Next year I’m going to do something bat sh*t crazy on my bike or even beyond my bike, but I won’t be able to do it today.
To do that I’ll have to start slowly and build and build and build and figure myself out and learn some new stuff and get up in the middle of the night and train and ride in the rain and hurt and cry and think that I’ve had enough and then try.
I guess being a good clinical dentist is much the same.
When I started placing implants in 1998, I was completely rubbish and I’ve just spent the last 24 years trying to get a bit less rubbish as I go along.
That’s exactly the same as my cycling.
And so, one of the things I tried to set up at The Academy was a staged approach to people moving up the ranks, starting first with the straightforward stuff and then moving into degrees of greater complexity and difficulty as they got better and better and more and more competent and the master class series that we have provides that.
We do master classes in immediate full arch and in aesthetics and consultations and more and more will be coming through as people want to move to straightforward and straightforward & advanced implant dentistry into stuff that’s a bit trickier.
And so, the aesthetic master class is not for people that have never placed an implant at the front of the mouth. It’s for people who have placed quite a lot but what we will do is look at skills and techniques to make it as best we can and chat about immediate implant placement and delayed implant placement and socket preservation in implant placement and areas that we can improve soft tissue and areas that we can improve prosthetics.
It’s 1 day and it’s here and it will be among friends where we can all talk about the things that we don’t know and try to learn some of those things and share some of the things that we do.
Perhaps as we build like this, we can do some bat sh*t crazy stuff in our work as well as on our bikes.
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