What is interesting about being a dentist?
Dentistry allows you to be your own boss. Dentists can balance their personal and professional lives to meet their individual needs and desires. Dentistry provides opportunities in a variety of private and public settings including private practice, teaching, research, public health and administration.
What is the best part about being a dentist?
Good Income. There’s no question this career does allow for a solid, stable income, and there is potential to earn a phenomenal income.
What I like most of my job as a dentist?
Overall trust and service with patients and team. Variety of tasks plus interaction with patients. Education faculty. Helping others while using the newest technological advances available in dentistry.
Why do you love being a dentist?
I enjoy the opportunities to interact with my patients about the new technologies and procedures available to them. I love watching patients feel more comfortable with new products or techniques, such as dental implants. Dentistry allows me to spend time with people and to help them achieve their dental goals.
What’s the hardest part of being a dentist?
The hardest part of being a dentist is having to watch helplessly as people neglect themselves. So many instances of seeing patients in pain due to ignoring small problems that got out of hand, dealing with their pain, encouraging and educating them to take control of their oral health, and never seeing them again.
Is dentistry a good career?
There’s no doubt about it — dentistry is a fantastic career for the future. Just as people will always need doctors, nurses and medical assistants to take care of their bodies, so too will people always deen dentists, dental hygienists and dental assistants to take care of their oral health.
Is it worth it to be a dentist?
So many people ask me “Is dental school worth it?” Yes, dentistry can still be a lucrative and wise financial decision. And the average dentist’s salary isn’t bad at all. However, for many new dentists, the margin of error is smaller than it has ever been before.
What are the best things about being a dentist?
Dentists are generally highly trusted and respected. Who doesn’t want that? People. If you like to work with people, you’ll certainly get a lot of people time. It is a very caring profession, and the relationships are the best part of it. Unlike some other businesses it ISN’T all about the money. Variety. It’s always challenging and interesting.
What’s behind your dental horror stories?
“Most of my dental horror stories come from one simple category: neglect. For example, tartar and plaque build-up [can be] so severe that it forms a bridge between the teeth (known as a calculus bridge). I’ve seen teeth just fall out because once the build-up was removed, there was nothing to keep them in place.”
Is dentistry an art or a science?
Dentistry is often referred to as an art. It requires mastery and technique unique to the profession. Dentistry is largely based on maintaining proper oral health, but is also an aesthetically focused practice. A large part of dentistry involves restoring teeth and making a smile beautiful, one that the patient is happy to show to others.
Do you know the emotions of your dentist patients?
Sometimes you will find that a patient of yours requires an extra level of care. No one really enjoys the dentist, some might even fear it. This is why you will see a whole manner of different emotions displayed by your patients. This will include anger, fear, nervousness.