baby dental care

My very cute patient this morning !!!!

So today is quite a hectic one since morning. I skip my pilates class and struggle in office already since 7am. My beautiful assistants had scheduled me a hectic morning. But great to have this little cutie pie in noon time.

And great that now I'm having 20 minutes break time to update my blog hahaha...

She had become my patient since she's 6 months old and look at her now.... very2 cute and smart in her 3yo age. I woof you so much Mibelle *kisses*

Kindly visit my instagram page @gigisehatdental for your dental tour - around, some dental tips, my services, or simply to stalk me hahaha...

dental assistants

If you are a dentist, and you are a clinic owner, more-likely you will struggle with your human resources : associates, dental hygienists, dental assistants, receptionists, helpers, etc. You will squeeze your brain out on HOW to manage them to make sure that they will fulfill your clinic's standard.

And believe me, struggling with Indonesian dental assistants is a nightmare. Especially if she is someone whom you picked up randomly from the street. I mean : no any dental assistant's educational background.
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One day I ever trained 3 new assistants. 1 candidate fainted after 5 patients in a row. 1 candidate didn't show up in next day without any further explanation. And another candidate gave me a call. Apologized that she didn't want to take this job with the most ridiculous reason I ever heard : "Doc, I can't stand on seeing saliva. For me, it's disgusting."
Oh, alright.... good to know. Because sometimes you will see blood too !

Well, it's just a clinical problem. Further more, I have to teach them too to :
1. Greet my patients. Friendly, nice, polite, and not too much.
2. Dress up. And put some make up. And to updo their hair.
3. To work fast. I just can't stand on slow people. Idiot will make it even worse.
4. Use smartphone. Nowadays, my patients are all smartphone-users. And it's more convenient to remind them through whatsapp / line / viber / email instead of giving them a shocking call while they were having an important meeting -let's said.
5. To schedule my patients -which is a very very tough thing to do. I train them to simulate and simulate everything related on scheduling appointment. Because it's the hardest. They know that I don't like if I must do 5 consultations in a row, or 3 surgeries in a row, etc.
6. To speak in english. And some patients are speaking chinese.

For these reasons, I prefer to hire someone who can fulfill my standard. And it's so hard to find in Indonesia. Especially if you must struggle with local human resources who have no ambitions. Haha, but my Singaporean, Malay, Thai, and Viet colleagues are also sighing the same thing about their assistants too. Same problems in every south east asia countries. Once we ever talked about it and we couldn't stop laughing on how desperate Phuong -one of my colleague from Vietnam-. He wanted to hire anyone except Viets because he couldn't tolerate the idiot level of his locals anymore.

"She cleaned impregum that hadn't set yet with my saliva ejector and it blocked off my dental unit."
"She scheduled a child patient with no emergency issue at 10.30pm."
"She gave a reminder call to my patient at 11pm for next week appointment. 3 times in a row !"

Alright, I agree. This one was awesomely idiot. You should kick her out, Phuong !

My senior assistants are good. Now. Ya, now I can sleep well because they can manage my schedule much way better. But I also found hard times too during their first year. Training someone who is totally blind in dentistry is a real tough job. They also can train my newbies now which can save up my time and energy.

But I had invested a lot of mind and energy previously. And it's not easy. Even until today, teaching them to speak in english fluently can me scratch my own skins. But I think, as long as they have a strong willing to learn and still in the tolerable level of idiotness, you can manage to train them.

And don't forget to give them rewards too. I make a routine appreciation team gathering twice in year  so they won't curse you as an evil boss.  Having holiday together with your team is important. Be a wise leader, life is short !

jakarta lecture confirmed

Jakarta lecture confirmed and I will prepare some of my difficult cases for that advanced lecture.

I can't wait!!!!!

First time after a year I will extend my visit for fun. So after lecture, I plan to visit several friends' clinics as they had invited me to drop by. And my lovely Elizt will assist me for cafe tour during my visit. Isn't it lovely???

The book has done!!!! Thanks for AZ and vietbitch for keep inspiring me. In summary, I write about relationship between men and women. I wish both of them can get a good psychiatrist in Vietnam so they wont get so obsessed on stalking me all the time. Ha! They're really my number #1 fans -so lovely, isn't it?

