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Dentistry One Step at a Time w/ Dr. Tara Aboumahboub
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Dr. Tara Aboumahboub and I talk about her journey in an associateship practice and how it has brought her mentorship and growth as a new dentist. Dr. Tara and I are both members of the IgniteDDS family, which provides excellent CE and clinical guidance for new and old dentists alike.
Dr. Tara Aboumahboub was born and raised in South Florida. She received her Bachelor’s degree in biotechnology and a minor in nutrition from the University of Florida. Prior to dental school, she spent several years in the immunology lab at the University of Florida College of Dentistry. She then completed her dental training in Boston at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, having achieved the highest level of clinical competency and success.
Today, Dr. Tara is caring for patients in private practice as a general dentist in Cincinnati, OH and runs her social media page, Dentara, to help patients build confidence in their smile and overall health. She is also a member of the Ohio Dental Society and is proudly a constituent of the IgniteDDS family. Dr. Tara continues to grow professionally and personally as she navigates the various opportunities the dental field has graciously brought forth.
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Introduction to the Podcast
00:00:04
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Welcome to New Dentists on the Block, a podcast featuring new dentists sharing their experiences in the world of dentistry. Successes, challenges, and life in between, navigating dentistry together one experience at a
Dr. Tara Abumabab's Background & Education
00:00:18
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time. Dr. Tara Abumabab was born and raised in South Florida. She received her bachelor's degree in biotechnology and a minor in nutrition from the University of Florida. Prior to dental school, she spent several years in the immunology lab at the University of Florida College of Dentistry.
00:00:33
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She then completed her dental training in Boston at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, having achieved the highest level of clinical competency and success. During her training, Dr. Tara treated patients with a multitude of backgrounds and medical complexities. She traveled and trained internationally, where she developed a deep understanding of healthcare disparities and recognized the opportunity to provide care
Dentistry Practice in Cincinnati & Social Media Role
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for her community.
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Today, Dr. Tara is caring for patients in a private practice as a general dentist in Cincinnati, Ohio, and runs her social media page, Dent Tara, to help patients build confidence in their smile and overall health. She is also a member of the Ohio Dental Society and proudly a constituent of the Ignite DDS family. Dr. Tara continues to grow professionally and personally as she navigates the various opportunities the dental field has graciously brought forth.
00:01:20
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Dr. Tara and I are good friends and members of the Ignite DDS family, and I'm so excited for you to listen to this episode where she shares a little bit about practicing in the private practice where she's at in Cincinnati. Let's get to it.
00:01:35
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Tara Abumabab, how are you doing today? Welcome to New Dennis on the Block. I am so good. I'm so pumped to be hanging out with you. Oh, it's always an exciting time for me to have the opportunity to hang out with you and talk to you and learn a little bit more about your life. And Tommy, how's your week going? It's going. I mean, we're just barely starting on the beginning of the week. So I feel like I always say it starts good and then I'm scared to see how it's going to end. It's been a great week so far.
00:02:04
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I love to hear it. I love to hear it. Tara, I would love if you would tell our listeners a little bit about your background.
Relocation and Climate Adjustment
00:02:09
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Sure. Yeah. So I am a pretty recent grad. I graduated in 21 from dental school. I'm a Florida born and raised. I love to bring that up because I love my home state. And I went to Tufts University for my dental school undergrad at University of Florida and then made my way over to Cincinnati when my fiancee got accepted into a
00:02:34
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OMS program out here. In very much colder setting in comparison to Florida. Definitely, definitely. I feel like it's always a main topic for me because it's all I can think about physically, but it's definitely not as cold as Boston, but it's definitely cold. Yeah, I can't do that. I love the cold. Is it? Yeah, we are 62 here, so it's a little bit colder. Yesterday we were in the 70s, but that's pretty crazy.
00:03:03
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Tara, I know that a lot of what your future was looking like when you were in dental school really depended on where your now fiance was going for residency.
Decision Against Further Residency
00:03:12
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But could you talk a little bit about how you chose not to do an AGD or GPR or another residency along those lines? Sure. I think our generation especially,
00:03:26
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They've had a little bit of a different experience. I mean, one with just the changes in technology, but two with COVID. My class, unfortunately, missed out a lot on their clinical experiences. So a lot of my classmates were looking into all of a sudden, you know, all of a sudden, residencies were like a optional thing. And then I felt like everyone felt like it was a requirement because, you know, we didn't get the full training that we had been promised and hoped for because it's just something really crazy.
