{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Protrusive Dental Podcast","title":"Sleepless Nights, Failures, and Bouncing Back (Part 2) - PDP290","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2422,"description":"Do you ever take your patients home with you — replaying the day, the difficult conversation, the distal margin you wish you’d sealed a little better?\nHave you ever lost a night’s sleep over a case that went wrong?\nWhich parts of dentistry fill you with energy — and which quietly drain you?\nAnd are you cutting corners you know about — and paying for it in job satisfaction?\nThis is Part 2 of my conversation with Dr Ronit Patel — a general dentist  with more than 20 years in practice, who built a referral book in endodontics and restorative dentistry and then, by design, flipped back to mostly general dentistry. Part 1 was about taking control of your diary. This part goes further: fuel versus friction, why general practice is the toughest and most fun job in dentistry, what to do when your diary has white space, and the conversation we don’t have enough — failures, complaints and sleepless nights, and how to bounce back. It stands on its own, but Part 1 is a great companion.\n\nProtrusive Dental Pearls: Clean It, Hand It, Check It\n\nThis episode has three pearls instead of one — one clinical, one for your team, one for your systems.\n1. Clean the teeth. Endodontics is chemo-mechanical: we accept that bacteria and biofilm are there, so we debride mechanically and disinfect chemically. Restorative dentistry deserves the same respect. Before placing a composite or fitting a crown, clean the tooth — pumice is the most accessible option, with ultrasonic scaling or air abrasion as alternatives. Disclose first so you can see what’s there, then clean until it’s gone. Everyone knows they should; it’s the step most often skipped, and it shows up later as staining around the margins.\n2. Hand instruments with intention. In Japan, even a receipt is handed over with care and intention. Bring that to four-handed dentistry: the right instrument, the right way round, arriving with the weight and timing your hand expects. A seamless transfer is efficiency the patient can feel.\n3. Give...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/hLSIeRiYSp0oTfIk0BzEukFutShD18hH3f6fq4QHsWw/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lZmM0/ZTNjYzdiZDJhNGFj/MzBiYmU2NTUwNmM2/NzQ2My5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}