Reflection: Dental Hygiene

Reflective Essay
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October 9, 2020
Understanding the importance of learning objectives in one’s career towards becoming a dental hygienist is important. This is because of the fact that such a job requires a great degree of technical and interpersonal skills to succeed. In this paper, I would like to reflect on one of the activities that we went through during our course discussion. Specifically, I would like to place a primary focus on some of the Course Learning Objectives (CLOs) that we discussed in class.
The task that we had to do during one of our practicums was to create a patient care plan for a patient that has a high or extreme risk of developing caries. In doing so, I initially started by looking at the patient’s demographic and personal information to determine his lifestyle. I realized that this was important (even though the patient is...