Kitty Dentals

Yesterday started a new month at the clinic, so I have been assigned to help out a new doctor/tech team. Sadly, I won't get to see all the crazy surgeries or exotic animals near as much this month, but it will still be great experience working with the youngest doctor at the clinic. She went to school with my sister, so I knew her before starting my internship. Anyways, her surgery day is monday. Yesterday we didn't have any surgeries set up, but there were 2 dentals scheduled. Since I'm in my 3rd and last month of interning, I was able to do both the dentals. At least half of each. The tech did one side of the mouth to show me how they do them at the clinic, and I did the other side of the mouth. I admit, I was a little slow, but it was the first time I've done dentals at the clinic. Yea I did them at school, but that was with different equipment and a different procedure. At school, I probed to check pocket depth in the gums, explored teeth pockets, scaled the crowns to remove tarter, and polished the crowns. At the clinic, you start scaling right away. Then you polish the teeth and probe the pockets. The explorer is only used if absolutely necessary. None the less, I was able to perform the dentals, and they went well. Luckily, the teeth weren't very bad, so no xrays or extractions were necessary. They were both routine dentals.

Today wasn't near as exciting. I was scheduled to be up front today since the doctor I'm with had the day off. It was pretty slow since only one doctor was taking appointments before 1pm. The other doctor on today was in surgery til then. Luckily, I had lots of projects to work on during the slow stretch. I made free treat bags of t/d for dogs and cats at first. Then I was lucky enough to organize the city license certificates to mail out to the government center. I also go to work on frontline coupons for those that bought 6 applications to get one free. Towards the end of the night I wrote up new client cards to mail out to our newest clients welcoming them to the clinic family. It was a pretty exciting day as you can tell. I'm down to 3 weeks left of the internship!