Andrea Cabrera Reflection

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Today I worked on my patient Andrea Cabrera. She has generalized moderate chronic periodontitis with localized advanced periodontitis. I reviewed her medical history and had to update it because her physician changed her blood pressure medication. For both clinic section, her blood pressure was below 125/83. After doing a pre-procedure rinse with Listerine, I did an EIOE and everything was within normal limits. Then I disclosed my patient Andrea, and review OHI. My focus was to show her the areas she needs to improve with the dental floss and making sure she is using the floss correctly; then I had her floss her teeth while I cleaned her maxillary partial denture in the ultrasonic. Since I had her staying all day, my plan was to do periodontal

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