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a voice in the arena
New Beginnings,
New Opportunities
In his first column as Orthotown editorial director, Dr. Chad Foster
explains his goals for the publication and online community
by Chad Foster, DDS, MS, editorial director, Orthotown magazine
It is a great honor to become the editorial director of Orthotown. I have big shoes to
fill as Dr. Dan Grob departs the role; I've always enjoyed the insights he regularly shared.
I consistently found in his writing a few characteristics that I so admire-vulnerability,
tolerance and humility. Thank you, Dan! You were and are, as President Theodore Roosevelt
described, " the man in the arena. " [Editor's note: If you aren't familiar with this particular
speech, which also inspired the name of Dr. Foster's monthly column, we've excerpted it in the
pull quote below.]
I've practiced orthodontics for just over 10 years, and for me and many readers, it's
more than just a career or a means to make a living. I own and operate a single-location,
single-doctor practice in Phoenix, where I spend on average 30 hours a week in clinical
practice. Outside of those hours (and often well in excess of them), I discuss orthodontics:
I read it, I write it, I review and share cases, I benefit greatly from the sharing of others, I
think about patients long after the day is done, I run the business, I strategize how to better
lead a team that I truly love and that absolutely drives me crazy at times, and I question in
almost every way what I'm doing, why I'm doing it, and if I am doing enough or could be
doing better. And unequivocally, I love it!
Orthodontists spend a large amount of their waking lives working in the best career
on the planet; our years of pushing, sweating, sacrificing and overachieving gained us
membership into an elite and fortunate vocation indeed.
" It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out
how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have
done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in
the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;
who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again,
because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does
actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great
devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows
in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he
fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be
with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. "
- President Theodore Roosevelt
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