There is so much noise online that it’s easy to get caught up in all the smoke and mirrors. It’s easy to forget the impact, responsibility and service we owe our patients and to our profession, and what it truly means to be a good general dentist.

It’s easy to constantly be chasing the next big thing, but is it really that we should be chasing more? Or is it that we need to be doing what we already do - really, really well. It is such an honour and privilege it is to be in the position we are to serve our patients. Do we not owe it to them to do a good job?

In this episode, we are here to, in Yohan’s wise words, make general dentistry sexy again. To celebrate the impact we can have as good general dentists taking care of the oral health of our patients. To help educate, intervene early, treatment plan well and ensure their teeth last them as long as they possible can. As Bharat would say, our goal is to do the least amount of dentistry to get our patients to where they deserve to be.

We talk about the concept of being Super GDPs and dispel some of the misconceptions of the term. I think oftentimes we graduate thinking we know how to diagnose and treatment plan, but the reality is what we understand is really the tip of the iceberg.

The more I practice dentistry the more I realise how little I know and just how much more there is to learn. And the more I realise the greatest impact we can have for our patient, is not necessarily the ability to perform every treatment, but having the capacity to foresee what will happen in each scenario. To be able to plan not just a solution, but foresee the hurdles and challenges that may come and be able to fix it when things go wrong.

This one is a really eye-opening and thought-provoking episode, and one I’m so glad we get to wrap up the year with before we launch into 2025!

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Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@dr.ericahwin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Guests: ⁠⁠@dr.yohanchoi @dr.bharat.agrawal

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