Not you personally, but just the fear of the dentist period. Does it stress you out at times? Do you just get used to and move on with your day? Are you happy with your choice mentally?
Does it take a toll on you practicing dentists when your patients fear you?
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The only thing stressful about treating patients that fear you is that they are more difficult to get numb. No joke.
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I get that many people fear the dentist, but it never is a number that is so great that it takes a toll. I like to think that for every tough patient that will ruin your day, you'll have one patient which will make you love it.
if you're getting so many patients who hate coming to the dentist, figure out why that's the case. are you working in an area where more people are coming for emergency treatment rather than preventative care. are you having trouble calming down nervous patients? can you add benzos to your management? are you taking the fear people have of the dentist in general too personally? I find that I still keep in touch with a lot of my dental classmates and we talk teeth all the time. This topic has never come up though.
if you're getting so many patients who hate coming to the dentist, figure out why that's the case. are you working in an area where more people are coming for emergency treatment rather than preventative care. are you having trouble calming down nervous patients? can you add benzos to your management? are you taking the fear people have of the dentist in general too personally? I find that I still keep in touch with a lot of my dental classmates and we talk teeth all the time. This topic has never come up though.
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I work in the military and frequently have to work on people who don't want to be there. They are "forced" through multiple methods to get annual exams and get urgent dental care regardless if they'in pain or not. I These people would never come in if they weren't forced to. I can only imagine that similar patients, out in town, just wouldn't go to the dentist until it hurt. If they're really bad (gaggers, high anxiety, cry-babies) it's really nice to be able to refer them to a specialist.
