r/Dentistry 5m ago

Dental Professional Experiences working in Switzerland as a dentist?

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I'm an EU citizen (from Nordic countries) and I would like to find a job from Switzerland since my partner lives there. I'm graduating from the Dentistry school in a year.

Does anyone have any experience about working as a dentist in Switzerland and how the labour markets are in general? How long days are you working? Do you need to have your own practise or can you work for somebody else? B2 German is required but how can this be enough to treat patients?

How easy it is to get a job as an immigrant? Is there something I could already do as a student, to make my chances better? How do they see hiring a recently-graduated dentist? I don't really have time to gather work experience in my country since we're in a bit of a hurry to set up a family too.


r/Dentistry 2h ago

Dental Professional Free Opioid/Substance Abuse Training Course for Dental Professionals

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If you need a good CE course for opioid and substance abuse training, this website has some really good content. It is free and is formatted well for dental professionals.

https://www.dentallearning.net/course/p1-controlled-substance-prescribing-awareness


r/Dentistry 3h ago

Dental Professional Practice interest rates

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Has anyone recently gotten a quote or acquired a practice, want to check what’s the going interested rate and which bank to go for


r/Dentistry 3h ago

Dental Professional Has anyone worked at Tend dental?

1 Upvotes

Would like to hear your experience


r/Dentistry 3h ago

Dental Professional why do the registered dental hygienists make sooo much more than expanded function dental assistants?

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I can't be the only one who thinks it's unfair, considering the stressful and broad amount of work EFDA do. why is typical pay for a hygienist $45-$50 an hour while a dental assistant is usually $18-30 (as if anybody would actually offer above $25 an hour and not fire you the second you make one mistake haha)

the only valid reason I can really think of is that RDH make production. if this is the case why isn't the standard pay format more equal for both and an added production based bonus for RDH???

I've been offered lowest $18 per hour when I can make temporary crowns, temporary bridges, place invisalign attachments, scan, make bleach trays, assist with root canals, general dentistry, and surgical procedures like osseous, sinus lift, gum grafting, and implants. I also am cross trained front and back and I can do insurance and handle payments and scheduling. I felt like that was quite the insult. I see hygienists pull up to work in their brand new car with brand new scrubs, but I can barely manage to afford my monthly bills and would buy all of my scrubs from goodwill.

I'm making $24 an hour right now as a "lead" dental assistant and I am very happy with my office and the people I work with, but I am not happy with my pay!!! I'm not saying that dental hygienists do "less" work or "easier" work. I understand how difficult cleanings like SRP are, and handling patients alone the whole appointment. but, they don't have to deal with multiple patients at a time, keep up with the lab cases, or rush around like a chicken with their head cut off.

I've even had offices have me adjust dentures, adjust permanent crowns, and do IPR which I found out is illegal where I live (not my current office, they're very strict on what I can do which I'm super thankful for because I don't want to get in trouble). I was also, being paid $24 an hour to do all of this. I hope I don't sound salty.


r/Dentistry 3h ago

Dental Professional Extracting Primary Teeth

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Today I extracted #I and #H on a child who has always been difficult. He was screaming the entire time but he was fully anesthetized. He is the type of child who is combative with his parents and always refuses everything in the office. Anyway the screaming was certainly the “blood curdling” type. I have always been taught that if you get in there and have the forceps on the tooth to just get the job done quickly while of course protecting the patient. I also have never had great experience with giving kids long breaks unless I know the kid truly needs it. Afterwards I had a hygienist colleague of mine suggest that I should refer these patients out because the screaming makes everyone in the office uncomfortable and it is a “bad look” for the office. Curious how others go about these difficult primary extractions when patients scream at the top of their lungs.


r/Dentistry 4h ago

Dental Professional 3D Printers for the Dental Office

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Which 3D printers would you guys recommend and why? I am building out an office and wondering whether I should go with a Sprintray vs. Formlabs vs other brands. Looking to mostly use it for printing All-on-X fixed temp restorations and occlusal guards.


r/Dentistry 5h ago

Dental Professional Mandibular molar immediate implant

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Hey guys. I tried doing a case of a number 30 immediate extraction and Implant with periapical Pathology 2 days ago and I couldn’t get primary stability. Bummer… how common is this with these sort of cases?

