Blogpost 8: A subject you enjoy studying

If you read this you probably know that I am studying Dentistry at the University of Chile. This is my first semester so it was a bit difficult to adapt to university life in this context of pandemic and online classes.

However, there was a subject that I really liked called “Skills development and self-care for professional practice”. As its name says, consists of teaching us to develop some dental skills and the professional's self-care when working with a patient. It is the only subject that brought me closer to dentistry and despite being in online classes, the practical work classes were very close with my classmates and my teacher in charge.

I learned things like the general elements to recognize the workplace, dental nomenclature, how to carve teeth with soap, self-care in oral health and some diseases related to the oral cavity such as tooth decay, gingivitis and periodontitis, in addition the homework (home-work haha, I have been locked in my home for about 5 months) they gave us were nice for me, like creating a poster or a power point.

Bonus: I also liked the English classes a lot, as we were few members, a more confident environment was generated and the teacher was very nice. Without English classes there would never have been this blog that has helped me a lot to practice my writing.

Blogpost 7: Choice of two topics

 This time I will show you one of my favorite pages related to dentistry.

One of my favorite social networks is instagram so I spend most of my time watching videos and other publications, I like to watch before and after orthodontic videos or when they do restorations but there is a type of videos that satisfied me and that is the removal of dental tartar. There are many accounts or videos about dental tartar removal but the Indonesian dentist Tri Putra account is ideal if you like to watch those kinds of videos, some are really shocking cases of dental tartar and for me the more tartar the more satisfactory. Also the page will also provide you with some tips, although it may be a bit difficult to understand since they are in Indonesian. Whenever I go to instagram, some of his videos appear, they are addictive for me and I see them almost every day.

I leave the link for you to visit his account and see some of his videos.

https://www.instagram.com/doktergigi_/?igshid=1mct9e35q0wiw

Blogpost 6: Free Topic 2

My experience being vegan.
Since I was little I was always an animal lover and I was always aware that I should not mistreat them, much less eat them, but since I come from a traditional family they always forced me to eat meat because it was normal and because "it did me good". However one day the idea to stop eating animals came to my head and that thought went around in my head for a long time but I did not dare to do it since at that time it depended on what my grandmother cooked and I did not know cooking very well, until one day I told them that I did not want to eat any more meat so I did it, but everyone was quite surprised and thought that I was going to starve, about all my grandparents since they are from the countryside and are not used to vegetarianism, much less veganism. They told the other family members that I had "become" a vegetarian as if it were something crazy and many believed that it was wrong, that it was something very rushed and that it would not do me good, but I did not care about the opinion of the others because my conscience was calm when not eating animals and also had informed me enough. One day I decided to be a vegan and that shocked them much more when they did not eat dairy or eggs or anything related to animals. But veganism goes beyond not eating animals, it is being an activist against animal abuse, not using products tested on animals, not speciesism, etc. Some may think that it is something extreme but some think that it is something of justice. We don't need cow's milk, we need the calcium that we can get from other foods like broccoli or almonds, we don't need the protein from meat, we can get it from legumes that are much healthier, and so with many other foods that can be easily replaced, it is just motivation and you get well informed. Finally my family understood after many years that I don't need to risk another living being to feed myself well.
I love french fries!
Animals are with us not for us. ❤