Let me read this out loud for you!

Girls, if someone leave you for someone else - believe me, he doesn't worth every single pieces of your heart, he's not worth your attention, or any feeling left. You can spread your wings and fly. Just like me, I raise up my carreer and I will publish my book. Yaaaayyyyy!!!!

And i will put my picture in the cover ! Full credit to Elise, my talented photographer. She nailed it!

new smile improvement

I give credit to Elise for taking this photo for me as a birthday gift. All of my colleagues proposed me to put this picture as our invisalign advertorial in our neonsign. 

Well.....

No way. Hahaha.....

But I love my new smile. And I consider to put this photo in japanese smile charity day which will be held by one of my best friends next month! Kawaii desu-ka!

invisalign G6 launching in bangkok

So I'm back !!! After Singapore, Bangkok, Jakarta in a row last week 'til yesterday, I land back to my pilates mat and of course.... my beloved clinic again. I will see you guys again on next lecture in Jakarta and masterclass in Hongkong shortly ! :)

I was attending Invisalign G6 launching in Bangkok last week. And it was a wrap !!! I am an invisalign dedicated dentist since 2009, and until today, there are A LOT of improvements in invisalign itself to treat patients. Last week I got half day city tour as well with a new friend from Bangkok -I will post it separately later.

This is it, some good memories from the site !

Meet up again with my beautiful roomate Dr. Hilly - can you believe that she will be 70 next year ???

Indonesian Invisalign delegates during exclusive dinner held by Fondaco. Thanks a lot Catherine and Fondaco !

Our limousine ! Spotted the colourful neons in our top. Feels like in Vegas - but fancier... And the colour is as 'dangdut' as tuktuk, hahahaha...

Having a mini reunion with Invisalign HK Immersion 1 - Dr. Aey from Thailand, Dr. Hilly from Indonesia, and Dr. Hong from Malaysia. Missed Dr. Dennis and all Singaporeans

With my ultrabusy manager of that day, Elizt !!! Thanks for everything my dearrrr :x

Capturing selfie in my hotel room - welcome to Sofitel Sumkhuvit Bangkok. Spent 2 days discussing cases with my roomate *ahem !* Yes, learning never stop, baby !

8 months with invisalign

So this is my current progress. 8 months with invisalign. Left one was me before. I am fully satisfied with the result. Now I'm working with my class II elastics and if you see carefully,  I have improved my upper lip now.

Ah yes, I was so ugly before ! My retroclined upper lip made me looked realllllllly old. Now, my upper lip muscle won't work so hard when I smile. See how fantastic this appliance and I wish I had started this treatment much much way earlier !

PS : if my ex saw this progress picture, I believe he will regret that he left me broken hearted before :))

PPS : i'm just kidding :p

just extract this d*mn tooth !

So yesterday, a senior chinese couple walked in to my clinic. They lady has become my patient already for several years. She accompanied her husband whom I have never treated before.

I will write in different posting on how you can manage chinese patients (chinese means : a really traditional chinese one - who will never even say hello to you until one day all the teeth are shaking and ready to be extracted are having some problems.

Once he stepped in, he mentioned out loud already : "i want you to extract this tooth. Its shaking."
He pointed on lower left canine. It got 3' mobility. Easy peasy case. But....

As a normal procedure, I recommend him to check for everything first : sugar blood, blood pressure, etc. And as i had guessed, he rejected.

"Can you just go straight pull out this tooth?"

"You are so lousy. My previous dentist always pull out my teeth without this and that procedures."

"I'm very healthy! Can you see that? Never have headache, high blood pressure, high blood sugar."

"CAN YOU JUST PULL OUT THIS D*MN TOOTH OUT ???"

Telling you the truth,  some practical-mind-concept of asians is the worst thing that you can see if you do dental practice in south east asia. They dont mind -and even suggest you - to skip all the standard procedures and go straight the point. Some patients will bring their chipped tooth and ask you to GLUE it back. And theyre really mean it. I know that patients are our customers. But hey, who is the dentist here? I have the knowledge. But it will be complicated if you meet some kind of stubborn chinese patients. They will shit your knowledge and want everything to meet their demand. 

