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Perform Intraoral Procedures Reflection
Perform Intraoral Procedures Reflection
description. It’s the things you will do every day in your time at private practice.
They are things like making X-rays, prophies, giving local anesthesia, polishing,
I would say learning how to do each and every one of these skills over the
course of my time in hygiene school was both the most challenging and rewarding
thing I have done in my life. Learning how to properly hold and use the
instruments was so challenging in the beginning, but after semesters of hard work
Initially, when I learned that in order to pass your last semester of dental
hygiene school you have to pass instrumentation with a 95%, I thought that was
way too high. But now after seeing patients that come to college that have seen
their hygienist every 6 months for as long as they can remember, come in with all
of this burnished calculus that I have to work to remove, reminds me why it’s like
that. Our instructors want to know that we are as effective as we can be with our
bad hygienist from a great one. I am confident when I say that hygiene school has
given me the tools to make sure than I can and will be a great hygienist!