A loud whining noise engulfs the room as I recline the black leather seat back for the first patient of the day. As I adjust the light on the operation chair, my patient asks if I can turn on something relaxing to comfort him during his examination. I accept his request and turn to my right hand side and grab the television remote. I switch it on and head straight for the netflix application. I click on one of the dental office classics, a nature documentary. Once the show is up and running my patient lays back with his eyes closed and mouth open, I then begin the examination process. As I am examining him, I start to think back to how it all began. I remember being a young 18 year old adult scouring the internet in search of a career. Not just any old white collar job where I sit behind a desk and look at a computer all day but a career that's centered around my love for both learning and developing different skills and science as a whole. To think how far I’ve come from that moment to now performing examinations, cleanings, X-rays and assessing patients in a real dental office. Everything I’ve done previously has led to this moment, all of my hard work, my studying, my accomplishments, and my failures as well. This has allowed me to develop into a successful dental hygienist along with being able to provide for myself and my family. Slowly, the sound of the dull narrator from the nature documentary and the whining of the scaler begin to fade out and I find myself snapping back into reality. I open my eyes and find myself sitting in front of my computer with an empty document patiently waiting to be filled with words. As I begin to type, again, drift off into the thought of me in the future working as a professional dental hygienist I can’t help but to let out a smile because in the future, I strive to become a professional dental hygienist who can play an important role in the community. In my opinion, dental hygienists perform a key function in maintaining the well-being of people, as he contributes to the prevention of the development of various dental diseases. It is also important that, as a future professional, I will be actively involved in expanding the community knowledge of the necessary daily oral hygiene. Dental hygienists are often viewed by the public as less important than dentists, orthodontists, or surgeons. However, I am sure that this profession is the basis of dental practice, as it deals with the prevention of diseases.
