Blog session 4 >> Bad habits and dental health

SUGAR

The sugar it's probably the most harmful component of the food for our dental health, most of the time the abusive consumption are acompannied of bad habits of feeding, sedentary lifestyle, incontrolled fat intake that, between other factor, causes an imbalance in our oral health. 

The sugar is one of the principal causative of caries (injuries), anoter are the tooth structure, the bacteriums of the oral flora and the context in wich the person is insert (the socioeconomic level, the educational level, the bad habits, between others). Caries can affect to the teeth and the gum. In the teeth, first start like a white stain and then it turns into a cavity that entails a lot of problems on the tooth like pulp damage, desmineralization of the enamel and dentin, etc. Also can provoke periodontal disease (gingivitis and periodontitis) that affects to the gum, because  the microorganisms and his waste (from sugar metabolism) may be positioned between the tooth and the gum and trigger this disease before mentioned, and can provoke the loss of the tooth. 

This problems can repair mainly with the help of a dentist, who advise in what the person should eat during the day or what oral habits can acquire for improve this disease, and also realize some procedure to repair the damage to the tooth and the gum (restorations, placement of sealants on the occlusal surfaces of the tooth for prevent future caries, prophylaxis, periodontal treatment to remove tartar of the tooth surfaces, between others).

The recommendations that I can give are that You should brush your teeth a minimum of 2 times a day during 2 minutes for prevent the appearance of caries and periodontal diseases. This brush MUST BE with toothpaste with a minimum of 1100 ppm of fluoride (less of that quantity is useless). It is presently believed that if you have a good care of your oral health, doesn't matter if you eat a lot of sugar in your feeding, but this doesn't mean that you can eat all the sugar you want, always avoid the sugar consumption because this can carry on other sistemic diseases like obesity and diabetes.

I have to confess that I like the sugar, despite I study dentistry, regrettably in the actual society the markets have a lot of products that have suggar on his components, the sugar is very addictive and is very hard don't consume if is present in all the places that I go. I propose to myself try to avoid eat sugar in all my food, first I stop putting sugar in tea and then I stop to drink beverages that bring bulk of this dangerous food that carry a lot of problems to my health. I hope continued do this and more things to improve my health.

Blog session 2 >> Expectation for a new semester

I am taken 5 subjects this semester:

1. Promotion and education in health I

2. Psychosocial and anthropology basis of health

3. Simulation for the professional practice I

4. Evidence based dentistry

5. Scientific and clinical basis for diagnosis in dentistry I

Simulation and diagnostic are the subjects hardest this semester, I have to study a lot but I like so much because are subjetcs so comprehensives and interesting in what I study that I hope I can approve them. Besides, they have a practice part where I work with activities that I will do when I apply in the future on my patients. In the others subject I learn about cientific basis, how can I do a investigation or a tesis (Evidence), also learn about public health, the health's problems that exist on our society in this times and how they have developed during the wears and decades and what can we do for improve this (promotion). And for last, we learn about the social role that we play like odontologist and the way that we have to treat our patient, using empathy and friendliness to forge a strong relation odontologist-patients. 

My extracurriculars are two: Society, culture and recreation and English 3. In this case, this subject can help us to develop our ways to communicate with persons of other countries (English 3) and develop skill in cultive of plants and relation between, like example, politics and comedy movies. 

Also I make volleyball the monday and thursday with the selection of the faculty and Zumba the wednesday in the gym with a lot of partners. 

Of this semester I hope approve all (of course) and learn a lot (and don't forget what i learn) and also I hope put in practice the knowledge in my future work like a dentist. 

Blog Session 1 >> My Autobiography

Hi! 

My name is Samanta Cecilia Cerpa Rojas  and i was born on october 5, 1993 in Santiago of Chile. I am 21 years old and I live with my parents and 2 sisters, my dad's name is Hugo, my mom Cecilia and my sisters are Alison and Emilia. I have another sister but she doesn't live with me, her name is Estefania and she study the same as me, Odontology. 

I have studied in 3 schools during my childhood, the first was "Colegio de la Providencia C.L.I", then in ninth grade I studied in "Liceo San Pedro Poveda" until eleven grade when  i changed to "Colegio Poeta Ruben Dario", all this schools are in Maipu. Then in 2012, I got into Universidad de Chile to study "Bachillerato", but the next year I got into this program again. Those 2 years was very hard and full of study to transfer to the career "Odontologia" in the same University, so here i am, study in second year of the career that I love. 

During my week I have to study a lot, but I try to give time to do other things like zumba or Volleyball. In the weekends, I try to go out the most I can, like spent time with my family on sundays (go to the cinema, go to eat somewhere, cook in our house, among other things) and get together with my school's friends in different house all the weekends, also go out with my university's friends to eat, to partys or to do whatever we want. 

Wait for the next post, see ya!