And even worse if your appearance is young. Or younger than them. 

I didnt argue more. I asked my nurse to check on his blood pressure. And its turned out he got 220/150 mmHg.

Great! Once i put injection, he can be either get shocked or stroke.

"You see doc, Im very healthy. Never been sick. Never taken any medicine. And im drinking beer. So what ????"

I am fully understand that this kind of people always feel healthy. How do they know? They have never checked it up before. Once i told him that he got a high blood pressure, he didnt even get scared or what. 

"Oh i don't believe that. I never had a high blood pressure. I even never had a headache!"

In end I postponed the extraction and asked him to take the HBP medicament before proceeding the extraction. And newest info I got from my nurse, he cancel our next week appointment because he had extracted that tooth by HIMSELF last night. 

a life-changing smile

This can be the reason of why i love my invisalign treatment so much ! The closing-bite is perfect! And before i am having my mid course correction, I put no class 2 elastics for my own case. Which means that all the aligners were well-tracked !

I really love my bite now. Plan to put class 2 elastics on my MCC, and cant wait for the result. Guess what? This is life changing ! Well, you can invest on branded stuffs, but have you ever thought to invest on you? On your health? I meet a lot of well fashioned people, but when they smile and it looked awful, I felt so pity of them. Since i had learned a lot about facial profile and optimized occlusion,  I pay a lot of attentions to finish all of my patients cases perfectly. I will push myself into my limit and serve them my best.

And this is something that i will do til the rest of my life. I will treat everybody as if its my own teeth. And that is what im doing now...

7 months with invisalign

7 months already with invisalign !!! Can you say already that my smile has improved a lot ??

Here is the resume I wanna share with you all !

My before and progress pictures

The hard work was really paid off when I see the results now. I wish I had done this treatment earlier. I was being analyzed by other colleagues in every symposiums, in every meetings, on how bad my open bite was. And now, they saw a very good improvement from my occlusion and profile - which is great ! Thank you for keep encouraging and supporting me to treat my challenging case!

hello again, hongkong !

Very tight schedule with lecture and patients appointments in this month. Glad to have a short lecture trip to Hongkong again. Pardon my tired bare face.

I was having invisalign study club in my east office yesterday. Will upload some pics later !

hongkong invisalign immersion course 13-15 may 2015

Hongkong at night

More photos will come ! Strolling around Hongkong with great dentists-colleagues. Dentists from HK, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and my roomate Dr. Hilly from Indonesia are coming along ! Will upload more soon :) Stay tuned !

5 months with invisalign

This photo in the left was taken exactly 5 months ago when i was attending prime speak lecture in Singapore, 1 day before I started my invisalign treatment. And today, i take a selfie before work this morning. I cant believe that my new smile in progress looked very good. Even better than i had expected !!!!

I suppose to do this earlier - really !! I was so busy taking care of my patients and kept postponing my own case. Even i had sent the impression a year ago ! OMG !!!

I am still on my way to my beautiful smile. Great thing is, I did my own case in my own. Hahahaha... so great, isnt it? I have done hundred of patients to give them their beautiful smile. And now, my turn ! Thats also one advantage of being a passionate dentist : you can treat yourself ! Passionately !

tres surpris !

Got this lovely surprise from maman Andree and papa Christian !!!!!!!!  Merci beaucoup maman et papa. Jet aime beaucoup. Gros bissous !!!

And since they will come to Surabaya next month, think I should improve my francais religiously.

Anyway, yesterday I got a very lovely-cute client named Chloe. You know, I can't resist on cute things !!!

Ohhhhh my goodnesss....... she is a real sweetheart !!!!

 

 

And I can't stop complimenting her mom on how cute and beautiful she was ! Kids are interesting for me, while for others, they are nightmares. Well said and done as dentist, I love to treat kiddos... Their small teeth, cute smile, beautiful ! And I'm crazy about profiles too. So, don't get surprised if I'm analyzing your teeth and smile.

