No scaling....

It was quite an interesting day today! I didn't scale either one of my patient's but I was able to get a lot done on them. My first patient was super nice but has some pretty extensive perio. He had ortho bands on every tooth but no arch wire. So... he was in limbo with his treatment. It was really interesting. He had a few mobile teeth so we decided to take a full mouth survey of xrays as well as 4 bitewing xrays. He had some SWEET radiographic calculus and would be Awesome for mockboards but doesn't qualify due to the ortho bands. I was pretty sad about that. But I was happy to get so many xrays done. He'll be back in a couple weeks and I can't wait to get scaling!!
My afternoon patient was Amazing as well. She is in her early 40's and has never had her teeth cleaned! She had some pretty extensive mobility as well so I took some xrays. Her radiographic calculus was incredible and I was so excited to finally have that much calculus. I'm thinking she might be my potential board patient! However.... when I went to go get Prof. Alexander to come do an OD check and classify her, she pointed out that my patient had a HUGE cold sore that was in it's earliest stage, meaning it was HIGHY contagious. Prof. Alexander didn't want to go intraorally due to the cold sore, so I'll have her back to be classified and move on from there. Oops... I totally didn't see the cold sore and that's a BIG TIME no no in clinic! Hopefully it will be gone by the time she comes back! :)