Melt down...

Well today was interesting. My class 2 patient cancelled that I was planning on finishing. I was going to do 3 or 4 PE's on her too so that messed up my schedule. I came to school early to call a patient and actually got one scheduled that I got off the resource list a couple days ago. Mr. Solomon said she was 3 quads of a class 4 and 1 quad of a class 3. I took her name in hopes that she was just a class 3 all over. I was only able to finish the OD today. She definately has perio!! Probing took me forever because she had such deep pockets. Midtown actually took x rays last week and she has lots of bone loss and I thought maybe even a furcation or 2. She has mobility on 4 teeth. The crazy thing is that she doesn't have any restorations and only 3 suspicious areas! After I had an OD check, I started crying!! I don't know why I broke down or what happened. I guess I was just sad for this patient. She is only 26 years old and is in this bad of a condition. She's never had a cleaning and basically doesn't know how to take care of her mouth. I guess I'm just stressed and it all needed to come out and this was the time to do it! I hope with the OHI I did and after this cleaning and more OHI, she will be able to be motivated and keep her mouth clean and maintain her perio. It was just so sad to see her mouth in this condition. And maybe I'm just a baby!!!