This week was one of the best weeks I have had in a while, because I truly got to engage in something I have been fascinated in for as long as I can remember. There was no hesitation either, first day and first patient, I was watching Dr. Bryan extracting a tooth out of someone's mouth. There was blood, and at first I thought I wasn't going to like the gruesomeness, but as the first day went on I was enjoying and intrigued with every procedure. I truly believe that periodontist and implant dentist is something I could see myself doing down the road, and that is what my senior project is all about. My senior project isn't just watching the dentist do their job, but trying to figure out my path throughout and after college. With that said, I think that I realized jobs that I don't think I would want to do down the road. One of the jobs is dental assistant, I wasn't as fascinated with what they did for their job. They suction the mouth to keep it dry to be able to preform on the mouth, and then the do set up and clean up with each patient. I discovered that I am the type of person who wants to be engaged and running the whole process. I loved seeing how precise you have to be with each cut because of how fragile the tooth and gums really are. Another aspect I love with dentistry is you never know what is going to happen, or what is going to come through the doors because no mouth is the same. Everyday and every patient was different, even if the outcome was going to be the same. For example, my first patient I saw came in to get a tooth removed and they pulled it root and all. Then when another patient came in to get her tooth removed, Dr. Bryan had to do the procedure differently because the situation of her root being attached to the bone and having a crown, everything about this patients operation was different than the other, but had the same outcome. When I first decided to do this senior project I was really scared and nervous, not the typical scared I won't get the hours, but nervous as to if I was going to enjoy it as much as I built it up to be my entire life. I have wanted to be a dentist since I was four, and that is truly the only occupation that I wanted to do, and to this day I can't give you specifics besides I am truly fascinated by everything dentist do. That is what was so scary, the thought of not liking it, and changing my whole life's future because everything past this point is focused on how to get to dental school and my class schedule for college next year is based around requirements I need for dental school. I realized this week that I had nothing to worry about because I made the right decision because I am very intrigued by the dental field and I can't wait to see what next week's patients have to hold!
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