Dental Practice Management: 10 People Not Fit For A Career In Dentistry
Will you advise a youngster to join dentistry as a career? Do you feel you have all that it takes to be successful in dentistry? What are some of the difficult points about a career in dentistry? Read this by a young dentist to know the answers to the above questions.
4.The Ones Who Think Dentists
Just Have to Pull Out Teeth
“God … I am Bored … I thought all I need to learn was how to extract the tooth ?”
If you are thinking similar to the picture above,
Then you need a serious change in your attitude right away
I am sorry to say, but life in dentistry is not all that comfortable.
Dentists not only pull out teeth but they also fill them, clean them, save them, whiten them, straighten them, score them, find out what’s wrong with them and even slice & study them under microscopes.
However, wait! That was just what we do with teeth; a dentist also has to worry about gums and every other structure, surrounding the teeth.
Dental treatments are not one-dimensional procedures. For every task in dentistry (including pulling out tooth), on a real patient, you need to consider and evaluate rest of the body functions like heart, liver or allergic reactions and much more.
Many times, it takes hours of chairside work, to remove a small piece of a broken tooth (that is hardly visible in all the blood and saliva)
Anything goes wrong in your clinic while working on a patient; you are liable morally, financially and legally.
So, you see dentistry is a complicated work. If your idea of dentistry is just simply pulling out the tooth, don’t join it.
If you are already into Dentistry, then it is time to give it the respect it deserves, and that starts with you.
5. The fun-seekers
If your ideal college life is like the one you see in the picture below,
then dentistry is so not your territory.
Everybody wants their college life to be full of fun. That may be the case with many other professional degrees. However, with dentistry, it is little different. You should not expect an epic level of fun.
- Yes, we do have our share of college fun and cultural activities. However, life in a dental college would just seem like an extension of school to a point where your best days would include the day it rained heavily, and the patients did not turn up.
- Dentistry curriculum is highly demanding, and people are always under the pressure of completing it.
- So don’t feel bad when people are not so friendly. If you are already into dentistry, then try to have fun that comes your way. Don’t join the course and then make a face like below.
So, Stop Expecting a Movie Style Fun Life and Get Practical About the Grind of Dentistry.
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Point No.6 & 7 To Survive Dentistry
You are rebellious! Then don’t join dentistry Or Change Yourself.
