In the dark of night, the tooth fairy flutters her small magnificent wings to your bedside. The tooth fairy sprinkles magical sleeping dust upon your slumbering body as you daze from one dream to the next. Although the tooth fairy is small, she has a very big job. Her job entails flying from one house to the next, retrieving children's teeth. “When your six or seven and you lose your first tooth, it marks the beginning of a very simple truth. When it's put beneath your pillow before you go to sleep, bright and early in the morning there’ll be money you can keep” (The magic tooth fairy. James Taris). It's almost like a coming of age event, losing teeth. When I was eight years old everyone around me had already lost many, and there I was only having lost one. My teeth were in a constant battle with me, I would wiggle and wiggle everyday but for some reason when I curled up for bed my teeth would regain their strength. Every morning I would rise from my cozy bed with the confidence that today I was going to conquer another tooth, but immediately …show more content…
I slumped in my bed and came to the realization that my teeth weren't coming out anytime soon. I sat on my ipod scrolling through instagram, as I bit into a apple. I heard a crack, and as I looked into the apple I saw my tooth encased in red. “Oh my gosh,” I screamed. My dad and sister hollered back, “is everything okay?” I could not believe what was infront of me. My second tooth had fallen out and that night and I went to bed with my enemy no longer in my mouth but under my pillow. I woke up the next morning as I frantically flipped my pillow over. A five dollar bill was wedged into the small envelope where my tooth once was. The tooth fairy had neglected my house for a long period of time, but not anymore. Through the many battles I had with my teeth I learned that with determination and persistence, losing teeth is surely
A healthy 64-year-old male was seen at the College of Southern Nevada’s Dental Hygiene Clinic on April 13, 2016 for a health history assessment, vitals and screening. The patient stated he was “feeling good.” The major reason for his coming to the clinic is to get a cleaning. His last dental visit was in 2014, and his last doctor visit was in March of 2016. He has no health problems and no allergies. He drinks one beer a day. He stated that he has one dental implant since 2000, although, no implants are present in his mouth. He is currently taking the following medications: a multivitamin, Omega 3, flaxseed oil, Aspirin, and coenzyme Q10. The patients vital signs are as follows: BPRA 116/74 mmHg, RCP 60 BPM, and R 14 RPM. The patient was classified as an ASA II and is case typed as
Orthodontic treatment has aided me in several ways. It helped keep my teeth looking perfect and straight. It aided me with self-discipline, and it made me a more responsible person. My mood also changed drastically, putting me in a better mood every time I smile. Most importantly, orthodontic treatment has taught me to be who I am today.
The article Poor Teeth was written by Sarah Smarsh with the goal in mind being to shed light on the issue between upper and lower class society in a particularly concrete way. Teeth and dental health are an easy thing for people to imagine in their head because everyone has a set whether they’re white and shiny or black and rotted. This makes it easy to draw a comparison between people that care for their teeth and those who don’t. However, access to dental knowledge and services which the lower class often times doesn’t have is very different between the poor and the rich. While the rich stroll through life showing off their perfect glossy white rows of teeth, there are less privileged people out there with barren mouths whose weak pale gums
She has so much missing tooth structure, we had to extract the tooth. It's a real skill to be able to be a dentist, because it's as much of an art as it is a science. I look forward to being in that position and having that doctor patient
In White Teeth, Zadie Smith warns against the dangers of purism and letting cultural background completely shape one’s identity while simultaneously paying tribute to the rich heritage and beliefs of her characters. It is a cautionary tale for immigrants but is never dismissive of their past. Smith is merely advising against tunnel vision and stressing the need to adapt to one’s environment. She shows the beauty that can stem from adaptation while warning that an inability to do so will lead to one’s downfall. London plays an especially important role as the battleground where the past and the present clash; a melting pot with a large immigrant population and inevitable moral struggle.
Dentistry involves many tasks and a strict code of ethics that dentists must master. What do dentists do? The best definition of dentists’ duties, according to Hopke, an American writer who wrote an educational book about various careers is, “Dentists attempt to maintain their clients’ teeth through such preventive and reparative practices as extracting, filling, cleaning, or replacing teeth.” Dentists perform corrective work such as straightening teeth and treating diseased tissue of the gums. These tasks are sometimes done by orthodontists rather than a dentist, but dentist also, on occasion, performs surgical operations on the jaw or mouth, so the arch can fit false teeth (Hopke 455).
