Blog Session 7 >> Talk about your dreams

What I'll really like to do with my life is travel across the world helping people with them oral diseases and improve them oral health. Because I want to do community job and meet different cultures at the same time. 

Maybe if I achieve my dreams, I will be very happy and make the different inspiring other people to do the same. But It's difficult. I think that to make my dreams come true, I have to leave so many thing aside, like get married, have children, visit to my family and my old friends.

Despite of the things that will stop to achieve my dreams, I have more reasons to fight to my dreams. My best motivation is help making people's smile come back. A person can't smile without teeth or with pain because any oral disease. And this not only affects physically, emotionally also.

Blog Session 6 (week 11) >> An Expert on your Field

The person that I admire is Dr. Ronald Motzfeld Espinosa, academic in Restorative Dentistry´s department in the Faculty of dentistry. He was my teacher in skills development the last semester, and I am very exited because the next semester he is going to make me class in skills development 2. 

Dr. Motzfeld studied in the University of Chile, and he graduated in 1973. After that, he specialized in Oral rehabilitation. In 2013, he was recognized by the Dentists College of Surgeons of Chile, for their fourty years of practice of Dentistry.

In 1994 he and his wife goes to Ovalle for the marriage of a friend. In the trip, they have an accident that cost his wife's life and put him in a wheel chair. 

Even though, he had a horrible accident, in wich his wife died, he is known because he is very strong and friendly. I really like him, because he is an excellent professional, a good person and an example of overcoming. Their successes are reflection of  hard work and mostly him loves for the dentistry. 

Blog Session 3 (week 5) >> My favourite piece of technology

My favourite piece of technology is my Ipad 2, it´s a tablet of third generation with retina display and made by the brand Apple inc. in 2012. In the same year for Chritmas, my mom gave it to me. 

I really love it, because it´s very useful and easy to take anywhere, especially to the univerity.  I used it to study, make works, watch images, read transcrips and papers without having to carry in my backpack books and printed papers.

Even though I don´t only use my Ipad to the univerty. I enjoy it watching movies and series on Netflix, playing games, reading books, listening music on Spotify and to taking photos. And this is the reason because I use it every day and almost all day. Just weekend, I try to disconnect.

If I wouldn´t had it, I would spend a lot of time and money in many things, because only my computer could replace it, but it´s slow and more heavier. So I´m so happy and glad of have it!

Blog Session 5 (Week 6) >> My favorite photograph

This photo was taken by a tour guide who took us to meet the world's largest salt flat called "Salar de Uyuni". It´s located in the southwest of Bolivia. The photo was taken exactly in January of 2015 for my third trip without my family. 

This photo shows a beautiful sunset with two of my best friends, Paula and Luisa. We are friends since the first day in high school and we decided to trip together because we are a very awesome group, very close and we have a lot of fun when we spend time together.

I really like it, because two reasons. The first is because this photo represents part of my life as a traveler. When I am backpacking I feel a free person but a high responsibility, because I have to take care of my friends and me, and this is the unique situation that my family is not there, so I have to behave like an adult. And the second reason is because my friends. I really love these girls, they are part of my life since 7 years ago and we pretend be friends for all ours life. 

Blog Session 4 (week 6) >> Bad habits and dental health

SUGAR


The sugar is one of the most addictive food´s components. It´s a really dangerous vice and people don´t care about it. The majority of sweet food contains sugar, even though there are different types of sweeteners without it. 

Within the most important problems that cause the high sugar intake are weight gain and the dental issues. The last refers about the dental health loss and we can notice it because food´s sugar can cleave to ours teeth.  After the join sugar-tooth, the mouth pathogenic microorganisms eat of this sugar, releasing acids and causing the typical dental issue, named it caries.

Caries or tooth decay is a disease of infectious origin and it´s one of the majority prevalent in the human. This issue consist in the modification or change of hard tissue of the tooth and it´s going to be dissolved. Exist a process of localized destruction of that hard tissue because the action of involved bacterias.

The formation´s process of carious cavities begins in form of small areas of demineralization in subsurface enamel and then it progress between dentine to the dental pulp. If the injury is not remineralised, it can continue and turn in a cavitation.

Actually we know that the diet has an important role in the caries dental development. It´s because there are several characteristics of the food that can influence the cariogenic potential of these, for example sucrose concentration, consistency, oral rinse, food combining, sequence and frequency of ingestion and food´s pH.

Within the favorite cariogenic food are candies, chocolates, refreshments, cookies, french fries,  icecreams, etc.

But caries, is not the only issue. Also the high sugar intake can cause the prevalent of gingivitis and increased frequency of malocclusions.


Even though you had have caries or another dental issues, you can repair in part the damage. For this, is important go to a dentist maybe for a obturation root canal treatment and after it, change all your bad habits like improve feed. 

Finally I wanna tell you that i love eat all the cariogenic "food" named previously, actually is my weakness. I love chocolates, icecreams and coffee, but I am conscious that is a bad habit and is bad for me. So I am trying to control me and really hope you do the same!!! XOXO

Blog Session 2 (week 4) >> Expectations for a New Semester

This semester I`m studyng just a few subjects like Anatomy and Development of skills for the professional exercises. But I have to study very hard  in particulary Anatomy, because it's very difficult for me but I have so much time for it. 

I had to take 2 extracurricular courses. The first is English level 3. It's a amazing, because me and my partners don't have to study to approve it, we use these hours in practice our english and talk about us. And the second is Sociaty, Culture and Education. It's very bored for me, because it has a political connotation and I am not agree with it.

Apart of my university's life, i have anothers expectations from this new academic period. I have a great goal. I want to be a better runner, especially in trails. So for it, i have to train very hard every days, constant and never give up. 

Blog Session 1 (Week 3) >> My Auto Biography

HI!!!!!

My name is Catalina Andrea Serradilla Arriaza and I was born on may 27, 1993 in Santiago of Chile. I am 21 years old and I live with my mother and my little sister, my mom´s name is Andrea and my sister´s name is Valeria.

I studied in 4 schools during my childhood, the first was "Anglo American International School" just for 2 years, then I moved to the school "Isabel la Catolica" until 8th grade and I changed to " Saint John´s Villa Academy". In the last school I studied almost high school, because in my junior´s year, I went to USA to visit my aunt Carmen Paz, who lives in Florida and i was there for 6 months studyng in "South Miami Senior High", but I come back to Chile and continue studyng in SJVA. Then in 2011, I got into Universidad de Chile to study Biology, but I didn´t like, so I changed to "Bachillerato" in the same university. Then studied for 2 years and it was really hard, i got a transfer to Odontology, so here I am, in the first year of this beautiful career and really happy.

All days, I have to study a lot, but I try to do anothers things. My favority hobby is run, i try to train all days. In the weekends, I spend my free time going out with my boyfriend and my friends. So this is my life, hope you don´t get bored. XOXO