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The social media dilemma

BDJ Student volume 28, pages 12–13 (2021)Cite this article

By Priya Bola, University of Birmingham

It is safe to say that every dental student uses social media in one form or another. We are all guilty of scrolling through Instagram into the early hours of the morning, or eagerly following each other on Instagram with excitement on our first day of dental school. Sharing our personal lives through these platforms is the norm, for example, taking a picture of a lecture slide and captioning it 'How is this related to dentistry?!' or sharing the ever-classic photo of your Nando's meal. However, as my days at dental school became more clinical, I started to notice that Instagram would gradually trickle posts from professional dental accounts into my feed. As an aspiring dentist, I took the bait and clicked on these profiles. Before I knew it, I was now scrolling through hundreds of inspirational smile transformations into the early hours of the morning.

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