Day 3

Last night our water shut off before bedtime, so we had to brush our teef with water bottles, which was pretty interesting. By the time we woke up for clinic, the water was still off so we had to go to the local store and buy water bottles to fill the bottles for clinic. By the time we opened, we already had at least 15 patients waiting to be seen. So it was a really busy morning. We even had a couple of the police militia come in for some restorations and an RCT. I was pretty flabbergasted when I saw one of the police woman's gun on the clinic counter near the sink. Uhhhhh

My first patient was a young woman who needed an FML on #9. She asked if I could also restore #7, but Dr. Espinoza said we could only do one urgent restoration on each patient because we had so many patients to see. So we told everyone who needed more restorations to come back on Friday or Saturday. 

Dr. Espinoza screened a patient for me for an RCT with x-rays. I get to do an RCT on #9 tomorrow, pretty exciting!!

Then Dr. Espinoza gave me a patient who needed #11, 12, 14 root tips and 15 extracted. She was an elderly woman who was already missing most of her teeth. They were pretty hard to luxate so I asked Dr. Espinoza to help me. It ended up being a pretty difficult case, involving bone trimming and sutures. 

My next patient was also an extraction case, also an elderly woman. We had some trouble getting her numb, so ended up giving her several carpules. Right before we extracted the first tooth, we noticed that she was shaking and was cold. Dr. Rima said that can happen after giving a patient epi.  We took her BP, and it was 140/90, expected to be high after receiving epi. We then extracted #22-26, and I extracted my first tooth, which was exciting! The patient wanted 30-31 extracted also, so we told her to come back on Friday as well. I don't think I like extractions that much--too bloody and gory for me haha. 

Mama Espinoza got us lunch from the hotel and it was the first lunch we ever had that was actually satisfying. We had chicken, rice, potatoes and salad with banana soda. 

After lunch I did a #14 MO amalgam, which was pretty easy considering #13 was missing :) Then I did a #7FM with the color matching pretty well. I ended the day doing a prophy on a patient who had #14 extracted, taking one for the team. 

Noha did an RCT on a mandibular canine and Reemon finished his RCT from the previous day. Yoonah did her first injection today as well as four fillings. Sami extracted four teeth! And Eugenio got his feet wet with extractions and prophies. And last and least, Michael did 7 fillings, but only because he stole all my cases, literally. 

We made the boys clean up the spit cups and headed to dinner at the hotel. On the way, we stopped at the market and got some chips and Bacardi to snack on while playing Mafia later. We had dinner while watching a telenovela.  In recap of the day, we saw 41 patients, did 28 restorations, 24 extractions and 10 prophies. Can't believe our time in Guaimaca is half over!

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