New Learning

     The purpose of my project was to figure out what I want to do in the future. I am currently undecided as a business major at Miami University. Three weeks ago, I had no idea what I wanted to do. All I knew was I liked and enjoyed learning about business. As a backup plan, I always thought about dental hygiene as an option. Three weeks later I have a much better understanding of what I want to do. My week with Louise Dagg taught me many things about running a business. From the mentorship, small tasks need to be taken care of or they will add up and be a big problem to catch up on. I learned about the importance of quality assurance, business administration, and sales. I was able to listen to Empower DDS try and sell their insurance to us. They used many business tactics such as no monthly fees, twenty-five percent off due to a referral, and the question, why not do it? All of these majors caught my eye, but none of them stood out.

During my time with Kathy Loveland, I learned a lot about dental hygiene. Since my week with her, my teeth have never been better. In my past blog posts, I've talked about my time with her and teeth cleaning but I haven't talked about everything I learned. Identifying teeth with X-rays and new technology was some of the most interesting and new things I learned during my week with her. I was able to set up an iTero Element 2. It is a scanning device used to scan teeth instead of molds. Every time I went to the dentist, I dreaded using the mold. it was hard to breathe and hurt my jaw. With the new iTero, molds are no longer used so people don't have to deal with the same problems I had.








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