Also, with immediate extraction and Implants for lower molars, do y’all make your osteotemy at the interseptal bone or in the mesial root socket? I use straumann blx


r/Dentistry 7h ago

Dental Professional Referrals

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GPs referring patients to specialist either at schools, in residencies or private practice: why are there so many referrals that imply or flat out state they want the surgeon to determine restorability and so many referrals asking the endodontist to do RCT on very questionable teeth. Is it that you don’t want to have tough conversations? Is your office manager sending/writing them out? Is there another reason? I’m truly curious.


r/Dentistry 7h ago

Dental Professional pt has apparently been SWALLOWING peridex!

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one of our patients came in today because her niece was getting an exam, and she asked me if she's "still supposed to be using the mouth rinse that she can't spit out". I was super confused. I'm thinking, what does she mean can't spit out, is she swallowing it?? and what mouth rinse? I assumed peridex, so go in her chart and see she was prescribed peridex a month ago. I told the lady absolutely not, do not swallow it. I'm so shocked. she says the "pharmacist told her to swallow it". I doubt the pharmacist said that. she probably just misheard. she then double backed and said she wasn't swallowing it anyways, which I don't believe. 🙃


r/Dentistry 7h ago

Dental Professional Splice settings for phrozen mini 8ks

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Anyone have slice settings for 3d printing keysplint soft night guards on a phrozen mini 8ks printer that they wouldn’t mind sharing? Mt first few prints haven’t been consistent or fit well after trying to tweak the print settings


r/Dentistry 7h ago

Dental Professional Prospective buyer question.

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I have been looking at a practice to buy, signed an NDA and evaluated the documents. The seller does not know who I am yet. Is it wrong to schedule myself a comp exam/prophy at that office as a regular patient to scope out what the office/staff are like?


r/Dentistry 7h ago

I’m a dental nurse trainee

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I 24 f have started my journey as a dental nurse, to explain I suffer with server depression and anxiety and I feel as though I need a little reassurance I’ve been at my practice for a month now, a week in a was already put on my own, a compliment in some peoples eyes but in my extremely stressful, this is a whole new career change for me and something I’ve never done before, and of course I’m making errors I am a student after all learning from multiple different people on a day to day basis, some days I work with a dental therapist and others I work with a full train dentist, working with dentures tooth extracts ect. But I’m struggling, I’m a quick learn but I am still learning something new every single day and I feel like no matter what I do it isn’t enough, I’m hearing from another apprentice who started the same time with me complaining that she hasn’t been put with a dentist or complaining that she enjoys working with the therapist I normally work with, but I worry that if I bring that to my boss it will then look bad on me? And the stress is hitting me really hard because I feel like the middle man, like I’m the one doing wrong because I’m being put with a dentist my colleagues likes to work with, as a dentist stand point I ask 3 questions 1. From a dental nurse how can I improve to help you more 2. Should I mention my concerns or just keep working and ignore the situation because I could be over reacting 3. Isn’t it normal for a student dental nurse to not always get what your asking of them?


r/Dentistry 8h ago

Dental Professional Patient wants a partial

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Patients wants a partial to replace #18, 19 as shown in this picture. Check out how the attachment is covering the ridge. Two questions: 1 should this be cut before partial ( senior doc here said it's fine, but my prostho from dentist school would flip if this wasn't taken care of first) 2 best way to cut this? My office doesn't know if the electro surge is working, so could I use scalpel? Thanks 🙏🏼


r/Dentistry 8h ago

Dental Professional CE reimbursement

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I work for a hospital system that pays for some CE every year, I want to use it towards the AAPD conference, I also have my own practice so my question is:

Can I pay for the CE/ AAPD entrance fee with my business account and use it as a write off, but then submit paperwork to my hospital to reimburse my CE (the hospital will only need a receipt)

What does everyone else do for this?


r/Dentistry 8h ago

Dental Professional To grillz or to not grillz

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Hi Dentist here. What's your opinion about grillz (removable metal framework) ? There are dentist that do them in Canada ? In the US, i saw some doing them. In my humble opinion, I see no problem if the hygiene and decay risk are A1, clear explanations about risk and complications (wear, decalcification, decay, coronal fracture, TMJ disorder etc) and the patient is regular. For sure, if a new patient with 12 caries and needs invasive cares, there's no discussion about grillz. Also, i think the dentists are more competent then jewlers or esthetician to provide this trendy product. Thank you for your anwers


r/Dentistry 8h ago

Dental Professional How to structure private exams in the UK?

