Survived Week 3

Another week has gone by.. Wahoo! This week has been a rough one for a lot of people in my class. After having a long weekend to relax, it totally bit us hard on the butt when we got back to school. Not only were we stressed out about passing Clinical PE's, we had to study for 3 quizzes for 3 classes that we had today. Phew! Also, Utah seriously froze on Thursday and there were tons of accidents that happened on the freeway. My lovely clinic partner was one of the unlucky ones and got in an accident on her way to school. Poor gal, but she is doing alright. We were all glad she wasn't hurt at all, thank goodness. Anyway, other than the fact that we were all stressed out, we had some exciting things that happened at school this week. First of all, we finally felt like real dental hygiene students since we finally got our own set of instruments. It was cool. Opening the bags felt like Christmas morning because they were all shiny, sharp, and new. We get to start using them next week I think. Also, for our Preventive Dentistry class, we got to relax and an Oral-B guest speaker came and talked to our class. Some of us knew that we were getting toothbrushes since
1. It's Oral B
2. They are the leading brand in toothbrushes and anything related to dentistry.. and
3. He came to our class with tons of boxes. :)

So, this awesome dude starting talking to us about the science of how brushing your teeth is very essential (which we already knew) and that the kind of toothbrush can definitely help with an individual's oral health. Anyway, he was explaining to us the importance of toothbrushes, mouthwashes, and toothpaste and the science behind all of it and then.... he showed us a presentation about their newest and latest power toothbrush: Precision 5000. All of us in the class were going "ooohhh" and "aaaahhh" just because this toothbrush was so cool. After almost 2 hours of lecture from Mr. Lenny (Oral B dude), he told us the good news: EACH OF US GETS ONE FOR FREE!!!!!! It was like Christmas broke out in our classroom coz it was awesome. The exciting part about it is that we thought we were only getting the cheap toothbrushes but NO, we got a $170 Hygiene Kit for free!! Man, it totally made our day and made us really think that it was so nice to be in hygiene school LOL! And yes, even though it's going to be a rough experience, we know for sure that in the end, we will feel good about ourselves and that our hard-work will definitely pay off in the end! :)

Katelyn, Me, and Nicole (and that's Mr. Lenny in the background)