Thousands of dentists attend courses each year to learn new clinical skills. However, these courses often don’t prepare dentists for the real world. While the theoretical skills are taught quite well, there is often a lack of practical experience offered. For example in a lot of dental implant courses the training is done on typodonts leading many dentists to travel overseas to gain experience at placing implants on real patients in Mexico, Dominican, etc.

We interview Dr. Ameen Al-Obaidi, a successful dentist with 4 practices in Ontario, and the lead instructor at High Tech Dental Seminars  to discuss his experience with cosmetic dentistry and what he has had to learn the hard way over the last decade.