Who Is A Doctor?

After more than five years of the completion the economic bachelor degree and uncompleted Master degree, now I am pursuing a totally new career, Dental Hygiene, even though I never thought about before. My life was driven around the social trends without thinking of what I really wanted. Now I have chances to pursue my aspirations; I have idea of doing something that I can help people, devolve my life to society. In my country, the science and technology is not modern enough to provide residents the best knowledge about the importance of oral hygiene. Those students like me can appropriate the most modern technologies to help our people. It is so amazing that Dental Hygienists can provide valuable services whereas building the trustworthy connections with patients. As a result, I chose dental hygiene as the foundation for my health profession since.

As a teenager, I read Doctors by Erich Segal and instantly, my love for medical sciences was born. Though, I was certain that I wanted to pursue a career in health sciences, dentistry was not always what I had in mind for a career. But it was my father’s dream and I decided to live it. In 2009, at the beginning of my first term in

It is evident that it is truly where my head, heart and hands, become one. Being a dental hygienist and working in close proximity with the dentist has served to strengthen my desire to take my education and service to the next level. I want to increase my knowledge about the science behind dentistry and learn everything I need to know to be a great dentist and apply it into practice. Improve constantly and strive to provide the highest quality of oral health care available to patients by delivering meticulous, gentle, thorough, reassuring dentistry and exceeding patient satisfaction. Dentistry without a doubt, is the profession for me. I believe I have the qualities that are essential to making a great dentist along with the academic motivation in order to replace my interest for dentistry with the expertise that will help me provide quality oral care. If my greatest aspirations are to provide pain relief, to develop patient rapport, and utilize creativity in working with my hands, then dentistry is, indeed, my

My life has truly been transformed by Dentistry; it has boosted my confidence and aligned me with the career path of my dreams. Early on in life, every aspect of Dentistry captured my heart. Learning to cope with my embarrassing smile inspired me to want to help others by giving them what they always dreamed of. Knowing I have the power to make someone's dreams come to life is the reason I wake up each morning with a drive and desire to achieve my goals. While striving with a strong focus, packaged with confidence and sincerity, I will pursue my passion through demanding training. I not only plan to be a hardworking, determined and ambitious student, but with my skills as an orthodontist, it will further my ability to be an active member in

It was not until participating in the Texas Mission of Mercy (TMOM) that I became interested in dentistry. It all started when my best friend convinced me to join American Student Dental Alliance (ASDA) with her. Initially I was hesitant, but I wanted to try to open up and experiment with careers in college. Although I was a member, I was not as active in the organization at first. However, this all changed when I decided to attend the most promoted event of the year, TMOM. TMOM is an annual event that provides free dental care to low income residents in Texas. I observed and assisted dentists and dental students for the first time. One lady, in particular, was physically abused by her husband, and she had many missing front teeth. The dentist was able to repair her smile and give her the smile she deserved. It was an incredible experience being able to witness the transformation of a person’s confidence. TMOM was the turning point of my life because the people I encountered inspired me to pursue dentistry as a career.

My interest in dentistry was sparked at a young age through my volunteer activities in Egypt, where I was raised. At 12 years old, through the Egyptian Federation for Boys Scouts, we visited a village in North Egypt. There I met people my age who were underprivileged, including Youssef. Something was wrong with Youssef's mouth, but I was afraid to ask him. When I returned home, I kept wondering what was wrong with Youssef and couldn't figure it out. Two weeks later, my mother took me for a dental checkup. I brought Youssef's picture, hoping the dentist could provide me with answers. He told me Youssef had a cleft lip and palate. He said it needed surgical intervention to be corrected and that these procedures are only performed in major medical centers, not in rural villages like Youssef's. I was intrigued by his explanation and asked him questions about the scope of

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I even knew that a person could become a doctor of tooth care or someone who helps such a doctor like my aunt. But I wasn’t that special and was like everyone else as a child who wanted to become many things when they “grew up” like an inventor or an underwater scientist. It only makes sense then that I grew serious about my career choice during the last year of middle school because those years were full of big decisions. My fascination of teeth made me turn my desires to the health field, specifically to dental care because it combined my need to help others with the love of

