salute and welcome to the channel in this video i will tell you guys
why i chose dentistry so let's go
i want to state that this is my personal opinion i know that there are loads of people who may
think different about that topic or see it from a different perspective if that's the case i would
love to have a fair and productive discussion down in the comment section below the most important
thing i want to mention right at the beginning this is not a dentistry versus medicine clash or
something yeah i will just talk about the reasons yeah that make this profession so good in my point
of view yes sometimes i will do some comparisons to medicine but only because those two fields
overlap in some points dentistry is almost as ancient as human history or civilization dating
back to more than 7 000 years before christ it is defined as the treatment of diseases
or other conditions that are affecting for example teeth or gums or other structures in the oral
cavity it is also referred to the reparation and extraction of teeth that are then replaced
by let's say artificial ones so a dentist tries to establish a good oral health and is patient
to prevent certain diseases so prevention is a big part of dentistry like i said before
and we should keep it like that because who of us likes to sit in a dental chair for a long time
even me is just killing me but what would make us very happy and wouldn't kill you is liking
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further content in general if carry or for example mult positioning of a tooth or the inflammation of
a root a cure just to give some examples further treatments are needed to not only relieve the
patient from his pain but to also prevent further problems this can be done by placing some fillings
or preparing some teeth to place crowns or bridges or by doing a root canal treatment i mean there
are loads of different treatments for different kind of problems also implants orthodontic
treatments um yeah i think we all know what i'm talking about for this we have multiple different
specialities i will not go further into detail about the specialities if you are interested in
that i made a video recently about the different specialties in dentistry you can just check it out
also forza made a very interesting video which is about the different specialities in medicine and
which ones he would like to do but why actually do i think it's worth it making a video about why
dentistry is so special and the reason is yeah just because it's so unique i personally think
that there is no other profession that is even similar to the dentist of course i am including
the dental assistant because yeah we are working as a team and i think i don't have to mention that
yeah like i said before dentistry is unique and i want to make you understand what i mean by that
so let's have a look at the different treatments we can divide them into let's say direct and
indirect treatments by direct treatments i mean other treatments that a dentist can just do by
himself like a filling or a root canal treatment so there are also indirect treatments where the
dentist of course needs a bit of help by his technician let's see the dentist like a company a
company that produces a certain product like let's say for example manufacturing cars before someone
can actually start manufacturing a car you need to have certain parts which are mainly produced
by other factories like for example windows the car manufacturer will let this factory know
what kind of windows he wants to have when it's about size about the color about the stability
of the glass and then this factory will produce them and send them over it's exactly like that in
dentistry if you have to repair a row of teeth which for example had been extracted you can
do so by replacing them with a bridge and this one has to be produced by a dental technician
so you will prepare the two teeth which are next to the edentulous area then you make an impression
and send it over to the dental technician this technician can be employed in your dental office
for example having a small laboratory or they are an independent laboratory and working with
multiple dentists you as a dentist will exchange all the necessary information with this technician
like again the size the morphology that maybe suits the patient or like the teeth had been
before the color is also very important for the aesthetic outcome of course it's also important
to talk about which material should be used this is specific to the area where the teeth
should be replaced and is also referring to the budget of the patient the most important thing
is that the dentist and the technician work as a team and also listen to the demands of the patient
a human is also not like a car you don't produce the same model multiple times each treatment is
completely different to the other one patients will have different demands different diseases
and a different diagnosis the anatomical landmarks will also differ in size and measurement and the
patients will also have different personalities this is very important they have different types
of fears they have different types of wishes when it's about the aesthetics
or the outcome of the treatment and they will also have a different economical background
when it's about what a patient can afford there's really so much you have to consider
and that is what i like about dentistry you produce something unique in cooperation with
a technician which is then inserted into a human being which is also unique or let me know if you
ever saw a second hand denture being sold on ebay and that's where medicine meets a craftsmanship
like i always love to say we learn about the human anatomy in med school we learn about the
main diseases and we learn about the physiology of the human body but we also learn so much
