The following is a piece I wrote for a medical news website that never ended up getting published. I find it so odd how people …
Clues and missed opportunities
Social construction of a pandemic
If I were to characterize the COVID pandemic, I imagine I would use the word reductionist. I would almost be using that word catachrestically, since …
An incessant “what happened here?”
Dentistry is full of variability. Confounders are ubiquitous. Patients are heterogenous; so are their mouths, their diets, oral hygiene habits, and dispositions. Dental materials are …
A case of the Mondays
“Dentists have high suicide rates. Did you know?” I heard this sentiment so many times along my dental journey. Back when I would express interest …
Pretiola: Little Rewards
I couldn’t get over the crunchiness. It was those gluten-free pretzels my mom got recently. I was visiting my parents. I have been visiting them …