u/ActualGuarantee1453

So, I am a new grad dental hygienist that graduated a couple months ago and took all my state and boards exams during school and passed on the first try. I decided to take around a little over a month off from finding a job due to school being stressful and physically and emotionally exhausted. I graduated not feeling confident at allll, not due to my knowledge but from the physical clinical aspect. I feel like I was doing good in the beginning of school with scaling then as we moved forward I felt like I was not keeping up with my classmates or progressing at the rate I was supposed to but still passed. With my patients I started to get mixed reviews. In the beginning none of my patients complained about ANYTHING. As I moved forward to harder patients it got to the point where some said I was gentle and some would say I was hurting them. Most of the time my teachers would blame it on me even though in the patients chart former students would use topical or local anesthetic. So I left school just feeling like I sucked and I feel like I chose the wrong profession and I don’t really know what to do now. What helped you guys out or have any of you had a similar story?