Once the John Maxwell said, “Successful & Unsuccessful people do not vary from their abilities, but they vary from their desire to achieve their potential.” In particular, focus and motivation remain keys to achieve the goal. During high school study as a biology student, I learned about the anatomy basics, and it discovered my interest in the medical-health care pursuits. Conversely, my brother was persuading me to choose the technology field because he was studying engineering and he thought it would be enormous support if both brothers are in the same profession. In any case, my interest in the medical field began. Moreover, my cousin was studying medicine which provided me an opportunity to visit the hospital many times. In these …show more content…
I decide on dentistry because it will support my desire to serve the community as community safety, health education, and quality of the care is also utmost important with managing a patient. Therefore, I started an undergraduate study at the dental school as the first step toward my goal. Throughout the study, I gained an intensive exposure to human anatomy, behavior, and all minute details in dentistry. Additionally, during my term in the preventive health dentistry department, we had an outstanding team, including our head of public health department, two senior colleagues, and six other classmates. It was a tremendous experience for me as we learned, imaginative ideas about each other’s perspectives. I am always eager to acquire creative things, whether it’s in sports, social service or at the workplace. Usually, many times in a month we were holding social service camps in slums & village communities including primary schools. My responsibility as a team member was to screen the oral health of the community. I also educated them about oral habits, especially how to brush accurately, smoking and tobacco-associated risk, and what could be the consequences if they don’t periodically do health check-up. After such recognition, we managed several seminars for a general health check-up at a regular time interval with the support of our school's M.D physicians. That was my other source of motivation for the community health
The purpose of this essay is to point out the importance of dentistry and encourage more high school graduates to consider the dental field as a career. There are many benefits to being a dentist...
As I started my new journey of becoming a dental hygienist, I came into the program with no background of dental. I came into this program with an open mind and willing to embrace new concepts as well as develop new skills. During my time at the Canadian Academy of Dental Hygiene (CADH), I learned that as a dental hygienist that I am committed to promoting and helping each individual achieve their optimal oral health goals. In support of my client’s goals, I may assume any or all of the roles included in the dental hygiene scope of practice. My goal throughout this program was to help my clients achieve their optimal oral health goals through education, health promotion and providing preventive and clinical therapy.
The process of choosing a dentist doesn't have to be complicated. When selecting a dentist, you should do more than pick the closest dentist or the first dentist you come to in the phone directory. Many people choose a dentist based on a recommendation from friends or family, but even that doesn't mean the same dentist will always work for you.
All the various factors that lead me to dentistry amounted to just a part of my decision to become a dentist, the other half of my decision came from the simple question, “(w)ill this be a satisfying career for me?” A satisfying career, to me, is defined by whether or not I can use my career as a means to assist others and experience a sense of accomplishment and self-gratification in helping others. The notion of a satisfying career was one that came through personal experiences. Being a former Medicaid recipient, I was thankful to those that worked in the public health sector to help those in need, including myself and my family. Through my past experiences, I felt obligated to reciprocate the resources and assistance that I had received. At the end of my career, I hope to reflect back on my career and experience a sense of accomplishment and fulfillment for having helped others throughout my career; this is what will amount to successful career, from my point of view.
I can remember being a little boy sitting at the piano in church, listening to the preacher talk of how Jesus washed the disciples’ feet, which symbolizes the idea that we are here to serve. That message profoundly resonated with me throughout life. It was not until I began accompanying my grandmother to her multiple dental visits that I was able to see how I could put this calling of service into action. I saw firsthand the significant positive impact my grandmother’s dentist was able to make in her life, which encouraged me to want to learn about the field of dentistry. I then started researching dental health and learning of the importance of oral healthcare and how it affects the entire body. I then began to learn of how patient access to proper dental care was limited because of several factors such as, financial barriers, transportation, and dental fear, especially in the underserved minority communities. Given the shortage of black dentists, I realized I could make a positive difference by being an inspiration to those in the community, as well as serve in a professional career that would provide needed healthcare to the community. This is when I began to develop such a strong passion for
The career I have chosen for my future is to become a registered dental hygienist. It wasn’t until I actually learned what dental hygienists do that influenced my interest from medical to dentistry. The first honest reason I was gravitated to dental hygiene was because of the salary. I didn’t really know what Dental Hygienist actually did until I did some research.
