Implants and Orthodontics: The Importance of Knowledge and Learnings in Profession

You are to create a thoughtful and reflective essay that includes a minimum of four paragraphs (a paragraph must contain a minimum of three sentences, even though APA states two sentences) that addresses the expectations as listed below. This reflective essay may be written in first person because this is your personal reflection. The reflection must be based on the signature assignment, which was two Problem Based Learning (PBL) clinical patient cases. This assignment is graded on how well you address the expectations of the reflection, please make sure you address each of the expectations as listed below!

Expectations of reflection:

1. Introductory paragraph that describes:

-the signature assignment of the Problem Based Learning clinical case study.

-How does what you learned through completing this signature assignment connect to the learning outcomes in this course? (you must write about how they connect to at least 2 of the 3 course CLOs)

CLOS

Assess the various techniques of periodontal therapy.

Analyze a problem based case to meet the comprehensive needs of a patient.

Justify the need for surgical periodontal treatment referrals.

Completing these two pbls helped me understand the topics of implants and orthodontics. We were given two patients and from the case study our prpofessor gave us a particular topic that we had to address and become professional in.

- Describe the gains over the term you have made in achieving the CLOs.

 The gains I have made is that I am better to understand the involvement of perio and how it affects orthodontics and implants. With orthodontics I learned that it cannot be placed if it the patient has osseous crater, furcation’s, and three-wall defects. With implants I learned that there are so many times and each one is used for specific reasons.

2.A paragraph (or more) that includes:

What challenges did you encounter in completing this assignment?

-The challenges I encountered was findings new research in the recent 2 year about my topic. Most of the researches were from years ago.

How did you solve these challenges?

-I solved these challenges by getting extra help from our school librarian.

What were the successes you had in completing this assignment?

The success was that I was easly about to find information nabout my topic and it was pretty easy to go into detail about them.

3. A paragraph (or more) that discusses your learning throughout this term:

Describe the learning process throughout the course, what it felt like as you

progressed and mastered certain skills (developing key facts, hypothesis,

learning needs and applying these to effective poster board presentations).

Through out this term it was difficult retaning all the information of periodontology. There is a lot of key facts that need to be memories in order to figure out what status the patient is. In order to be able to see if a patient is periodontally involved you need to go and check many things.

What skills have you obtained from the PBL process and how will you apply

those skills to private practice?

-The skill I have obtained is that now I can easily research a topic and learn about it in detail. It can help me in private practice because I know now what periodontally involved patients need or how to diagnose if they are periodontally involved.

Discuss the skills you are still developing related to the PBL process and your

plans to continue your learning to ensure you remain knowledgeable and competent in the future.

-These skills that I have obtained will help me when I graduate and become a RDH. I can take this to private practice where I will need to explain all these information to the dentist when with a patient.

4.A paragraph (or more) that discusses a connection between what you studied in this course and what you learned in previous courses.

-What I have learned in this course plays the most important role in my clinic class. I. need to know these information when seeing a patient in order to successful create a correct dental hygiene care plan.

Specifically describe how what you learned in other classes enhance what you learned in this class.

-Last term in the periodontology class I was in it helped me learn the basis information for this applied periodontology.

Reflect on what you thought about the CLO’s at the beginning of the class and how you think about them now.

Please look at the clos I provided above and make something up.

What has changed in your assumptions and understanding?

Please write something