Trusting Your Gut Instinct for Treatment Planning – PDP171
Dec 28, 2023
The podcast discusses the trustworthiness of gut instinct in dentistry and treatment planning, highlighting the importance of experience and mentorship. It emphasizes the significance of building rapport with patients and seeking guidance from mentors. The episode also introduces Intaglio, a platform connecting dentists with mentors, and explores the future of dental mentoring.
Sometimes we’re just not sure which is the ‘best’ treatment plan to recommend or even if a single tooth is restorable. Dentistry is an art AND a science, which is why things are not black and white.
We sometimes get stuck in ‘analysis paralysis’ and rely on our gut instinct to save us.
But can we really trust gut instinct in decision making/treatment planning in Dentistry? Is it really serving our patients?
Protrusive Dental Pearl: Make sure to feel the root tip fragment (rub with your gloved index finger) after extraction – it should feel nice and smooth. The presence of sharp or jagged edges may suggest a potential root fracture, indicating that a fragment of the root might still be lodged in the socket.
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Highlights of the episode: 1:50 Protrusive Dental Pearl: Root Tips 2:59 Can we Trust our Gut instinct? 8:39 Trusting Your Gut Based on Experience 12:27 When can your gut instinct be unreliable? 14:15 Importance of Mentorship 17:55 Unreliable Mentorship Example 19:03 What’s the BEST way to get mentorship? 20:16 Intaglio Mentorship
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