Clinic Performance 2022

     Senior clinic is an exciting portion allowing for the refining of skills and professional treatment of patients in many outside clinics. I have made a chart of the percentage of clinic rotations in which I shared a majority of the time with Veterans Clinic Los Angeles, West Los Angeles Clinic, and UCLA Venice clinic. I have been able to see a variety of patients and treat them accordingly from pediatric patients, to medically compromised patients requiring research into medical histories, medications, treatment modalities/modifications, and psychological issues pertaining to the variables of patient care.     The differences between clinics involved at times not having assignments for patients and not being able to previously research the patient's medical history and previous treatment. This allowed me to quickly look up medications and past records in the patient's charts to be able to make the best decisions for the treatment that day. Being able to make these decisions in an accurate and timely manner would be very important in making sure the patient is treated safely and with the best care. 



NCR forms 

  • Here you will find some of my evaluation NCR forms with some milestones and self-reflection for improvements. I am proud of my clinic performance as I have learned from my  accomplishments as well as my mistakes and am able to look back at the progress I have made in the first half of my  senior year  
  • This was one of my first medium calculus cases as a senior and I was hesistant to do a product grading, I did not have the confidence yet to think I would be successful in passing a product evalution. 
  • In hindsight, after completing the treatment and having professor Ogami evaluate me I received positive marks and she said that I was ready to complete products in a timely manner and had done a good scaling in a heavier residual calculus patient. 
  • Hearing her comments gave me the confidence in my self to be able to complete heavier cases in the near future. I also was graded on fluoride placement and received a 4.0. 



    • This was one of my first patients at the VA, the patient presented with a complicated medical history, psychological history, and suicidal ideology.
    • The patient was not a heavy calculus case but required careful management so as not to create excess stress for the patient considering age, current medical status ASA III, and psychological condition.
    • Overall I was able to handle the patient carefully and provided adequate care in order to make the patient experience positive. 


      • After careful assessment of my CCP patient, I was able to begin the first quadrant of scaling and performed a thorough medical assessment of an ASA III patient with ten medications carefully correlating the existing condtions, implications for local anesthesia, dental implications, bleeding implications, methods of actions and side effects with safe treatment for the patient. 
      • This was one of the products I did in the semester I was able to get 100% which was a major accomplishment for me knowing that I had removed almost a decades worth of calculus succesfully. 
      • I know that I was applying many of the techniques I had learned in order to maximize the scaling and removal of all deposits. I made sure to carefully explore for any residual calculus. 


        • Reflecting on this case as one of the heaviest calculus cases I had ever encountered I am able to look back and see that I could have made some changes but overall I was happy to be able to help the patient after almost 20 years without seeing a dental hygienist. 
        • The calculus was very tenacious and there were pockets in excess of 7 mm which I put to good use my advanced kit for reaching into those pockets.
        • I was able to provide succesful anesthesia in order to provide pain control and comfort for the patient throughout the appointment with an AMSA and PSA for the maxillary right quadrant. 


          • Working with professor Lawrence at the Veterans Affairs clinic is a fast paced environment with many clinicians. It is an enjoyable learning experience and I was able to see a patient in the afternoon after I had two patients not show up and was given a patient last minute. 
          • Revieweing the patients pocket depths it was agreed that placing Aresin in some non resolved 5 mm + pockets would be beneficial.
          • I was able to use an ultrasonic unit to remove stain and light medium calculus on the lower anterior sextant and scaled full mouth and afterwards I placed aresting at two sites and gave the patient post op intructions.