00:03:54
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But at the time, I mean, like you said, a lot of it did depend on what my fiance was doing. And I'd like to think that I'm misindependent and I would never move somewhere for someone. But it was really just to start my life. And if I have to be honest, I was lucky because at Tufts, I had a very privileged clinical experience.
00:04:14
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I felt like even if I didn't get the hands-on portion physically, that clinically and conceptually, I had a really broad understanding of what needed to be executed, I may not have been fast enough. But I think that no matter how much training you get, until you do, you don't get it. And you don't really pick up on that speed. I think the first six months out of school, regardless of where you are in your life,
00:04:41
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is a huge learning curve. So at that point in my start of my career, I got lucky because I felt like I'd found an office that was going to train me well enough and I felt like I would be okay. Was it ideal? Could I have gotten more training? Absolutely. But I still think that
00:05:02
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I felt confident in my own personality and my social skills to kind of, I know people hate it when I say fake it till you make it, but really that is a big part of it. You're faking it till you really understand what's going on, till you know how to do exams and so on and so forth. So that's like the basis of how I decided, okay, I'm not going to give in.
00:05:22
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Tara, for you, for moving to Tufts to a city that you've never lived in, how was that for you in the sense that you were doing a job search in an area that you really didn't know anything about? That is the hardest part. I think it's nerve wracking, right? Even when you start a new anything, new school, new city, new anything, I remember moving to Boston and being scared and losing weight because I didn't know anyone so I wouldn't go out and eat anything and whatever.
00:05:53
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Honestly, social media has played a huge, huge role in my life, and I think that a lot of times people will roll their eyes as soon as they hear the word social media. It's like a trigger word for people now. It is. It totally is for me, too.
00:06:09
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Um, it's such a strong piece of today's society and it can be amplified in so many ways, like not just in the social aspect of it. It's, it's basically the
00:06:23
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expedited LinkedIn or the, you know, and there's different platforms and different places that you can search, but for me it was, okay, well, I don't know anyone. I just know like a few people, friends of friends who know a little bit about Cincinnati and that was it. So I really got on to social media and I just started slowly tagging, you know, putting kind of hashtag Cincinnati dentist in my posts and then
00:06:48
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finding dentists online and through Google and through and seeing who had good reviews because it's not just the patients who look, you know, it's the future associates who look. And then slowly just started introducing myself to some of the dentists until I found an office that I thought really fit my personality and fit my goals for my first few years out.
00:07:12
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I love that. I think that that's such a smart way to go about that. I feel like a lot of people put feelers out in a different way, but you kind of looking through the reviews and looking through social media was a great way for you to be guided to the right place.
Team Dynamics and Mentorship
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And being in the group practice that you're in now, I feel like from what I see from the outside looking in, the way that you all collaborate and mesh together is absolutely phenomenal. How do you feel now that you have found this practice that you're working at?
00:07:41
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I love the people I work with and I'm very privileged because it's not just that we get to do the fun stuff at work and we're always joking around and learning from each other, but we really do.
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do good dentistry. Like I really respect the fact that we're on top of each other about stuff. And it's like, it's funny. You'll, we'll be in the office and somebody will, one of the doctors will ask me about a patient that I saw earlier and I'm like, how'd you know I saw that person? But it's, it's because
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We're constantly trying to learn from each other and learn and develop and say, oh, what would you do in this case? I'm still a new dentist. There's still so much I don't understand and so much that I do that I'm perfecting maybe or developing. The dynamics in our office are really fun.
00:08:35
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We do really, really have a good time. We try not to take things outside of the clinical perspective and healthcare perspective too seriously. And I think it creates a good culture for the patients too. I think that they can really tell we have a great time and they can hear us like laughing in the hallways. So I feel very, very blessed to begin my career in such a beautiful place.
00:09:00
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I love how you mentioned earlier, the fake it till you make it. And, you know, going back to dentistry, dental school, I just can't believe that that's something that we have to kind of go through. I thought that before dental school going into dental school, I would come out and I would know everything. And truly, we all know that that's not the case.
00:09:16
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But that fake it till you make it mentality is so huge, but I think with that mentorship and guidance kind of goes along with it as well. How have you felt that going into this practice you have been guided and mentored by those that you work with?
00:09:31
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Oh my gosh. Yeah. And I hope anyone listening to this doesn't think that we just clinically don't know what we're doing. We just fake it. That's not the part we're talking about. But the great thing in my office is that each doctor kind of has a different level of expertise or a certain genre of dentistry that they really respect and are passionate about.
