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in a lot less flash. Rarely have to place a wedge. Best of both worlds, especially on those patients whose gums bleed and then you'd be letting blood into the composite by cutting a window. If doing an MOD I place the ring on one side first and the the other. Just have to make sure to try flossing
March 10, 2026
Restorative Dentistry
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: Interconnection Between Periodontitis and Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Current Challenges, and Future Perspective | Journal of Crohn's and Colitis | Oxford Academic Frontiers | The oral-gut microbiome axis in inflammatory bowel disease: from inside to insight The 'Gum-Gut' Axis in Inflammatory Bowel
April 22, 2026
The Oral-Systemic Health Connection
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the truth. He has sacrificed a lot in his personal like to achieve what he has, which is humongous, but to him a lot of personal costs have been exacted which in his mind makes the balance a negative one. So it is important to have a healthy relationship with money. I dont necessarily agree
July 20, 2025
Personal Finance
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are going to have a healthy, crime- and addiction-free society, we must develop goals, programs, and policies which arouse people's enthusiasm and draw them into the game of work, prosperity, and independence. This is a complicated but critically important challenge. For the sake of our country
February 15, 2026
Politics
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here-even the sharp, heated ones. Debate is healthy when it forces us to separate belief from evidence. Access vs. Utilization: Saying '183 million chose not to go' overlooks verifiable data. According to the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), as of September 30, 2025
February 23, 2026
Public Health Dentistry
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. I don't have any advice to add to help the OP because I think others have said all that needs to be said. But the 5-6 meltdowns with beet red face is something that is not normal or healthy and needs to be addressed. Great thread !Love the discussion and the willingness to share the good
May 19, 2025
Staff Management Issues
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, and a dental practice. I was angry with her choices. They were selfish. But the bigger picture was raising healthy, happy, well adjusted kids. And teaching them to hate their mother was not the path I was going to choose. Even if she deserved it. The kids didn't. While it might make you feel like
April 22, 2026
Personal Finance
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. The patient is 78 and not great health. The crack did not appear to go onto the floor of the pulp chamber. honestly I would have ext this tooth on a younger healthier patient. The patient said let's try I don't have that many years left. So I tried but it's shaky at best. But if I could visualize the fx on the chamber floor I would not have even tried.
September 23, 2025
Restorative Dentistry
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spoke with was having little to no return on her Google Ads. She had a $0.78 CPC (cost per ad click), which is about 10x lower than the healthy industry standard ($7.50-$12.00 and beyond). An unusually low CPC and poor conversions indicate that your ad is being shown to people who don't matter to you
October 10, 2025
Ideas To Make Your Practice Grow
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, people can afford it, not a litigious society, have healthy amount of respect for dentists, understanding that sometimes it's not an exact science,, dentists are supportive of other dentists, staff is easy to find and hire if needed..... I guess I could go on and on, but then it's much easier
August 06, 2025
Dental Students
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running at 45. Compressor on its last legs- gonna use a rental and order a new one. Fun stuff! Can't bitch too loud, twenty year service life is pretty fair. Be sure to go on the hunt for air leaks a healthy air leak is like having another doc in the office using air. I'm sure your guy
July 31, 2025
Equipment
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am currently thinking of something like a 50% PPO/ 50% FFS practice, or even higher FFS percentage PMed With FFS practices, there will be more attrition than a usual in-network PPO practice. Plan for a healthy marketing budget to attract new patients. If possible, retain the seller for a bit to ease
February 01, 2026
Practice Sales
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. To give you a simple answer, yes. We've been working on our internal referral program, we've done custom mail fliers, we have a Google Business Profile with healthy rating (4.9). We're averaging about 30 new patients a month right now, but I'd like more new patients because there just isn't a lot
October 29, 2025
Marketing
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on a monthly basis. Their payments are based on healthy mouths, periodontal recall patients and a sleep apnea program We have determined that 20% of the monthly intake from our in office courtesy plans is attributed to examinations, hence to doctor production. So if our monthly intake was 10 apples
November 22, 2025
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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use the program describe it as convenient because it keeps employees from leaving work for preventive care. What Cigna gains is better compliance, fewer missed cleanings, and healthier utilization patterns inside their dental plan. Cigna Dental Health Connect works the same way. It is a suite of add
November 25, 2025
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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. Psychology reshaped the way clinicians communicate, educate, and guide patients toward healthier choices. These are only a few examples of breakthroughs rooted in fields outside dentistry. As new ideas continue to emerge, the future of dentistry will depend on the willingness to stay curious, stay
December 01, 2025
