And what’s worse is that it happened minutes after so confidently telling the patient that “this will only take a minute.”Īnd then there’s the stories you hear from your colleagues. Just yesterday, my arm spasmed and locked up during an extraction of a single rooted premolar. Procedures that make me sweat that shouldn’t make me sweat.
I’m talking about patients that don’t like me. I’m talking about backaches, headaches, handaches. And while that’s not near long enough to develop a solid practice philosophy or to really figure out where my place is in the profession, it’s plenty long enough to have a few of those dark days. And if it hasn’t happened, have no doubt that it will. I don’t want to do dentistry at all.īut if you’re a practicing dentist reading this right now, you know full well that this is no secret.