00:09:55
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Um, and so the cool thing about that is, well, you know, even like, you know, the head honcho, um, knows that I'm the more recent grad and maybe I've developed skills in it from dental school or read studies more recently. And, you know, we'll have discussions about that. Um, you know, sometimes at lunchtime I'll pop into his office and just say, Hey, this is how I handled this case. Like, what do you think, or what would you have done different? Um,
00:10:23
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And then the stages in the middle of that is we have a doctor who's just a year ahead of me and then one that's maybe five to seven years out and he's got his own skill set and he loves surgery. So I learned a lot from him about surgery. And I mean,
00:10:42
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I think to some degree what you learn when you work with other people, which is why I really, really recommend working in a group practice, especially straight out, is that you have this opportunity to constantly be able to ask questions. And not because you don't know, but because there's not one way to do dentistry. And if you ever think that there is, you're probably just
00:11:06
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really passionate about what you do and that's wonderful but you have to not be naive and know that there's more than one way. And so when you have that mindset, when you're willing to learn something more, that's when you start to grow and develop better relationships with your mentors and those mentors end up becoming more like colleagues the more you learn from them and that's a great way to grow. Very well said. In your practice, are there currently specialists that you all work with?
00:11:37
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We definitely work with specialists so they don't necessarily come to our office.
00:11:43
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We know our limits in the office, and I think that that's a really important thing too. We might touch a little bit on endo, we might touch a little bit on surgery, and definitely some of the senior docs like to do all our next cases, and that's all great. But there's a little limit to that. And so yeah, we definitely have a really, really good relationship. And if you're somebody who's a specialist,
00:12:09
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looking to grow your practice, I think the best thing, the best specialists I've met are the ones who have taken the time to meet me. And then I feel better about sending them. So we do have really good relationships with the people around us. And, you know, sometimes you get into something, you think it's going to be easy and it's not. And sometimes you need, you know, an adodontist to kind of bail you out on this super hard endos. You're not going the way you thought. So, you know, relationships with specialists are really important.
Collaboration with Specialists
00:12:39
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Shoot, I need all Endodontists to bail me out of Endo. I am not a fan. I'm not an Endo girl either. I thought I was when it's a plastic tooth in school. You're like, oh, I could do this. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you can see the tooth outside of the mouth. But then it's like this Endodontists are special. They're special human beings for sure.
00:12:57
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I think that's another great part of being in a group practice, especially in a city that maybe you're not familiar with is that you get connections and introduced to other dentists and other specialists in the area, which is great because you'll be able to have this skill set depending on where you end up after this time, after your fiance graduates and say you move back to Florida, but you'll be able to build the skill set from a group of dentists and specialists that have guided you at this point in your career that you'll be able to take to a new setting.
00:13:26
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Oh, definitely. I couldn't agree more. I think that'll be a fun new adventure. I guess I'll have to start over. Maybe we'll do a TikTok this time when I do my job search. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. If you all aren't following Tara on social media, you absolutely need to, one, to see all the cool things that she is doing in her practice and how much fun and camaraderie they have.
00:13:47
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as a group practice and the Sock Fridays, is it? Yeah, we do Sock Fridays. Sock Fridays. Yep, you're right. Yeah, super, super fun. But also all the things that she's doing in social media and absolutely killing it. And I can't wait to see what that future for you in social media would look like.
00:14:03
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Thanks, Tanya. I mean, for all the listeners, Tanya and I met what now? A couple of years ago, I guess over Zoom a bunch of times and then finally met in person. I mean, you've become beyond just a friend to me, but really someone I look up to. I'm so motivated. Every time I hang out with you, I'm like, I'm going to start that project I told Tanya that I was going to do.
00:14:28
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I love that you're doing this podcast. I think you really get me all fired up about life in dentistry and just life outside of what we do every day. I appreciate you. Tara, thank you so much for those kind words. The feeling is mutual. I am such a big fan and we've had opportunities to hang out and enjoy life together and experience CE together. It has been
00:14:52
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So fun and I'm so glad that Ignite DDS brought us together to be able to do that. But talking about that experience where we first met, I can remember when we did, you were coming out of dental school and you were so nervous to start practicing dentistry and to start in a practice that you kind of questioned. You didn't really know what was to come. How do you feel now kind of looking back in retrospect about how you were feeling then?
