Supporting your dental team through a pandemic

Shaz Memon explains how to keep on top of a crisis.

Self-doubt is a destructive mechanism that undermines the best of us and can interfere with the inner workings of a team very quickly. Like a deck of cards, it only takes one person to feel wrong-footed for practice systems to collapse.

One suspects many of us have had a crisis of confidence in the past months. Coronavirus has brought with it waves of unpredictability, numerous lockdowns and restrictions, and peaks of anxiety for dental teams and their patients. Few will have escaped its impact and, whilst deep sympathy goes out to those whose have lost loved ones to Covid-19, suffered weeks of ill health or waved goodbye to jobs amidst this pandemic, there is work to be done in ensuring those in dentistry remain confident in delivering the best in dental care.

With this latest lockdown, our quiet hope for a better year may have been muted further with troubled minds aplenty, leaving teams at risk of destabilised confidence.