Highland Park Oral Screenings!

Today a few of us tagged along with Mrs. McGregor to a church in Highland Park to participate in their health fair. We set up two tables with information on oral health, did oral cancer screenings, and informed people about the VCU school of Dentistry. It was a great experience being apart of the fair. There were many other tables set up . . .gluclose screening, flu shots, blood pressure, massages etc informing this community about their health. Someone spoke about medical insurance, and another gave her story about cardiac arrythmia, another spoke about nutrition. The best part was talking to the people and motivating them. I can't wait for the next volunteer opportunity! Hope you enjoy the pictures.

Dental Floss Wrapping Solution :D

What do you do when you can't find tape!? Use dental floss! I am going to my best friends baby shower today. Here is my crafty solution to wrapping a gift!

Seeds of Hope

One of the places I want to live. Here is an old video of the Seeds of Hope Brazil orphanage. This is what keeps me motivated in life. I can't wait to serve here as a medical missionary. Check out their website http://www.seedsofhopebrazil.com/

DUN DUN DUN

It was not bad AT ALL. My first Patient yesterday was wonderful and my experience was as well. My partner and I worked great as a team!. First we got the patient in the chair and did medical history. My partner inputed the info in axium while I sat with the patient and tried to cheer her up and keep her calm. I took automated vitals and did intraoral and extraoral exam. My partner did the probing depths and recession while I inputted the info in the computer. Our professor told us to go ahead and clean her 11 teeth :) and then we realized that there were no x rays in her chart in axium. We were told by someone that we should just reschedule for her to come back and get xrays and a cleaning done. I ran downstairs trying to get a copy of her previous charts to know when the last time she had xrays was. . . and the chartroom was closed. So. There was a little miss communication as to what we were supposed to do about the radiographs. Our patient is going to reschedule to come back and just get the x-rays and cleaning. I was a little frustrated because we could have easily gotten our patient done. All in all it was a great learning experience. I want to get more proficient with axium. I think when I learn how to imput everything it will be a breeze! I realized how much I am going to LOVE this and love my patients.

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VCUUUUUU Basketball Game!

DH REPRESENT! Check out our cool advertisement that the VCU School of Dentistry bought!







We Won OF COURSE!
GO RAMS!

Celebration!

Celebration FOOD!




I PASSED all of my comps. Praise the Lord.

Sink or Swim

The two words today that stand out to me the most were sink or swim voiced by one of our lovely professors. :) "In this program you either sink or swim. . . and today your head was barely out of the water (with my gracey comp)" were the piercing words that punched me in the gut. But I felt it coming. I know I need a lot more practice with instrumentation. I'm not close to perfect. It's hard saying that when coming to dh school I thought without a shadow of a doubt that I was going to ROCK in the clinic. But here I am needing a lot of help. This has been such a roller coaster for me. I want this more than anything. I do not want to fail. The only thing I could think of today was imagining myself packing up my locker. . .which is a lot of stuff. I would probably have to make two or three trips to remove everything I have in there! I don't want my head to be barely out of the water in this program. I want to be walking on the water! BOOM! I think we should all strive to do this. Make the impossible possible. We all have the potential to go beyond succeeding. Now. . . I am off to study immunity. Good luck everyone on the exam tomorrow. :)