Welcome to the Dentist's Office

Welcome to the Dental Office blog. On this site we will share information on how we conquer the real-world challenges that we each face in our pursuit of running high-quality, successful, profitable and harmonious dental offices.

The Dental Blog invites you to share your knowledge, successes, failures and crazy stories with fellow dental professionals. Sharing our combined knowledge, we can each create our own unique dream practices.

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Quit Doing Procedures You Hate

I know lots of dentist who don’t like doing endo or oral surgery but continue to do these procedures for decades. My advice to you, for your happiness and your patient’s quality of dentistry, is for you to STOP doing procedures you do not like to do.

If you dislike a procedure I doubt you are taking a lot of continuing education in that area of dentistry. I doubt you recommend that procedure as much as you should when doing treatment planning. In general we do not do our best work when we are not happy or we are resentful.

I know a dentist who still does endo and they openly tell me they are not good at it. As a patient, I would prefer that you send me to another dentist who is good at it – I deserve that referral.

My advice, you have two choices when it comes to dental procedures you do not like to do; (1) get lots of continuing education in that area and get super good at it (you tend to like what you are good at) or (2) refer all procedures you don’t like doing or feel you are not good at to a specialist.

At the end of the day you will be happier and less stressed when you refer out the procedures you truly don’t want to do.

Dr. Corey Gold
President – advanced Continuing Education Systems
www.aces4ce.com

13 comments:

  1. My mom wants to get a job soon. She has been looking at being a secretary at a dentist's office. I think this is a good opportunity for her, they usually are really flexible there. http://www.lonestardentalcare.com

    ReplyDelete
  2. Thanks for this great post. I've always been hating the times when I go to the dentist, but this post really helps calm my fear of those pesky dentist tools. I'll be taking your advice next time I leave the house for my next appointment.
    http://www.hcdentistry.com/about

    ReplyDelete
  3. I also have a little fear of dentists, but I think it's natural. The more often you go to the dentist you will have better teeths. harouni dentist

    ReplyDelete
  4. philadelphia dentist
    The more often you go to the dentist you will have better teeths.

    ReplyDelete
  5. This blog is really nice and informative. Thanks for sharing.
    For more details please visit http://www.drismaelkhouly.com/

    ReplyDelete
  6. Thanks for sharing such informative post to chose dentist carefully, who can convince us to get proper treatment and keep dental healthy.

    Dentist Social Media

    ReplyDelete
  7. That makes sense. It's important to have a dentist that will work with you and give you the service you need rather than what they want.
    http://www.tylerdentalcare.com http://www.tylerdentalcare.com

    ReplyDelete
  8. I'm really glad I found this post. It had never occurred to me that there are procedures that dentists don't like to do so they never recommend them to patients. This makes the patient potentially go without needed procedures. It makes sense that no one likes to do what they're not good at. I need to be sure to find a dentist that is honest with me about procedures. http://advanceddentistrybutler.com/treatments/oral-concious-sedation/

    ReplyDelete
  9. I very much enjoyed reading your blog post. It has helped alot.
    If possible, as more knowledge comes your way, I hope you could update to share more information with us. It is very helpful.
    I also know of more informational sources that could benefit your readers, please find links below
    Spokane Dentist
    Spokane Valley Dentist

    ReplyDelete
  10. Thanks for this post, In san clemente dentist where I'm a regular client I understand the importance of dental health. The way to good or healthier gums is with a help of the dentists.

    ReplyDelete
  11. I would definitely agree with this post, even from the point of view of a patient. For some reason it's a little discomforting to know that your dentist is doing a procedure he hates doing. Granted, never been in that situation. In fact right now I'm in the process of finding a dentist. I would definitely support a dentist if they made this decision, though. Thanks for the post! http://www.drsajner.com/about_us.html

    ReplyDelete
  12. If your unsure of some dental procedures implementation then always have a perfect Dental Practice Business Plan so that you have an ideal dental procedures for all your patients.

    ReplyDelete