Dental Hygienist Personal Statement

Not every seventeen year old can tell you what they plan on majoring in without changing their mind but not me. I’ve always been interested in teeth. I plan on studying Dental Hygiene at Northern Arizona University because I want to be exposed to more than one learning environment. When I receive my bachelors in Dental Hygiene I want to stay in Flagstaff for a couple years and eventually go back to school in order to become a dentist but I would rather be practicing dental hygiene than go to dental school for a long period of time.

The concept of social status will help me as a Dental Hygienist will better help me understand my patients because I’ll understand that not everyone has the same advantages to oral health care. I used to believe

Many people in today's society need or want assistance because expenses are going up these days. I never understood that many people go without things just because of the cost or they feel that it's not a necessity in life.

Education plays an important role as well. Since I am pursuing a degree, I am already moving up on the chain but for those who work without an education will stay in the same social class, which might become a trend in their family. I always knew that statistics say that a person will most likely follow in their parents same patterns but that's not the case for some people. I learned that many individuals try to move their social status up but it's hard to achieve if you're starting from the bottom.

I also learned that peer pressure is common for everyone, whether we notice it or not. In my future career, I’ll examine patients dental hygiene, in other words I can tell if they brush, floss, smoke, and other things as well. If a teenager is smoking, I can guess that it's from peer pressure and not a self made choice since smoking is an old trend brought back but on other forms like e-cigarettes and hookah. Peer pressure happens to everyone, we follow others without notice at times and that's comely