Category: Dentists

Many people go into dentistry because they want to help others and be in a caring profession. We can soon allow this need to lead to burnout as we want to do so much for our patients in such a limiting system. Burnout is a result of chronic stress of living with the mismatch between […]

Many of us identify as a dentist first. We may be a mum or dad, brother or sister, an aunt or uncle, but when we are asked who we are, ‘a dentist’ tends to be the first answer. We find it easy to take dentistry home with us, going over treatment plans, how the treatment […]

On those days, weeks, or even months, when your job is getting you down, do you ever consider who you are outside of the job? Yes, we do spend the majority of our day at work and spend more time with the people we work with than our families, especially when working full time, but […]

Of all the issues that create stress for dentists cited in my survey in March 2020, ‘patient expectation’ was probably the most triggering. Over a third of participants stated that this one thing had been the most significant factor in changing their perception of dentistry. If we explore this below the surface, it’s easy to […]

Whether you’ve been a dentist for 3 months, 3 years or 13 years, I strongly suspect that your reality of dentistry may not be what you signed up for. What’s more, it’s probably not the reality that you present to everyone else around you. Many people, especially our patients, have a perception that we have […]

Of all the issues that create stress for dentists cited in my survey in March 2020, ‘patient expectation’ was probably the one that triggered people the most. Over a third of participants stated that this one thing had been the most significant factor in changing their perception of dentistry. If we begin to explore this, […]