Not Your Average Young Dentist Journey – PDP036

In this episode we listen to Alan's story. His name is Alan Burgin and he's also known as The Cornish Dentist on Instagram. https://youtu.be/oF-yyrwPfm4 Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! His story involves themes of mentorship, challenges, overcoming adversity, gaining a work life balance, (so actually going abroad to Australia for six months)....I don't give too much of the story away, but it involves so many real-world themes. And actually, it also involves a bit of luck and something that we touched on in Episode 34 with Richard Porter on emotional intelligence was the element of luck in your career trajectory is actually very important. The Protrusive Dental Pearl is about how to make cementing crowns less messy using Vaseline! I hope you enjoy listening to our reflective chat! NEXT MONTH will be Splintember! I will cover all things dental splints to simplify this confusing area of Dentistry. Listen to the FULL episode via direct download or via the following platforms: Spotify Apple Google Podcast Subscribe on Android Click below for full episode transcript: Opening Snippet: Yeah, so probably the biggest thing I've learned about bigger cases in private practice is a lot of people say about getting to know your patient. And I've had a few cases where I've moved into they didn't need much doing initially, we've been able to move into the sort of full mouth stuff quite quickly, and haven't got to know them at all. And it doesn't mean just you don't have to sit and chat with them for ages. But now I'm much more structured in my treatment approach in that I will do a stabilization phase and then a definitive phase... Jaz's Introduction: Hello, everyone, and welcome to Episode 36 of the Protrusive Dental podcast. Today we are talking about a journey and a story of a very talented young dentist. I'll tell you in a second who it is. And it's all about resonating with his story. Now his story is very unique. And that's why I'm going to bring him on because life doesn't always go as planned. And in dentistry, as you're a young dentist, sort of career path that you map out, may not exactly go to plan. And there are some great lessons you can learn from stories and journeys. So the pathway that we're going to describe say is specific to one in the UK because of the some of the names, the posts that we mentioned, like maxfacts, SHO positions, or DCT positions or whatever. So that's applicable to UK but I believe all over the world. Be it Australia, US, wherever you are listening to this, that there are parallels you can draw within your system. If you're a young dentist, we sort of going up in terms of training pathway so we can have like residency programs, for example. So that is applicable, no matter where you're listening from. So we're gonna listen to Alan's story. His name is Alan Burgin, and he's also known as the Cornish dentist on Instagram. And his story involves the themes of mentorship, challenges, overcoming adversity, gaining a work-life balance, so actually going abroad to Australia for six months. I don't wanna give too much of the story away, but it involves so many themes. And actually, it also involves a bit of luck and something that we touched on in Episode 34 with Richard Porter on emotional intelligence was the element of luck in your career trajectory is actually very important. It shouldn't be overlooked. So before we join into the journey with Alan Burgin, the Cornish dentist. And speaking of journeys, my wife and I celebrated our fifth anniversary yet well, it's actually today. She's not working out and I'm at home this morning. So I'm actually recording the intro for this episode. But we celebrated our anniversary over the weekend. We went to this fantastic Turkish restaurant called Gökyüzü. And when my wife first told me that we're going this place for to celebrate, I thought as a Japanese restaurant going by the name,