Do you have enough toilet roll?
Do you have enough porridge (or whatever else it was that you bought too much of because you thought there wasn’t enough)?
Are you in fear of your life from a killer virus? or has that anxiety passed.
Have you secured your family and are they safe, have your thoughts turned to other anxieties and thoughts of things which are a little bit longer term than where you were six weeks ago?
It’s hard to look passed the next daily bulletin or the next set of statistics or scientific paper that might say this or might say that.
It’s hard to do that but the next stage of this will be hard and it will be up to us to do the hard work.
‘Getting back to work’ will be a slog because it will seem that we do much for nothing in order to keep some semblance of what we had intact.
Roles and jobs that were beneath us three months ago will now be done by us, we probably won’t have the money to have them done by other people.
In time though, things will begin to look and feel as they did (or at least as we think they did) what will you do then? Will you have given every minute of every day away to anticipated stress and anxiety of what might or might not be?
Will you have scrambled for every piece of ‘free’ information that you can get your hands on, only to fill your head so full that you cannot make a decision in any direction?
Although you’ll be able to sit back, consider where you would hope to be in a year or two from now and plot a course in that direction.
For better or for worse that is what I have tried to do.
And don’t think that I am unaffected by the 'Coronacoaster' that we are all on where the anxiety grabs us unexpectedly in the middle of a meal with our family or in the middle of the night.
But if we can set that aside for a minute or two, if we can hope and if we can dream, then we can start to build a bridge to somewhere else.
And so, in the midst of untangling an education programme designed around personal interaction and contact we looked carefully at the Masterclass that we are providing in June with Sebastian Kuhl.
This Masterclass is centred around technology in Implant Dentistry, Guided Surgery and the application of Guided Surgery to Implants at the highest level.
It’s presented by someone who’s honest and realistic and has extraordinary experience of implementing a Guided Surgery system throughout a whole hospital in Switzerland.
Interestingly, it’s also presented by someone who works in that hospital at the University of Basel who, I'm told, will begin to provide Implant Surgery this month again.
This is not a free webinar because the intellectual property presented is hugely valuable but it’s possible if you’re interested in the subject at all, you might find that a year from now you were delighted that you took the time, amongst all the anxieties to invest in yourself for the future.
If it’s too much of a stretch to listen to Sebastian for money, almost anyone can sign up for the webinar in the evening as part of the ITI Study Club programme where he will discuss Zirconia Implants and Short Implants and when and when not to use these based on his and many other people’s experiences.
I hope you will consider this as a chance to continue to build the community that we have and to learn and to improve ourselves for a better tomorrow.
More information about the Masterclass is here or if you would like a chat about this then just get hold of us here and we’ll arrange a call.
Blog Post Number - 2357