Any or all of these challenges can present in your career to varying degrees, depending on your unique circumstances. Regardless of your situation, know that you are not alone in navigating these common problems. Let’s review them here:

Challenge one: Design – Beautiful, natural, consistent restorations

The first obstacle we face is the fact that as restorative dentists, it’s very hard to deliver consistent, natural-looking, predictable, precise, replicable smile rehabilitations – without the stress – in our daily work.

Challenge two: Plan – Comprehensive smile rehabilitation know-how

Our second roadblock is the need to implement better communication systems and treatment planning systems in order to make better decisions for our patients.

Challenge three: Value – Attracting and fascinating the right client

Another significant hurdle is all about creating perceived value. As clinicians, our training doesn’t equip us to manage our patients emotionally. We are not trained in how to bring the patient on board with our treatment, how to communicate effectively so people change their priorities, or how to show the real beauty of what we have to offer them.

Challenge four: Performance – Efficiency and predictable clinical procedures

This stumbling block is about clinical performance, and recognizing that performing comprehensive dentistry at the highest level is not easy.

Challenge five: Team – Training and empowering the staff

The fifth common hindrance to success is one that has an impact on all the other challenges. It’s all to do with team empowerment, team training, and having the right people doing the right tasks by your side so that everything flows.

By becoming aware of the issues we are facing right now, it becomes easier to identify solutions, master them and make them into a simple, natural routine in our daily work. This is what Christian Coachman helps doctors from all over the world to do at DSD Residency 1 courses.