Mediators should be capable of:

• Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.
• Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
• Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.
• Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others.

Innovators will usually have four main goals:

• Developing or creating new applications, relationships, systems, or products.
• Providing creative ideas or artistic contributions.
• Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
• Benchmarking, experimenting and testing novel approaches to solving problems.

• Placing dental appliances in patients’ mouths to altering the positions and relationship of teeth and jaws or to realign teeth.
• Studying diagnostic records, such as medical or dental histories, plaster models of the teeth, photos of the patient’s face and teeth, and X rays, for developing patient treatment plans.
• Diagnosing teeth and jaw or other dental facial abnormalities.
• Examining patients for assessing abnormalities of jaw development, tooth positions, and other dental facial structures.
• Preparing diagnostic and treatment records.
• Adjusting dental appliances for producing and maintaining normal function.
• Providing patients with proposed treatment plans and cost estimates.
• Instructing dental officers and technical assistants in orthodontic procedures and techniques.
• Coordinating orthodontic services with other dental and medical services.
• Designing and fabricating appliances, such as space maintainers, retainers, and labial and lingual arch wires.