Interference Cast 001 – Protocols and Philosophies

In this mini episode (interference cast – see what I did there?), I discuss about key lessons in protocols and philosophies I have learned from 3 awesome Dentists: Prof Nicolas Martin, Dr Rajiv Ruwala and Dr Jerry Lim. Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! https://youtu.be/_CEXnLyE_rw Full episode also transcribed and on Video to watch, including my IGTV. Take home points: Have protocols in place in Clinical Dentistry so that your workflow becomes predictableTrain your staff well and make them familiar with your systems and protocolsHave a Philosophy for Occlusion – does not matter if it is Spear, Dawson, Kois, Pankey, Neuromuscular or whatever! Have A philosophyGo all in – immerse yourself deep with knowledge, we owe it to our patients! Click below for full episode transcript:  Opening Snippet: Have a philosophy and it doesn't actually matter which philosophy you follow just HAVE a philosophy... Jaz's Introduction: So welcome to interference cast. This is one of my top podcast episodes where I disrupt in the middle of the flow of having guests. And I just ramble on about important things, or things that I think are important anyway. And I hope you gain value from these. So this episode, or this interference cast is all about protocols and philosophies. Three really cool people I've learned from and they've all had the same message, the same key theme, and I want to share that with you guys. And that is from three different awesome clinicians who have helped me in my career. It's all about having protocols and philosophies. So let's dive in. Main Podcast: [Jaz] The first person was Professor Nicholas Martin from Sheffield, he was one of my restorative consultants, he was one of the academic leads at the university. And he's the one who really planted the seed in my head. He basically taught me that with every procedure you do, you need to have a protocol. And that's how you make procedures predictable. If you don't have a protocol, then you do things based on your mood, or your nurse's mood, and your results will be inconsistent. And you'll never be able to pinpoint what goes well and what could be improved. Now, that doesn't mean that you can't change your protocols. And you can't try different techniques. But it's important to sort of make things consistent, so that you can pinpoint what is it in your practice that is being successful? And what is it that's causing, let's say, postoperative sensitivity, or pain, or any sort of restoration fractures or wherever it might be. So it's like yourself auditing right? If you keep changing and chopping one day you etched for five seconds, the other day, for 45 seconds, it's no consistency, you will never know what actually works. So it's important to have protocols in place, and have them laminated somewhere, let your nurses know, so that they know exactly, you know, you know, sometimes when you're etching, and then a nurse or leans over with the suction, it's only been seven seconds. Whereas on a different day, the nurse will wait half an hour, 45 seconds until he or she leans over for the etch. And if you're led by your nurse before your sort of wash, that's not dentistry, you need to have a protocol in place, see to have a time is in place so that you and the nurse both know how long you're etching for. That's just an example. So that's a first person who taught me about the importance of protocols. So fast forward some years later, when I'd qualified and dentinal tubules, website was in his early days, and it had a forum which was very active, it's now evolved. And it's way past that it's way bigger and better than the forum. Tubules is just a movement experience itself. So a dentist, who I really look up to is Rajiv Ruwala. He was posting a fair bit on the forum, and he actually posts a lot on Facebook, he were mainly saying on the dental groups. And again, I always, you know, I look out for his post because,