The Dentist Diaries

The Dentist Diaries Hi,
My name is Zain. I'm a dentist. Welcome to my world of daily experiences and hardships which elaborate my struggles to people like myself.

23/02/2025

Dear diary,
A podcast last month in which i made the blunder of saying that second trimester was the least safe month for treatment.
A series of victories for Arsenal followed by a defeat by a relatively easy opponent. Pakistan exiting the world cup in the most disgraceful manner.

The only good things in the last few weeks included swift extractions of the wisdom teeth of patients and a wonderful trip to the Safari zoo with family.

Perhaps life is always going to be a mixture of good and bad spontaneous moments.

02/10/2024

Dear diary,
The impending reality of my mid-30s looms, accompanied by an intense feeling of trepidation.

Developing a personal brand remains an unfulfilled ambition, and securing a suitable site for my clinic remains ongoing.

The pressure to act mounts, with the window of opportunity narrowing to a critical juncture.

A gulf war may be ensuing but my personal struggles continue.

26/04/2024

Dear diary,
A long period of hiatus. It has been a strange, strange transition; this transition from denial to acceptance. For the first time i got admission into a PhD program. But that's where the tragedy lies. It comes without the advantage of a scholarship. In time, the shimmer of hope will completely vanish. Till then, i hold on to faith and the hope of a little bit of luck.

Regret is a lonely road and those that tread it always have the choice to choose a different path.

25/11/2023

Dear diary,
The reverberations came late but they did come eventually. A broken family with nothing but possession of emotions to fill voids that can't be sealed.

Voids that form with composite fillings; no matter how careful one is, polymer shrinkage is unavoidable.

Perhaps, mid-life crisis for any of us would mean late life worries for our humble parents.

02/09/2023

Dear diary,
For years now, I'd been wondering what my biggest achievement was. Was it becoming a dentist? Was it trying to help people around? Was it marrying out of love? Was it trying to be a good son or sibling? Was it getting a good grade in postgraduate studies?

Perhaps, the greatest achievement was neither of the above. Maybe it was all of it, maybe just pieces of each of those things coined together.

Maybe if you don't have everything, little of everything should be enough.

21/07/2023

Dear diary,

Two days to my baby's half year. It seems just yesterday when my wife was having difficulty understanding the circadian rhythm of this tiny creature.

Clinic has been like a slow speed handpiece this month. It's like an instrument I've seldom considered using. The patients have been far and few between.

I wonder how life is on the other side as i reminisce over the simpler mistakes i might have avoided in this life.

25/04/2023

Dear diary,

My son turned 3 months old one day ago. I was in a mood of felicity the entire weekend and had enough time to rest my mind and have fun.

But something has been bothering me. A new job with a better salary has been going well. A family outing in a great restaurant went well. A break from the everyday tiring commute was great. But something has been off.

It's not the overhang filling i might have done a couple of months ago, nor the failed root canal.

Perhaps this is the season of mid-life crises for me. Perhaps, hair on my head is not the only thing that has aged.

My body feels fine but the mind is tired. Perhaps this is how life is at this age of life. 32 years of nothingness it feels. 32 years of what could have been and what didn't!

29/12/2022

Dear diary,
32. A number written backwards says 23. It sounds strange that a tournament of football at a global scale had a backlash despite being one of the best ever. It is sorrowful that it was indeed the last worldcup for many footballing greats.

Work has been far and few between during the frigid evenings of December.

As aging continues, the pessimist that seemed to be buried for a long time, has creeped to the surface ready to pounce. These are worrying times for the country. These are worrying times for the people.

30/10/2022

Dear diary,

Last month i got stuck in a surgical extraction, resulting in summoning a colleague from his own clinic who was kind enough to reach in no time to help. In all honesty Dr.N and Dr.Y never disappoint.

My hobby for video-editing somehow returned and I've been making Hollywood and Bollywood collaboration videos since then on my YouTube channel.

https://youtube.com/user/xaininho

On the other hand, the half-hearted search for Phd opportunities continues.

25/09/2022

Dear diary,
All greats of the sporting world will be retiring soon. Although it is a reminder that people born in the 90's have grown old, it also serves as a memory of growing up with the legends.

A death in the sister's in-laws took us by surprise as a young life was lost to yet another heart ailment. The shockingly tragic event made some strong people teary.

At clinic, a bizarre case of endodontically treated tooth being first extracted and then replanted into the socket made me furious. Strange thing was that i knew the young dentist who disgraced the profession.

Oh well, more and more dentists are turning out to be just quacks with dental degrees.

06/09/2022

Dear diary,
Another year is about to wish us goodbye. The eagerness and the enthusiasm to pursue a clinical PhD slowly and steadily is fading away.

The porcelain chipping off the PFM was an utter disaster this week during permanent cementation. Oh well, let me add this to the list of my professional blunders.

Dear diary,After a long and tiring hiatus, i felt like writing again. Not a lot has happened since then. But i reached t...
25/06/2022

Dear diary,
After a long and tiring hiatus, i felt like writing again. Not a lot has happened since then. But i reached the milestone of becoming a visiting consultant/surgeon at a renowned hospital.

All of this was possible because of a young Down's syndrome patient who needed multiple extractions.
A week later, i found myself scaling her teeth under conscious sedation.

God has been kind despite the soaring petrol prices and inflation.

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