silver4's Diaryland Diary

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all you need is love

work is slow. not good. no work means i might as well stop apartment hunting because i won't have the means to support moving out, especially with loan payments being the top priority. i take it all in good stride though; i don't sit around whining and complaining to the staff who do the scheduling. i've stated my piece and it pretty much depends on when the patients come in and what they can do. and, like i've said, i don't push treatment and i definitely don't over-treat, so i'm never going to try to scam my patients. i just want to get some work and experience going, because i'm feeling pretty pathetic over here.

however, the thing that makes it all worthwhile when i have days like today or weeks like this week appears to be, is having a patient like i had this morning. i had this woman, my age, who i first saw 2 weeks ago, who needed root canals on her top 2 front teeth per trauma. so we eased into it and i did one last week and one today, and the one today we did what's called "internal bleaching", when the tooth is no longer vital and there is staining/discoloration that comes from within the tooth (as opposed to extrinsic stains like coffee, tea, wine like i'm drinking right now)... anyways. so we did that stuff and i joke around with my patients a lot and keep things light so it doesn't feel like they are in an intimidating dental environment. anyways, the thing that makes it all worthwhile is the hug that she gave me at the end of the procedure today. that's all i needed. someone happy and grateful that it didn't hurt, etc. and when i was working at the other office, the 14 year old i was working on for a root canal also gave me a hug at the end, and man... that basically makes my day. it makes me feel really proud of what i do, and not concerned with maybe taking longer than other drs may take, because i want to make sure that the work i do is done right, as long as the patients don't get pissed. not that i take forever, but with things like root canals i'd rather take my time than blow through it. i've seen some really crappy root canals that if it were me who had done them, i'd feel embarrassed.

i ramble. hope you enjoyed the brief dental lesson. now you know the difference between intrinsic (in the dentin; usually trauma-induced) and extrinsic (in enamel; coffee, smoking etc) stains.

and it appears to be that the moral of my story is give me a hug and my day will be complete :)

6:37 p.m. - 2011-01-10

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