Patient Understanding & Imposter Syndrome
00:15:17
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I, you know, maybe I'm tooting my own horn, but I am really proud of myself. I think, uh, I've definitely come a long way. Um, it's so funny. I can, I'm almost like annoyed by myself or like the way I was acting when I first graduated because I was, I really was nervous. And I was freaking out. Um, because again, so many of my friends were doing residency programs and I was having imposter syndrome, like times 400. Um, but.
00:15:46
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I think if you just can step back sometimes, I get in these moments where I'm like, oh, I need to keep growing. If I had to look back and know why I've grown so much, I think that I now understand patients a lot better. As a dentist, you take care of your teeth, you sit in the chair, there's usually not that much going on for you so that you don't get that same experience as a patient because of the exposure.
00:16:14
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But I think that's what's made me a better dentist is understanding patients better and knowing the outcomes of certain things. We all want to save teeth all the time and we want to do all these great things, but you also got to understand the person, their background, who they are. Am I going to only see them in this one time or will they come back to me? Depending on that one, that treatment might change because of that.
00:16:40
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And so if I had to tell me two years ago how to feel and what's going to happen, I would tell myself, like, spend time understanding people better. And that in itself will make you a way better dentist. Not to say I'm, who knows, maybe my patients hate me, but I feel like as a person, I have grown a ton because I have taken the time to understand people.
00:17:07
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That's huge advice. You know, I would hope that every dentist out there really strives to be the best dentist they can be, but it really comes down to patient relationships, having conversations and being open with your patient. And even when things go south, I think that you will find that if you treat your patients right, if you welcome them and make them feel welcomed in your practice, they will probably be very understanding when things go south.
00:17:32
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and be willing for you to try something new on them. I have found that here in public health. I'm kind of the only one that they really can turn to, but they could choose to stop coming if they would like, but that patient-doctor relationship is so huge and learning to speak to patients and being empathetic, I think, can really take you a long way. Definitely. You said it perfectly.
Balancing Professional and Personal Life
00:17:55
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Tara, what do you think your future will hold after you are done in the realm of Cincinnati?
00:18:02
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I, it's so funny you bring this up. I have been rocking my brain. I really want, this is going to sound so corny, but I'm just going to go out and say it on the record forever for the internet. That's right. That's what I'm looking for. That's what this is, right? Blackmail.
00:18:18
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But I really want to do it all. I was very recently having a conversation with someone about how I feel like you have to choose between whether you want to be like a really good clinician or do you want to be like a really good
00:18:34
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like family person or do you want to be a really good businesswoman or a speaker, whatever it is. And I think that if you find a balance, which I have not found yet, but I think that I'm capable of finding that balance. So I'd love to one day open up my own practice and still have time to do talks and travel and meet people and still have time to have a family.
00:19:00
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And, you know, I don't know, maybe someone's listening to this laughing and saying good luck, but if I can be that person and develop that kind of future for myself, I think that me now will be really proud of that person. So that's what I'm striving for. I try not to compete with other people and I think it's true that you're kind of competing with the old version of yourself always. So future me, hopefully I'll be watching this and be like, see, you did it, girl.
00:19:29
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And I know me and you we got this this I feel like we've talked about this so many times like there's just so much more to tap into and so my my goals are hopefully I'll be back in Florida and some flip-flops and shorts right belong. But whatever that future holds I just hope that I can find a really beautiful balance between you know being the career woman the business woman and the family woman that I really want to be.
00:19:57
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I have no doubts that you will accomplish that and I can't wait to see what the future brings for you. And I think that the profession gives us that flexibility to be able to do it all. I think times are changing and have changed maybe in the last 20 years or so where, you know, women can do it all. Women can balance their practice. They can balance their family life.
00:20:17
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and they can do more than that. We see some stellar practicing clinicians who are doing it all. They have their own practice, they travel around the world, they're speaking, they're sharing their knowledge and their passion with others. And I can definitely see you doing that, Taro, for sure. And I hope that others who are listening will also feel inspired to join a similar journey because if you're passionate about it, you can definitely fulfill it and we can't wait to see what you do in the world. Thank you. I really
Becoming a Figs Ambassador
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appreciate that.
00:20:44
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In your growth, Tara, I have seen you, you know, we mentioned and talked a little bit about your growth in social media, but I have seen you grow and explode on TikTok, on Instagram, but you are also a Figs ambassador. Can you tell our listeners, because I know a lot of people are Figs fans, how that came to be and what you're doing for them?
