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This blog chronicles my life as a wife, mom, dental hygienist, photographer, and smart aleck. I make my home in Washington State. My favorite things are laughing, eating good food, taking pictures, cake decorating, blogging, and serving dental missions in third world countries. I stick my foot in my mouth so often we'll go ahead and call that a favorite hobby, too. I like to think of my blog readers as friends I invite into my home. So welcome. Come on in.

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Greater Than? Less Than?

As a hygienist I have to use the greater than and less than symbols quite a bit when documenting in charts. For instance I would write Pt's perio pockets maintaining, none >3mm. In school I knew I had to quickly teach myself a way to keep them strait.

Today I had someone ask me which direction the V goes to indicate greater than. So I showed her my little trick. Not to toot my own horn or anything, but she pretty much thought it was genius. So I'll share it with all of you.

Here you have your symbols:

The greater than symbol then turns into a "G" (for greater than...see?) Then the other is a slightly tipped over "L" (see where this is going?) for less than.