If I was a scientist I would want to be a dentist. A dentist is basically someone who performs a variety of dental procedures to diagonse and treat conditions of the mouth and teeth. Also dental schools require a minimum of 2 years of collage-level predental education prior to admittance. And most dental students have at least a bachelor's degree before entering dental school but a few applicants are accepted to dental school after 2 or 3 years of collage and complete their bachelor's degree while attending dental school. A dentist is appealing to me because dentists really get to help people and interact with new people each and every day. Also dentists get to do a lot of work with their hands. I enjoy doing little projects with my hands such as model airplanes, and puzzles. This job matches my interests becuase I would much rather be working with people rather than sitting at a desk alone working on papers all day. This job is great because you are constantly moving from room to room and meeting new people. When I get a job my goals are very simple they are to earn a good salary and enjoy what I do. I believe I would enjoy this job very much because I am a people person and I would get to basiclly be in control of everyone working in my office. Also the average dentists earns about $147,000 per year, this would be could because I would be able to purchase items I want to buy and be able to support my family. This job fits my learning style very well because I am a visual learner. Dentist work with lots of model teeth, x-rays, actual teeth, and even charts. The legacy dentists have left for future generations is to help promote oral hygiene.

Fingernail and Hair Growth Myth

It is a widely held belief around the world that your hair and fingernails continue to grow after you die. The reason so many people believe this is because after someone dies it appears that their hair and fingernails continue to grow longer then they originally were before they died. Others believe that this could not be possible because the body stops functioning completely after you die. In the 1959 movie the move The Tingler, a character states that your fingernails will continue to grow after you die. This is where the the myth may have come from.

The science behind the myth consists of your body dehydrating after you die witch shrinks your body a little bit (Natural Clocks). This website talks about your body dehydrating and how it affects the way your nails appear. Also as your body shrinks your skin gets pulled back and the nail looks like it has grown. In the image everything stops functioning and begins to de-hyrate after you die. But the nail (above the sterile matrix) stays the same length giving the optical illusion that it is still growing.

Although it appears that the nail has grown it really hasn't just the skin itself gets smaller and the nail and hair stay the same length. This gives an optical illusion that the nail and hair have grown. Fingernails and hair do not continue to grown after one's death.

http://www.medicine.indiana.edu/news_releases/viewRelease.php4?art=798

This website confirms that hair and fingernails do not continue to grow after one's death.

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http://orgs.usd.edu/esci/age/content/natural_clocks/fingernails.html