00:21:05
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I have to say on Instagram and social media in general, a lot of companies are going to reach out to you at a lot of companies. If you're active and it doesn't matter if you have 10 followers or 500,000 followers, I think that if you're yourself, you're going to find a lot of people are going to want to work with you. I find that I've become very selective about who I'm willing to work with, not because
00:21:34
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I'm anyone like impressive or anything like that, but because I value
00:21:41
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both as a healthcare professional and just as a person, I really value good companies and companies that serve a purpose. And man, let me just say, figs, they're good people. They're just overall, I mean, we've had retreats with them and things like that, and you get to know the people who work and are a part of figs, and it really is as genuine
00:22:06
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And it's crazy because the company is not as big as you would think like I would think that there's like five million people doing like this whole production but the core people like you will get to know and so I mean it was plain and simple like yeah you can always apply for ambassador programs and do stuff like that.
00:22:25
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But plain and simple, I think that companies like figs are looking for people with a genuine story and not because it's like some like heroic anything, but because they're just naturally themselves and they're willing to
00:22:41
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show that to the world. And so, yeah, they approached me and and then I had a conversation and it was it's just been a beautiful, beautiful journey. I have met some really cool people because of them. I think that's the greatest thing I've gotten out of it. It's not because Instagram and all the perks and the scrubs and yes, those are amazing. I'm very blessed. But it's like every ambassador there is hand selected.
00:23:10
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And when you meet them, you know why. And so I'm sure there's some really amazing people that would be incredible ambassadors, and maybe one day they will be. But it's just like this very unique experience. I don't know. I get so passionate about it. I really love Figs. I think if there's any company that deserves a positive reputation, it's them.
00:23:35
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Yeah, I can remember a few years ago when in dental school when I was an asset, when we had annual session in California, we had an opportunity to go to the headquarters, and I was ready for this like, you know, 10 story building a ton of people working on it.
00:23:51
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And at the time, I guess they were a lot smaller, maybe just beginning. And they were literally just one floor. And everyone worked on the same floor. Maybe it was two. And everyone had camaraderie. Everyone was collaborating. And it was so cool to see that humbleness and those ideas brewing and coming to life. And that made me so excited to see that company launch from that point to now and continue to do amazing things. And their philanthropy is huge. Unreal.
00:24:21
Speaker
What I'm really hearing in your message here on top of Figs is amazing and the community they've created is amazing is that sense of finding a group and finding that community that you can relate to and people that you can talk to, whether it's in dentistry or outside of dentistry that can kind of help support you through different phases of life.
Combating Loneliness in Dentistry
00:24:40
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Definitely.
00:24:43
Speaker
That is the same idea of sitting and meeting patients and developing those relationships. You get that same purpose outside and it motivates you. It gets you thinking. It gets you developing and growing and motivated to do things that you're passionate about. I mean, there's going to be someone that, I mean, me and you have already had that experience multiple times where it's like, I'll talk to you about something. You're like, oh, that's so funny. I was thinking about this. Like, this might be great for you. And then, you know, hopefully I have a great idea for you.
00:25:13
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I don't know, it creates this culture for yourself that's not like in the four walls that you might exist in day to day. It creates like a culture around you of forward thinking people. And yeah, I think you said it even better that it really is just an opportunity to have a wonderful community and network and not just in a business sense, but is in a personal way too.
00:25:43
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Yeah, I think that our listeners will find a lot of growth in communities that they will form, again, both in and outside of dentistry because dentistry can be very, very difficult. It's difficult to practice. It's straining on the body. It's hard. There's so much knowledge out there. There's a lot of imposter syndrome that exists.
00:26:00
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But finding that group that you can turn to during those times, I think is really, really key. There's a lot of loneliness in dentistry as well, too. And so I think that if you can resort to finding groups that can lift you up, I think that that's really, really awesome. And hopefully that you and I, Tara, can do that for others as I feel uplifted by you, by all that you do in our friendship. Definitely. You made a really good point about the loneliness.
00:26:25
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I don't know, it's not a very spoken about thing. And I'm sure everyone feels that way in part of their career, but it's kind of scary actually. You'll find yourself in a place and you're like, is it going to be like this forever? And it doesn't have to be, or it can be, but it could be a good thing too. So that kind of strung a chord for me.
