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I hear this from dentists all the time. “I just haven’t fully gotten into aligners yet because I don’t know enough.” If that sounds familiar, you’re not broken. You’re being a dentist. Think back to the first crown you ever prepped. Or your first extraction. Or the first time you gave local without your instructor standing behind you. You did not feel ready. You did not “know enough.” But you did it anyway. And the only reason it feels easy now is because you started before you were...
Doing something new is hard. Not because you are bad at it. Not because you are incapable. It is hard because you do not know what you are doing yet. That sounds obvious, but most of us forget it. We expect confidence before competence. We want clarity before reps. We want certainty before starting. That is not how learning works. When you do not know how to do something, your brain looks for reasons to stop. This feels risky. What if I mess it up? What if I look stupid? What if I fail? So...
Most dentists think we need to do it all. We are prideful. We think we are the best. We assume everyone else should just figure it out. We are wrong. People do not need more operators. They need leadership. Leadership is not doing the work. Leadership is showing people what good looks like and guiding them there. You cannot expect a new hire to know what to do. You cannot expect them to know the difference between right and wrong. You have to onboard them so they understand what is required...