October Blog

 For my mentorship, I created a Facebook business page for my mentor's clinic. In order to get it approved, I have to run it by everyone including the nurses as well. I will soon talk to my mentor more about doing upcoming offers or specials for months to come.

Blog 8 - Research and Working EQ

1)      My working EQ so far is: How can a dentist manage their own dental clinic effectively?

2)      For my two answers, it would be:

       a)By placing their clinic in certain demographics and advertising their work to attract patients.

       b)By connecting with their local patients and teaching them the overall health issues that are brought up by many common cases.

3)       One of my sources is a book titled "Business Basics for Dentists", there was one specific chapter that talked about the different options a beginning dentists could do when starting their own clinic or working in one.

4)       I have two mentors but one is the main doctor (dentist), while my other mentor is the main dental assistant manager. The clinic that I go to is in Pomona called, Trance and Dental Spa. They both showed me that not everything is what it seems when going to the dentist, because of how relaxing the environment is around my mentor's clinic. The patients always have personal conversations with the assistants, and they can easily talk to them about their health issues and the dentist would give them helpful advice, as well as advising them to go see their doctors on more information.

Blog 7: Independent Component 1 Approval

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.

From seeing how I can only observe in my topic, which is dentistry, I wanted to make an observation of seeing the difference of how many dental clinics operate and how each one advertises comparing and contrasting with low-income verses high-income patients. From what I already know coming from one of the dentists who works at my mentor’s clinic, explains that he works in another dental clinic in Las Vegas. He says that for him working at a low income area is much more relaxing than a high income patient based area. It depends on what the demographics are of each area and where the patients are at; which can also relate to the location of the clinics there as well. I will contact a clinic that has more of a higher demographics and compare and contrast of what my mentor’s clinic versus the well- known dental clinics has to offer to their patients. To also get the view point from a patient of the different advertising that these two clinics have to present.

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

By taking notes on what the dentists do for the patients, how much time they spend with each one, the payments for the procedures, and also taking photos from the different clinics. Also seeing how the staff is with each other and how they present themselves to the patients professionally.

3.  And explain how what you will be doing will help you explore your topic in more depth.

I wanted to go more into depth and focus my topic on dentistry business because seeing how it takes much more knowledge than knowing the basics or advancements in dentistry major. But it takes more effort in becoming well known if the dentist who has so many degrees and certificates in dentistry and other majors yet has no clue on where or how to start their own business. For example I looked up a dental clinic that is in Beverly Hills and one dental clinic called “The Smile Transformation Expert”; the main dentist there named Dr. Kourosh Maddahi, who was in many popular news media coverage such as Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, and Good Day LA. Just by seeing this and seeing how many dentists who are well known who have written their own books and magazine covers.

4.  Update your Senior Project Hours log.

I have already updated my senior project hours log to the summer mentorship, mentorship hours, independent components one and two format.