Mentorship

Today I went to the dentistry and knew I had a long day ahead of me. The first thing I did was label all the new patients files with stickers so I could organize them alphabetically. After filing about 200 files, I had to check patient insurance. I had to check if the patients still had health care and it covered what they came to the dentistry to do. After I used p 3 hours doing all of that, Dr. Patel said she needed my help with the patients and I learned a new skill. I learned how to mix the fluid like substance that goes onto your teeth that helps get rid of cavities. Honestly, its not that hard, I just have to be careful when I crush it to put it into their teeth. Other than that, I operated the suction and it was a quiet, yet hectic day at the dentistry.

Third Answer

What is most important in maintaining a profitable dental office?

The most important thing in maintaining a profitable dental office is for the dentist to make kids feel at ease.

• One reason for this is because around 16 percent of boys and 10 percent of girls experience some kind of dental trauma before the age of 15.

• If children don't feel safe or comfortable at your dental office, parents will switch from your dentistry to another to help their kids.

• Also, 78 percent of kids under 18 go to the dentists office, as compared to only about 60 percent of adults. What this means is, you want kids to feel safe and calm at your dental office because the majority of people that go to the dentists office are kids.

Davenport, Elizabeth S., Gareth J. Holsgrove, Peter A. Mossey, and David R. Stirrups. Essential Skills For Dentists. New York: Oxford UP, 2006. Print.
The best way for a dentist to maintain a profitable dental office is to make sure kids feel safe at their dentist office because the majority of people that go to the dentistry are kids under 18.

Fourth Interview Questions

1. What is the best way to whiten patient’s teeth?

2. What should you consider when deciding what teeth whitening treatment to use on your patient?

3. How can you best prevent fluorosis?

4. How should your dentistry appeal to kids in a way that they are not frightened?

5. In the case of a frightened kid, what would you do?

6. What should you consider when hiring your dental team?

7. How would you go about a situation in which you don’t need a team member anymore?

8. How can you best ensure you make a profit?

9. How can you best organize patient’s files so that you never lose or misplace them?

10. What can you do to best minimize customers waiting periods?

11. What would you do in the case of a patient not being ensured yet also not being able to afford the dental treatment?

12. How can you help your patients maintain good oral hygiene?

13. How can you best manage both the clinical and practice management aspects of your dentistry?

14. What is the best way to communicate with patients?

15. How can communicating with the patient’s effectively benefit them?

16. How can you best prevent patients from oral diseases?

17. How can you best treat oral diseases?

18. How can you attract new patients to come to your dentistry?

19. How can you best make sure your dental team or you don’t get sick too often?

20. How can you best prevent cavities in young children?

Advisory Meeting #2

The best way for a dentist to maintain a profitable dental office is to reduce patient's appointment time by     being organized. 

-One way to be organized is to keep the patient room organized to match the next procedure for the next    patient. 

-A dentist must organize the patient schedule to most reduce patient wait in the waiting rooms. 

-The dentist should organize the patients files in a way so it is easily obtainable when they come in for their    next appointment. 

My source would be my book, Essential Skills for Dentists

Davenport, Elizabeth S., Gareth J. Holsgrove, Peter A. Mossey, and David R. Stirrups. Essential Skills For Dentists. New York: Oxford UP, 2006. Print.

Mentorship

Today I stayed at the dentistry and stayed for about 5 hours. When I got there, I noticed all the files and i got straight to work. In between my filing periods, Dr. Patel kept on calling me to help her out with the patients. Since it was super busy, Dr. Patel gave me a new duty. She taught me how to sanitize everything before the patients came into the room. After they came into the room, I would listen to Dr. Patel's conversation to get a better feel of what a dentist and patient conversation would be like. Usually, I don't get to listen to their conversations because I come into the room right when Dr. Patel needs me, but this time i was with her a lot. In the rooms I just operated the suction machine and wrote down the patients next appointment on the business card and put it into the computer. Overall, the five hours went by really quick.

Independent Component 2 Approval

1. I plan on doing more mentorship hours for my second part of my independent component. During my mentorship I have several responsibilities. Some include operating the suction machine and helping Dr. Patel in the patient rooms and others include sterilizing all the equipment before patients get into the room. I follow Dr. Patel everywhere and leantant new things as she operates on different patients.

2.  Other than my mentorship log, Dr. Patel let's me take pictures of when I am helping her out. I will prove my 30 hours of work with the picture I take.

3. My mentorship will help me explore my topic more in depth because I get to see all aspects of dentistry from running a dental office to treating pictures and it will also allow me to get more answers to my essential question.

4. Done

Independent Component 1

Literal
a. I, Punit Patel, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.
b. My mentor, Rita V. Patel helped me out the most.
c. completed
d. I usually follow around Dr. Patel helping her out with the patients and seeing what patients come and their different reasons for coming to the dentistry. When not many patients were present, I would usually be filing.

Interpretive


This is me following Dr. Patel in the patient rooms and me filing the loads of patient files.

Applied
My independent component really helped me find answers to my EQ and it really helped me out on my presentation two. For example, I first learned about fluoride from Dr. Patel, yet along many other things such as teeth whitening and other dental treatments. I feel without my mentorship and independent component, I would not have been able to find information or experience things I did.