Daddy Dentist: Balancing Fatherhood and Dentistry - IC077

When you walk through the door after work, are you actually present or are you still running the day’s to-do list in your head?

Is there ever a “good” time to have a baby in the middle of specialist training and how do you fund it?

How do the best dentist-parents you know protect time with their kids without their careers stalling?

And can technology actually give you hours back — or is that just another thing to feel guilty about?

This is one for the dads. In this Interference Cast episode, Jaz sits down with Dr Sunny Marwaha — a dentist completing part-time specialist training in prosthodontics at Guy’s, who became a father right in the middle of it. It’s not a clinical episode. It’s an honest conversation about doing the hardest career stretch (training, buying practices, building a name) at the exact same time you’re raising young children — the sleep, the money, the guilt, and the strategies that actually help. Two dentist dads, comparing notes.

What You’ll Take From This Episode

Priority management, not time management — Decide what this season of life is for, and protect it; priorities shift as the kids grow.Leave the day at the door — both directions — The driveway is dad mode, the clinic is showtime; you can’t take work home or home to work.Run the family like a small business — Regular family meetings and a “mind like water” system can help carry the load without living in your head.Use AI to buy back time — Make use of dictated notes, auto-drafted letters, and turning papers into audio for the commute. This is leverage, not cheating.

Specialise or self-direct? — An honest filter for whether a structured training pathway or private courses and mentorship suits you better.

Highlights of This Episode

00:00     Teaser

00:42     Daddy Dentist: Balancing Fatherhood and Dentistry

03:42     Should You Specialise or Learn Through Private Courses?