Meredith Speight is a registered Dental Hygienist in a dental office in Boykins, VA. She earned her bachelor’s degree in dental hygiene from Old Dominion University. She always enjoyed going to the dentist as a little girl and was never afraid. As she got older, she had to choose whether she wanted to pursue being a dentist, assistant, or a hygienist, and she chose to be a hygienist because it was in the middle. She started at Old Dominion in 2012 and completed her prerequisites and then apply to the dental hygiene program and got in. She completed the two-year program and graduated in 2016. One day she had a friend call her who was filling in at the job she currently has and said they were looking for a hygienist to apply and so she did and got the job. Her daily routine includes her getting to the office early in the morning and gets the sterilization room going and she cleans her operatory. Patients usually start at 8 am and she works throughout the day cleaning anywhere from 8-9 patients. She seats her patients and gets their medical history, take radiographs if it is indicated, do their prophylaxis or cleaning, and then the doctor comes in to check for an exam. Then after each patient she cleans her operatory and roll into the same exact thing for each patient. She enjoys working with the elderly patients, and loves the rewarding moment once patients take what homecare recommendations she gives, and they come back for their 3–6-month re-care and they have done the very same recommendations she gave them to help their oral health. The most surprising aspect of her job was the lack of knowledge about caring for your teeth and having no dental care in a long time. Her most challenging aspect is when patients have not been seen in a long time and they may have periodontal disease, they have deeper pockets that she is cleaning into and the calculus on their teeth is very tenacious which makes it hard to scale off and sometimes you can burnish that calculus then their oral health doesn’t get a chance to get to a healing state because that burnished calculus is undetected under the gumline. Her advice given to anyone getting into the health field, especially dental hygiene would be to work hard in school, study, do the best you can, then once you get out of school and you are in your profession, try to stay up to date with what is going on.