-: Well, I wanted to help people and my mother is a nurse
and so I knew I was gonna go in the healthcare profession.
I thought I was gonna go medically,
but I wanted a family
and so I wanted a little bit of extra time for me
to spend with my family.
So dentistry was a great option for me
to actually be able to take care of people
and also be able to take care of my family.
Well, being a general dentist I get to do everything.
I'm just not stuck in just doing braces
or just doing root canals or just extracting teeth.
I get to do everything,
seeing small children
and then all the way up to my older patients,
so I get to do a variety of different things.
The biggest challenge of my job is probably
I guess communication skills to figure out exactly
what people are truly wanting to see with their oral health.
Sometimes they'll say one thing and then mean another thing
especially when finances are involved
because dentistry can be expensive.
So if you're all on the same page
and you figure out exactly what their needs are,
I think the challenge of that is the biggest hurdle.
Insurance companies are too.
They mandate a lot of treatment.
Basically, if you get the communication down,
you can work out any issue.