Experience

More and more with every day. Patients often think – or perhaps just hope – that the doctor is trying to be empathic. In terms of orthodontics, I am far beyond the expression ‘the hangman is being hanged’. So far, during all my double-digit decades (teenage, 20’s, 30’s) I had some tooth alignment, for a total of five years. Therefore, when I enlighten patients about the possible risks and side effects, it is not just me talking from my studies, but also about my not too distant memories. In the picture those are really my casts to be seen from the age of 16 and 18, and from 26 when I was already a dentist – and the result beyond 30. At least on the upper jaw, the lower one is only half-ready.