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.

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.

• Recording and reviewing patient medical histories.
• Providing clinical services or health education for improving and maintaining the oral health of patients or the general public.
• Maintaining dental equipment and sharpening and sterilizing dental instruments.
• Cleaning calcareous deposits, accretions, and stains from teeth and beneath margins of gums, using dental instruments.
• Feeling and visually examining gums for sores and signs of disease.
• Chart conditions of decay and disease for diagnosis and treatment by dentist.
• Feeling lymph nodes under patient’s chin for detecting swelling or tenderness potentially indicating the presence of oral cancer.
• Applying fluorides or other cavity preventing agents to arrest dental decay.
• Examining gums, using probes, for locating periodontal recessed gums and signs of gum disease.
• Exposing and developing x ray film.
• Removing excess cement from coronal surfaces of teeth.
• Making impressions for study casts.
• Administering local anesthetic agents.