We had a mental day on Thursday, and I’ve been thinking to myself in the middle of the afternoon ‘careful what you wish for’.
When we opened the clinic in 2020, I had this vision of days where it would be full and where we were winning and where we felt safe because we were in demand and people wanted to come.
Thursday felt like one of those days where it all came together.
We had 6 treatment rooms running downstairs all day (we only have 6 and that happens almost all the time now).
We are running an online restorative course currently and you can find it here, it’s a brilliant introduction for people who are interested in implant dentistry and it’s inexpensive and accessible and I was finishing coaching one of my modules at lunchtime on Thursday.
We were welcoming the second cohort this year of our year implant course who were starting their journey in implant dentistry face-to-face and they were the most extraordinary group, and my friend Colin Burns was down from Scotland to teach these guys on the basic aspects of implant dentistry.
As all of this was happening, I had been asked to do the first edition of Dentistry Live at the Clinic, piggybacking off our extraordinary audio-visual system and added to that with some of the extraordinary audio-visual talent of the guys at FMC.
Full disclosure, I was pretty nervous about that.
I had a wonderful patient called Owen who had an upper central incisor placed with a contour guided bone regeneration procedure, all on video whilst I commentated what I was doing.
People would sign on and pay online to watch this and then it could be repeated over and over again.
It’s a totally new way of teaching (at least for us) and it was a pilot for a project to see if we could do this regularly.
You can find out about Dentistry Live here and you’ll be able to pick up the video and watch it if you’re interested in the comfort of your own home and in your own time.
After the first 5 minutes when I found myself creating a narrative and trying to look after Owen at the same time as doing the surgery, I’d actually forgotten that people were watching.
It was a bit like doing a lecture in China to a thousand people.
You just get into the flow of things and through the process and then work out at the end what went wrong and what went right.
As a starter, as a pilot, it was a huge success for us.
The audio-visual stuff was perfect, the FMC guys loved the pictures (I felt they could be a lot better which is a positive) and it will publish again this Thursday if you want to have a look at it and see it.
I kind of think we’d like to do one of these a month from now on so suggestions on a postcard of what you’d like to see (across the whole of dentistry, it certainly won’t be me every month).
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