Trials and Tribulations of Maxillofacial DCT/SHO/Residency – PDP194

It’s your first night on-call and you are bleeped at 3am - there’s a nasty facial laceration waiting for your urgent attention. You have never sutured the face before…”who you gonna call?” - well sometimes even the Ghostbusters will be more helpful than the on-call trainee! https://youtu.be/3RKZG3yy2sU Watch PDP194 on Youtube Our good friend Dr Ameer Allybocus joins us again for another episode where he gives us a lowdown of his experience when he was a DCT trainee many years ago. There is a lot to learn in this podcast from Ameer as he dives into the Trials and Tribulations of being an Oral and MaxilloFacial Surgery DCT during the early years of his career.  There are laughs and tears in this one, so hold on to your seats for an emotional podcast that will leave you wanting more. Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! Highlights of this Episode:  00:00 Introduction01:37 Protrusive Dental Pearl03:26 Introduction to Dr Ameer Allybocus19:40 The MaxFax Beginnings24:00 MaxFax at UCL29:37 MaxFax isn’t all bad36:05 DCT Oral Surgery 42:16 On Call 48:26 Book Recommendations49:15 Working at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital54:13 A Life Changing Experience59:57 MaxFax: Benefits, Tips & Tricks65:26 Tips from Ameer66:25 Trauma and Accidents70:56 MaxFax Puts Dentistry Into Perspective74:33 Closing Words For the full educational experience, our Ultimate Education Plan gives you access to all our courses, webinars, and exclusive monthly content. If you liked this episode, you will also like: Getting Ahead after Dental School 2023 – IC042 – Protrusive Dental Podcast Click below for full episode transcript: Jaz's Introduction: Is a maxillofacial surgery post right for you? Maybe you've already done one before and you want to like reminisce about your time as a DCT, as a part of a residency or any post and standalone post you've done in a maxillofacial department. Jaz's Introduction:Now my colleagues who've done it tell me that it gives you thick skin, it's character building, it's these amazing experiences and they have no regrets. Whereas I have other colleagues who have major regrets about doing a maxillofacial post. My guest today, returning again, Dr. Ameer Allybocus, does absolutely fantastic job of summarizing the highs and the lows of working in a maxillofacial position as a dentist. Now in the UK, we have these DCT, Dental Core Training positions, but around the world, being attached to a hospital in the maxfax department and helping the registrars and consultants with everything from trauma to cancer and sometimes not always exodontia. And we'll talk about all these themes with Ameer. I actually really wish I had an episode just like this when I was considering whether to do a maxfax position or not. There's actually a bit where Ameer actually cries in this, and I'm just respecting so much for making himself vulnerable and sharing those feelings. It was related to a patient story, and there's so many great tips and different characters and different personalities that he describes in his stories of working in these different posts. There's so much incredible value provided in this episode. It's a longer one, and I didn't want to split it into two. So you might need a couple of commutes or lots of onions to get through this one. The Protrusive Dental Pearl today is provided by our guest, Dr. Ameer Allybocus, and it gives you a flavor of the rest of the podcast of what's to come. There's so many great tips and stories attached to it. So let's hear today's protrusive dental pearl. Dental PearlSo Ameer, what is the protrusive dental pearl for today? [Ameer]My Protrusive Dental Pearl is whatever procedure you're doing, if it isn't going the way you want it to, if you find yourself getting stressed, hard, you're not seeing what you want to see, there's nothing in dentistry that you can't stop and take a pause, give the patient a break, set them up. Walk away,