My name is Shan Li. I have been working as a dental assistant for 4 years in New York City. I have tried a couple of different jobs since I came to the US in 2015. After I got my first dental assistant job, I enjoyed helping people so I knew I had to take the next step and become a dental hygienist.
In August 2019, I got accepted by the New York City College of Technology Dental Hygiene Program and officially started my path to become a dental hygienist. However, this was not an easy path, I had more than 10 years of experience treating patients as a dentist in a foreign country. However, it is totally different being a hygienist, I had to learn from the beginning, the more that I learned, the more that I loved this career. As a future dental hygienist, I would like to serve the community with my knowledge and my clinical skills to provide the best prevention and treatments for my patients.