My first 1B this year!

Today at the VA I finally got a 1B! I struggled for a minute switching my focus from root surface scaling to the crown. It was heavenly. Also my second pt. was quite interesting. He was just the cutest little man. He was exposed to Agent Orange for 15mo. in the war. He has a crazy amount of side effect from it like Diabetes, Leukemia, Basal cell carcinoma, etc. The list goes on and on. It broke my heart to see everything he was going through as a result of his service and made me even more grateful for what the veterans sacrifice. Going through the chemo did a number to his teeth. He was so worried that we would think he was neglecting us by not being in for the last year or so and told me multiple times that his Dr. told him he couldn't get his teeth cleaned. I learned a lot scaling his teeth. One of his posterior molars had a crown with some decay underneath that I learned I needed to be very careful with. He also had crowns on nearly all this posterior teeth. I love the VA. The only thing I do not like is that you don't get to see the pts again.