Patient Reflection

On Thursday, October 26th, it was very disappointed not being able to assist to my last rotation at First Choice. For these last two rotation it was a very enriching experience to work with patient at this location. It was nice to feel what it is like to see a patient in a real life setting, where you do not have to report to the instructor continuously, and fill out all the paper work we have to do as student at Lincoln College of New England. From this experience I take the importance of always reviewing the patient’s information before siting him/her on the chair, and verifying with front desk what procedure the patient is allow to have. Also, I liked how the instructors where always there to guide us and teach us, and it was not stressful to treat our patients with the instructor’s and other students’ presence. …show more content…
I know the hard work the dental hygienists that work here are doing. They have to see a lot of patients in one day because the state insurance does not pay a lot for a prophy. To compensate for this and still be productive, they have to work on a tight schedule and sometime patients are double booked. I do not know if I will like to work for a place like this because I feel that even though we are doing a great service, there are some things that the patients are missing, like subgingival irrigation or Arestin, and not enough time to do a tobacco cessation or thoroughly OHI. However, it is possible that these dental hygienist have acquired the skill to narrow the OHI to what they know is best to their