Should prepare for my clinic's outing. This year we will go tooooooooo..... Central Java. Wo-ho-hoooo..... I had rent a big bus so all of my staffs can get their family along. Borobudur, here we come !!! Also should prepare for Hongkong immersion course. Can't wait as Dr. Yau is one of best invisalign providers in Hongkong. And I should hail invisalign's inventors for this very wonderful appliances ! It can work well for some cases which traditional braces can't treat.... And I must say that I love this appliance so much. It can reduce my backpain as I'm spending most of my time in clinic.

And last but not least, I will held a pizza party in clinic on May 23rd. A special compliment for my all invisalign patients and all patients in general. Stay tuned for further info !

Couldn't thank enough for every blessings in my life as I have met great and kind patients and people around.... Thank you for giving sweet compliments to my treatments. It's all because of God's will that I meet nice people and ditch me from bad people. Thank you, God.

Have a great day, people !

i have a chin !

I'm so happy with my invisalign progress ! Can't be happier that I can treat myself so now I can have a chin !!! A real chin. I should do invisalign to myself earlier, really.... But I'm too busy with my patients, then I don't even have time for myself.

I've done 4 months already and now I can smile with a chin ! Wo-ho-hooooooooo.... I feel blessed that I am a dentist. And I'm so crazy about face profile. So here I am.... tradaaaaaa...

beach-hopper

Hello people ! Today is public holiday and it's definitely a perfect day forrrrrr BEACH !!!! I'm a beach hopper and today I visit the most breathtaking beautiful beach I ever seen. In my life.

It's definitely an awesome one. This one was taken with my pocket camera, with my poor ability as an amateur photographer hahaha ! But I'm still amazed that everything was nicely framed just like a paint ! You get the blue sky, the white sand, the aqua-turquoise sea with the white waves. When you see, you will believe. This one is the most beautiful beach I ever seen. With the most breathtaking waves I ever seen. And no, it's not in Maldives. It's not even in Bali. It's in Malang, the south part of East Java - INDONESIA. Will take 5 hours driving from Surabaya and the access to get there is not that lovely since you have to pass a real-trekking-route. BUT.... this will definitely paid off. You won't regret for every single scenery in front of your eyes.

Place : Goa Cina Beach / Chinese Cave Beach
Entrance fee : 5,000 IDR (around 0.3 USD) / car
7,000 IDR (around 0.5 USD) / person

The other side of Goa Cina Beach. So, in English.... rough translation, "Goa Cina" means "chinese cave". You will see a big cave where there was a chinese monk used to live there.  This legend was written in one signboard nearby.

The wave was real strong and beautiful. You won't believe your own eyes !!

I love beach. This one even more beautiful than any other beaches I ever known ! Sadly, no colourful corals or fishes here. But you will find more in Ngliyep beach. 

I will post it in different posting later on !

So this is the legend !! The chinese man in that cave named Hing Hok,

Another beautiful beach to hop ! Welcome to Ungapan Beach. The wave was dark brown and so was the sand. But still you can't catch the silence of this beach. FYI, these beaches are not still so popular among Indonesians, so you can taste the feel of private beach!!

Bajulmati Beach. As legend told, this beach was used to be a big swamp full of crocodiles. Bajul -crocodiles ; mati - died. The sand was dark and sooooo soft in your feet !

No need to go to heaven. The heaven is here, baby !
Place : Ungapan Beach and Bajulmati Beach (0.5 km)
Entrance fee : 5,000 IDR (around 0.3 USD) / car
5,000 IDR (around 0.3 USD) / person

Coconut trees !!! Who wants coconut ? The price for 1 fresh young coconut is only 0.3-0.4 USD !!!!

This one is also my favourite. Batu Bengkung beach !! As its name, you will see a lot of stones here, combine with beautiful searocks and waves. You just sit here and relax, since nobody was there ! You wanna own your own beach, buddy ??

Actually this beach is not as big as those previous beaches. But this place is so private and calm. You can hear the sound of waves very clear, with the sun soaked up on your skin. Just lovely !

Have a great day, people !!!