00:26:52
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Yeah, it's hard. The number of dentists that I've spoken to, mostly off-camera, who have shared a lot of their struggles and a lot of that loneliness is kind of scary. It's sad, really. I wish there were more avenues and outlets where we could help our peers to just be in a better place. But I think that
00:27:11
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We are we're doing a better job about talking about the importance of mental wellness and mental health. And I think that as our profession continues to advance, that'll be a key priority, hopefully for many dentists, if not all. Yeah, and it's not always flowers and butterflies and
00:27:27
Speaker
Pink red roses and whatever. I mean it's not right like we could talk about all the great things and you've been you know Cuing me to really positive questions, but there's definitely a lot of you know negative parts of what we do day-to-day, but I would say the net Everything has always been positive for me, and I think you probably feel the same but But yeah, it does exist
00:27:54
Speaker
Absolutely and I want to end on a on a high note here but can you tell us a you know fun fact about yourself or something called I've been in your upbringing that just kind of always remains in your mind a great memory or something along those lines.
00:28:10
Speaker
Wow, you really put me on the spot here. Gotta keep me on your toes. Fun. I was never good at these. These icebreakers and things. Yeah, they're terrible. They're really terrible. So hard. Okay, I have a better question for you. If you weren't a dentist, what career would you have pursued and why?
Creative Background's Influence on Dentistry
00:28:30
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This is kind of like a, this kind of goes with a fun fact slash what I would have probably wanted to do. Fun fact, I went to art school for middle school and high school, which is why I really loved working with my hands. I was actually a soccer theater major. Shout out Dreyfus School of the Arts. And it's weird.
00:28:56
Speaker
I really enjoyed being on stage and I really enjoyed performing, but there was just something about being backstage and being part of the design process I really liked. And so towards the end, when I was getting to be a sophomore or junior into my senior year, I had pretty much transitioned completely into doing costume design.
00:29:20
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I don't know. I'm just looked over and I'm planning my wedding and I like had put a design together of a wedding dress that I thought that I would maybe wear. But I think that maybe I would do something like that, like something
00:29:33
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maybe more in New York fashion, even though I'm not a super fashionista, I probably would have learned or love to have gone to like a conservatory program and done something passionate. I think whatever it is, it would have to be with my hands. It would have to be business related and fast paced. So I think that's probably what I would.
00:29:54
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do maybe. I might change my answer. Yeah, that makes so much sense to me. I feel like you're very creative and I feel like that just makes sense. And dentistry allows you to be creative as well too, but that's just different. I love dentistry, but I wish I had more time to do projects, creative projects and activities, DIY stuff. That's what I'm saying. You want to find the balance and it's hard when you're starting
00:30:21
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You're like the first half of your career. You're like finding that balance and yeah, I couldn't agree. I would love to do more DIY. I would love to like build my own house and I mean that aside, but like, you know, build my own house, have little side projects and, you know, start my own nonprofit and you know, all the things you've always dreamed of, but we'll get there.
00:30:45
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We will get there for sure. We will have our own rooms dedicated to YouTube studios and DIY projects on the site. Yes, yes, let's do it. Tara, it is always a pleasure to speak with you and I learn so much and always have a great time when we have the opportunity to chat. If our listeners would like to connect with you, what's the best way?
Connect with Dr. Tara Online
00:31:04
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Uh, so you can find me on Instagram. Uh, it's dentara underscore underscore. Um, that's usually probably like the worst texture there ever was. Tanya can eat. Yeah, you're pretty bad. I'm up there, but you're pretty bad. Yeah, I know. I know.
00:31:18
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And I'm sure a lot of people will feel that way about me, but it's usually the the best place to contact me and I'd be happy to share help Someone helped me to get Me to where I am today. So I would I would love to pay that forward So so anything I can do or just to say hello hit me up and you gotta plug the tick-tock What's the tick-tock my tick-tock's the same dent art people that tick-tock don't love me branding is important
00:31:45
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I try. I don't know if I'm just not young enough. I don't know if I just don't got it. I don't dance. I'm not a dancer, so you're not going to catch me on Too Tied Dancing, but I do put a lot of the same material. But yeah, it's DENTARA underscore underscore, so hit me up.
00:32:02
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All right. Well, I hope that you will follow Dentara and all of her adventures and her journey in and out of dentistry. You'll probably see pictures of us along the way as we kind of adventure together as well too, but I appreciate all y'all's time in listening to this episode. Thank you for tuning into this episode of New Dentists on the Block. If you would like to connect with Tara, you can find her on Instagram and on TikTok at DENTTARA. Please be sure to subscribe to the podcast on YouTube and on all major podcast platforms.
00:32:32
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