Brian D. Rhoads, DDS, has been a solo private practitioner in West Memphis, Arkansas, for more than 20 years. For the past 7 years, he has been owner and president of Riverwest Dental Assisting Institute LLC. From 2015 to 2020, Rhoads served as a clinical group leader and assistant professor in the Department of General Practice Dentistry at the University of Tennessee. He can be reached at: brian@rhoadsdds.com.
In these first-person accounts, three dentists—at varying points in their professional careers—share their successes, failures, and hopes for the future as they navigate the “new normal” of practicing dentistry in the age of COVID-19.