The Dental Hacks Podcast

Recently I got a terrific query from a dental student. I decided to put it in the Very Dental Facebook group for discussion and here are some of the answers we got! "For my final in our program I’m doing an academic enquiry/ presentation on high rates of burnout in dentistry. As a dentist have you ever felt burned out? If so what did you do to overcome it? If you haven’t, why do you think that is? If you were to give advice to young students/dentists on how to manage a career in dentistry and to avoid burnout what would it be." One answer worth highlighting was from Dr. Deanna Snitzer: 1) the faster you learn to stop caring about the teeth more than the patient cares about them the better. 2) find the type of work you like to do: do more of that 3) don’t tolerate people treating you like shit. (Patients, staff, anyone really). No one is irreplaceable in your life but you.. not a patient, not a hygienist, not anyone. 4) delegate. If there’s something you don’t like to do - allow someone else to take care of t