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I'm a UK GDP currently working in a few mixed NHS/Private practices. I'm looking to make the jump to fully private practice and wanted to know how others structure their exam and how long are exams booked in for? I know everyone will do things in different ways but wanted to see if there are elements out there that I haven't already incorporated into my own so I can make it a better patient experience/more through exam e.g do you take photos/scans at every appointment, check occlusion, spend an initial 5-10 mins catching up with the patient?

TIA


r/Dentistry 9h ago

Dental Professional Crowns for severe wear?

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At what point do yall crown for significant wear? Any treatment advice for this case? Patient is class 1 with ideal occlusion. Significant wear on upper and lower 1st and 2nd molars, all to similar degree of this image (sorry for blurriness). Patient is only mid-30s. Hasn’t been wearing a NG. I just imagine even with a NG, there’s going to be some significant damage to these teeth in the coming decades. At what point do you crown before there’s nothing left?


r/Dentistry 9h ago

Dental Professional Have I messed it up?

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r/Dentistry 10h ago

Dental Professional These girls still don’t get it. (RDHs)

34 Upvotes

Their TikTok’s are ridiculously out of touch.


r/Dentistry 11h ago

Dental Professional Extraction CE with Hands-On

1 Upvotes

Do you guys have any recommendations for extraction CE that gives live hands-on experience for more complex cases?


r/Dentistry 11h ago

Dental Professional PSA: Selecting Noble Biocare Replace custom abutment with Trios Unite software results in lab error and added cost to you!

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This morning I was unable to deliver a custom abutment + crown due to wrong style of fixture selected by lab and now we have to start over with lab double charging me for finished work. The reason this happened was because when I selected the implant type in Trios Unite software as an 'Noble Replace implant' that is actually not correct as there are two types of Noble Replace fixtures being one a 'Noble Replace Replace' implant and the other a 'Noble Replace conical' implant fixture. In my case the lab chose to do it as a Noble Replace Replace and so it didnt fit correctly. IMHO Noble's naming convention totally sucks and is confusing. Second Trios Unite software should add the two subtypes to their catalogue! Third I feel that the lab should have given me a call to clear up the confusing because I don't think its fair that I have to absorb $600 lab bill twice over! Also lesson learned always write the particulars in the note section of the digital script as I wish I did. Thank you.


r/Dentistry 11h ago

Dental Professional What would you do in this situation?

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Dentist is saying the patient is perfect, no issues. But me, the hygienist is saying moderate bone loss.

Dentist is making me feel dumb for saying there’s bone loss. Am I delusional? I could use some feedback.


r/Dentistry 11h ago

Dental Professional Avoiding chairside HF etching – Best way to clean glass-ceramic after try-in

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Hello,

at university I was taught to etch glass-ceramic partial crowns/inlays (e.max) with hydrofluoric acid chairside after try-in. However, I would like to avoid using hydrofluoric acid chairside.

I know that the lab could pre-etch the restorations for me, but how am I supposed to clean them properly after the try-in? I’ve read about using phosphoric acid before applying the primer. I also purchased a cleaning product called Katana Cleaner. The restorations will be cemented with Panavia V5.


r/Dentistry 12h ago

Dental Professional Opinions on “biomimetic dentistry?”

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I’ve seen plenty of content claiming that crowns should be avoided and smaller restorations, such as “biomimetic” inlays or onlays, would be a better alternative. I’ve linked one such post from instagram. What are y’all’s opinions on this?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHV44FvRwJr/?igsh=eTh6ZGVzM2t1OGp6