Your Future Career
By Caroline
Do you know what you want to be when you grow up?
Well....when I grow up I want to be a orthodontist. An orthodontist is like a dentist but deals with more complicated teeth situations. I first got interest of being an orthodontist when ….................
I
first had teeth problems, so I went to an orthodontist office. The
doctor’s name was Dr. Kinoshita. He was very friendly. He asked my
family to get x-rays on my teeth to see what was going on with my teeth.
After Dr. Kinoshita got the x-rays, he said that a baby molar tooth
was stuck in my gums and could not get out because an adult molar was
blocking it. So this is what happened. I first got retainers but then
my orthodontist saw that it shifted my front teeth not my molars, so
they got rid of my retainers. Then I went through an extraction on my
top left canine tooth so they can do a procedure called ankylosis.
Ankylosis is when they extract a tooth and then put it back into your
gum again so it will fuse to the bone. They did the procedure on
me, so I could get braces. The canine was successfully being used as
an anchor tooth to move the molar. The braces was for moving the adult
molar tooth out of the baby tooths way so the baby tooth can come out.
After the braces, I got retainers again to keep my teeth in place. Now
the problem is that the baby tooth is not coming out. So now they are
going to do surgery to cut my gum and get the baby tooth out. This
surgery I think is going to be around Thanksgiving this
year.............and now I am very nervous about it!
I
want to be an orthodontist because this situation made me very
interested with the things Dr. Kinoshita did with
my teeth. A few questions popped in my mind. How did he put on my
braces? Who does and make my retainers?.......................................
These are some questions that I should think about. This is why I
want to be an orthodontist when I grow up!
What do you want to be when you grow up?
Why do you want to do this career?
