Then she said, "Oh, I didn't know I had to brush the inside too!" She felt really dumb but I was like 'Seriously?' I didn't say that but it just surprises that hygienist out there aren't doing OHI. They must be totally skipping over it or something. OHI is something so simple and I think when we all are working in the real world we need to take just a few minutes and discuss it with our patients. You never know what they will learn!!

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