Fang Farrier

Season 2 Ep 1 Gratitude

A positive emotion and a strength important to resilience and well being. But how can we practice it in a dental setting?

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Season 2 Episode 1 : Sleep Talk

Starting with the foundations for building any resilience tool box on.

This episode Emz talks sleep, why it's important, why the lack there of can lead to burnout, depression and just make life and dentistry harder.

How can you improve your sleep and build everyday resilience?

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Intro to season 2, focus on positive psychology in the context of applications to the dental profession.

Patient centred or dentist driven treatment?
Slowing down patients from rushing into complex, higher risk treatments.
Unlearning some of what we learnt at dental school.

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We need to change how we think about complaints as the associated stress of dealing with formal complaints can be unbearable.

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They certainly found it hard to talk about at dental school, like money was a dirty word.  But it's essential for consent, effective communication in every patient interaction we have.

Are your money beliefs and the emotions tied to the affecting how you discuss fees and payments with your patients?

Discussing this and more, join the discussion on Twitter @fang_farrier

Talking about managing work on days you feel less than OK.

Why these days sometimes catch us off guard and why we are reluctant to use Mental Health days.

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What are you experiences?

A dental surgery is full of loud noises and those working within it are at high risk of noise induced hearing loss and tinnitus.

But most of us aren't wearing any hearing protection.

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Why as dentists do we do this to ourselves? drag ourselves in on days we should stay home, return too early from injury.

Medicating to get through the day, limping, casts on our legs.

A discussion about 'sick leave' or the lack there of and the reluctance to accept that we are only human after all.

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Reflecting on issues raised by the Netflix film The Social Dilemma.

Relating this to the dark side of dental facebook groups.

Discussing how best to use social media in a healthy way and useful way and avoid it negatively affecting your mental health.

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