Scale= Pass!! PANO= Fail!!

Today was a Wonderful learning experience for me. It was our first Real day of working on patients in the clinic. Luckily my patient was my mom! She's the best!! I was really excited because I was going to be able to finish her up from last time. She was also going to fulfill a requirement for a PANO x-ray. I have to take 2 of these this semester and I was Super Excited to get one done on the first day!! However.... it didn't go as easily as I thought. I set everything up, got the x-ray from the office, and I was set for the x-ray. After it got processed... it came out Blank! Completley blank! Instantly I began to sweat and freak out. How imbarassing.. this was my mom and I couldn't do it right. So, I went and got Emily, our TA, and she helped me get it all ready again for a re-take. Once again.. the film came out blank. We both couldn't believe it. SO... Emily takes me to go talk with Mr. Salomon who ends up blamming my for using duplicating film instead of Pano film. I was quite bugged by this and so were my instructors because the dup film was in the place of the pano film. So why exactly was this my fault?! He embarrased me infront of the instructors and Instructor Hafen didn't like that too much. She totally stuck up for me and it was Fabulous! So after taking an hour on a Pano, I finally got to scaling. I scaled both upper quads and it took me about 40 minutes. I was a little nervous for scale check but... I Passed with flying colors!! I only missed 1 corner on one tooth!! I was so relieved! I Love instructor Hafen and Emily!! They are the best!! Today once again was a great learning experience. I was super nervous at the beginning but all went pretty well. I love the Hygiene Program and I wouldn't trade it for anything!!