Dentistry is the branch of the healing arts and sciences devoted to maintaining oral health. It is a dynamic health profession, offering opportunities to become a successful, highly respected member of the community.

A dentist, also known as a dental surgeon, is a medical professional who specializes in dentistry, the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases and conditions of the oral cavity. The dentist’s supporting team aids in providing oral health services.

My first experience with a dentist

Had a long week with toothache caused by growing molars, as a believer i thought that it won’t last and by some time it will just be fine. what i thought was not right because there is a lot i didn’t know about my oral health and how to maintain it.

For almost two weeks with a lot of pain and failing to eat, i decided to go and see a dentist at mutima clinic in Bujumbura town, i paid for checkup and after waiting for some minutes i was told to enter.

A doctor welcomed with great vibe, he asked my name and that’s the funny part of that visit; i replied “my name is Baragengana Jocelin” The doc looked at with a surprised question he asked” what is the meaning of Baragengana”, i replied” i dont know”. i later asked him “why did u ask doc?”

“Because it is my first time to hear that name at my age” he replied, after that conversation he told me to lay on the small bed to check out what was wrong with my tooth. He sanitized, came with Mouth Mirror, sickle probe, Mirror and told me to open my mouth; he checked and told me to use the mirror to look in my teeth using the mouth mirror.

I looked in the mirror to check my teeth, then he told me that i don’t brush my teeth correctly then i asked him how can i brush? what was surprising because he told me that what we think brushing teeth is, isn’t the right way to brush teeth. So do you know how to brush your teeth and how to maintain oral health?

After question he told to get off the bed and sit on the chair, then he told me that ” brushing is not brushing from the right to the left or vice versa; but it is done differently “you brush up and down, removing everything stuck in your teeth”, you don’t brush in the morning but you brush after eating and while going to bed; hope that is clear.

Well, that was my first experience in dental clinic.

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Whenever you get any pain or any oral problems better go to a dental clinic, the best advice is to keep and maintain your oral health because oral health is important like any other thing, many people get in critical conditions coz of not maintaining their oral health.

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