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With my early trips to the dentist and the natural loss of my baby teeth having sparked an interest in dentistry before I really knew what being a dentist meant, I began shadowing to further explore the profession. As I watched a tooth take shape from a blob of acrylic under the experienced hand of the dentist I was shadowing, I was filled with the same awe and satisfaction that I gain from the piano. Dr. Aboud repeatedly positioned the temporary crown in the patient’s mouth, checked his bite, and painstakingly continued to adjust the crown until the fit was just right. Though I have wanted to be a dentist for almost as long as I have played the piano, my interest in dentistry grew

My first exposure to dentistry, out of the chair, came when I began babysitting for a dentist. He worked on the weekends, and his daughter and I would tag along. Initially I stayed as far away from the dentist chair as possible, but later, I became curious, and gradually observant. By the time I reached high school, I was intrigued by every aspect of dentistry. The procedures quickly turned from one of torment into something more familiar. Coming from a family of engineers and contractors, I recognized the doctor’s instruments because they were similar to tools I had grown up watching my father use. I began to think of dentistry as performing small scale construction in a small hole. Performing such intricate procedures while simultaneously utilizing my mind and hands both excited me and complimented my detail attentive personality.

Limestone Smiles allowed me to witness the technical aspects of dental assisting. With being a newer establishment, they were not as busy as the previous. In this extra time is was educated on some key concepts a dental assistant would need to know. The tooth numbering system was explained to me so that I would understand what was being mentioned during each appointment. Teeth are labeled from one to sixteen on the top row from left to right: this is assuming one is looking into a client’s mouth. The remaining bottom row is the labeled from seventeen to thirty-two going from right to left. I was also taught some key concepts pertaining to labeling the mouth. The buccal (facial) surface is the side of teeth that touch the mouth. The lingual surface in the back side of one’s teeth. The median line divides the mouth in half between upper teeth eight and nine and lower teeth twenty-four and twenty-five. The side of each tooth facing towards this line is the mesial side while the side pointing away is the distal surface. The biting surface of each tooth is referred to as the occlusal surface. Knowing this information helped me to better understand the procedures I witness. I also learned about two prevalent instruments used during appointments, the explorer and the PF5. With the explorer, the explorer end is used to find cavities while the perio probe end is used to measure bone lose. An older African American male

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The field of dentistry has history dating back to 7000 BC and has continually changed and improved overtime through the influence of many intelligent people. The ancient cavemen of Pakistan received credit for the first documented drilling of teeth. Studies show that Pakistanian cavemen used asphalt and other creative treatments to fill cavities (“Dentistry”). This act of improving oral health laid the basis for further development and innovations in the field. Following the Pakistanian cavemen, the ancient Egyptians contributed to dentistry by creating the formula for one of the oldest recorded toothpastes. This mixture consisted of rock salt, mint, dried iris flower, and pepper. Scientists believe that this formula for toothpaste may have worked better than toothpastes developed during the 18th century (Monson). The French, the next

Technology is a very growing area and one cannot be successful if they are not up on the latest. In the dental field, most dental offices are now “digital and paperless”. It will be my responsibility to make sure that I teach my students how to function in a digital environment. In order to do this, I must be proficient in this area. If I will be successful, I must know what new procedures and technology is being used in the dental field. “Dental technologies have been evolving continually, helping to transform the field of dentistry. New technologies are developed with a focus on creating products and developing techniques that can be used by dentists to help prevent, diagnose and/or treat dental conditions and diseases

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“Mobridge, South Dakota, founded in 1906, is a city with a rich history and an economy driven by tourism and recreation.” (City of Mobridge, South Dakota 2016) Missouri River Pins and Pizza was built in 1998 to enrich the lives of the youth in Mobridge, South Dakota. It was a bowling alley until 2005, when it burned down. Many years ago, I remember celebrating not only my birthday, but many other of my friends’ birthdays there. They had the best pizza ever. When it burned down, it left and still leaves no place for the youth to gather. Mobridge no longer attracts many families and the youth are turning to crime as their only pastime it seems nowadays. The best solution to remedy these problems is to build an activity center attached to a fitness for all ages of Mobridge and surrounding communities to gather, keep obesity rate down and mostly keep the youth out of trouble.

Although oral problems have been around since the “beginning of mankind” (SB 1), the work in the dental field is still changing today. Efforts of treating tooth decay date back to 2700 B.C in Egypt and ancient China. Archaeologists examined the jaws of skulls only

A vocation as a dental hygienist offers an extensive variety of difficulties. In the dental office, the dental specialist and the dental hygienist cooperate to meet the oral wellbeing needs of patients. Since every state has its own particular regulations with respect to their obligations, the scope of administrations performed by hygienists shifts from state to state. A percentage of the administrations gave by dental hygienists might include: quiet screening strategies, for example, evaluation of oral wellbeing conditions, audit of the wellbeing history, oral tumor screening, head and neck investigation, dental graphing and taking circulatory strain and beat taking and creating dental radiographs (x-beams) evacuating math and plaque (hard

Why should you go to a dentist’s office that will treat you with equipment that is less than the best? At J. Wesley Anderson, Jr., DDS, we want nothing but the best for our patients, and it shows through our dedication to having a technologically advanced office. Some of our more technological

The holy mouth men are dentists. Dentists have a set of tools they use to work on your teeth and their patients typically visit them once or twice a year. “These practitioners have an impressive set of paraphernalia, consisting of a variety of augers, awls, probes, and prods” (11). When the article

Improper use of abrasives can lead to roughening and reduction of the tooth and restorative materials. The dental hygienist should be able to distinguish between tooth structures, and restorative materials and must use the proper procedure for finishing, polishing, or cleaning each surface. It is also imperative for the clinician to understand the relative hardness of various intraoral materials and

I. Attention Getter: Most people don’t think of prisons as a hygienic place, considering it’s a cement cubicle with no physical separation from the bathroom. But what if I told you that the toothbrush, possibly the most hygienic tool invented, was created within the vicinity of that cement cubicle. This imprisoned-inventor was no other than William Addis of England. II.

Dental Hygienist use scaling tools to clean and scrape the plaque and tartar from your teeth and gum line. Depending on the scaler it may also remove built up plaque that has maneuvered its way below