Exploring!

In clinic today, we learned exploring and how it is performed and why it is performed.  We practiced on our typodonts first, and then I had the grand opportunity to explore Erin's mouth-- boy it was sure purtty!  :)  We just went supragingivally this time, but next time I'm sure we'll go sub: dun dun dun!  I felt like exploring is a little easier than probing, however, it might have seemed that way because I wasn't actually working in Erin's gum tissues-- It sure is easier to instrument when you're just "going through the motions" on the surfaces of the teeth!  :)  I feel pretty good about how it went, and hopefully when it's time to pass off the PE, I'll be ready-  Posterior teeth are extremely hard to access, but we all know that practice makes perfect, and I want to be just that!  Yay for hygiene happenings!  It still is amazing to me how much information we have already been exposed to in such a short amount of time. . I still have a lot to learn, though, and this exciting journey doesn't end soon--