While most of the patients I interacted with were seeking non-dental care, I met patients who were seeking care to health conditions that stem from their oral health such as oral abscesses, which our team was unable to treat except for prescribing antibiotics or painkillers. I encountered similar situations when I shadowed physicians in the emergency room of hospitals, observing a variety of craniofacial disorders originating from a preventable tooth decay. From these observations, I learned that patients often did not receive treatment that addressed the root of their problems: their oral health. As the result, I learned that many physicians saw the same patient repeatedly for problems that would otherwise be easily prevented through proper preventive dental care. Determining to address the unmet needs for accessible preventive dental care, I decided to pursue a career in dentistry so that I can provide a positive and meaningful impact to the underserved community on their oral health and ultimately their overall

A career in Dentistry is my main goal in life. I want to pursue a career in Dentistry for many reasons. Being a Dentist, you get to aid people and make them feel better about themselves. I have the personal qualities to be a Dentist and know that I would be great at the job. I would look forward to going to work every day. Dentistry contains many tools and oral practices that I am not familiar with. It would be awesome to get to be familiar with the lifestyle of a Dentist. Someday, I might even be able to live their lifestyle. Focusing in school is the main priority for all jobs. Dentistry also involves a diverse (longer) college route than most. This means that the academic requirements to be a Dentist are quite time consuming, but the

I decided to pursue medicine while I was attending high school in Kolkata, India and fell in love with biology. I enjoyed engaging with people and developing meaningful relationships. I was looking for a path that would provide me with the skills to help others, both in my home country India and abroad. I felt that medicine can offer me an enriched career with the perfect balance of scientific challenge, intellectual stimulation and personal collection. Surrounded by the Himalayas in West Bengal, India, medical school further inspired my intellectual curiosity and cemented my professional identity.

In addition to helping improve self-worth, as a dentist I will be able follow the healing practices of Jesus by alleviating pain and healing the physical body of patients. Jesus was the great healer and there are roughly 31 individual accounts of His healings throughout the Bible. A few examples would be the leper in Galilee (Mark 1:40-45), Peter’s mother in law (Luke 4:38-39), the blind man at Bethsaida (Mark 8:22-26), and the paralytic at Capernaum (Mathew 9:2-8). In all these instances, the people Jesus healed were in pain. Jesus used the healing of their physical bodies as a means of evangelism and spreading the good news, a practice later adopted by the early church. As a dentist, I will be in a unique position to do the same, except in the form of healing patients’ tooth related pain and freeing them from any anguish or stress caused by it. One study points out the broad affects of pain on patients lives by finding that, “Pain is not a phenomenon limited to damaged tissue, but affects the whole person, specifically in the form of reducing quality of life” (Niv and Kreitler). Therefore, by reducing pain that is related to oral ailments, I will be able to significantly increase the quality of life my patients have. Additionally, I will be able to improve teeth by means of improving functionality, and thus further improve the quality of life of my patients. If it is uncomfortable or painful to chew, a patient’s quality of life is greatly diminished and in extreme

Although medicine has always been close to me wanting to become a physician was not something I simply decided overnight. After tagging along with my mom to see her cardiologist a couple of times I slowly began to put together my love of science with a profession in which I could help people like my mother. This eventually led to me actively pursuing medicine as a career. Before I started shadowing Dr. Siddiqui I thought

As one who was born into an agrarian community in India, I never really got exposed to a dentist or what it meant, for the most part of my formative years. The first time anything related to medicine ever piqued my interest was when I was 12 years old, during a routine visit to the hospital with my mother. As we waited at the reception, the plight of an elderly woman caught my eyes. I could still remember the look of anguish on her face as she writhed her hands and cried silently in pain. As she opened her mouth at intervals, I glimpsed the unsightly sores that lined her oral cavity. They had a tinge of yellow to them and appeared to be stained with blood. I was horrified by this sight and quickly inquired from my mother, “who could help the woman get healing.” She looked at me in amazement and answered, “A messenger of God,” to which I inquired further, asking who this messenger of God was, and she revealed it was a doctor.

In first grade a friend came in and sat beside me at lunch, she had been absent for a few days and returned with very few visible teeth. Many students laughed and scooted away, but others became immersed in conversation about which of their teeth were rotting or what it was like to go to the dentist because they had never been. I began to notice the need for oral health care providers and education before I even knew I would be someone that would change it. At this time my favorite instruments were a paintbrush and a microscope. As I grew older I knew I wanted to help others and to make a difference in my small town but I assumed I would help through my artistic talents, maybe teach or become an art therapist. I loved science but when do you get to draw, sculpt, and paint as a scientist? The answer to this question became very clear one day as I sat in my dentist’s chair and he explained the instruments he was using and how he was using them. I started preparing for a career in dentistry at an early age but not without facing many obstacles along the way.