Beatriz and I were chatting at work today and we discussed the concept of ‘room to risk’ which Bea seemed to invent during the meeting.
In different cultures and in different places and in different circumstances, some people feel they have the ability to experiment and some people feel they can push the envelope.
I think when you get to my stage of the things that I do, you’re more about safety than you are about risk taking.
Maybe that comes with being 50.
Back in the old days, in the wild west of implant dentistry in the late 90s and early 2000s, nobody really knew anything and so it was ok to try everything.
At that stage we researched in the marketplace and it seemed that that was ok.
Looking back, maybe sometimes it was and sometimes it wasn’t, but it did get us to this place where implant treatments are a ton better than they were when I started out in 1998.
There is a new breed of implant practitioners who are younger and who feel more bulletproof and perhaps less tarnished by things that can go wrong.
They feel they have ‘room to risk’. Some of the things they do will seem edgy and some of the things they do will seem frankly unethical, but it may be that this is where the innovation comes from and while it doesn’t seem right to me, it’s probably always been the way it is.
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