02/22/2021
⭐️Things I learned after graduating dental school... ⭐️
Life as a dentist was going to be SO EASY. 😎 I was ready to forever be called a “doctor,” earn a lot of money 🤑, and do cool things in dentistry that will change people’s lives. Boy was I wrong. 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
Though the first two years after graduating was a steep learning curve, I found them so vital in shaping my early career as a dentist. I learned so many lessons, including the ones listed below.
1️⃣ Working on my clinical speed quickly.
🔸Doing dentistry with speed and quality is difficult, but it is necessary to keep your stress to a minimum and ensure your patients are happy.
2️⃣ Managing patients’ fear and anxiety.
🔸Everyone hates the dentist. 🤬 Everyone is anxious. I learned how to effectively communicate with patients to reduce their fear and dental phobic tendencies.
3️⃣ Managing co-workers’ personalities and emotions.
🔸It’s important not only to find the right team who has the right attitude and mindset, but also, you as their leader must also have a healthy and positive psyche.
4️⃣ Talking to patients effectively about their dental problems and how they must take care of it.
🔸In other words, we must learn how to create value to their dental needs so they actually want to get it taken care of.
5️⃣ Making mistakes, figuring out why it happened, and then correcting it.
🔸 In the beginning, I found myself seeing class 2 filling voids during my six-month recalls. In order to correct this, I had to completely change systems to the Garrison Matrix and the “snowplow technique” in order to deliver quality and predictable dentistry every single time.
6️⃣ Managing my own anxieties and self-defeating thoughts.
🔸Just because I made mistakes doesn’t mean I’m a bad dentist. Mistakes make me question what doesn’t work and then learning and finding a system that works for me.
Obviously there is SO MUCH more to learn. I am so excited to keep growing & expand my skills, fill my knowledge gaps about the complex parts of dentistry, and deliver the highest quality of care to ensure predictable, successful dentistry.
Happy Monday 🤩
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