This month we focus on posterior composites. Now we like to have fun as we teach at Aspire. That means a positive environment along with trust between us all and and also some room for open, non-judgmental talking. We like to call out the elephant in the room. This particular multicoloured elephant, in a posterior composite, is the value in carving…
‘No plan survives first contact with the enemy’ ? Helmuth von Moltke This quote may have lost a little in translation and has been adapted many times since, perhaps most eloquently by ‘Iron’ Mike Tyson; ‘Everyone has plans right up until they get hit for the first time’. I am not making the case that we consider patients either enemies nor…
We are in the month of love and romance valentines and …learning how to walk the thin line for ethical provision of the ultimate level of dental beauty. On day 5 we teach delegates how to provide patients with ceramic veneers. The day starts with a discussion on the ethics of this type of treatment. We tackle that first as it’s…
I’m going to try to be consistent and write each of these monthly blogs between groups 3 and 4 attending for each day. That way we have a feel for how each session has gone but are mentally focussed on the subject as there is still one group to go. I hope we can keep that consistency throughout 2022 and in…
I always wished the academic year started in January. Month 1, January, through to month 12, December makes clean, orderly sense to me. Usually traits of high orderliness and OCD are something I see in others as I sit at my chaotic desk eating food with my fingers looking at a screen with 200 tabs and 45 windows open. To right…
