February 21st, 2007

On my third visit to my co-op placement, I was able to meet another hygienist called, Anna. This time, this hygienist has been working there, with Dr. John Delisimunovic for 5 years now. As I see her with the patients, she was a very laid back, and easy to bond and communicate with. As I was sitting in the clinic, while she was with a patient, she was discussing what school she attended, for hygiene school, and I found out that she graduated from one of the school that I applied it for. She told me how strict the instructor were she also taught me how to fill out a log book, as she checks the patients gums, I would insert either the number 0,1,2,3 in blue and 4,5,6,7,8,9 in red. Which determine the steepness of the gum in between the teeth and the gums. If the number vary in the range of 0-3 mm it means that by using the toothbrush the patient are able to remove the tarter from their gums, as oppose, if they vary in between the range of 4-9 mm they dentist and the hygienist must be alert, immediately. When the hygiene writes notes in the back of the page, describing how well the client co-operate with them would right in green ink, to determine that the client has been checked by the hygiene. Right after each patient she showed me how to clean the instruments. She would grab all the instruments in her hand, and grab a toothbrush look alike and brush the instruments. Then put it into a casket and place it into and bio cleaner (ultrasound), which removes the bacteria from the instruments, but there are two of the instruments where we couldn’t put in the ultrasound because both tool has ultrasound in them. Therefore we could not place those tools in the ultrasound. Once the ultrasound was done, we would then put them in this sterilizer machine. ' chiu .. <<