How are they different in terms of what is taught? They are about the same in terms of financial and time commitment so just wondering how they differ.

Hola, en Ebay estan vendiendo lotes de 10 sondas Hu Friedy a un precio bajisimo, son de origen pakistani, se que la fábrica de Hu Friedy se encuentran solo USA, Alemania, entonces son imitaciones pero gran parte del acero quirúrgico y dental exportado del mundo es de pakistan.

Leí en foros que son prácticamente las mismas y que no hay diferencia.

Alguno tiene experiencia sobre ella y que tan buena es su calidad?

All night you have the chills and barely get any sleep.
Do you go to work that day?

Hey yall.

I've been using Lumadent's Ergo Max 7.0x for months to do restorative work and it's been working great for most cases.

But I noticed when working indirectly on lower back teeth, it is significantly more difficult, with any type of loupes not just ergo. I often have to work directly.

I have to re-do a #18 MO (#37 FDI) since last time I just couldn't see shit. Can't figure out a way to actually use a mirror. It feels like there is no space or angulation for a mirror.

I feel I must be doing something wrong with patient/operator positioning.

Any advice is welcome.

What is everyone doing for loan repayment now that SAVE is gone? Currently on forbearance and will have to select a new plan. Calculator says standard repayment plan is the best for me - is anyone waiting until they transition automatically? What is the benefit of selecting it asap?

Wish it was easier to understand the website and different options of repayment. It’s almost as if they want to confuse us to make us pay more 👀

Patient has pain on tooth 21 she is 88 years old so the canal is quite calcified. Please any tips on how to access the canal? Also I only have a normal ultrasonic for scaling. Not any of the endo ones. Please be kind thanks

https://imgur.com/a/WuEyDLV

Around 4 months ago I did a filling, and since then the patient complains of pain when chewing on it. I did check the occlusion and it was indeed high. After a few adjustments the patient said it feels okay and does not hurt. Till today, when she called saying it hurts even worse. What am I missing, and what can I do tomorrow on her next appointment?
Car. Media oclusalis

Experience working at Familia Dental, particularly as a dentist? I’d really appreciate any insights or feedback about the pay, work environment, management, or overall experience.

Disclosure: I am part of the team at an oral surgery practice, in operations. No practice, doctor, or patient is named in this post, and there is nothing to sell in it. Sharing a local audit our team did, because the pattern may not be unique to our market.

Method, briefly
Practice websites, search listings, and provider directories across a three county region. A practice counted only if both halves were documented: it markets oral surgery, and no dentist treating there is an oral and maxillofacial surgeon. Anything we could not resolve either way was left out of the count.

Findings
11 general practices met both halves at the strongest levels of marketing, marketing oral surgery with no oral surgeon on staff. One uses "Oral Surgery" in the practice name itself. Ten have a dedicated oral surgery page or prominent oral surgery marketing. Four more mention oral surgery only as one line in a general services list, for a full documented count of 15. Against that, 12 practices advertising oral surgery did have a verified oral surgeon and were excluded.

On a live recheck of the claim pages, 13 of 14 that could be reverified made the oral surgery claim with no statement on that page that the care is provided by a general dentist. One page did disclose it clearly, on the page itself, which is worth noting because it shows the honest version already exists in practice.

Search results mirror the websites. In one sample of 80 results for an "oral surgeon" search in a single metro area, 74 carried the platform's "Oral Surgeons" tag, and 68 of those 74 were not verified oral surgery practices.

For balance, the same check run on other specialties in the region (orthodontics, periodontics, endodontics, prosthodontics, dental anesthesiology) mostly resolved to real specialists. Oral surgery was the outlier. Insurance claims that named a specific carrier and could be checked were also mostly accurate. The recurring issue was blanket language that cannot be checked either way.

Why I think this happens
"Oral surgery" names procedures any licensed dentist may perform. "Oral surgeon" names a person who completed a 4 to 6 year hospital residency. Two letters apart, and patients hear the title when they read the procedure name. Search and directory categories are self selected with no credential check, so whatever a website says propagates into maps, voice assistants, and AI answers unchanged.
To be clear about what this is not: it is not a claim that general dentists should not do surgical work, or that they do it badly. Many do it well. It is only about what the words tell a patient before they book.

What I have been thinking about since.

The framing that keeps making sense to our team is that the noun is earned and the verb is open. Procedures stay open to anyone trained and competent. Specialty titles would stay with residency trained specialists, in practice names and search categories as well as in ads. Where a general dentist offers surgical services, one standard sentence on the claim page itself would remove the ambiguity: "Surgical services provided by a general dentist." And there are honest umbrella words that cost nothing: "mouth surgery," "dental surgery services," or simply naming the procedure, such as surgical extractions, wisdom tooth removal, or implant placement.
Posting this here because this is where I have seen the title versus procedure distinction discussed most honestly, and because the one disclosing practice in our audit suggests the fix is practical rather than theoretical.

