With long days, tricky working relationships and high pressure, it can be hard to maintain your passion for dental therapy – Cat Edney explains how you can find it again.
Training to be a dental therapist has become harder in recent years. With fierce competition for university places, entry requirements and application standards are constantly being squeezed so that only the most focused and passionate individuals can get themselves a coveted university offer – and this is only the start.
Once you get a place at university the training is stressful, the learning curve is steep and the three years goes by in a flash of vivas, phantom heads and radiology lectures (at least this is what is left of my memory). The whirlwind that is the battle to become registered can almost be seen as enough training to prepare us for the harsh realities of professional practice – turning out dental therapy warriors who are committed, excited, and ready to face all those near pulp exposures and open contact points.
But what do you do if you just don’t feel excited by it anymore?
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