The Very Dental Podcast Network Very Dental: Overtreatment and Ethics with Dr. Dennis Hartlieb
Alan is joined by one of the best teachers in clinical dentistry, Dr. Dennis Hartlieb. Dennis has a podcast called the DOT Sharecast
- Continuing education is about taking away something, not everything.
- Needs, values and resources
- Dental school expectations...dentistry doesn't last forever
- YOU remember the compromises that the patient does not
- A riff on second opinions and overtreatment
- Overtreatment makes us ALL LOOK BAD
- Is All-on-X overused in dentistry? Is implant education pushing this too much?
- "The last treatment that you'll need." Except when it isn't.
- Treat patients...not procedures.
- Ethical pressures...mostly financial
- Medical documentation-->box checking
- Relationship driven dentistry
- "You can't harvest the same day that you're planting seeds."
- "Don't start what you can't finish."
- Polishing a turd
- Failed teeth vs. failed implants
- Heroics and your skill set
- "Are you going to be mad at me if...?"
- If you have to show the patient the chart you've already lost
- Is dentistry easy?
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