FMX!!

Today I did a FMX 14 PAX on my patient. Luckily my patient was one of my very good friends and was very patient with me. :) I was a little nervous to take a FMX since the last time I had taken one was in radiology last semester. However, I was able to quickly re-orient myself. One very beneficial lesson I learned from taking x-rays today was to quickly EVALUATE the size of the patient's mouth/dentition before taking films. My patient had a VERY small mouth. I started with size 2 films and quickly realized there was NO possible way they were going to fit in her mouth - especially with using the ORA. However, instead of actually looking in her mouth and SEEING that it was TINY, I tried putting Edge Ez on the size 2 film. This was unsuccessful and I finally switched to the size 1 films. Although it worked out OK, I could have saved time and kept my patient out of a little bit of unnecessary pain.

I was very grateful for the experience and the lesson I learned! All in all, the x-rays turned out great. I only had to take 1 retake and was very pleased to see that my x-rays were diagnostic. I think I am off to a good start! :)