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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.
 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
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Tasks and Responsibilities of an
Orthodontist
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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!
Working Conditions of an
Orthodontist
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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 am5:00 pm normally)
The environment is on your feet and working with people
most of the time.
TQA
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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.
Job Outlook
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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.
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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.
Related Career
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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.
Summary
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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.
Work Cited
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