5. How can your major make the world a better place?

Hello dear bloggers, this time I will tell you how the career I study can improve a little the mute in which we are today.

In case you did not read my previous blogs, I study dentistry at the University of Chile, I am in my second year, how dentistry can change the world, this is a question I asked myself before entering the career, logically without knowing anything of what I would learn in these 2 years and I answered myself saying that we could contribute by improving the health of patients, improve their confidence and self-esteem by helping them to improve their smile and that would make the world a better place. I was not really that lost in what I answered myself, but I focused on the dentist who only fixes teeth, but the dentist can contribute to society in many ways, not only in the practical and that is where I was wrong in my answer. 

The dentist is a health professional who has a scientific, technological and humanistic formation that has competences to promote health, prevent, diagnose and solve oromaxillofacial diseases prevalent in the population. It contributes to the solution of health problems and needs of the country, at the individual, family and community level, applying the biopsychosocial model and working in interdisciplinary teams.

Personally, I hope to become an integral dentist, and never forget the objective of my profession, which is to improve the quality of life of my patients. When I graduate, I want to be a "general de zona" and thus be able to get to know other realities and forms of dental care, promoting oral health and working with communities where there are not all the resources that one has in the cities and thus contribute my grain of sand to change this world, working from the most human and social side of the career, getting involved in their reality and knowing their social determinants to help them in the best possible way.   

What makes dentistry something that contributes to the benefit of the world is that as dentists we are able to help patients from many areas, either working from the clinical chair and doing procedures that improve the quality of life of the patient, which is the most known, but we can also promote oral health, working with communities, teaching proper oral hygiene and preventive techniques. 

I hope you enjoyed this blog and see you in the next one!