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b"Think of this episode as a love letter to the Protruserati. We share the same struggles, and this episode could easily have been called the 6 STRUGGLES of a Comprehensive Dentist.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nhttps://youtu.be/DCTgR93Tk3c\\nThe struggle is real\\n\\n\\n\\nNeed to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below!\\n\\n\\n\\nHere they are:\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nYou take your work home with you\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nDentistry was either mis-sold to me, or I was just naive. When I was a Dental student I read a young dentist magazine. It had a segment dedicated to interviews with DF1 Dentists who had finished their first year in practice. \\n\\n\\n\\n'What do you love most about being a Dentist?,' was one of the questions. One answer caught my eye: 'I love that I do not take my work home with me.'\\n\\n\\n\\nI loved that! But after almost 8 years out of dental school, I can tell you (and my wife can testify!) that I find it impossible to be a comprehensive Dentist and NOT bring my work home with me.\\n\\n\\n\\nTreatment planning, organising photos, letters to patients, clinchecks and the list is endless - it will be a longer list for practice owners!\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nNew patient examinations will drain you\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nIt takes a lot of emotional energy to see new patients. There is a difference between the 15 minute new patient exam and the 45 minutes or 1 hour new patient exam.\\n\\n\\n\\nThe longer appointments to learn what the patients goals are and help find the right solutions can be extremely challenging and require intense focus, and dare I say, showmanship.\\n\\n\\n\\nAs my principal (Hap Gill) once taught me, we are in show business.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nYou have more to give and more to say\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nThe classic sign of this is that your Nurse is always nagging you that 'you talk too much'.\\n\\n\\n\\nYou just want to make the patient's experience as valuable as possible!\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nYou dont earn enough moneyControversial. I know. If I could double your income but simplify your Dentistry and limit you to single tooth dentistry - you would probably say no. THAT speaks volumes.You do it for the bigger picture and for passion.Yes the comprehensive Dentist MIGHT gross more, but the amount of money you spend on equipment and courses can be eye-watering. That, and your hourly rate from all the work you do it home is ever-diminishing.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nPatients always say 'you are the first person who told me this' or, the more sinister cousin, 'why has no dentist ever told me this before?!'I never know what is the right way to handle this. I just smile and say 'I love my job so much, that sometimes I care more about a patient's mouth than they do!' To clarify, I am suggesting I care more than the patient (not more than any previous Dentist - we should never throw our colleagues under the bus).\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n6. If someone ever stole your laptop, they would be so dissapointed\\n\\n\\n\\nAdmit it. Your phone and laptop is full of forum screenshots, lecture photos, teeth, abscesses, shade matching photos (heaven forbid) and the odd bitewing for good measure!\\n\\n\\n\\nIf you enjoyed this episode, you will also like 12 Rules for Dentistry with David Bretton!\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nClick below for full episode transcript:\\xa0\\n\\n\\n\\nOpening Snippet: Hi guys, it's Jaz Gulati here from the Protrusive Dental podcast. And I really should be doing this live right now like this would be such a great topic to have live on Facebook or instagram to see people's comments and stuff but unfortunately timings don't work out, right now the time is 4.15 p.m. and there's like zero audience for me right?\\n\\n\\n\\nJaz\\u2019s Introduction:\\xa0So I\\u2019m pitching this and recording this just to the camera and I hope you enjoy this. I\\u2019ve just been one of those things where you just daydream and you sometimes get carried away and I thought what this would make a really cool interference cast episode which I haven\\u2019t done in ages. So let\\u2019s roll with it.These are 6 Signs that You are a Comprehensive Dentist and I also thought about calling it the Six Struggles of a comprehensive dentist because every one of these signs I\\u2019m going to give you is a struggle."