Mohammed Akulah

• Here, after the past three years practice and hundreds of dental cases, my title becomes: a "Practitioner Dentist".
• Now, we become responsible about teaching Dentistry College students during summer months at health centers.
• In addition, we continue our daily ordinary job of dental care, management and preventive measures.
• In this stage, I started to attend a private clinic at times out official work hours.

• During this period I had my "service in villages and rural areas" or (remote areas service), when I had many activities:

- I joined our team and continue our daily practices of dentistry work (filling, extraction, endodontic treatment, etc..).

- Emphasizing the "preventive" issues, we made periodic visits to primary and secondary schools to survey and screen dental problems of students and make appointments to them at the health center, give lectures about dental hygiene and oral health care (brushing, flossing, mouth washing, avoiding sweets before sleep, etc..).

- The health center was opened afternoon too and offers dentistry care programs at these times too.

- We instructed attendants of health center about the above dental hygiene issues too.

- We mentored junior dentists by sharing knowledge about best practices in dentistry and discussing complex cases together for better decision making.

-We maintained detailed patient records to ensure accurate documentation of treatment plans and progress.

-It is worth to mention that as that period was COVID19 pandemic, we actively participated in educating about the necessity to take vaccine.

• After graduation 2018 from Dentistry College, I started my training as a “Resident Dentist” that took full two years. During that I joined all the available programs under supervision of senior dentists:
• In diagnostic dentistry, I was trained to take history from patients, do extraoral and intraoral examinations using mirror and probe. In addition, we may do plane and panoramic radiographs and interpret them.
• In endodontics, I performed root canal treatment.
• In prosthodontics, I performed dental impressions and made dentures, crowns and bridges.
• In restorative dentistry I performed fillings, amalgam and composites, although I preferred the latter, apt to it is aesthetically better.
• In orthodontics, I performed all steps of it e.g. treatment of cross bite, malformed tooth, crowding tooth, etc…
• In periodontics, I performed scaling and polishing, gingivectomy, gingivoplasty, frenectomy and laser practice in periodontics.
• In dental surgery, I performed teeth extractions, impacted teeth surgery, bone augmentation, etc..
• In pedodontics, I performed treatment of pediatric teeth like normal fillings, pulpotomy, pulpectomy, etc…
• In preventive dentistry I performed fluoride application for pediatric patients and full mouth rehabilitation, patients education about oral hygiene, etc..
• It is worth to mention that this period included COVID19 pandemic, when we worked under very dangerous situations and tried to avoid infection as much as possible. Pesonally, I got infected, but fortunately it passed peacefully.