a vacation for dentist

this is a question we keep debating.taking a few days off is different but a full fledged vacation???."mad or what if i close my clinic for 15 days,my patients will go to dr.xxxxx. i cannot afford it".why dont u giv this advice to dr.xxxxx.?"

dentist slog hard whole year,hence we deserve it.we need to think .we need a break to rejenuvate.but competition.dental jobs scarcity. is what prevents us from taking the deserved breaks.but we should take such breaks

is risk worth it

a fressher pass out from a dental college or a dentist with a secured college teaching job always asks himself this question.becoz it means money.On oneside u join a college secured job, money flowing in but future prospects r depressing. but with so much competition why not play safe.
i hav had this dilemma.it just plays on ur mind

to be frank both hav their pros and cons. but full time practice is the right option which many find difficult to take.
they want a half effort college plus evening clinic, results also r halved my dear. i dint listen, many r just following into my shoes
thanx GOD i opted later for full time practise

the clinical dilemma,to extract or not

As a dental practitioner, i still remember wht my teachers used to say"'dont remove a tooth if it can be saved ,bcoz u can replace a tooth, but nt create a new one."

but in practice sum ppl are really adamant on extraction.sum have been told by their family, peers, and every tom, dick and harry, that extraction is the best treatment.yes it is if u want to look 80 year old at the age of 20.yes it is if u want to stop relishing good food in teens itself.

yesterday was the day i had such patient.no amount of convincing helped.i removed the 2 vital teeth, one of them molar, in a patient aged 24 yrs, just bcoz the patient wont like iota of more pain.

i know the pain is so much but still loss is loss. i really felt bad for him, one more person wud be come 80yr old fast.root canal treatments save teeth, and we dentists just want to save your teeth, we r nt doing it just for money sake.

ours still is a noble profession, where a patient relieved from pain thanking us,gives us more satisfaction.

we dentists slog so hard so as to relieve pain of patient.make dentures crowns so that patient can eat properly.
but what happens when u took all measurements properly and then your lab guy screws the case.the final product is not proper, patients blame us and not him. worst u can shout at him , thats it.
but the damage is already done and we suffer.
options change ur lab guy.

life is a mystery.

We medicos are so used to being invincible,ppl who can give new life to ppl.in case of dentist we save a life(of tooth).we relieve the pain.so it is hard to accept that we to are normal vulnerable persons.
I realised it today.one of my medico friend 's parents met with a bad road accident,dad is no more , mom vereeey serious. and to tell the truth we can do nothing but just wait and watch.we arent GOD.
we are humans.but plz ALMIGHTY let atleast his mum to survive. in one minute a happy family coming home from a family function was disturbed, a tsunami disrupting their whole life. such is life mysterious, unpredictable

convocation day

Convocation is the most important day for a any dental student, who from then on adresses himself legally as a doctor.there is no feeling to match the happiness one feels on getting a degree. especially a medical degree , where u hav to realy slog hard .
at this moment i just witnessed the convocation of my college students. my my were they elated,?
and the college ppl weree happy coz they were getting a day off doin nothin for atleast a day.