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I Can Be Anything I Want to Be A to Z: Dental Hygienist

4 minutes 54 seconds

Now Playing As: Captioned (English) (change)

Brush up on this career path and learn what it takes to help people maintain healthy and happy smiles. Dental hygienists clean teeth, examine patients' teeth, and provide other preventive dental care. Part of the "I Can Be Anything I Want to Be A to Z" series.

Media Details

Runtime: 4 minutes 54 seconds

Topic: Careers, Health and Safety
Subtopic: Hygiene, Job Skills, Occupations
Grade/Interest Level: 4 - 8
Standards:

Release Year: 2017
Producer/Distributor: Ohio Broadcast Educational Media Commission
Series: I Can Be Anything I Want to Be A to Z

Woman wearing a business suit pulls a book down from a law library. Caption. Being a lawyer is all about solving problems.

Dental assistant wearing a surgical mask and latex gloves next to a tray with tools and supplies for teeth cleaning. Next to her, a person lies back in a dental chair in an office setting. Caption. We work in a dental office alongside dentists.

Closeup of a computer screen projecting the image of an editing platform. The image in the program is a pair of black running shorts with blue and red accent stripes. Caption. It looks like what the end garment will look like.

Person points at a computer screen showing numbered gene pairs. Caption. Where we do the genetic testing.

Nurse smiles and shakes the hand of a man who is seated on an exam table in a medical office setting. Caption. We order tests for patients, we do exams.

Overhead view of a man writing on a log sheet. Also on the desk, a landline phone and computer mouse. Caption. I translate mostly legal documents.

Side view of an X-ray technician holding up an image of a spine against an X-ray illuminator. Caption. So we take a lot of imaging of patients' bones.

2 side-by-side canoes on the water. A man with a video camera gives a thumbs up to camera. His camera is pointed at a man rowing. In the other canoe, 3 men seated and 1 playing the guitar. Caption. A video producer is kind of like a storyteller.

A man sitting inside a machine. Caption: I'm an experimental aerodynamicist by training.

Two technicians inspecting an installation. Caption: And I am an indoor electrical wireman.