 Hello everybody, Andrew Maesky here. So I'm doing a video again. I kind of seem to do like one of these every two or three months or so where a Lot of genus or I should see dental professionals as a whole, but definitely hygienists are Talking about oh my goodness. Should I just retire? Should I give up? This is just too much I think it's just because of the whole stressful situation. Obviously, we were kind of forced to not work With the whole COVID issue a lot of us don't want to work because we're nervous Because there's still so much unknown But we kind of feel forced to go back If you work for a dental office if the dental office is open and saying everybody come on in It's time to get back to work. Is there enough PPE? We have to you know Have a lot of PPE now. So we used to have masks gloves safety glasses now It's safety glasses masks. It could be a level three mask It could be an N95 mask and those ones are very hard to breathe in A face shield a hair cap a gown these things are very expensive for offices to all of a sudden start having So a lot of people are just simply saying like enough is enough like things are just so confusing Especially if you do have to work for a dental practice The dental association guidelines are very different I shouldn't say very different, but they seem to keep changing from the dental association guidelines to the dental hygiene guidelines So you kind of wonder well, which one do I follow? You have to follow your hygiene guidelines because that's who You're licensed with but a lot of dental offices aren't okay with that So then things can be very very stressful My thoughts are you guys honestly if this is stressing you out so much? Maybe it is time to look for something else. Maybe it is time to retire Because I completely understand if I was working for a dental office. I think I would be kind of thinking Oh my goodness like things are so up in the air You might feel like you're forced to go back to work. You might just feel like this is too much Having my own practice really makes a big difference to me because I feel like I'm in control If I don't have the pp. I don't work. It's as simple as that I can manage my own schedule. So I don't have to worry about overbooking myself to make money back Silly things like that But I think a lot of offices are starting to deal with now where they might be overbooking themselves Even though we do have to wait the three hours At the moment in between patients If they have proper air filtration systems HVAC systems and that can be changed to But all of that can be very confusing as you can imagine I'm primarily a mobile dental hygienist. So that is a little bit easier I mean easier might not be the right word because it's actually very difficult Where now we have to change out of our uniform for every single household makes sense Wipe everything down. We have to do prescreening. I had to take my temperature Before every single household things like that. So things are definitely not easy We have to do more than ever before but how I think about it is our patients need us We need our teeth cleaned. I mean even you if your teeth are super healthy doing great even me I need my teeth cleaned So I would love to find a dental hygienist to come to my house to clean my teeth Because I would even feel more comfortable doing that than me walking into a dental office And being confused of okay, where do I stand? How do I pay? Okay? This person's looking at me funny. What do I do? You know, oh, this person's not wearing a mask when they should You know, who's who's going to be monitoring that? I'm talking about other patients, but not the staff because I'm sure they'll have full PPE right, but they're probably limiting patients in the practice You know, it's just kind of so many unknowns. So I feel more comfortable myself going into a home Seeing patients because I feel like that's just less exposure So if this is really stressing you out, you want to quit look for something else If this is really stressing you out that much then that's just what you have to do And you shouldn't have to feel bad about that But there are some of us out there who do want to work do whatever we possibly can To work and help our patients If you're caring for somebody who is you know ill Um, um What's the word I'm looking for? Um, immunocompromised then you probably shouldn't be going back to work because you have to be very Very very careful too. So there's so many different variables, but good luck everybody Don't be ashamed if you feel like you can't do this anymore If you if you want to quit if you want to retire, there's nothing wrong with that Okay, just my two cents. Thank you guys so much for listening and I'll talk to you guys in the next one And stay safe stay safe