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What Do I Have in Common With 90 Women? Or Better Yet, What Am I Now the World’s Leading Dental Expert In? by Jon Engel
Pretty suspicious title, if you weren’t me last week. I have had this gut feeling in my stomach over the last several years that there was something else that I wanted to do with my passion in dentistry, that is, I want to make a difference besides in my dental office. I wanted to find a way to help educate kids about preventive dentistry. Really, if I could make a living teaching kids how to brush and floss their teeth and add some nutritional counseling in for good measure I would be a happy man. After all, I feel it is the most ethical way to practice dentistry.
Alas, I needed a little help so I reached out to a super hygienist/lecturer that I had met, one Shirley Gutkowski, for some help and she told me that I should attend the CAREERfusion meeting in Florida. It was a meeting where one could find other opportunities outside of pure clinical practice to expand their dental horizons. But, here was the catchâ