The reason that I study Dentistry

I love to study dentistry very much, but throughout all these years I have had some different ideas to choose a career. When I was a child I wanted to become a doctor, but at the same time I like science. I had a laboratory in my room and created "potions" to help people, like medication. I wrote a book about my research of plants and flowers in my garden, I drew the different forms of leaves, trees, so much nature. In one occasion, I pretended to be a dentist with a teddy bear. And I liked it so much.

In 2011 I made a list with all careers in Chile, I was undecided and had curiosity for entering a university. In my options i had pharmaceutical chemistry, medical technology, architecture (I liked to draw buildings and constructions), graphic design and obviously dentistry. I didn't like the idea to study law or engineering. 

I decided to study dentistry because you can incorporate the studies of science in many areas, like biology, microbiology, pathology, physiology, anatomy, pharmacology, histology, among many others. But also odontology has the manual dexterity, is the artistic part in my opinion. I can do a lot of research and different lab tasks. And the most important thing is we can help people. Odontology has everything that I like. 

My experience at university has been so good. I know many people with the same interests like me and the university has the vision that we can improve dental health in Chile, and especially the public health, that was very impressive to me because we had so much responsibility in the future decisions of our country.  

The kind of job that I like is restorative dentistry but also i like teaching.