My first experience with a dentally related incident was when my identical twin and I were doing a track and field day when a boy came over and decided that he was going to swing the pole around and hit her in the mouth. She said she was fine but as soon as she smiled I noticed that her central incisor was fractured. I told her she broke a tooth and she just cried. At the time my parents couldn’t afford to have it fixed and she walked around with that broken tooth for a few years. This incident has haunted me to this day as I notice imperfections on people’s teeth as I am out and about grocery shopping or watching the news.
Following graduation from high school, I immediately started classes at Butler County Community College (BCCC) and began working in retail shortly thereafter to help pay for the tuition and loans that had accumulated. While taking classes I found out that the…show more content… I then moved all my belongings to Tinker AFB since my husband was stationed there. Two weeks after moving to Tinker I received a phone call that I had been accepted and classes would start in August. I moved back to Kansas to attend WATC. Dental assisting school was easy since I had prior experience with Dr. Resch’s office. I maintained a 3.93 GPA at WATC for the duration of Dental Assisting school.
After graduating from WATC, I moved back to Oklahoma and found out that it would be a process to transfer all my dental certifications than was initially thought. I had to call the dental board every day for three months due to them verifying all course syllabus’ and exams from the school I attended along with coursework to make sure it fell within the scope of what their requirements were. It helped that I took the Dental Assistants National Board (DANB) and became a Certified Dental Assistant (CDA) prior to moving to
