Editor’s note: This is the latest article in a New Dentist Now blog series, My New Dentist Life, following a new dentist’s first year experiences out of dental school. The views expressed in this article are the personal opinions of the author and are not intended to reflect the views, positions or policies of the ADA or the… Read More »
Editor’s note: This is the latest article in a New Dentist Now blog series, My New Dentist Life, following a new dentist’s first year experiences out of dental school. The views expressed in this article are the personal opinions of the author and are not intended to reflect the views, positions or policies of the ADA or the… Read More »
By way of introduction, my name is Daryn Lu and I am a 2015 graduate of the University of Oklahoma College of Dentistry. Born on the West Coast in San Francisco, and raised on the East Coast in Jacksonville, Florida, I have called Oklahoma my home for the past 16 years. By the time dental school graduation arrived,… Read More »
How many hours a week do you work? Do you think you’re working too much? Not enough? An NPR Planet Money episode, “Why We Work So Much,” looks at the average hours workers from around the world dedicate to their job. It also discusses economist John Maynard Keynes 1930 essay that thought we’d be working just 15 hours… Read More »
I didn’t always want to be a dentist. The decision was one I struggled over. When I was in college and starting to give serious attention to dentistry as a career, I talked to two dentists that practiced in my hometown. I asked them both the same question, “What’s dentistry like? Do you enjoy it?” It seemed simple… Read More »
Editor’s note: This is the seventh and final article in a summer series of New Dentist Now blog posts on practice ownership from Wells Fargo Practice Finance, the practice lender endorsed by ADA Business Resources. To read other articles from the series, click here. For most dental professionals, incurring significant debt while completing dental school and acquiring a… Read More »