The Dentist creed

To respect my profession, my reputation & myself. To be honest & fair with patient as I expect my patient to be honest & fair with me; To think of Dentistry with loyalty, speak of it with praise, & act always as a custodian of its good name. To be man whose word carries weight with my fellow-citizens, to be boosters, not a knocker, pusher no a kicker, a motor not a clog.

To base my expectation of rewards of a solid foundation of service rendered; To be willing to pay the price in honest efforts. To look upon my work as opportunity to be seized with joy & make the most of it, and not as a painful drudgery to be reluctantly endured.

To remember all that success lies within myself, in my own brain, my own ambition, my own courage, and determination. To expect difficulties and force my way through them; To convert hard experience into capital for future struggles.

To believe in my proposition heart & soul; To carry an air of optimism. In to the presence of possible patients, dispel ill temper with cheerfulness; Kill doubts with strong convictions, and reduce active fiction with an agreeable personality.

To make a study of the professional & business side of Dentistry; To know both sides in every detail from the group; To mix brains with my efforts, & to use system of method in my work; To find time to so everything needful by never letting time find me doing nothing.

To make every hour bring me dividends in fees; Increased knowledge, or healthful recreation. To save money as well as earn it; To cut out expensive amusements until I can afford them.

Finally, to take good trip of the joy of life; To play the game like a gentleman, to fight against nothing so hard as my own weakness, and to endeavor to grow as a Dentist and as a man with the passage or every day time.

This is my creed...

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