Learning about the lifestyle of a dental receptionist.

By Zoe Albarran 

Marsiol Martinez, 20,is a dental receptionist at Covina Western Dental. In the picture she is making appointments for dental clients. 

Marisol Martinez is a dental receptionist  that  works at a Western Dental clinic in Covina. After graduating in 2023, she took time off from school. However, in need of money she started off as receptionist and then from there was promoted to a patient care coordinator. Marisol started to learn more of the terminology for dental. 

Her day begins waking up at 9am to start heading to work to begin coordinating the patient at the office. What this means is how the doctor tells marisol what the patient is diagnosed with and she will let the patient go through the steps and review the cart with them, she helps see what covers the insurance of what does not. 

Other than being a dental assistant, an  surface level facts about Marisol include:he enjoys shopping, she also enjoys spending time with her younger and older sister. Marisol enjoys her job.  Marisol loves her position, however, she does not want to stay at that level forever. She wishes to study a career in the dental field to enter a higher position in this field. A career she is already looking into is becoming a dentist herself, to pursue she will attend a college to continue her dream. The college she prefers going to is one that is not too far or not too close to where she already lives just because she does want to stay close to help her Mom. 

Marisol doesn’t consider her job difficult, although she does explain that the dental office does get full sometime where she does get a little stressed because the dental office does get a bit busy or for when it is day the office will get really busy. More into getting to Know Marisol Martinez, she does say that she is 20 years old. Marisol recently stated that she had just gone to Mexico where she always wanted to visit. Marisol visited jalisco, she spent her time over there with her family visiting around. To get to know a little more about marisol she does have two sisters, she is the middle child, she has a younger sister, and an older sister. Mariol is a very inspiring dental receptionist who helps out alot in her office, as well as wishes to pursue a higher education. 

Question that were asked 

•  Can I start of by getting you name
•    What is something you enjoy doing in your free time? 
• -What do you do for work? 
• -is this a job something you love doing? Is it something you would want to do forever?
• Would you consider your job a calm job or a stressful job?
• Do you plan on going back to school anytime soon or is it something more down the future
• Was learning something about the dental field challenging for you?

-What are your current priorities in your life right now?

•  Do,have any siblings or do you have all sisters or all Brothers?
• Do you have any   dream vacation that you plan on going to in the future?
• What part of Mexico did you go to?
• What did you do over there on your time?