What's This?

Hi, I'm Burt and this is the blog for my small business, Dental Careers Foundation. Welcome!

I suppose I should start by explaining who I am, what we do, why and where. I'm a dental assistant with about 30 years or so of experience in the business. I've practiced in Anchorage and Seattle, and have taught dental assisting since 1999 with this program. The curriculum and everything in it was designed, written, produced and performed by yours truly. What that means is, I'm a huge dental geek with no social life to speak of.

Okay, I kid.

Our goal is to train people with no previous dental experience to become qualified dental assistants. Our programs run on Saturdays only, to provide people with busy family or business lives to learn a new career in a fun and intensive program. We operate out of a dental office to provide hands-on experience with the instruments and equipment common to this business.

It's been our goal to provide the Anchorage area with a pool of talented and motivated assistants. Ours is a profession where there is a lot of mobility. People are promoted, move into different areas of practice or use assisting as a stepping stone to hygiene or even dental school training.

The office we work with is in midtown Anchorage, Alaska to make commuting easier. (Maybe not if you live in Detroit, but certainly locals can get here pretty easily.) It also makes finding a lunch spot easier.

So that's us. Now what's this?

To be honest, I'm not interested in a blog that showcases the business, or even markets our services. That's why we have a website. Really, my point in having this blog is to provide a forum for my thoughts on any number of dental subjects and to share information with like-minded (or even opposite-minded) dental geeks. It's not meant to be a scientific or political forum, although these things are often related to some of the topics I will discuss.

Now, I know that this is more or less a one-way street, showcasing my points of view. That doesn't mean to imply that because it's mine it's the only point of view; far from it. I invite you to add your comments, only asking for you to remain civil and legible. I don't much care for poetical turns of phrases, but neither do I care for unedited flow of consciousness rambles.

So, before I veer off into my own unedited flow of consciousness... thing, I will summarize as tightly as I can: I'm excited to be starting this. You can expect to find mostly dental subjects discussed here (with the occasional foray into tangential subjects). A lot of philosophical "why" questions will be brought up, relative to dentistry. And, welcome.

Thanks for your time!