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Update

It has been a turbulent year from my end. Lots of changes at work as earlier in the year, the principal dentist and my mentor at the practice I started at suddenly passed away. I stayed on to help the transition after this but have now become the main practitioner at this practice. After building the practice for over 30 years, there was a significant and loyal patient base with a large amount of complex prosthodontic and implant work. As a result, there is a lot of complex work for me to maintain and inevitably a lot of complications and periimplantitis. Luckily we have arranged for an experienced dentist to come by once or twice a month to take over the larger, more complex cases but I am getting a lot of pressure from the practice to be able to tackle cases beyond my experience. I am trying to quickly upskill to be able to manage some of the more difficult implant and pros cases but it is a very fine line between pushing my boundaries and getting out of my depth.  I have started som