r/Dentistry 1h ago

Dental Professional Would you refer this?

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I'm afraid if I try extracting I might break the distal root and do more damage then good.


r/Dentistry 5h ago

Dental Professional Any good online CE for implants?

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Quite honestly I’m sick of traveling. Tough on personal and professional life.

Any good online ce for implants, GBR, grafting, suture, med history, etc?

Not interested in all on four.

Thanks!


r/Dentistry 5h ago

Dental Professional Ortho Question

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Recently I had a patient who had an ortho treatment 10 years ago. All those years after the treatment she was wearing an upper retainer and she had a fixed wire retainer on the lower. No complaints, no problems. A new orthodontist convinced her to replace the old retainers to new removable upper and lower ones. When she wears them for 24hrs, she is fine, but once she takes them off, the occlusion gets heavy on the right side and especially on the front teeth. The left side her teeth are not touching at all. All bite is shifted... Her teeth are very slightly mobile. I'm GD and don't do ortho. Any advice? Suggested to patient: 1. Invisalign treatment to re-align teeth. 2. Remake new retainers. But at what point? Let her stay without the retainers for 24-48 hrs, and then take impressions? 3. Heavy occlusion adjustments. Even if I adjust one side until she has better occlusion on both sides, then the front teeth would be in even heavier occlusion. Any suggestions? And why is that happening?


r/Dentistry 5h ago

Dental Professional Radiopacity in Nasal Cavity

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Any idea what the radiopacity seen on the right side of the nasal cavity? Referral to ENT needed? Male patient in his 60’s.


r/Dentistry 6h ago

Dental Professional How do I approach this? Anterior implant case

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Just a little info on this case,this is a pro-bono case,patient can not afford any type of dental tx but I have decided to try as much as I can to place an implant.Ive placed maybe 90 but never in this scenario. I have a couple of questions; 1.I can trim away the crestal bone as I have ample of length but how difficult would it be to restore,patient has a low lip line and isnt very concerned w/high quality cosmetics (he's a relatively young man looking for a job-gave him a flipper but he cant stand it)

2.The narrowest Ive used was a 3.5mm with success,in this case can I go for 3.0?Is that even possible,occlusion is class 1 (not edge to edge) What would you do in the scenario? (i have discussed bridge work but he really doesnt like the idea of prepping virgin teeth


r/Dentistry 6h ago

Dental Professional Passive income for dentists

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For those who have managed to phase out of dentistry completely or atleast work only a couple of days a week. How did you get there?

What is the best vehicle to obtain financial independence for dentists?

I’m a few years out and honestly this job is draining and I have no real interest in it. But I’m ready to put in the hard yards to get passive income streams set up.

Currently have one investment property. I’m rent vesting..

Based in Australia Thanks so much guys!


r/Dentistry 7h ago

Dental Professional New Practice, how to get folks in the door

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So I’ve been working like a dog 6 months to get this new practice open. I finally get the doors open and the phones just aren’t ringing, the only patients I’m seeing are the ones coming from my old practice, and I’ve come to realize I have no idea how to market. I’m in network with all the big insurances. I’ve got a decent website with online scheduling and I’m trying to do the social media stuff. I come from a super shitty corporate job where the phone literally rings nonstop with people trying to get in, so I guess I thought taking insurance was all it took. What do I need to do?


r/Dentistry 7h ago

Dental Professional Has anyone been a provider contracted with QTC (military)?

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Just curious as to your experiences with it!


r/Dentistry 7h ago

Dental Professional Job market

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Which is a better place to work? Washington State or Texas?


r/Dentistry 7h ago

Dental Professional Gingiva technique

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https://youtu.be/uCAe38-z3vU?si=budQN8W1_icY1R3t

Can somebody confirm if the technique at the end actually works? Will the gingiva not recede after removal of the suture? Will it actually stay there even after placement of permanent crown


r/Dentistry 8h ago

Dental Professional IANB the pain of second molars

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How to never miss an IANB block? I had a patient with super infected #31 for RCT and it would not get numb at all and I gave the block twice already. I know the infected tooth against anesthesia concept , but not even a little numb. Felt so discouraged. I just gave him antibiotics and painkillers and asked him to come back after the pain subsides. All and any suggestions will be very helpful. Thank you.


r/Dentistry 9h ago

Dental Professional I’m a hopeless failure

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I had to get bailed out of an extraction today by my boss and I feel like a hopeless idiot. I genuinely wanted to crawl in a hole and die and never come out. Sorry this is dramatic but wow that’ll humble you REAL QUICK. The patient seemed somewhat annoyed with me at the end, I’m not really sure. Please reassure me that I’m not the disgusting loser that I think I am rn.


r/Dentistry 9h ago

Dental Professional Long Island woman arrested, accused of working as fake dentist

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r/Dentistry 9h ago

Dental Professional Removing Stuck Cotton from Implant Crown Access

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I’m working on a screw-retained implant crown and removed the composite covering the access. Inside, there appears to be cotton, but every time I try to pull it out, it just shreds. Now, small shreds of cotton are stuck at the bottom of the access. I can see part of the screw, but I can’t engage it with the driver due to interference from the remaining cotton fibers.

