What to Do if You Are a Hygiene-Bot
Christmas is a magical time of year and I love to slow down and reflect on my continued life’s journey. My mind also takes me to Christmas memories, like the time when our family dachshund, Fritzie was snooping around in my parent’s clothes closet, looking for treats. One year, Fritzie found a bag of Christmas chocolates wrapped in foil and he vomited it in a big pile under my bed.
The end of the calendar year is also a good time to reflect on our careers. Since I’ve often said that I graduated from Fones School of Dental Hygiene during the Jurassic era (1970s), I think about those dental hygienists just starting their careers and how different it is for them compared to my workdays after I graduated. While studying at Fones, and being a boring nerd, I used to visit the University of Bridgeport library and loved to read passages from the first textbook of dental hygiene, Mouth Hygiene. In the early 1900s, dental hygienists worked under the general supervision of a dentist and our work in schools was considered “woman’s work”—we were often called “women assistants.” If we performed our work in local schools, supervisors included a nurse and maybe a principal...
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The end of the calendar year is also a good time to reflect on our careers. Since I’ve often said that I graduated from Fones School of Dental Hygiene during the Jurassic era (1970s), I think about those dental hygienists just starting their careers and how different it is for them compared to my workdays after I graduated. While studying at Fones, and being a boring nerd, I used to visit the University of Bridgeport library and loved to read passages from the first textbook of dental hygiene, Mouth Hygiene. In the early 1900s, dental hygienists worked under the general supervision of a dentist and our work in schools was considered “woman’s work”—we were often called “women assistants.” If we performed our work in local schools, supervisors included a nurse and maybe a principal...
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