What's wrong with cook book dentistry?
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 ...