Like sneezing inside your mask.
It sucks like losing a crown to your assistants high speed suction. Can’t stop it, you just gotta let nature take its course and endure the glaring afterwards as you get treated like a leper.
Unfortunately society has become a battleground of germaphobes vs super immunes. Everything has gotten so polarizing unfortunately. I think some of us truly forget we’re all cut from the same cloth of humanity. And now I feel like cutting off my cloth mask with all the bugger juice that’s stuck on the inside of it.
Our social interactions have unfortunately gone in the tank since 6 foot hula-hoop spacing was required. I actually miss CE with fellow dentures and staff. I miss the conventions and being given frivolous freebies that don’t seem to find the trash fast enough.
We’re such social animals. Craving an intimate chat with an old friend couldn’t be far off from a drug craving. The added value of socializing brought to our lives is immense.
As dentists, our entire livelihood is based on a one hour social interaction with another being. The whole song and dance you do with a drill, impression material and steel forceps are just accessories. The real value you create in a dental practice is the network of people you’ve brought together.
Dental practices are just an extension of networked people. You serve as a central node. And with each interaction, new links are created.
This might seem like a bit of a stretch, but in reality, when it comes time to retire your practice, transitioning it to the next, the value of your practice is mostly predicated on how large of a network you’ve built. By all accounts, it’s roughly 80%. A majority at the very least.
Every single interaction that produces a positive outcome, connection and build up in trust is value added on the backend.
Metcalfe’s Law can be partially applied to dental practice ownership. The law states that the value of a network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system (n2). Blah di blah di blabbety blah blah blah. Get to the freakin point Lam!
Ok ok ok. Back in the early days, if there are only 2 telephones, there could only be 1 connection made between. 5 telephones can create 10 connections. 12 telephones make 66 connections.
Courtesy of Wikipedia.com
Each active patient in your practice, is an additional node that potentially compounds the value of your practice. A growth and thriving mindset comes with understanding the leveraging effect Metcalfe’s Law has within your practice.
A bit more technical today, but I hope I didn’t over nerd the concept for teeth people.
Cheers,
Lam