 Hello everybody, Andrea Mayesca here with Dental Tutoring. So I have been having a lot of comments lately from my YouTube watchers which is awesome and one of them was to offer some more tips for new dental hygienists and new dental assistants. So I'll start with new dental hygienists first because I became a temp about six months ago and when I work in a new office I kind of feel like I'm a newbie. You know, I feel like I'm a newbie all over again because you're not used to the office, you're not used to the staff, you're not used to the instruments, the rooms, the patients, the x-ray equipment, you know, so I could go on and on. So what I find helps me is to be as organized as possible. So especially for a new hygienist you're thinking of so many things, right? You're thinking about how to clean the teeth properly. You might even still be thinking about, okay, which instruments do I use for which teeth? You could be thinking, okay, there's a lot of stain here. Where do I begin? How do I, you know, how do I start? But the best thing to do I find is to stay as organized as possible because what makes matters worse is if you're behind then you get a little bit anxious, you get a little bit stressed out, the patients might be a little bit annoyed with you because you're behind. At least I find that that's what happens to me is even I've been practicing now for 13 years but if I'm behind I get annoyed at myself, I get stressed and just things sort of happen where, oh, I've been taking x-rays for 13 years but here I'm half an hour behind, I go to take some bite wings and they look horrible, you know, so things just happen. So stay organized. So the best tip that I can give you for a newbie is to have your trays set up as many as you can depending on the office. One office where I work in we have four trays so I am able to set up four trays at a time. So by tray set up I mean having your instrument cassettes, having your floss on there, having gauze, having your profi handpiece with the profi cup already attached, having the polish that you plan to use and I'm just thinking of the tray set up in my head and anything else you think you need. So for that patient if you think you need a fluoride tray, a fluoride varnish, a fluoride, you know, something then put that on the tray too but other than that yeah I think that's all I can think of. And I like to put the chart on front of the tray too so that just helps me stay organized so then that way I'm not looking for the chart when the patient's there. Now depending on the office if you have cassettes, so if you have the instrument in your cassettes or if you have the instruments wrapped depending on how the office is set up, if it's a cassette I might even open up the cassette and rearrange my instruments and then put the bib over top so that when the patient comes in it's still you know covered but you might not be allowed to do that in the office because technically you're supposed to open up the instruments in front of the patient so it just kind of depends on how you want to do things. Office is where I have the instruments wrapped or sorry in a sterilization pouch I will open it up but still have them in the pouch and put the bib over top and then when the patient comes in I will empty out the instruments from the pouch so that they can see that they were sterilized but I find being organized helps a lot so that's the first thing that you should try to do because if you think about it even if you're only 10 minutes behind it takes time to go back to a certain area to get your tray to get your proficup to get the handpiece to get this to get that and then you might come back to your room and then go whoops I forgot gauze or whoops I forgot the floss I kind of made that right and then you have to leave the room or if you're in the middle of seeing a patient and you're kind of like oh I forgot the floss you have to take off the gloves open up the cupboard you have to get the floss things like that if you have over gloves you have to put the the over gloves on to get the floss you know it just it takes time it may not seem like it takes time but you were ten minutes behind and now you're another ten minutes behind because you have to do all of the extras and that leaves you now 20 minutes behind so that's what I'd like to do is to just have everything organized first as much as possible and that really really helps me so I think I got a little bit off track here talking about other things about 10 things so sorry about that they do hope that this did help a little bit feel free to leave a comment and feel free to leave tips too if you have any other tips for a newbie how to sort of help things run a little bit more smoothly so good luck and let me know how things are and I do hope that this helped thank you so much for watching