Independent Component 1

LITERAL

•  “I, Paulina Dominguez, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”
•  My sources are my mentors at these two different dental clinics that have helped me along the way during my independent component, one in pomona, while the other is in claremont.
•  For my independent component I worked half the 30 hours with the pomona dental clinic and claremont dental clinic, I observed the two and I was able to get hands on experience, seeing how new interns come in and help around in the dental clinics. I was able to sanitize the dental instruments, as well as wipe down the entire area of the dental chair when the doctor was finished with the procedure on the patient.  I was learning along the way on where the dental instruments are organized and help set up equipment for the next patient coming in. 

INTERPRETIVE
As I was working in these two dental clinics, I instantly noticed right away the big difference on how these clinics are similar yet when walking into them, totally seem different just by appearence.

For the first two photos are taken in the Claremont call Claremont Smile Design. The first picture where is the fron desk where patients come in to check in. And in the second picture is where for new patients get their whole mouth xrayed by this new device that can examine the entire mouth with its mechanical 360 degree feature. This saves so much time as well as having the xrays digitalized where the patient and doctor are able to see the results instantly without having to wait for it to process unlike other older machines.

Seeing the difference as these bottom two pictures are taken in the Pomona dental Clinic called Trance and Dental Spa. This picture is the front desk where as you can see how its more simplistic for family friendly envirmoment for low demographic areas. But considering this for most of the patients felt more eased because its simple enough for them to come in and mostly focus on what really goes behind the desk and notice more on the work experience instead of just appearence of the clinic.

The second photo is a machine where is the dental equipment go in and have the final process of sanitizing in its three step process I was able to work on during my hours. This machine is not really the newest version but it still does the same job as any other steam sanitization machine like the one in claremont. The difference is that this one is more manual where the one in claremont is more modernized with having  just buttons to make it easier to work with.
APPLIED
It made me realize as I worked in both dental clinics, noticing the obvious differences on how these dental clinic's appearence is and how different the staff works, but what makes them more interesting is how the pomona clinic were so connected with the patients for my independent component showed me more on how different dental clinics have different atomosphere as well as how much of the patient to doctor connection each one had. One of the doctors in the pomona explained how he works in a high paced dental clinic where you could barely have any close connection with one patient, in which the doctor's coinfidence decreases becauseof them not knowing if the patients come out of the dental clinic and truly understand the certain basic steps when maintaining a healthly mouth. This helped me create my EQ and understand why I chose my answer to focus more on the basic knowledge to families who are in need of services and programs to help spread awareness of this escalating issue in the dental world.