Personal Narrative: My Experience As A Dental Assistant

Today was a lot more exciting than Tuesday, we had a good number of patients scheduled for different things. I went on both sides of the operatory and saw more interesting stuff on Dr. Williams side. The dental assistant was taking some impressions for a full set of dentures and basically showed me everything that needed to be done for the full set of dentures to be made. The next patient was a doctor and he could not hear for nothing. So, the whole time me and the hygienist was talking he could not hear anything we had to say. At the very end after he was all done, he looked up at the hygienist and said were you guys talking crap about me. I was like no sir we were not. The next patient on the assistant’s side just came in for Invisalign impressions

to get fitted for them. After that patient was done, it was dental society meeting at the Greenville Convention center, so the dentists had to leave early. After the dentists left, we had no more patients scheduled the rest of the day. We all decided we wanted to clean out the lines and let me tell you, they were disgusting. The dental assistant was trying to clean out the pipes with a cotton tip applicator because the lines were backed up and she ended up getting the cotton part of the applicator stuck in the line. We ended up have to take the line apart and cut the line because nothing was suctioning up at all with the saliva ejector. After we cut the line, she could not get the piece back on the line. We finally got it back on the line and it started working again. The was basically the end of the day and we all left.