Dec 30, 2018
How I think about risk factors changed my attitude towards dentistry. Knowing patient risks are not my fault lowered my stress and improved my love of what I do. Now, when I go through a patient’s mouth, I look for periodontal risk, decay risk, functional risk, aesthetic risk, physiological risk, etc. We’ll cover...
Dec 23, 2018
I had an epiphany during the first conference I went to about risk factors. Up until that point, I’d spent my career redoing dentistry that failed that I thought was my fault. After all, in dental school, they taught if my margins were good and I was perfect, then my dentistry would last. When, really, the...
Dec 16, 2018
I used to tell my kids to walk with a sense of purpose when they were dilly dallying. Come on; this is an intentional activity. Dentistry, too, is an intentional activity: I’m walking into work, I’ve looked at my schedule, I know what’s coming. Dentistry is a stressful career. While I know how to handle stress,...
Dec 9, 2018
Today’s episode comes from Bora Bora…so excuse any boat noises you might hear. I think lifestyle has a lot to do with dentistry. If you don’t have the funds to be able to do your bucket list items, then really what are you doing? In my career, when I focused on good communication skills and great patient care, the...
Dec 2, 2018
Using CAD/CAM and CEREC is an opportunity to change how you practice. I personally have a mouth full of dentistry. So the question for me has always been what type of material do I want in my mouth? But we’ll circle back to this later. So how do we do we schedule CAD/CAM and CEREC with our patients? About two and a...