Dr. Katie To says dentists can't bring wellness to their practice without it first. Start with your own energy: move your body regularly, stay fit, and show up present for patients and your team instead of arriving home depleted.
So, Dr. Katie, there's a lot of people out there interested in wellness and maybe considering a wellness dentist, and they're not sure if really this is the thing for them. What kind of advice would you give them to help them make a decision?
That's simple. Wellness starts with you. If you're not sure what you implement in your practice, just start wellness with you. And wellness for us is energy. So how you show up in your practice, how you show up to your patient exam, how you show up, you know, when you get home from work, because it's so easy to give our 100% to our patient and our team. And then when we go home, we have nothing left. So wellness is not just what you implement for your patient. If you are starting on this wellness journey yourself and you're a dentist, just implement wellness in your life. And when people are like, but I don't know what to do first, and I'm like, physical, get fit, get moving. That's what helps you have more energy.
