Rinse and Repeat

~WASH~WASH~WASH~

Who know washing your hands could be so detail oriented? I have heard of singing the ABC's or counting to 30, but I have never heard of this method. Three 15 second intervals.
     1- Focus on the palms and back of your hands. Rinse.
     2- Focus on the inter-digital. Rinse.
     3- Focus under the fingernail area. Rinse.
     4- Dry hands completely before putting on your gloves. (We don't want any hands chaffing)
You never knew there could be so many steps to a "simple" wash, did you?

~CLINICAL ATTIRE IS ESSENTIAL TO LIMIT THE SPREAD OF GERMS TO YOU AND YOUR LOVED ONES~

     1. Hair must be pulled back into a bun, no strands of hair falling in the face area, and no more than 4" hanging down in the back. (Failure to comply= hairnet, aka: unattractive)
     2. Earrings may be worn, but they must be studs and easily wiped off.
     3. Scrubs, hemmed to not touch the floor. Shoes only worn in lab and also easily wiped off, lab jacket (pressed) to be worn in all clinical area's.

*We  take all these precautions in order to keep our patients, ourselves, as well as our family safe.

~WASH HANDS~MASK~GLASSES~3 WASH~GLOVES~

This is the what happens every time we enter the clinic. We wash our hands, put on our mask, get our protective eye wear, wash our hands with the steps above, and finally put our gloves on. Now we are ready for treatment. :)

~Blue Boa~

Ann Arrington is the inventor of the Blue Boa. This is a saliva ejector. It hangs on the patients cheeks during intra-oral procedures to keep the water and saliva from gathering in the back of the throat. You tilt your patients head toward whichever cheek the Blue Boa is sitting in. This is a BRILLIANT suction and I would definitely recommend it!  Go to http://www.theblueboa.com/ to see the awesome video.

~Typodont~

Today we got to use our typodont for the first time. They are pretty crazy! They are basically a mouth with lips around it so it "holds" any water you shoot into it. This is what we used for our "patient". The only bad thing I thought about the clinic was that we had about a half hour to play around with the A/W syringe. There is only so much you can do with that thing. :) Overall, pretty chill clinic. At first I thought it was creepy. After "working" on it, I think it's awesome!