The Importance of a Healthy Mouth My interest in dentistry has grown immensely since I’ve started working at a dental office that deals with many patients who may have never had proper oral care or they smoke and chew tobacco along with many other bad habits. The lack of oral hygiene has raised many problems, problems that could have been prevented with just a couple check-ups a year, such as tooth decay, gum recession, bad breath, heart failure, high blood pressure. Deciding to go to school to become a dental hygienist has made me become even more interested and more excited to learn as well as teach other individuals the importance of a healthy mouth. As the old saying says, “Making the world a better place, one smile at a time.”(Unknown) …show more content…
These people may make excuses as to why they choose not to get these cleanings. Some say that they are not able to afford paying for a professional Dental Hygienist, it’s a waste of time, or they claim they take great care of their teeth at home so the every six month appointment would be pointless. Whatever the excuse may be, I would have to disagree. The lack of proper oral hygiene can over time cause infections and may even cause some bone loss that can lead to losing teeth. “...One cannot be healthy with an unhealthy mouth any more than one can be healthy with an infected foot.” Dr. Richard H. Price states in the article “Oral Hygiene and Overall Health”. While working at a dental office that deals mainly with the gums and bone density in the mouth, I have seen many cases where the patients have lost teeth due to careless oral hygiene. One patient in particular had never had any kind of professional dental help. This patient had some severe bone loss as well as gum recession on seven teeth, and also a great amount of tooth mobility because of the bone loss. The doctor continued by telling the patient how over the years that his oral health problem had occurred and how the regular cleanings could have prevented such problems. The plaque that …show more content…
People who don’t get regular cleanings and people who chew or smoke tobacco need to be warned of the consequences and of the life threatening dangers that poor oral hygiene and bad habits of smoking and chewing tobacco can bring to a person’s personal life and work life. The percentage of tooth decay from one decade ago to today is down fifty percent. The percentage meaning there are fewer people who skip their every six month oral cleanings, there are fewer people who smoke and chew tobacco, and also meaning there are fifty percent healthier mouths, but just think if in another decade if that percentage drops another fifty percent. America would not only be filled with people with great smiles and great confidence, but also more people would be healthier and free from diseases and cancers, and that is a wonderful thing to
The career I am pursuing is dental hygiene. Dental hygienists clean patient’s teeth, examine the mouth for diseases like gingivitis. My mom works for a pediatric dentist and I spend a lot of time at her work. That’s what made me choose this career. I love the atmosphere and how friendly everyone is.
Dental Hygiene is a multifaceted, science-based profession that requires thorough research upon implementation into the clinical setting of an operatory. It is no longer enough to define a dental hygienists role in oral health care in regard to someone that simply ‘cleans teeth’; dental hygienists of today provide a strong skillset in practicing with an evidence based research of knowledge and a continuance of eager to advance. In order for a dental hygienist to provide optimal oral health care an understanding of the most explored, and updated science findings must be consistent with the provided healthcare. Forward thinking, understanding of fundamental concepts, continual education courses, and application of recent and relative knowledge encompasses the dental hygienist that empowers a skillset through research advancement.
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I am a college student from Escanaba, MI, attending Ferris State University. I am finishing my last year of prerequisite classes this fall and spring semesters, and then applying for the dental hygiene program in January. The dental hygiene program typically has a year waiting list. After school gets out for the summer, my plan is to come back home, find and job and work until I get accepted into the program Fall of 2017. It would be so beneficial if I could help out in your office in any way. I know I would learn so much just from being in a dental atmosphere, giving me a head start before entering the dental hygiene program. Please take this into consideration and please let me know what you think.
Brushing thy teeth is such an indispensable part of our daily existence that whenever we miss doing it, we felt like missing a friend or have lost an important accessory. We do this twice or thrice a day and it will be no surprise to have seen our toothbrushes wither away like an old-aged woman. Dentists have instructed and advised everyone to replace our toothbrush at least every two months and once a toothbrush's life is done, it is doomed to be trash. The cost of a single, generic toothbrush might be something that we can earn in a minute and purchasing a new one won't even budge the budget, but if you're the resourceful type, you'd surely think twice before throwing it away. Have you heard of recycling? Yes, well this can also apply to
Nobody likes to go to the dentist but there’s this trick that dental offices employ to fool our minds.
Many of us are not aware that it is essential to go for a dental checkup regularly because we do not visit a dentist often, we visit the dentist only when we suffer from dental issues, frequent dental checkups will ensure that our teeth are free from tooth decays and oral cavities.
After I've completed my education in dental school, I plan to look for a job that suits my profession on my island. If I was given a chance, I would like to give back to my community by offering free dental checkups. I formulated this idea because every community needs proper oral hygiene. Proper oral hygiene is essential to people's health and well-being because it prevents them from having oral diseases such as gingivitis (the inflammation of the gums) and dental caries (tooth decay or cavities).
