Podiatrist

Duties and Responsibilities: As a periodontist, you'll treat patients who have gum disease and other issues of the gums and bones surrounding the jaw. Your work may be surgical or non-surgical and might include tasks like placing implants, developing treatment plans, and providing preventative care.

Salary: $305,820

Education: Even after you complete four years of dental school, you are not quite finished.Periodontists are required to complete a periodontics residency, which is usually three years long. In order to become board certified, you will need to pass a written and oral exam administered by the American Board of Periodontology.

Demand:Working in a collaborative practice model offers specialists a captive patient referral base. While exploring the DSO's collaborative practice model, I had the chance to see the schedule of the periodontist who had introduced me, and it looked very busy with consultations and a mix of treatments planned throughout the entire day. I had worked busy schedules like that as a general dentist-but not as a periodontist. I was happy to learn that I would still be able to do my own exams and treatment planning and that I would still be able to use the instruments I wanted and order any type of materials needed.

Reflection: I would not like to become a periodontist because i would fail at being one and if its something that has to do with the teeth is not a good job for me because for me is pretty weird for that to go and touch peoples teeth.