The Rebellion Around What Actually Works in Dental Surgery
After more than two decades working in dental education and observing thousands of dentists, I’ve noticed something that deserves attention:
Dentists are becoming increasingly sophisticated technically, but not always equally sophisticated in their understanding of the fundamentals beneath those techniques.
Fundamentals are often treated as the entry level of surgical education. Something to learn before progressing to “advanced” procedures. That may be the mistake.
Because the difference between knowing a fundamental and mastering its clinical implications can be the difference between performing a procedure and understanding why that procedure succeeds, fails, or should never have been attempted.
This is the premise behind Dr. David Chong’s The Fundamentals Rebellion. Not a return to basic dentistry.
Fundamentals 2.0. A scientific re-examination of the principles beneath surgical decision-making, technique selection, execution, complication management, and long-term outcomes.
Perhaps the most advanced question in dental surgery is no longer:
What technique should I learn next? But: How advanced is my understanding of the fundamentals?
The Fundamentals Rebellion begins there.
*And congratulations to my dear friend, Dr. David Chong (one of the greatests oral surgeons in NYC) for agreeing to take on the challenge of writing this book around such an impactful philosophy. Because some ideas deserve more than a lecture or a conversation. They deserve to become a movement.
