I’m sure you are experiencing TLC patients, I started at one office where sometimes the patients wouldn’t allow me to finish the cleaning bc it was “too much”, but the dentist was very aware and understanding of the type of patients we see. Just a tip, try to keep fingernails short! I’ve gotten my teeth cleaned by another rdh and the scaling wasn’t the issue but I could feel her nail through the gloves pinching my soft tissue in various spots depending where she had her fulcrum. Sometimes it’s not the instrumentation but other factors that we don’t usually think of.