struggling dentist

Whoever said dentistry was easy! Year after year kids pay tens of lakhs of rupees in capitation for BDS and MDS degrees in dentistry but none of the schools prepare you for the struggle that follows, after the paper is pasted on the wall. A common misconception is that the struggle is overcome by a combination of hard work, superior clinical skills and of course, time. How amateur, misinformed and misguided can one be: the struggle never ends it just mutates to take on another more difficult and lonely but nevertheless stimulating form. To the dentist with a freshly minted degree and practice, the guy at the top is the icon, the guru the object of desire, but little does he know how hard it is being there. As a sultry dental Diva said “It’s lonely at the top”.

 The Divas and Icons of dentistry embark on a deeper and more difficult struggle to reinvent and reincarnate themselves into new avatars. This struggle, this internal Dental Jihad involves intellectual, ethical, technological and spiritual challenges. It sure is a lonely journey, a journey of brutal self discovery and path breaking or changing decisions.

A dentist struggles all the time. Trying to make sense, of the world, technology and the metaphysical, needs a giant leap in the evolution of the mind and soul! And that’s the real struggle, but on the other hand whoever said life’s easy….