- Dr Ketki Kalele
Yes, you heard it right! Just like there are 12 zodiacs into which every person fits and the zodiac signs just doesn’t tell regarding personality of a person, but also provide the way ahead for a person…. Similarly, dentists are people with amalgamation of many traits encompassing of knowledge, wisdom, creativity, soft skills and patience, the various values of which may tilt towards a specific specialty!
The percentage of the above-mentioned attributes differ in every individual which make them fit for different dental streams. Their personalities may point towards a high interest to excel in a specific branch. “Beauty + Brain+ Art” describes a dental surgeon. So, it won’t be an exaggeration to say that dentists have multiple personalities under cover of a single person!!!
Which personality you feed dictates your speciality or your special interest as a general practitioner - your “Stream zodiac!!!”
Let us see how-
1} Zodiac Oral Medicine and Radiology (OMR)
So, the number 1 department or may I say 1st department of every dental college….
These are the 1st people to come into picture and interact with the patient, hence getting acquainted to a patient/person is their genre…
OMRs surprise you by asking the patient questions such as “Have you brought money with you” which although sounds “crude” to us will be a million-dollar question as there are a set of “window shopping” patients who come to the dental doors. Trust the OMRs to spot the person’s mentality along with his pathology. These guys, like their branch, are glamorous guys & unlike their black & white radiographs, have various colour shades to their persona….
2} Zodiac Prosthodontia
Well! Well! Well! These are really hardworking stocks who are ready to slog for getting the smallest error perfect; such as shaping up undercuts in a crown or recording an accurate JRs, getting accuracy is their necessity & not an option!!!
Artistic hands & minds full of patience will pump those green bills (notes) in their accounts…
3} Zodiac Periodontia
Well, most of the passionate periodontists I know have discipline! Some how the “micro structures” which they deal with give them “precision.” They just cannot place a bit longer incision or miss an inch of an angle during an implant placement. Usually, these are soft hearted people as they treat every little loss of tissue as their personal loss & hence their clinics are equipped with tubes filled with plasmas & meshes of bone grafts…
I like these folks personally!
4} Zodiac Pedodontia
Phew! What to say about these guys, tackling kids is “no kidding” business… Dealing with tantrums, fear, anxieties, tears and mind you, not just of the kids but of their parents too; make our pedodontists either very composed & neutral or very rude and strict!!!
Remember, pedo department of our colleges, we always had mixed staff there, some neutral and others strict!!!
All in all, these strains of people are very responsible as ultimately, they deal with small “pieces of heart” i.e., “cute children”!!!!
5} Zodiac Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
These folks are single floaters & fliers!!!
They cannot exactly be shaped from the mould of dentistry. This tribe encompasses mostly those who were always inclined towards pursuing MBBS but landed up doing dentistry.
Oral surgeons are passionate people with a courageous heart and an articulate hand. Pretty straightforward in nature they have no scope for looking back; because ultimately “a cut is a cut!” May it be a tooth or a complete jaw, once taken out is permanent damage! Hence, for surgeons’ decisions are more important than incisions!!!
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