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Perhaps you can relate to this scenario, which is one I find myself discussing with young graduates often when I get the privilege to teach the people at the early stages of their dental career.

You’ve worked hard for five years at dental school. It was a good time though; it was social and there was some down time. You didn’t have much money but you knew that when you qualified you would be able to change that after going into Foundation Dental training and then into an associate job where you would be able to start to pay back your debt, and live a bit of life.

Soon though into that situation you realised you don’t have as much money as you thought, and the dentistry that you’re providing is not what was explained to you when you were at Dental School. If you find yourself in an NHS contract providing UDA dentistry, it can be quite heart breaking and sole destroying being constrained, not being able to provide the dentistry that you would like. Even in private general practice you might feel that you’re having to pass much of your work on as you don’t feel confident enough to provide the treatment at the level for patients who are actually paying quite a lot of money for it.

Is there more to dentistry than this?

At this stage, it’s time to plan your next five years and to see if you can find areas of dentistry to develop in that can inspire you and lead you to have a happy and fulfilling career.

It’s a long time to work, until your pension at 67 if you don’t like the things that you’re doing.

If you’re interested in developing as an implant practitioner in practice then our three to five-year model for development is a sensible approach to manage your investment, time, emotion, energy and of course… money.

At The Campbell Academy we would suggest that you plan a three to five-year pathway which takes you through straightforward, then advanced to complex implant treatments, so that by the time that you ‘graduate’ from this pathway, you can be competent and confident and a real asset to anyone else’s practice who you care to join, or perhaps even your own that you care to take on.

There are many elements that you will need to develop throughout those five years, including elements of case assessment and diagnosis, basic surgical skills and restorative understanding to be able to be a competent and confident implant practitioner. But, by setting the plan going forwards, and then chunking it into smaller pieces you can see a way through, and a way to a better career and a better place to work on a day-to-day basis.

If you would like to discuss any of this with us then don’t hesitate to contact.