about the technical part like the properties of metals the reactions of dental material
and we learn in the end how to transfer a workpiece into the oral cavity this was actually
my main point when it's about dentistry but there are also some other points that i want to mention
if a patient comes into a dental office we first observe if there is any possible problem and then
we try to figure out if treatment is needed or not if so we set up a treatment plan so we note down
the current status and talk with the patient about a possible treatment so in the following weeks the
patient will visit us multiple times which is also another fact that i like so you start building up
a relationship over time it's not just some strangers coming into your dental office and even
after some years if new problems occur the patient will hopefully come back and you will start a new
treatment plan and that's also a slight reason why i didn't want to do medicine because in most
of the fields of medicine you don't build up a strong relationship with your patient and
this is actually what i'm enjoying working in a dental office you know your patients by their
name you know about their background you know about their families it's quite a
personal relationship that builds up between a dentist and his patient and let's also talk
the truth we are creatures of habits so that gives us a bit of a comfortable feeling to
be around people we already know we have seen before yeah that's definitely something i like
as a dentist you will also depending on your speciality work in a small facility like the
name dental office for example already says it's only you the colleagues you are working with
maybe some employed technicians and the assistants this ensures a good working environment you will
also work like kind of a team that you build around yourself over time so everyone will
know about each other's weakness and strength and in total i think it's just very comfortable for
working i mean yes those facts right now are a bit general and we can see them in loads of
other professions but the combination of all of them is what makes dentistry for me so special
another thing i want to talk about are the working hours as a dentist you have kind of very good
working hours because there are no night shifts of course right now i'm talking more about the yeah
general dentist and about most of the specialities i know that there are some areas where you have
to do night shifts especially in big clinics but as a normal dentist you really can decide
when you want to work what times you want to have your dental office opened
and you can also decide when you want to have vacation so if some patients have pain they
can always go to a neighboring dentist for that and after that come back to you another thing
is the salary as a lot of people know yes the salary is good especially coming from university
dental medicine is one of the jobs where you directly start working with a good payment
but i mean before that you are studying for six full years and may also spend some time
finding a place to study before that and if you want to start studying dentistry or
medicine without losing any time just look in the description down below there's a link to
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dental technician once told me that in italy their job is basically seen like an art
and yes i can somehow agree on that it's such a delicate and also relaxing work while doing it
that is something that fascinated me right from the beginning and it's also something that i love
doing working on a small work piece and trying to make it the best one that you ever made and
trust me i saw how happy a patient is after years being able or just feeling comfortable smiling
again it's so satisfying if bringing back smiles on people's face is what you do for a living
another thing we should also keep an eye on when we choose our profession is the future security
maybe the job you are learning right now will not be needed in some years like let's give an
example travel agents i think they do great work i think it's very comfortable if you have someone
who's planning out your vacation but nowadays it's such easy to book your flights and hotels yourself
that unfortunately those people are not needed as they had been and as a dentist you don't have to
worry about something like that at all yes some of you will now talk about the digitalization and
optimization of loads of processes out there i had some discussions about that already but
experts already reassured me it doesn't matter how much the tech world will improve there's always
the need for a doctor to give the final diagnosis because like i said before we as humans we are not
machines we are no cars where loads of the same model had been built or all of us are the same
type each one is different each one has different pathologies and has to be seen from a different
perspective in the end the automatization will make our work easier but never replace us
the last point i want to talk about is working with people and this is very important to me
myself you can also see that the professions that make us in total the happiest are the ones
that work with patients humans are by nature social i've always been someone who thrives
in social settings so it's a no-brainer for me to choose a profession where i'm interacting
with other people yeah i know i now talked a lot about dentistry and how good it is and
the best profession in the world yeah but for me it's like that otherwise i wouldn't have chosen if
it wouldn't be like that so i think it's also very important to talk about our profession if we love
it share some fascination for it that other people who are right now not knowing what they should do
may get a impression of it and also who knows start considering doing the same so hit the like
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