 Hello everybody Andrea Trouska here with dental tutoring. So this is actually a question that I had from a fellow YouTuber who was watching my videos a week ago. So the question was how do you get started if you need to do an internship at an office? So for a lot of schools out there for either dental hygiene or dental assisting part of the program is before you're finished you you actually have to shadow either a dental hygienist or a dental assistant depending on the program that you are in for a certain number of hours and this may be hard for you if you just don't have the connections right. I'm trying to think when I was a dental assistant I did have to shadow somebody but I just simply asked my office where I've been I've been going to as a kid. I remember having a cleaning and I'm surprised that I still remember this and I just said oh you know what like I'm in assisting school I need to shadow an office. Could I possibly talk to the dentist and just see if I could shadow you for like a couple weeks or something. For assisting I believe I actually had to work it like I had to shadow my externship for about three weeks so I was there every single day like eight hours a day because I needed a lot of hours so but I learned a lot. I watched I think the first day or two but then they had me do little things so like I would help out in the lab I would help them clean up a room help up to set up the room I remembered actually assisting the dentist a couple times so it is possible and you do learn a lot. For hygiene I don't believe I had to shadow an office actually but I know that a lot of the schools these days you do have to so it's pretty much the same thing just if you're able to ask the the office where you go for your cleanings I think that that's the easiest but if you're not able to because you're either out of town or you just simply don't feel comfortable asking then you you know what I would do I would join a group on Facebook so say for dental hygienists there's the Canadian dental hygiene network or you know depending on where you live just I would join a group or a page on Facebook and just ask say hey you guys I'm a student I'll be done in a month are there any offices out there in this location that would like to have me just simply shadow them now that should work if that doesn't work then I would just honestly go up to offices and say hey I need to shadow an office I'm happy to help who can I speak to you know I would love to help out I need a certain number of hours it's it's it's kind of like I'm working for free so I'm happy to help you know but I know that that's not not always easy but yeah you guys so I kind of hope that helps I know I don't know because I never really had to do that but I've just always had kind of a connection silly as that sounds so it's hard for me to think if you don't have connections but I do feel if you join either a Facebook page or a Facebook group that should help the second step if that doesn't help is to just simply ask offices just walk in and say hey I'm looking for an office your school though should be able to help too like I do know a lot of schools where they would call the offices for you because they're a school so they kind of know the the office is to call so ask your school for help too and then hopefully they'll be able to help you so yeah you guys I hope that helps I'm darn I can't remember the name of the lovely lady who asked me to do the video but I'm sure you will see this so please just let me know but I believe I did comment on your comment on YouTube anyway so but I hope that this helps a little bit more and if anybody else has any questions just let me know