What time of day should I do complex treatment planning?
Early. Move it to the front of your day and batch it together. Treatment planning a big implant case is one of the most cognitively expensive things you do, and your brain runs out of good judgment the same way a muscle runs out of strength. By late afternoon you are not the same clinician you were at 9am. You start cutting corners, simplifying plans you should not simplify, and reaching for the easy answer instead of the right one. That is not laziness, it is fatigue, and it costs your patient. So group all your planning into one block while you are fresh, get into planning mode, and stay there. Late in the day, late at night, you do neither yourself nor the patient any favors.
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