Dentistry for me, it checks a lot of boxes. I love working with people. You love helping people out. It gave me the opportunity to be in front of Elizabethtown. You know, you could dictate where you worked. So being able to come back home to my hometown, treat your family and friends, work with your hands, it can be challenging mentally.

And, you know, you’re solving problems. So it just, it accomplished a lot of things. The most rewarding part is, you know, helping people, I think when they come in with problems, being able to give them a solution, whether that’s, you know, a toothache or a smile they don’t like, whatever the case may be. You know, we’re not doing brain surgery or heart surgery, but I feel like dental health and people’s perception of their smile is a pretty important factor in their life.

So being able to get them the results they want. So I grew up here, went to St. James, Central Hardin. I got my mechanical engineering degree from Kentucky. So I didn’t think that’d be as applicable as it is, but all the, you know, finite stresses and the workloads and what’s going to work, what’s not going to work, even though there’s a lot more usefulness in dentistry than I anticipated.

The goal was always to go to dentistry, though. As far as education goes on top of that, so dental school is what it is and you get out. And it’s, you know, about 2% of 100% of information that’s out there. So I think we’re required to do 20-year hours or something of continuing education every year and I’ll do several hundred.

And implants, orthodontics, root canals, pain management, whatever the case may be, a lot of times it’s, you know, you don’t get bored, but you get to a place where you feel…things that used to take you an hour to do now take you 20 minutes and then you always want a little bit of a challenge in your daily routines, and be able to help your patients more.