Why do you say a dentist must be a painless dentist before anything else? Because pain is the one thing that quietly undoes all your other work. You can have flawless advertising, a great location, and a polished case presentation, and none of it survives a patient who leaves your chair hurting. People do not return to someone who inflicts pain on them, and they tell others. In this day and age there is genuinely no reason not to be painless, the techniques and tools exist. Notice that this is not about changing how you work clinically in some grand way, [...]