#354 Connect The Dots — Agne Malisauskiene

<p>Agne Malisauskiene joins Payman as the clinical lead at the Baltic Academy of Aesthetic Dentistry and one of the world&#39;s best-known minimally invasive composite teachers, having trained thousands of dentists from her purpose-built facility in Vilnius.</p><p>She talks candidly about swapping punishing NHS-style hours in Lithuania for a much gentler introduction to UK private dentistry, and how a year at a US military boarding school as a teenager shaped the discipline and leadership instincts she still relies on today.</p><p>This is also a conversation about ambition and what it costs. From the competitive streak that pushed her toward the hardest degree to get into, to the guilt and logistics of teaching abroad most weekends while raising two young boys, Agne is refreshingly honest about the trade-offs behind a career built on repetition, pattern recognition and constant travel.</p><p>Expect sharp reflections on gender and ambition in dental education, why composite bonding took off early in Lithuania, and a clinical mistake that changed how she treats every tooth since.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>In This Episode</strong></p><p>00:00:50 – Introduction</p><p>00:02:40 – Building the Vilnius teaching facility</p><p>00:11:57 – Moving to the UK</p><p>00:18:27 – Boarding school in America</p><p>00:30:57 – Family background and choosing dentistry</p><p>00:39:41 – Ambition, competitiveness and sacrifice</p><p>00:46:47 – Family life and growing up in Soviet-era Lithuania</p><p>00:53:12 – A typical teaching week and travel logistics</p><p>01:02:32 – Joining Biomimetic</p><p>01:07:33 – Gender, ambition and teaching</p><p>01:15:53 – Filming through the loupe camera</p><p>01:22:47 – Blackbox thinking</p><p>01:26:32 – Favourite resource: Layers 2</p><p>01:30:27 – Fantasy dinner party</p><p><br></p><p><strong>About Agne Malisauskiene</strong></p><p>Agne Malisauskiene is an internationally recognised minimally invasive direct composite expert and the clinical lead at the Baltic Academy of Aesthetic Dentistry in Vilnius, where she trains dentists from around the world. She is a member of Biomimetic and Enlighten&#39;s distributor in Lithuania, and splits her time between her own patients and a busy international lecturing schedule.</p>