Healthcare is a necessity to sustain society. Dentistry is an area of healthcare that I feel extremely passionate about because access to proper dental care is limited, especially in the underserved communities. As an African American, I want to become a dentist and healthcare provider in the hopes of helping patients and adding to the diversification of the field. With a growing minority population in the United States, it has become apparent that there is a shortage of black dentists. This is problematic because underrepresented minorities are in great need of access to culturally connected dentists who understand their clinical needs as much as their lives and their challenges. I believe that when the profession includes a range of ethnicities
There was never really an image or face to put to the name of the Tooth Fairy. Although, the actual image of a Tooth fairy for the United States and Canada, that is still with in modern day, was actually started by Disney (Schultz). According to Smithsonian, the iconic tooth fairy is stuck with the American culture because of Disney and the movies they made in the late 1990’s. The movies that were made during that time period were centered around the idea of the Tooth Fairy and all that she does. Some of these movies were: Toothless and Tooth Fairy (123Dentist). These were movies specifically about the Tooth Fairy, they portrayed multiple concepts about the Tooth Fairy. They show what fairies do with the tooth, how the fairies take it, but more specifically how the tooth fairy looks like. Some other movies that included the tooth fairy were: Rise of the guardians and Darkness falls (123Dentist). These movies show what she does; the whole idea of a beautiful fairy coming to take your tooth and leave you gifts is absolutely
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).
My dedication to practice dentistry has catapulted me between countries and ultimately across the world. Throughout my journey, my passion has increased with every step. After I finished high school, my parents wanted me to pursue their dream of becoming a physician and specializes in either Radiology or Gynecology to take their position in their private practice. What my parents didn't realize was that I chose my future career earlier when I met Dr. Marvin, my endodontist. My decision to become a dentist was motivated by personal experience where I had suffered from a major oral health problem where I had an accident that caused my permanent front teeth to fracture. I was in pain for days and I was shy to show my broken front teeth.
I walked into the office that Wednesday for my afternoon appointment, and the news was broken to me as I was introduced to my new dentist. He was a relatively new dentist who had just transferred from his first position in another state. When I went into the chair he spoke very little, and did little to ease my anxiety. The final straw came when I was lying back in the chair, and without a word, he began to drill my teeth, prepping them for cavity filling. I clutched the armrests as pain shot through my jaw and through my face
Many people ask me why I still continue to pursue dentistry even though I have been rejected so many times. I sometimes wonder this same question myself. Maybe it's insanity, maybe it's pride, or maybe it's perseverance. It may, in fact, be a combination of all three, but for me, I believe I am pursuing my passion something I am called to do. It is one thing to pursue something you want to do, but it is another thing to pursue something you are called to do. I realized at a young age that there was more to life than just doing for self, life is about helping those around you. I have always had a passion for helping people and I knew that helping people was the calling placed on my life. But, growing up, I wasn't sure how I was going to pursue or use this passion. When I was in high school I was involved in a weightlifting accident that almost resulted in the amputation of all my fingers on my left hand, fortunately, I had great doctors that were able to save my fingers and make them fully functional. This accident could have drastically changed my life, but it didn't, and I made a vow that whatever I did in life I would make sure it involved the use of my hands.
Starting the ninth grade with a mouth full of brackets was not at all how I envisioned starting my high school career. However, two and a half years of embarrassing school pictures, agonizing pain, and a lisp, the final product made it all worth it. The day I completed my orthodontic treatment made me realize why people choose to pursue dentistry. The instantaneous boost in self-confidence that I found from a glowing, electric smile was what sparked my
It was August 2001, the first time I stepped foot into a school in the United States. The year before I was in my native country of South Korea, which has a much different culture than that of the United States. In retrospect, it was during this time of transition that provided a foray into my discovery of dentistry. Not many months after my family and I moved to the U.S., I met a dentist who allowed me to shadow and perform basic dental duties such as replacing the rubber bands on patients ' braces, which he insisted would help my dexterity. Performing these tasks reminded me of my favorite childhood hobbies such as building miniature cars and robots. This experience gave me the opportunity to develop my dexterity with tools and sparked my
As a child, they looked like monsters trying to hunt me in my dreams. No matter how basic and painless the procedure was going to be, the fact that I had to visit a dentist, used to make me terrified and trembled. Once, I remember waiting at a patient area while crying and begging my older sister to take me back home just to avoid a simple tooth cleaning procedure, while she was astonishingly looking at me and wondering if I had lost my mind.