Dental Info

Many dentists are in at least two businesses. First and formost is their dental practice. This should be by far our most important endeavor.  This is in my opinion our most rewarding business, since it usually provides the most financial and professional satisfaction. That being said , I and many other dentists maintain dental offices that are larger than we need for our own personal needs. In fact our dental supply houses strongly encourage us to build offices with extra operatories for other dentists to use.These operatories give us the opportunity to obtain sublet rental income or facilitate our hiring another dentist(s) to see patients.  In my case, for most of my career, I have sublet one of the operatories in my office and this allows me rent a more spacious office .  I have dabbled with hiring a dentist using my extrao peratory  but truth be told , this hasn't worked out so well for me. Employee dentists seem to come and go and place additional stress on m...

 When dental students are studying to become dentists, often their schools focus on teaching a 'core curiculum'. The logic is that dental schools want to make sure their graduates achieve a level of basic skills and can perform procedures to a level of competency. Often there is a conscious decision made to not 'confuse' our students. That being said there are many ways to do dentistry and students of dentistry need to be open to learning new ideas and new ways of doing their dentistry Unfortunately many dentists fall into a complacency trap , where they develop a routine way of doing procedures and aren't always open to learning different ways of doing things. They probably believe that doing things the same will provide consistent acceptable results. This is what I mean by cookbook dentistry since they probably find it easy to follow their recipe over and over again. The problem is that dentistry (and all professions) is constantly changing and improving and we ...