Description
Our board-certified prosthodontist, Dr. Avinash S. Bidra, is known for accomplishments like earning the 2023 American College of Prosthodontists "Educator of the Year" award and receiving a U.S. Patent Award in implant dentistry. For him, though, there is no greater honor than the opportunity to help his dental patients. Let him lend his training and compassion to your care.
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Throughout my life,
I always felt privileged
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that I wanted to be
in a profession of human well-being.
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I was good with my hand skills.
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Prosthodontics became a perfect match.
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I also have a teacher's heart,
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so I do enjoy interacting
with my students and residents,
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so I feel like
I've got best of both the worlds.
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We are an award-winning office
in Glastonbury.
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We have been awarded
the All-on-4 Center of Excellence Award.
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I also received
the United States Patent Award
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for an invention to improve
with dental implant treatment.
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I never really thought
I would be a dentist,
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but I just was always
drawn to the medical profession
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for the direct impact
it has on human well-being.
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Prosthodontics
is considered an extreme sport
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by a lot of people
in the dental community.
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I consider it is a privilege
to actually be able to perform a treatment
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in their mouth.
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While I know some of the treatments
are not the most comfortable procedures,
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the fact that they place that trust in me,
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that I can go
inside their mouth and do the job,
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and then seeing
that the result turned out great
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and seeing them being satisfied
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or making comments
that I changed their life
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and they're able to smile because of me
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or able to enjoy
certain types of food because of me,
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it's unexplainably gratifying.
