I am very passionate about surgery, and my days are typically taken up with treating complex cases, including those involving 3D bone and soft-tissue reconstruction around dental implants and comprehensive oral rehabilitation, with my long-time team at the White Clinic in Lisbon in Portugal, and I am very passionate about connecting systemic health to dental health. In the past, when people said things like “Oh you’re not a doctor, you’re just a dentist” to me, it would made me recoil and actually feel bad about myself and our beloved profession, and I was not really sure of how to respond. In recent years, I have come to understand that there is something more nefarious in the statement, an us versus them dichotomy that separates the medical community from the dental community, and this assumed separateness does not seem to be questioned or challenged.