Choosing the best dentist for your health involves many factors. Over the next few articles I will try to cover the real issues.
Price is often cited by the patient as why they choose the dentist that they do, sometimes without considering there health. Price is not the same as value. How valuable over a lifetime is a healthy, beautiful, functional mouth? Oral health effects every social interaction from job opportunity to spousal choices. Your oral health effects how others see and judge you.
Poor oral health contributes to poor total body health and has even been called a cause of heart disease, diabetes, and even cancer. Again, how valuable is good oral health? The ability to properly chew food can be significant in your food choices. Those choices are a huge factor on how you feel. Food choices are a major factor in the health of your gastro-intestinal tract and therefore your immune system. Price should not be the determining factor when you consider value in your choices. Choosing the right dentist can and will effect much more than your immediate finances. Price may be a limiting factor, however, should never be the deciding factor in your choice of the dentist serving you. Price is not even a reliable indication of a good or not so good dentist.
How skilled is your dentist? How skilled is the dentist you are considering? This person will be making choices that will make a difference in your health and wealth over your lifetime. You may only see this person once or twice a year. Yet what happens at those visits will have a profound effect on your total health as well as oral health. What will be the real cost if your dentist does not have the skill, training, education, and experience to make the best decisions for you? You should always seek a dentist that loves being a dentist. A dentist that never becomes complacent, never bored, one who seeks to learn new knowledge, blends new and old techniques and approaches in the provision of good treatment for you.
The skillset of the dentist includes but is not limited to knowledge. Skillset includes the ability and willingness to listen to all that makes you who you are, including past and present medical and dental history. Skillset includes compassion for people and the desire to help them be the best they can be, whatever the circumstances. For one to be a good clinician, one must be non-judgmental knowing that the present is where we can make things better.
Experience is invaluable to the clinician. It is the battlefield. It is where one has put together action leading to the desired result. One learns what works and what does not. You want a seasoned veteran of dentistry to be your dentist. Experience counts after all your vetting is done. After all considerations, go to the dentist who in your heart you totally trust.
Dr. Anthony J Adams
Price is often cited by the patient as why they choose the dentist that they do, sometimes without considering there health. Price is not the same as value. How valuable over a lifetime is a healthy, beautiful, functional mouth? Oral health effects every social interaction from job opportunity to spousal choices. Your oral health effects how others see and judge you.
Poor oral health contributes to poor total body health and has even been called a cause of heart disease, diabetes, and even cancer. Again, how valuable is good oral health? The ability to properly chew food can be significant in your food choices. Those choices are a huge factor on how you feel. Food choices are a major factor in the health of your gastro-intestinal tract and therefore your immune system. Price should not be the determining factor when you consider value in your choices. Choosing the right dentist can and will effect much more than your immediate finances. Price may be a limiting factor, however, should never be the deciding factor in your choice of the dentist serving you. Price is not even a reliable indication of a good or not so good dentist.
How skilled is your dentist? How skilled is the dentist you are considering? This person will be making choices that will make a difference in your health and wealth over your lifetime. You may only see this person once or twice a year. Yet what happens at those visits will have a profound effect on your total health as well as oral health. What will be the real cost if your dentist does not have the skill, training, education, and experience to make the best decisions for you? You should always seek a dentist that loves being a dentist. A dentist that never becomes complacent, never bored, one who seeks to learn new knowledge, blends new and old techniques and approaches in the provision of good treatment for you.
The skillset of the dentist includes but is not limited to knowledge. Skillset includes the ability and willingness to listen to all that makes you who you are, including past and present medical and dental history. Skillset includes compassion for people and the desire to help them be the best they can be, whatever the circumstances. For one to be a good clinician, one must be non-judgmental knowing that the present is where we can make things better.
Experience is invaluable to the clinician. It is the battlefield. It is where one has put together action leading to the desired result. One learns what works and what does not. You want a seasoned veteran of dentistry to be your dentist. Experience counts after all your vetting is done. After all considerations, go to the dentist who in your heart you totally trust.
Dr. Anthony J Adams
