Thursday, September 3, 2009

Hard lesson

So my patient presented with light pink gingiva, little to no bleeding, and very little calculus. I thought to myself, I will breeze right through this and then catch up on other things with the rest of clinic time. So I get done and ask for a scale check, I had missed like seven spots! They were all very little deposits subgingival. I just couldn't believe how deceiving her gingiva was. Well lesson learned and its time to start being careful and always check subgingival and interproximal even when the tissue looks really healthy.

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