Find me on LinkedIn - Dr Arosha Weerakoon & Insta (@DrArosha_Dentist)
colgate advocate for oral health
Five tips to help your culturally diverse patients.
Seven ways to extend the life of your ageing patient's smile.
Seven ways to extend the life of your ageing patient's smile.
Here are five ways you could practice dentistry in this beautiful linguistically diverse and culturally eclectic land we live on. These five ways will not only help you help your ATSI patients, but create a more collaborative and effective practice for everyone.
Seven ways to extend the life of your ageing patient's smile.
Seven ways to extend the life of your ageing patient's smile.
Seven ways to extend the life of your ageing patient's smile.
We are living for longer and maintaining our expectations of function and aesthetics into maturity. Ageing well is important [1].
Many of our ageing patients are motivated to maintain long-lasting smiles that are both aesthetic and functional. But what happens to our teeth as we age? And what can you do to help your patient’s smile last the distance?
.png/:/cr=t:0%25,l:0%25,w:100%25,h:100%25/rs=w:365,h:365,cg:true)
AI in dental practice
Seven ways to extend the life of your ageing patient's smile.
Four hacks to help you and your patients build or break habits.
With my years of experience in blogging, I have gained expertise in {topic1}, {topic2}, and {topic3}. I am passionate about sharing my knowledge with my readers and helping them in any way I can.
Four hacks to help you and your patients build or break habits.
How to play the long game, become a dental legend (and avoid warrant work).
Four hacks to help you and your patients build or break habits.
I have a confession to make. Until recently, I was addicted to sugar in all its glorious forms. This addiction was getting to me, mostly because I consider myself to be an analytical person who does ‘hard things’. So why did my sugar habit have so much power over me?
How to play the long game, become a dental legend (and avoid warrant work).
How to play the long game, become a dental legend (and avoid warrant work).
How to play the long game, become a dental legend (and avoid warrant work).
What’s worse than re-doing your work on a patient? Re-doing a colleague’s work… for free. ‘Warranty work’, this is something we all begrudgingly accept as part of our professional responsibility. And according to social posts, even more so if you are new to practice ownership. When I bought my dental practice, I readied myself for a tsunami of replacements or repairs.
How to overcome 'Imposter Syndrome'.
How to play the long game, become a dental legend (and avoid warrant work).
How to play the long game, become a dental legend (and avoid warrant work).
As I write this piece, I wonder, am I qualified to write about ‘Imposter Syndrome’? The irony.
Imposter Syndrome is that tiny voice that tells you you’re not qualified or competent to work in a role that you are. You may fear being exposed as a fraud, because of self-imposed standards of success, and a fear of failing despite your acad
As I write this piece, I wonder, am I qualified to write about ‘Imposter Syndrome’? The irony.
Imposter Syndrome is that tiny voice that tells you you’re not qualified or competent to work in a role that you are. You may fear being exposed as a fraud, because of self-imposed standards of success, and a fear of failing despite your academic achievement and professional accomplishments.1-3 Living with imposter syndrome can make life seem impossible, and lead to increased stress,3 burnout,3-6 underperformance,3 depression and even suicide ideation.6
Could you become a clinician-scientist?
Could you become a clinician-scientist?
Could you become a clinician-scientist?
It’s easy to forget that much of what we practice today was scientifically explored by people like you who sought to improve techniques to help the people they served. For instance, in the 1980s, it was common practice to electively extract all traumatised teeth, that is, until the controversial efforts of Jens O Andreasen and Frances M
It’s easy to forget that much of what we practice today was scientifically explored by people like you who sought to improve techniques to help the people they served. For instance, in the 1980s, it was common practice to electively extract all traumatised teeth, that is, until the controversial efforts of Jens O Andreasen and Frances M Andreasen. Andreasen and Andreasen pioneered the field of dental traumatology to help us save millions of people from unnecessary extractions, post-trauma.1 But it took a clinician like Jens, who wanted to help victims of dental trauma, to change the way we think and practice.