Dentistry Is Breaking Dentists
Dr Bazgah Siddique
Founder, Riverside Dental Wellness
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About this episode
Dentistry looks like a safe, respected career. Dr Bazgah Siddique, founder of Riverside Dental Wellness, went on the record to say what the profession keeps quiet: it is breaking the people inside it, and it is doing it silently.
The surveys are stark. British Dental Association and British Dental Journal research finds 55% of dentists report high job stress, 44% say the stress now exceeds their ability to cope, 80% no longer rate their morale as high, and 17.6% have had serious thoughts of suicide. This is not a few people having a hard week. It is a profession under strain.
In this conversation we get into the golden handcuff of a job that only pays while your hands are on the patient, why dentists carry the blame for biology they never controlled, and what a healthier way to practise could actually look like. It is an honest, sometimes heavy conversation, and an important one.
In this conversation
- Why the dental profession is breaking silently, and the survey numbers behind it
- 55% high job stress, 44% past their ability to cope, 80% with morale gone (BDA and BDJ surveys)
- The golden handcuff: why dentistry only pays while your hands are on the patient
- “You cannot control the biology of the patient.” Why dentists carry blame that was never theirs
- The perfectionism and single-handed responsibility that quietly wear dentists down
- What Riverside Dental Wellness is trying to build instead
- Practical ways to protect your mind without leaving the chair
- Why saying this out loud is the first step to changing it
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