Orthodontist

Orthodontist

Duties and Responsibilities: Orthodontist examine patients and develop treatment plans. They also work with orthodontic technicians and they instruct them on what the patients have to go through. They see their patients almost monthly because of their dental needs.

Salary: Average between $85,155 and $106,148

Education: To become an orthodontist you need a Doctor of Dental Medicine Degree and 1-2 years of training and a license for the state.

Reflection: I think that I’d pass on this job because I would want to be a doctor but not for dental stuff. Seems like a cool job but I’m more interested in organs and functions of the body so I’d say that no this job isn’t the career I want to establish in my life.

Dental Assistant

Dental Assistant

Duties and Responsibilities: Dental assistants assist the dentists during treatments and they also communicate to dentists helping them feel good/ comfortable before, during and after their treatments. They also perform office management tasks  that they need to have their own personal computer.

Salary: $35,000

Education: To become a dental assistant they would need to have a high school diploma and 3,500 hours of approved work experience.

Reflection: I would want to be a dental assistant because they get paid good I guess for assisting dentist and talking to patients and teaching them about dental hygiene. I would want to do office management tasks too.

Dentists

Dentist

Duties and Responsibilities: 

Dentists diagnose oral diseases, they promote oral health and disease prevention, they do x-ray tests and do surgeries to the teeth bone and soft tissue of the oral area. They also take a look of your neck, head, jaw, and they even do oral cancer screenings.

Salary:

$105,520 - $151,262

Education:

To be a dentist you would need to earn a Bachelor’s Degree, a doctoral degree in dental medicine or dental surgery. you need to take a postgraduate program that takes about 2-6 years. You must be licensed in all states.

Reflection: 

I think I wouldn’t want to be a dentist because the job seems kind of boring to me. I think that it’s a good job, but all they focus on is basically teeth and I’m more interested in others parts and organs in the body. I would like to work with the anatomy of the body.