..sandblasting time!

Last wednesday in clinic we learned how to sandblast each others' faces off.  Okay, okay. . not really.  But that day we learned how to polish and how to perform the Air/Powder polishing procedure.  OUCH!  It hurt. . it felt like my tongue was getting sandblasted off. . and it wasn't pretty.  It was fun to be able to polish, and it was great to be able to learn how to get stain and biofilm off of our patient's teeth.  I hope that one day it will come in handy-- My patient didn't have much to remove, so I felt bad that I was blasting his enamel, but it all turned out alright, and we just have to remember that we are all learning.  Today was a great day in clinic.. and we are getting CLOSER and CLOSER to seeing our REAL patient.  YIKES!