For most of my 32 years as a hygienist, my “success” lived in my treatment notes. How many quads of Scaling and Root planing (SRP) did I do this week?
How much calculus did I remove?
How clean did those roots look and feel when I finished?
If I walked out of a room drenched in sweat with polished roots and detailed charting, I felt like I’d done my job. Box checked. Next patient.
But there was always this low-level itch in the back of my mind: If I’m doing such great work, why do...
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