Is it possible to have bop when you probe that isn't reproduced when faculty checks your probing?

[Ihateperio1234]

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I've received different answers on this. Looking for some insight. If probing depths are found to be the same but the faculty doesn't find as much bop, is this a user error or potentially normal?

 

[Vicviper]

This can happen, it's really no big deal. As long as you're getting the general idea on BOP that's the important thing. Though, it is very possible that faculty who have been doing this for a number of years may be more gently moving around the sulcus 😉

 

[BluntForceTrauma]

This can happen, it's really no big deal. As long as you're getting the general idea on BOP that's the important thing. Though, it is very possible that faculty who have been doing this for a number of years may be more gently moving around the sulcus 😉

Or more aggressively. I've seen faculty go ham and get a depth that I'm pretty sure was not actually supposed to be there. The blood that happened was definitely not bacterial in etiology, I'll tell you that.

 

[Vicviper]

One time in school I went down to the hygiene department to get a cleaning when I had a patient no show - after the student was done with the cleaning, the faculty "found" a piece of subgingival calculus she missed around my #21, and so kept scaling subgingivally to go after it. Five minutes later she declared that "it must have been a concavity or something." And my gums cried red.