In Dental Fuel episode 4, Dr. Mennito continues to master his craft in the realm of dentistry, where he offers some advice to our listeners.
Dr. Anthony Mennito (Tony) is a private practice dentist as well as an adjunct faculty member at the MUSC College of Dental Medicine in Charleston, South Carolina.
His dental practice, Expertise Dental, focuses on using technology to comprehensively care for his patients while helping to enhance the aesthetics of their smiles.
He is an experienced user of digital systems made by Planmeca, Dentsply Sirona, 3Shape, and iTero and is heavily reliant on digital design and 3D printing for treatment planning complex cases.
He lectures nationally and internationally and currently has 21 published papers on the topics of digital dentistry and dental materials.
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Dental Fuel Episode 4: Expert Advice Transcript
In Dental Fuel episode 4, Dr. Mennito continues to master his craft in the realm of dentistry, where he offers some advice to our listeners.
Dr. Tanya Sue Maestas
If you could provide advice to a dentist, what’s the best piece of advice that you’d like to offer?
 Dr. Tony Mennito
So many, so many. Im 20 years into my career, and I think:
- To slow down and do it right would be my number one.
- And then 1A would be to get out there and continue to learn.
It’s so much to learn in dentistry and you know I will say that John Koi said something at our very first course that really ranked through me and he said you know you guys spend a lot of money to be here the courses are expensive but he said how much would you spend to be a more confident dentist to walk in your practice every day and feel really confident that you have the tools and the skill set to treat everybody who walked through that door.
And that is, I mean, you can’t put a price tag on that. So that would be it, slow down, do dentistry the way it’s meant to be done.
I think isolation is the one thing that I think a lot of times we maybe try to cut corners on for the sake of time or whatever but do it right.
And then get out there and continue to learn throughout your career because not only does it give you personal satisfaction but gives you a lot of confidence and walking into the office every morning feels a lot better when you’re confident.
Dr. Tanya Sue Maestas
In your journey so far have you made any regrets?
Dr. Tony Mennito
So many yeah I mean and once again you and I were talking before we started recording about mistakes and regrets and I’ve made a ton of mistakes and I have a lot of regrets, you know, but you learn from those and you move on.
The important thing is that you learn from them, but I tuck those away in the back of my brain way back here and shut the door and try to forget about them.
Because there’s no sense in reliving those and you know bringing them up over and over and over.
So I’m sitting here trying to think of a true regret that I have and I can’t come up with one simply because you know like I said I try to do my best and my focus every day is to do my very best. It’s hard to have regrets if you truly are doing everything you know to the best of your ability.
And maybe if I do have a regret it’s that I didn’t get more continuing education early in my career. I think I probably could have accelerated my learning curve a bit.
But I have ended up where I am and my journey has been extremely rewarding and so I can’t even say that I have a regret as far as that goes because going through you know the CE that I’m taking now I have experience behind me that I can really understand what I’m being taught that much better than had I done it 10 or 15 years you know prior so no regrets.
Dr. Tanya Sue Maestas
There’s value in growth in a journey. I absolutely love all the advice that you’ve shared with us tonight and I really appreciate you taking the time to speak with us and all the listeners that will be listening to this.
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