DentaltownUK October 2017 - 9

Greed

Lust

Dentists overdiagnose and overdo treatment plans
because they want to do what's best for their finances,
not what's best for their patients. They'd diagnose a
$25,000 all-on-four case because they refuse to do an
overdenture on implants.

An inappropriate office relationship causes nothing
but trouble and costs you a fortune. And yet they happen
more than they should. Cheating on a spouse or partner is
a bad decision on its own-and that's only compounded
if you were to do so with a co-worker or someone who
reports to you. There are more than 7.5 billion people
on this planet. Don't act like a Neanderthal.

Envy
Why are you so jealous of the guy next door?
Instead of seeing your colleagues as competitors, with
better practices and shinier CAD-CAMs, lasers or
whatever, why don't you think of them as mentors?
Quit thinking in fear and scarcity and start thinking
in hope, growth and abundance. Instead of being mad
that Old Doc MacGregor up the street is 10 times better
at endo than you, go knock on her door with a smile
and ask her how she does it. She'll likely see herself in
you and want to help you, not slam the door and say,
"Get out of town." (And if she does say that, that's just
the wrong buddy thinking in fear and scarcity, and
you need to delete that person from your life, today.)
Find a mentor in your town. Get a homie. Participate
more on the Dentaltown forums! You don't have to be
alone in dentistry.

See Howard Live!
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2017
OCT.
11

Asteto Dental Labs
study group
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NOV.
10

Toronto Academy of
Dentistry winter clinic
Ontario

Wrath
Lashing out about the state of dentistry but doing
nothing but complaining about it is almost as productive
as dentistry was in A.D. 590. Why don't you do something
about it? Go on Dentaltown.com and discuss those issues
constructively with your colleagues. We're all dental
professionals, and we're all in this together-and it's
not about us, it's about our patients. It's about Grandma
coming in, too embarrassed to smile. It's about treating
mental health, not just dental health. It's about wanting
to know how you can deliver dentistry faster, easier,
higher in quality and lower in cost, so you can serve the
masses and honor our sovereign profession. Instead of
being wrathful when your competitor up the street can
give Grandma her smile back better than you can, why
don't you aspire to do the same? Take control of your
practice and take charge instead of shouting and whining.

Sloth
Why would you take only the minimum continuing education requirements you need to renew your
dental license, instead of taking the 100 to 300 hours
of continuing education you need to renew your life?
You should keep stoking your intellectual curiosity by
taking every CE course you can find on Dentaltown,
which has both print and CE courses available 24/7.
And although they don't qualify as continuing
education, my Dentistry Uncensored with Howard
Farran podcasts are full of information-I hear all the
time from dentists who say they've learned so much
from tuning in ... and they're free at dentaltown.com/
dentistryuncensored.
Stay hungry, my friends-and hustle. Work like no
person has for 10 years, and live like no one has for the
rest of your life. Develop an intense work ethic. Stay
humble and listen to your staff, patients and mentors. n

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