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Quick Dental Examination Process Overview

let's do a cursory screening of her mouth just to make sure there's nothing big to point out and I look around places I can't see you really well with my mirror this is just real quick you have very nice teeth ginger okay so I'm gonna stretch up for lips I'm gonna palpate little circles this is kind of a dumb question but are both of your fingers going in a circular motion or just one of them both of them okay so you can do that like that if you want to or you can come here and go around like this whatever you want to do is fine if I end up feeling like I've got both of my fingers wet I'll wipe it on the napkin okay so I've palpated that and then go ahead and open for me I'm going to look at the buccal mucosa and then I'm going to palpate it by manually and then I'm going to do the other side as well okay and then now I'm gonna have her open pretty wide and lift her tongue up to the roof of your mouth and I'm just looking down here make sure everything looks okay can you open up just a little bit just keep your tongue up that's I know it's hard I can't lift my time to the roof of my mouth whenever I have my mouth open okay all right so I am going to feel the floor of the mouth with one finger first and then I'm gonna bring my other hand underneath here and I'm gonna try to make my fingers meet so you're gonna have to put a little bit of pressure and if there is anything abnormal you'll be compressing it between your fingers okay oh snap I need a golf square can someone grab that real quick oh yeah Nikki typical yeah and if you do key tips so up next is a tongue Thanks and if you want you can wet this down and make it damp so it'll come off the tongue real quick but I'm not going to do that sorry ginger it's okay and then you don't have to stick out point so far and just take a peek way back at the back of it making sure everything looks okay I'm gonna pull it to the other side make sure everything what's okay you have a patient that has a really tight frenum and who can't really do that I mean you just you just try to get your mirror back as far as you can yeah and you don't pull hard because it'll hurt it's a way to stick your tongue out for me again I'm gonna just palpate the time while your circular motions - yeah while you're doing this you're gonna look for any abnormalities on there sometimes people will have like a scar spot in the middle there if they've had a piercing did you feel mine no I didn't know all right on the extra oil do you mark down stars yes mm-hmm all right so I'm gonna look look at the palate up here you may find some tor i right and then I'm gonna peel it with just pushing and releasing she has a tiny tour I it's not bad at all if you sweep your finger you may make them gag so you don't want to do that [Music] therefore redness in the throat and large tonsils pus in the tonsils anything that looks abnormal petechiae on the soft palate anything like that okay so now I'm just gonna go around mine with my mirror and look at all the gingiva with the purpose of looking at the gingiva earlier I did the purser a screening of it but I'm gonna take my time a little bit this time just to be sure and here you're looking for squirrel win spots fistulas you know what fistulas are yeah maybe some people call them gum boils oh you get them when you have an abscess in a tooth so it would look almost looks like a pimple inside the mouth okay and then I'm gonna feel the alveolar process here the circles with your hand fingers I switch it the direction of my fingers at the midline just to be more comfortable she has a tiny bit of excess ptosis back around her molars overgrowth the bone which is not abnormal that it's notable okay now we're gonna check for the salivary flow yep alright first I'm gonna look at the ferati glands which hers is hanging out right there it's nice and prominent gonna be on the the right beside the first molar so I want to dry it off and then push out it with a q-tip and it'll either get shiny again or you'll see some saliva dripped out and hers just got shiny again I'm just turning it my way a little bit so you gotta check both of them and then you would have a light on to look and feel a little bit better but it's interferes with you all taking videos oh I didn't even have to touch that one in some saliva I came out alright so those are good and now we're gonna do the floor of the mouth you can just relax so I dried off the floor of them out the carnival's down here it goes so when you're doing this don't be all up in their face because they could leak and shoot you with saliva and that would not be fun so