By: Joel Small, DDS, MBA, PCC, FICD Professional athletes train to perfect their skills throughout their lifetime, and yet few of them can attain perfection. Olympic gymnasts, for example, spend hours upon hours training their skills yet rarely achieve a perfect...
By: Karen Foster, DDS I want to first say thank you for making the 2024 Rocky Mountain Dental Convention (RMDC) a success. Thank you to our professional team who year after year work to make the RMDC the best it can be. Thank you to our volunteers who spend hours...
This editorial is part of a special series on Women in Dentistry for Women's History Month.By: Dr. Tieraona Low Dog In a culture that places a premium on success and accomplishment, it can be challenging to escape the pressure to be perfect. We run ourselves into...
By: Dr. Amisha Singh As I type this out, I am coasting at 477 mph at a breathtaking 38,000 feet in my first flight since the pandemic started. As someone who once considered Denver International Airport a second home, this is a little bit like a step back into...
By: Dr. Sampada Deshpande Every so often, I’ll get a message on Instagram (IG) asking ‘how do you stay so motivated? You are such a hustler.’ I don’t know when I became a poster child for motivation? Because the reality couldn’t be any further from that...
By: Dr. Eric Block, CAGS, FICOI Dr. Bill has grown to hate his practice, his team and his patients. When he’s at work, he feels oppressed. He’s just going through the motions, counting the minutes until the office closes and he can be home and truly...
By: Ms. Molly Pereira How many times have you said to yourself:• “If I just had more time, I’d exercise.”• “I would love to visit but our schedules are just too crazy.”• “I’m not a morning person. Getting up to walk/meditate/etc. wouldn’t work.”• “After a long...
By: Laura Brenner, DDS Which Came First - Gratitude or Success?Chances are growing up you learned the more success you would have in life, the happier you would be. Somewhere along the way I believed that too, so I set my life up to create the ultimate...
By: Laura Brenner, DDS If you've spent a day practicing dentistry, you know how stressful the job is. Despite our best intentions, we often run into harrowing experiences and it's always when we don't have time for them. Maybe it's unscrewing the whole...
By: Holly Duckworth, LSP, CAE, CMP We live in a world of bigger, better faster and more. Yet, it doesn’t have to be this way. In fact, I would argue it can’t be. “Burnout” is becoming too common of a phrase across many professions. And, we are now aware...