How do I get more confident with complex dental procedures and complications?

The routine procedures are yours now. What still stops you are the complex ones and the moments when something goes sideways mid-procedure. That is the right place to feel uncertain. Complications are exactly where judgment matters most, and judgment is the slowest skill to build because it only grows through real cases. Confidence here comes from preparation and from not being alone. Study the hard procedures before you face them, so you have walked through them in your mind first. Build relationships with dentists you can call when a case gets complicated. The best clinicians are not the ones who never hit trouble; they are the ones who prepared for it and knew who to ask. Before your next complex case, rehearse it step by step and name what could go wrong and what you would do. That mental walk-through turns panic into procedure when the moment comes. You are not stumped because you lack skill. You are meeting the hard cases, and meeting them, again and again, is how the stumping stops.