Blog 5: How can your major make the world a better place?
Hello everyone, I am a student of dentistry at University of Chile and today I will speak about my career.
This career includes different areas. Dentistry affects society in different ways for example in self - esteem because an oral disease may cause changes in the physical appearance that can affect the capacity of someone to relate with other people.
I see myself as a person immersed in a social mandate that has a duty of helping people who need focusing on charity, communication, and patient autonomy. Also, as a professional who is faced with value conflicts in making a moral decision or choice.
The benefit
of this career on people is that it can make changes in their lives because we
improve the quality of life. We can also diagnose, cure, and prevent oral
diseases and control social factors and determinants of each person who goes to
the dentist from an ethical perspective.
I agree with you too much regarding communication and autonomy with the patient, since it is extremely important to educate people that they are the ones who must ensure their oral health.
ResponderEliminarI think one of the most important things is that we as dentists can improve self-esteem of patients.
ResponderEliminarI can't agree more with you about the importance of focusing on the patient's autonomy because we can provide them all the tools that are in our hands and treat the oral diseases they have, but at the end of the day their oral health depends mostly on them and the way they take care of it, so I think it's important that they understand this
ResponderEliminarI agree, it is amazing how a dentist can improve a person's confidence in themselves....
ResponderEliminarI really liked how you think about your role in this major.
ResponderEliminaris incredible how oral health can affect a persons self-esteem
ResponderEliminarIt's true, the oral diseases can affect to the way that we see ourselves and self esteem, and the dentist can help us to recuperate own smile
ResponderEliminarI'm sure you will be an agent of change!!!
ResponderEliminarIt is very true what you say. Many people because they are missing a tooth or have an imperfection in their mouth cannot smile freely because they are ashamed of their appearance. And that clearly affects their self-esteem.
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