It's important for any high school student to have an idea or plan of what they want to pursue in the near future. Most students want to go into the medical field, become a professional athlete, a lawyer, etc. Many talk about becoming a dentist, but not a dental assistant. Simply because they feel like it's not that big of a title of being a dental assistant as compared to a dentist. Little do they know dental assistants play a big role as well in the office. A dental assistant does many tasks and duties that help benefit the dentist and also the patients.
I decided to do my research report on dentistry because it is a perfect blend of science and art. It is a science in that you must fully comprehend on the different types of diagnostic and procedures you are doing. It is an art in that you are constantly working with your hands to create a beautiful smile. The impact you make on helping a person achieve an impeccable smile is not one to compare with materialistic things like money or cars. People often mistake dentist as only doing practices when in fact they could do more, like research. I was fortunate enough to have been given the opportunity to interview Dr. Sarah Pham, DDS, a close family friend who practices dentistry in her own private office in Los Angeles, California. Dr. Pham was
Introduction: In Canada, general dental health is not part Canada’s national system of health insurance (Medicare) (1) except for some dental surgical procedures that are performed at hospitals. Since Oral health does not come under the Health Act about ninety-five percent of the oral health care services are offered on a fee-for-service basis. Oral health care is under provincial or territorial jurisdiction like other health care services and publically financed dental care programs provide the remaining five percent of oral health care services (2). Thus, majority of Canadians receive oral health via privately owned dental clinics. Privately owned dental care gives these services providers control over dental service charges, types of available treatment for the patients and number of follow-up appointment for treatments or routine care. Service users pay for the dental expenses from their own pockets or utilize insurance coverage (1).
I am a first-generation daughter to Nigerian immigrant parents. As one can imagine, the journey from a populous country in West Africa to the city of Dallas, Texas can be a strenuous task to overcome. In spite of this, both of my parents collectively made the difficult decision to leave their families in Nigeria for brighter prospects and opportunities the American education system had to offer. Not only did they decide this would be best for themselves, my parents decided to raise my siblings and I in America as well. Because of the obstacles my mother and father have endured in their past, they have ensured that my siblings and I have not had to make the same difficult decisions as they did.
DENTAL PROMOTIONS THAT work effective dental promotions ought to serve particular functions. First, they need to assist develop your practice by way of bringing new patients to the office. second, they want to construct loyalty together with your modern-day sufferers so that you can continue working with them for years yet to come. when you manipulate your promotions effectively, you can additionally start to increase and sustain brand awareness. So permit’s check some dental promotional ideas which could deal with both of these capabilities.
Choosing a particular profession is one of the most important decisions that we take in our life. .In my opinion, I would like to focus on a career that is enjoyable, productive, creative and simultaneously allows you to work for the betterment of humanity. According to me, one of the most productive and fulfilling career that provides you various opportunities to help and promote humanity is that of a dentist. Dentistry gains magnificent attention in last some decades and so a huge percentage of people around the world and from US are devoting their life to this noble profession. Becoming a dentist requires a lot of hard work dedication but the factor that motivates you to face these difficulties is the actual pleasure gained when you are able to change someone’s life by creating a beautiful and healthy smile for them and the joy of which could not be expressed.
Pursuing a career in the dental public health field was a decision influenced by many factors starting by my passion for research. One of the main reasons for applying for my dental public health residency at Columbia University is the fact that it has a great research program, which is ranked among the top research facilities in the world. Columbia university’s dental public health residency department possess ample opportunities for research for those motivated to take advantage enough to r...
I started to explore the different fields of medicine by working as a Medical Scribe in the Emergency Department, ER tech in Trauma Centers, getting involved in research, volunteering at hospitals and taking high level science classes. This will enhance my knowledge and experience i...
Moreover in this career I am going to have the opportunity to do one of the things that I really love doing, which is helping others. This career will not only let me teach good habits for good health. But will also let me educate patients, as well as the general public, on how to achieve oral health and to prevent diseases. In fact in the dentistry career I will be able to perform an important service for everyone to help them to maintain their teeth appearance good.