07/16/2026
There are a lot of highlights to working in a dental office. Most of them can be seen or felt pretty easily. Fixing crooked teeth on a self conscious teenager, completing a smile makeover on someone who has neglected their mouth for some length of time, extracting or doing a root canal on an infected tooth to get a person out of pain are just a few of those examples. A much less visible highlight is when the patient who was anxious to the point of not being able to have treatment done with out laughing gas or prescription medicines to help with said anxiety looks at you and says "I didn't take my anxiety medicine today, and I'm not going to need laughing gas at my next visit. I'm not scared to be here anymore."
That's a win that hits pretty deep and definitely makes the job worth it.