Oct 5, 2026 · 36 min · 10 segments
What does it actually take to become a better clinician? In this episode of Your Dental Besties, Claire and Ben are joined by dental therapist Laura Bailey for a very honest conversation about the…
But one thing that really stood out for me, and it's something that I've had in the back of my head since, is when we were working by the poolside.
before going to the conference um you were doing jazz's course all about occlusion and i remember you saying like you had 30 hours or something of occlusion that you had to get through before the course started what the actual hell firstly is the course done have you done it
hours
I'd left it right to the last minute, right? So I had four days to get it done.
I did it about, I think it was a month and a half ago and it was just mind blowing.
Like I learned so much in the pre-course material, but actually being there, it just opens your world up.
And you think, as I said earlier, You don't realize what you don't know until you keep learning.
And it does make me want to go back, you know, 10 years and redo a lot of work, to
be honest.
your evolution as a clinician, though.
I think one thing, like with occlusion, when you said that you were doing it, I was like, my God, like I'd done occlusion at uni.
And it was like articulators, shimstocks.
I'll take paper, stuff like that.
But since then, honestly, I haven't done any CPD on occlusion.
And I think it's probably one of the biggest things that's not omitted because we do touch on it, but I don't think we touch on it enough.
And when I launched my course Therapist Unlocked, the composite course, one of the biggest things for me, and it's why I did Jazz's course, was I don't think...
Therapists should be doing restorative work without having a much better understanding of occlusion because it literally is the fundamentals.
But one thing that really stood out for me, and it's something that I've had in the back of my head since, is when we were working by the poolside.
before going to the conference um you were doing jazz's course all about occlusion and i remember you saying like you had 30 hours or something of occlusion that you had to get through before the course started what the actual hell firstly is the course done have you done it
hours
I'd left it right to the last minute, right? So I had four days to get it done.
I did it about, I think it was a month and a half ago and it was just mind blowing.
Like I learned so much in the pre-course material, but actually being there, it just opens your world up.
And you think, as I said earlier, You don't realize what you don't know until you keep learning.
And it does make me want to go back, you know, 10 years and redo a lot of work, to
be honest.
your evolution as a clinician, though.
I think one thing, like with occlusion, when you said that you were doing it, I was like, my God, like I'd done occlusion at uni.
And it was like articulators, shimstocks.
I'll take paper, stuff like that.
But since then, honestly, I haven't done any CPD on occlusion.
And I think it's probably one of the biggest things that's not omitted because we do touch on it, but I don't think we touch on it enough.
And when I launched my course Therapist Unlocked, the composite course, one of the biggest things for me, and it's why I did Jazz's course, was I don't think...
Therapists should be doing restorative work without having a much better understanding of occlusion because it literally is the fundamentals.
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