Hello,
I did a temping job for a dentist who was on maternity leave for 2 months. I had prepped a lot of crowns before I left and after she came back, one of the staff reached out to me saying that she’s is sending all my cases back for a remake. I think I do a pretty good job with my crowns and I haven’t had any issues with open margins or remakes only occasionally. Can this backfire to patient or board complaint? I do like to prep 0.5 mm supra gingival with one cord and she likes to prep sub g and pack two cords. I also don’t change the build up unless I see obvious decay.

Hi everyone,
I am working as a dentist at a FQHC. For class II we use tofflemires. I am trying to find the best and most efficient way to complete back to back class II or kissing lesions.
Currently I am doing one tooth at a time. But after removing one tofflemires I run into few issues: uncontrollable heme, the other tofflemires doesn’t fit and overextended restorations.
What would be the best way to resort back to back restorations when only have tofflemires available.

How do y'all handle recurrent decay under work you did? Any sort of time frames? Just curious.

Patient is a severe clencher/grinder. Has never had a cavity. Clinically no decay detected or seen. Tooth is asymptomatic and is vital. Patient had zero issues with this tooth.
Not sure what to do next about this one.
Have y’all seen something like this before?
I was thinking to place SDF and wait for symptoms? Someone also suggested a full coverage crown, potentially RCT if symptoms arise.

RAP allows for minimal monthly payments the first couple years out of school as it is based on AGI. It also waives any unpaid interest. For example, if my loans accumulate $2,000 a month in interest, but my minimum required payment is only $500, the $1,500 I did not pay is waived and not added to my total principal. Because of these two aspects, there is an interesting repayment strategy I've been working through, but want to see if there's something I'm missing with the strategy's logic.

If I make my minimum required RAP payments and invest the rest of the money I would have paid if it were a traditional loan monthly payment plan, that money will grow in the market and reach a lump sum that I can use to repay my loans faster than paying traditionally.

EXAMPLE:

Principal is 500K. Traditional payments would be ~6K a month for 10 years. The first two years, my required payment is $10 then ~$1K respectively. The first year, I will invest 6K a month instead of paying a traditional payment to the loan servicer. Year 2, I pay 1K to the servicer and invest 5K By the third year, RAP requires I pay ~2K a month. I pay the 2K and invest the other 4K in the market. Even at 7% return, I would reach 500K in this portfolio in under 8 years. If the market does well, I could pay off the loans much faster. Then, I am just paying taxes on the capital gains that year or wait until the portfolio grows enough to cover the taxes as well.

Advantages I see to this strategy: Faster payoff. Money in assets for more financial flexibility down the road. Keeping the money in my pocket instead of the bank's.

Disadvantages: Paying higher interest than refinancing (though with the interest waiver, this isn't as much of an issue). Risking that the market will grow, and relying on that growth to reach a payoff date. The market could downturn in year 7 or 8, which would push my payoff date to year 9 or 10 (In my eyes, that would end up being a wash, for the chance to pay off sooner).

I should also mention, the plan is to invest in an index fund. Not trying to beat the market here, just mimic it for more "predictable" returns. Also, as I approach the 8 year target date, I will de-risk and move more money into more stable assets.

Am I missing something here?

Has anyone started on RAP loan repayment immediately out of school/grace period for the interest subsidy and then switched to standard repayment when income was larger/more stable? I looked at white coat investor but most of them have 3-5 year residencies and we can make the “big bucks” right out of school. Any input appreciated :)

Just ended my 3 month maternity leave at the start of Oct. I did an anterior filling two weeks ago that debonded this weekend and the patient was out of town. Did another posterior on Friday. Debonded last night.
What is going on with me? I feel defeated. This shouldn’t be happening. It makes me feel like my work is not up to scratch.

Edit: Porridge brain???

Has anyone reverse engineered codiagnostix to be free using AI. Would love a copy and stop these money hungry companies

(As a new grad) I found many interesting class I cavity where on the Xray it was “not that bad”, only for them to open up as hugeeeee carious lesions underneath (pic 1).
Then there are some that are huge on Xray, huge in real life (like pic 2).
Is this something related to the spatial quality of the sensors? We use Vatech EzSensors at my workplace.

I contacted my malpractice insurance because I am leaving an office and the office is asking me for $1500 per each ortho case I don’t finish before I leave. I needed a lawyer to review my contract with me and help me through this process but my malpractice said they don’t cover this. Anyone use a lawyer for employment disagreement that they recommend?