1A pt

This is for the 2-4-08 day of clinic

That day I saw a 1A patient, who I ended up doing an exam on. For some reason I thought that you werent allowed to use the polish until after the scale check. My pt had some staining on the lower lingual anteriors, and I worked really hard to get it off with the scaler, but I decided not to pursue it too much because I knew that the polish would be the easiest, most efficient way to make sure it all got off. So I didn't polish, and found out later that it is okay to polish before a scale check, and sure enough the stains came off really easily.

I wish I would have known this before, b/c it would make things a heck of a lot easier.