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Orthodontist

Orthodontist . 5/8/14 Hour 2 Kara Burns Career Technology. What Does an Orthodontist Do?. An orthodontist is the “dentist” that works with braces, retainers, all metal work, and invisalign. They help realign your smile.

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Orthodontist

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  1. Orthodontist 5/8/14 Hour 2 Kara Burns Career Technology

  2. What Does an Orthodontist Do? • An orthodontist is the “dentist” that works with braces, retainers, all metal work, and invisalign. They help realign your smile. • Fact: of the 160,000 dentist in the United States and Canada only 8,000 of them study orthodontics! • What got me interested in orthodontics was when I got braces. I loved my braces and they intrigued me to learn more about it, I soon realized that it would be a career that I was interested in. • I will be researching, details on the job, salary, working hours, vacations, days off, and working environment

  3. Tasks and Responsibilities of an Orthodontist • Diagnose the patient and give treatment options and go over payments. • Give the patient the orthodontics that he/she needs. • Check up on the patient and tighten braces, give different retainer, adjust/tighten and orthodontic work. • Taking off the treatment/orthodontics and supply retainers, expanders ect. • Check up on the patient and make sure that their new smile looks good!

  4. Working Conditions of an Orthodontist • An orthodontist is physical because, you are working on the patient and you work physically on someone. It also includes some mental work. • Orthodontist work indoors • Orthodontist normally work 35-40 hours a week (8:30 am-5:00 pm normally) • The environment is on your feet and working with people most of the time.

  5. TQA • You need a doctors degree (8 years in college) • I am planning on going to University of Detroit for my study. • In high school I will take the dental program that you take as a junior/senior.

  6. Job Outlook • The employment rate is expected to rise up a fair amount in the next 10 years. • Orthodontics is a very competitive field. • I will be looking for job opening in a dentist office. • I desire to own an orthodontist office.

  7. $$$ • My lifestyle goals are, to have a successful career, get married, have kids, live in a nice house. • Average earnings are, $127,000 dollars per year. • Yes this career fits my goals because it gets paid a lot of money and it will be a fun career. • My first purchases will be a new house a new car and furniture.

  8. Related Career • My backup career is to work in a hair salon. • A hairstylists responsibilities is: to wash, cut, trim, dry, and style the clients hair. • The working conditions are constantly on your feet. • Training for becoming a hair stylist is, beauty school. • The outlook for hairstylist and beauticians appears very strong. • Hairstylists earnings are, $22,000 per year. • I used to trim my own hair and I love playing around with my hair and figuring out different ways to style my hair and I love doing other peoples hair as well.

  9. Summary • My feeling toward becoming an orthodontist is excited, I am ready to begin studying for this career and I think it will be fun. The one thing that I am most looking forward to in this career is to make my patients happy and confident about their smile. My least favorite thing about this career is, it might cause my patients pain. I learned from this project all of the tasks and responsibilities of what an orthodontist does. I also learned what money they made and what their average salary was. I now know that it is not an easy task/job to accomplish and that it takes a lot of hard work, school, and studying. I believe that I am ready for the learning and that I cant wait till I have my steady career.

  10. Work Cited • http://64.88.89.5:9014/actionpage?basictype=block&epochseconds=1336312621&requestedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.colourbox.com%2Fvector%2Fvector-2597000&categorylist=140&categorydescriptionlist=Personal%20Pages&useripaddress=64.88.9.250&username=&actiontaken=block&actionreason=by-category&actionreasondata=140&replayhash=wAYLfyBgZ3%2F4R13OKwk60w%3D%3D • http://www.justaskdentist.com/orthodontist-told-extract-4-premolar-teeth-put-braces-long-wait-put-braces-extraction-time-wait-extractions/ • http://job-descriptions.careerplanner.com/Orthodontists.cfm • http://work.chron.com/usual-working-hours-orthodontist-18313.html • http://www.studentscholarships.org/professions/470/growth_rate/orthodontists.php • http://www.beautyandcosmetologyschools.com/beautician-hair-stylist-job-outlook.shtml • http://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/hairdresser • http://www.barnettortho.com/office_tour.html • http://www.sportingbvsoccer.org/COLLEGE/index_E.html • http://teethbracesideas.com/teeth-after-braces-result/straight-teeth-after-braces/

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