Dental Assistant

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Duties and Responsibilities:

Dental assistants assist the dental operator (dentist or other treating dental auxiliary) in providing more efficient dental treatment, by preparing the patient for treatment, sterilizing instruments, passing instruments during the procedure, holding suction devices, exposing dental radiographs, taking impressions, and fabricating provisional crowns. Dental operators can focus more time on the procedure; the dental assistant then effectively becomes the operator's extra hands.

Dental assistants should be distinguished from dental hygienists, who usually have a higher level of training and expertise.

Salary:

Median pay (annual): 34,500 USD (2012)

Education:

Need a dental degree.

Reflection:

I don’t really want to become a Dental Assistant because I really don’t know what to expect fro the patient.  

Dentist

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Duties and Responsibilities:

·         Promoting oral health and disease prevention.

·         Creating treatment plans to maintain or restore the oral health of their patients.

·         Interpreting x-rays and diagnostic tests.

·         Ensuring the safe administration of anesthetics.

Salary:

·         Median pay (annual): 149,310 USD (2012)

·         Median pay (hourly): 71.79 USD (2012)

Education:

·         Doctoral

·         Professional Degree

Reflection:

It Seems boring but the pay is good.. I would take it if I had no other ch

“You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is 

impossible!” 

― Ezra Taft Benson

Doing the wrong and you feel wrong do the right and you feel right. 

"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad."

-Abraham Lincoln

Reflection 

If you do bad thing you always have the guilt that you did something bad. You do good you have the guilt of goodness.

Good

• Helping someone out on whatever they need.
• Sharing W/ others

Bad

• Not helping others 
• Being Selfish 

Chiropractor

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Duties and Responsibilities:

A Chiropractor (A health care professional) is focused on the diagnosis and treatment neuromuscular disorders. The focus on intimate relationship between the nervous system and the spine.

 Salary:

About:  66,160 USD

Education:

The typical applicant at a chiropractic college has already acquired nearly four years of pre-medical undergraduate college education, including courses in biology, inorganic and organic chemistry, physics, psychology and related lab work. Once accepted into an accredited chiropractic college, the requirements become even more demanding — four to five academic years of professional study are the standard. Because of the hands-on nature of chiropractic, and the intricate adjusting techniques, a significant portion of time is spent in clinical training.

Reflection:

I would become this just for the pay not anything I want to the rest of my life.

"The key to freedom is obedience... The more obedient we are, the more freedom we have."

                                                              -Boyd K. Packer

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The more you listen to what others tell you to do the more you get out of it. 

"Obedience is the great test of life"

-Thomas S Monson