Finding Your Niche in Dentistry – PDP076

'The Riches are in the Niches', apparently. In the last episode we already touched on the topic of finding your niche but this time we were able to dive deep in to this. Will your career sky rocket when you find your niche? Or are you better off being the jack of all trades?  What are the benefits of finding a niche, how to go about it? And what does it ACTUALLY mean? https://youtu.be/aGniihvrNpg Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below!  Protrusive Dental Pearl: a Challenge for you - grab a pen and paper and write down ALL the clinical procedures that you LIKE to do, and then also what procedures you would like to do MORE OF. Figure out where your niche could lie. And don't forget, it's not a race! It helps helps to make a list of procedures that don't excite you (for me, I have no affinity to facial aesthetics!) My guest, Dr Pav Khaira is a MASSIVE geek and I loved that he quite openly admitted to failure in the past and helped us learn some lessons. I also enjoyed hearing that it is TOTALLY FINE to change your niche as you mature as a clinician. In this episode, we talked about: Being a super GDP vs niching down?Young dentists rushing to find their nicheIs it okay to niche too soon or is too late to find your niche?The opportunities of learningBecoming a ‘go to dentist’The downside of niching  If you enjoyed this episode, then do check out the Dental Implant Podcast by Dr. Pav Khaira. You might also enjoy 6 Signs You are a Comprehensive Dentist! Click here for Full Episode Transcription:  Opening Snippet: So I think the issue with trying to niche down too soon is have I jumped into implants right from the start. Well, actually, I'm actually a better implant surgeon now, because I understand chronic pain, I understand well, actually, I understand the forces going through my implants, forces going through my implant prosthodontics. I know how to deal with them... Jaz's Introduction: Find your niche. Now, that's a saying that's probably been bonded around a lot, in all the sort of circles of career advice is something that I heard a lot in early on my career. And it never fully made sense to me. I'm hoping it's gonna be this episode that's gonna make the whole concept of finding your niche tangible. What are the benefits of finding a niche, how to go about it? And what does it actually mean? Now, I'm joined by someone who is quite inspirational for this episode, because he is someone who's quite openly admitted to failure in some ways. And I do believe failure makes you stronger. And we talk about some struggles and failures early on in his career. And I'm very honored that Dr. Pav Khaira shared those failures with us because that's how we can learn about others experiences. It's not all rosy out there. And with that failure, or with the struggles, he was forced into trying different procedures, try and boost revenue for the practice. And through all that, eventually, he found his niche. And then he changed his niche. So he is a living example of no matter how qualified how many years of experience you have, that if you still are looking for that right niche for you within dentistry, then opportunity is still there. And if you're at the very early start of your career, just use this episode, use the lessons from Dr. Pav Khaira as an inspiration to helping you finding your next steps and your niche. Protruserati,I'm joined by Dr. Pav Khaira from the dental implant podcast to talk about his niching down into implants, my fears about dabbling into implants and my challenges in terms of getting started with implants and the recipe to finding your own niche, whatever that may be for you. So the very relevant Protrusive Dental Pearl I have for you today is to sit down. And maybe at the end this episode, just take five minutes to get a pen and paper and write down all the procedures that you like to do, all the procedures that you'd like to do more of and get known for.