Trusting Your Gut Instinct for Treatment Planning – PDP171

Is your gut instinct harming or helping patients?



Sometimes we’re just not sure which is the ‘best’ treatment plan to recommend or even if a single tooth is restorable. Dentistry is an art AND a science, which is why things are not black and white.



We sometimes get stuck in ‘analysis paralysis’ and rely on our gut instinct to save us.



But can we really trust gut instinct in decision making/treatment planning in Dentistry? Is it really serving our patients?




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Protrusive Dental Pearl: Make sure to feel the root tip fragment (rub with your gloved index finger) after extraction - it should feel nice and smooth. The presence of sharp or jagged edges may suggest a potential root fracture, indicating that a fragment of the root might still be lodged in the socket.



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Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below!



Highlights of the episode:1:50 Protrusive Dental Pearl: Root Tips2:59 Can we Trust our Gut instinct?8:39 Trusting Your Gut Based on Experience 12:27 When can your gut instinct be unreliable?14:15 Importance of Mentorship17:55 Unreliable Mentorship Example19:03 What's the BEST way to get mentorship?20:16 Intaglio Mentorship 



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Click below for full episode transcript:



Jaz's Introduction: One of the most difficult things in dentistry is treatment planning and decision making. Let's face it, dentistry is as much of an art as it is a science and therefore, decision making can be really mind boggling. What is the best treatment approach? What is the best technique to use for this particular patient, for this particular problem?



[Jaz]It's not so easy. And so in this episode, we're going to explore, can you trust your gut instinct? Your intuition when it comes to making these often-complex decisions? Make sure you stay tuned all the way to the end of this episode. Make sure you don't miss my number one advice for helping you with your daily tough decisions.



Hello, Protruserati. I'm Jaz Gulati. And welcome back to your favorite dental podcast. For those of you listening on Spotify or Apple or Google, thanks so much for joining us again. I might be sounding a bit different. My acoustics might be a bit different. And those of you watching, you'll see that I'm in a strange room that's kind of pink, rose colored in color.



I'm in my such as old bedroom in that kind of like the loft of my parents place in West London. It's just kind of that weird time between Christmas and new year kind of thing. So by the time you're listening to this, I hope you had an awesome Christmas and that you really had some lovely quality time with your loved ones and wishing you all a very happy new year ahead.



Now, before I share with you my lessons and reflections of whether we can trust our gut. I'm gonna give you your Protrusive Dental Pearl. Like every episode, every PDP episode, I give you a Protrusive Dental Pearl. It's a pearl to do with extractions, which has been kind of like a theme for protrusive over the last month or so.



We had a recent webinar with Chris Waith on how to section and elevate molars, like which direction should you go in, which hand pieces you should and you shouldn't use. So that'll be out for replay soon. It's already out for protrusive premium members, but I'm gonna find a way to make it more publicly accessible as well.



So stay tuned for that but a top tip I'll give you after extraction like there wasn't a...