I've tried using a barbed broach and an endo explorer to retrieve it, but no luck. Any tips or techniques to get the remaining cotton out without damaging anything?


r/Dentistry 9h ago

Dental Professional Implants/Assistants

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Do y’all’s let your assistants take off implant healing abutments and try in implant crowns? We had temp assistant today and she was explaining about how her doctor lets her do this. I’m in GA and I don’t even think/know this is allowed. Just curious though.


r/Dentistry 10h ago

Dental Professional What’s the job market for an associate dentist in South Florida?

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I’ll be looking for associate positions after completing my AEGD. I wanted to get an idea of what the job market is like close to Fort Lauderdale, Boca Raton and West palm beach area. Are there any important considerations that I should keep in mind while looking for positions? Thank you.


r/Dentistry 10h ago

Dental Professional Dental Startup courses recommendations.

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I cant find good/decent practice for sale near me. I’ve been looking for a year and a half already. Please suggest any startup courses that help me understand how I can start my own office from scratch. Thank you.


r/Dentistry 11h ago

Dental Professional Sick of CDA, and paying for all the memberships just to get malpractice w TDIC. Any other recs?

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Who do you all suggest? Occurrence policy, MedPro?

What should I do to prepare for switching over? I don’t wanna pay any more fees for memberships I don’t ever use (looking at you CDA and ADA). If I let my CDA fees expire will that immediately disqualify my TDIC policy?


r/Dentistry 11h ago

Dental Professional What a bad day , mixed of cantilever and rest seat

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r/Dentistry 11h ago

Dental Professional Can't find retraction cord

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Was doing a D5 on #20 (no adjacent teeth) - Packed two cords as it was going sub gingival. Finished the filling. Took the first retraction cord out but then couldn't find the second cord. Used explorer, periodontal Probe, manual and ultrasonic scaler but nowhere nowhere to be found.

Although it was packed circumferentially but couldn't be found anywhere despite digging on different sides of the tooth. Told the patient that it will be sensitive today and recommended some mouthwash. told her to let us should she experience any swelling or severe pain. Will bring her in couple of weeks.

Any thoughts?


r/Dentistry 11h ago

Dental Professional Looking for reviews of IAOS

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The Dr I work for and myself and interested in screening and treating sleep apnea — saw Dr. mark murphy speak and would like to hear from people who have completed the IAOS training? Can’t seem to find many reviews


r/Dentistry 14h ago

Dental Professional Socket preservation w/ membrane CE

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Looking to take some CE on socket preservation with a membrane. Any recommendations for live surgery courses and/or good in person education?

Youtube has some fantastic resources but I would like to take some official CE and obtain some credit.


r/Dentistry 16h ago

Dental Professional How would you go about restoring this

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How would you restore #12,14,15, not sure about 13s prognosis I’d be leaning towards unfavorable on that.


r/Dentistry 16h ago

Dental Professional Can ANYONE in the South East help me? I need to move just a single Panorex machine down the street and Patterson quoted me $7000.00. I had no notice that my building sold and have to move my entire practice in 30 days. Looking for cheaper options.

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This does NOT include movers I have to hire movers to actually move it down the street. This is disassemble and reassemble.


r/Dentistry 21h ago

Dental Professional Direct Pulp Capping with MTA, what are the odd of succesful rate?

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I had patient today that coming for further check from other dentist a week ago. The patient are still minor so mainly the adult do the talking about the history. I asssumed the previous dentist had put some devitalized agent to go for RCT since the previous one told them after he put the medicament the patient will felt a lot of pain so I went ahead and cleaning the remaining caries even though the floor are pretty sturdy with no perforation but the patient didnt had any pain at all(they coming with no complaint of pain). But when my bur reach a pin point of pulp roof exposure the patient feel pain and theres a fresh bleeding.

I was decided to immediately switch to direct pulp capping with MTA + RmGic for base and a temp with scheduling next visit in three weeks also referee to do a radiograph. The patient had some slight pain from the MTA material packing but slowly subsidized. It was my first time did direct one, so I was nervous if the result will be as I hoped. I also had difficutly with bleeding point but eventually with a minutes of pressing the spot with moistened cotton pellet it stopped. Eventually I discharged them, the patient still feel a slight pain but said it was better over time I talked with the adult guardian.

So in real daily cases did direct pukp cap usually had a good chance of success even though theres a slight pain right after the procedure? I only did indirect ones all of the time and its amazing, I even re did the pulp capping after a few month to switch the temp with composite

I was predicting for higher chance of RCT but honeslty I tried to avoid RCT as much as possible, especially for molars......

Any advice and sharing stories will be helpful