Rough day

Well today wasn't the best of days and I hope it won't be a trend for this semester. First of all my morning patient didn't show up!! Mr. Saloman talked to him this morning and he said he'd be here in 10 minutes (after he got lectured) and he still didn't show up!! So no quads for me! My afternoon patient was quadraplegic so that was a new experience. It was very difficult to even look in her mouth because I had to stand the whole time. I did use the nomad on her to do a full mouth series of xrays which was actually fun. It's easy to use and I did it at my unit. She had really good home care and was very clean. It just goes to show that if you really care about your teeth you will take care of them. She has limited motion and can only move from about her elbows down but she is a good example of somebody that is limited but takes excellent care of her teeth. Hopefully I'll have better luck with my patients and schedule some that really want to come in!