Thus, once I become a dental student I also intend on joining the American Dental Association. Not only will I be able to continue my education after finishing dental school, but I will have the ability to stay well-informed of important issues and advocate public policies that will affect the practice of dentistry and the oral health of the American public. For example, one of America’s biggest health problems of America is poor oral health. Of Medicaid’s 77 billion dollar budget, only 1 percent is funded towards dental bills for the poor. Moreover, only 20 percent of Medicaid eligible children actually receive dental services and even less for the elderly, which leaves millions of without needed dental care. To address the situation and eradicate some of these systemic, economic barriers, ASDA has met with lawmakers to advocate for the Action for Dental Care Act, which has granted several organizations to provide dental services to underserved populations. From a more individual perspective, ASDA has also promoted activity among members to get involved in projects like Give Kids a Smile and Missions of Mercy to provide free dental care for those that cannot afford it. Whether it is promoting public reforms or personally taking action, I would wholeheartedly take up the offer provided by the ASDA to serve and provide meaningful care to others in
The political topic is about Healthcare. I want to touch basics on the Dentist Office that was giving out HIV. It’s been going on for decades it looks like it started back in the year of 1987.The first known case of clinically transmitted HIV was Kimberly Ann Bergalis one of six patients infected by dentist David J. Acer. Kimberly did not begin to show symptoms of AIDS until March of 1989 and she was diagnosed with the disease until January of 1990. The CDC reported that she acquired the disease from the dentist and they requested that his patients get tested. There have been many different cases of Dentist office giving out hepatitis and HIV. In Oklahoma there was 7000 patients exposed and 60 patients was tested positive. Lately there was
Starting with the public’s perception regarding the oral cavity, through education and information, about how the mouth is linked to the body and systemic diseases, everyone must take a more active role in self-care. Next, we need to change policymaker’s perception at the local, state, and federal levels, creating new laws that will open doors to delivering an oral care delivery system to each state. Lastly, we need to change health care provider’s perceptions at all levels. Due to a lack of collaboration between the dental and medical profession, very little is known about the oral cavity, except with the dentist (Oral health, 2000). By adding dental courses to the curriculum of medical schools, as well as, further continuing education classes for doctors, nurses, and administrators in nursing facilities, we
Dentistry is evolving at a rapid pace, and there are some amazing advances in the works right now. As an adult, these advances will benefit you, but they especially benefit children who will have the advantage of new techniques being used on their adult teeth as soon as they emerge. Read on to find out why your children may be able to live a life without those cavity fillings and braces that seemed inevitable and were the only options for tooth repair when you were a child.
On the list of most people’s priorities, the dentist is usually at the bottom. In fact, most people bypass going to the dentist on a regular basis and only go when they are experiencing problems. Despite this trend, going to the dentist is perhaps one of the most important things you can for your teeth as well as your overall well-being. Many diseases and infections of the body start in the mouth. A healthy mouth leads to a healthy life. Here are five reasons why you need preventative dentistry.
experienced better mouth care during their treatment. This is markedly important when patient holistic care during hospitalisation and physical treatment is an issue. Patients were more comfortable and some had improved in some of the activities of daily living to aid recovery. Patients also reported greater satisfaction with the nursing care they received when assessment was properly managed during admission (Skinner 2014). With the cost of mouth care rising for the NHS, there is need for an effective prevention strategy countrywide. According to an oral health factsheet the percentage of patients at risk of poor oral hygiene and also the figures of new cases of diagnosed mouth cancers each year which accounts for more than 7,800 (Mouth
Most people today decide to take the cosmetic dentistry route for many personal reasons. The top reason is that people can not afford to attend regular check ups with a dentist. Waiting to get cosmetic work done seems more convenient to the person because they will end up paying for their regular checks out of their own pockets and find it more beneficial to pay for cosmetic work and get dental implants done or clean the pockets of gum their gum tissue (Konrad par. 2-5). Konrad agrees that prices for dental care are a little exaggerated because people will simply stop going to regular check ups and will end up getting cosmetic work done. Other evidence suggests that people will completely stop going to their dentist because they find it as a waste of money. Grembowski mentions that fifty percent of Americans rarely go see their own dentist due to the fact that their own insurance barely covers the cost of their routine check ups and they end up paying the rest themselves (par. 1-2). Grembowski point is that insurance companies do not do enough to help people get routine check ups for their own health reasons, so that leads people to turn to cosmetic work years later because they simply cannot meet the average costs of check ups. Due to insurance companies not helping with costs, people get the urge to travel to other countries to get