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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it as directed come back with pink healthy tissue and no sign of inflammation. I can always tell if they used it or not. Yup. Kois gave a strong warning against CHX to irrigate sockets after ext. Extract, curette the socket, initiate a good clot, apply pressure with 2x2 gauze. Evaluate prior to discharge
May 12, 2026
Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
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the 92 yo. One could postulate that there would be a value in always making new friends, especially younger healthier friends. But like I started with, easier said than done I imagine. I wonder if there's a mixed blessing and downside to senior living communities. Newly moved in residents share how
March 01, 2026
General Health
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because they were missing so many days. Yeah, I am an outlier, but I haven't called in sick for 20 years, so it's hard to identify with my FD. Sounds like you are saying less than one sick day per month is the cutoff point, which I think is a sensible number. Some people are healthier than others
May 25, 2025
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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in heaven with only beautiful ridges, healthy mouths, and well-coordinated tongues. Thats assuming of course that well be there, too. Hahahaha Depends which heaven..the FFS one or the PPO one. To be fair..if you find yourself in the afterlife making dentures.... Those who do dentures
June 02, 2025
Removable Prosthodontics
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in love with a stock. People should be careful not to fall in love with a stock. Yeah, this is one of those times where I feel like Im at the top of the rollercoaster before it does that whipsaw going down. Im still in it, but I do keep a healthy cash position always I've been into metals and mining
October 15, 2025
Personal Finance
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flight. These are all actual excuses from my life as an employer. I get it. Stuff happens. It is a lower bar. I drag my sorry ass into the office. Sometimes they need to stay home just to keep everyone else healthy. I actually required an assistant to take a Covid test a month ago. She was dragging
January 03, 2026
Staff Management Issues
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than debate their arguments, trust collapses and conversation turns into accusation. Disagreeing is healthy. Questioning facts is fair. But when we presume bad faith in others while assuming moral purity in ourselves, discussion stops being productive and becomes tribal. If we want
February 05, 2026
Associates Corner
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touched on those various exits with my own parents. My dad was healthy to age 75 and dropped dead of a stroke in an instant. His doctor called that type of death a "kiss from an angel", but acknowledged it was harder for his loved ones. My mom lived on her own, in her own home, to age 93, fell
December 14, 2025
Politics
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implant placement to cover all the holes she has and a short convo about getting it done in Mexico to round out the day. GTFOOMO forever and don't come back. GTFback inMO No, i can't build up this sharp tooth because it is a mesial root of #30 laying sideways in/on your gums with no bony retention
October 16, 2025
Just Plain Bitching and Moaning
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and it was 90% out in 45 seconds Removed with 151 forcep I had a referral from the Emergency Room yesterday (Sunday). The man had consumed some broken glass (real idiot) and he thought there was a piece in his gums around #14 or 15. He had NO money so I told him to go back to the hospital and let them
January 08, 2026
Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
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system. Scientists also found something they call space gum. It is a flexible nitrogen- and oxygen-rich polymer that has never been identified in any meteorite. It formed as the parent body warmed. It may have acted like a natural glue that trapped other organics inside it. Those speaking in general see
December 07, 2025
In the News
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as well. Attia was talking about "power" as we age and the importance to prevent falls (like falling off a curb and breaking something). From my perspective at this point, focusing on strength, balance and power (plus nutrition) seems even more important for healthy aging. I'm currently reading
January 12, 2026
General Health
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new patient inquiries? That supports expansion. Hygiene vs. doctor production:A healthy hygiene program (2535% of total production) helps balance the load and improve scalability EBITDA (Profit margin):Make sure youre in the 1535% range. Expansion only works if you can keep or improve profitability
May 21, 2025
Equipment, Acquisition & Practice Expansion Financing
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sports and have every single water toy you could have. ( no motors) Living on the coast in Southern California makes that a natural. I also hike. However I did something unusual for me that paid off. It was part of my healthy mid life crisis. California men suffer a syndrome known as Peter Pan Syndrome
May 16, 2025
Leisure
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is hopefully over after the viral video. No politics allowed in my office. Since you mentioned free speech it looks like California Democrats are trying to ban "hate speech" Why would her career be over? Half of voters in this country agree with her. And plenty others don't care, so that's plenty for a healthy
October 13, 2025
Marketing
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today, while the BBB was getting passed, Trump was meeting with the Saudi defense minister to discuss peace in the Middle East. Multitasking, and winning Obama screwed up my health insurance Thats not partisan banter its a fact. good thing Im healthy. I put in a call. Consider it rectified
July 03, 2025
Politics
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snowballed to a healthy nest egg- I would say dentistry has been good to me. A solid decision. I do not love it. I would choose dentistry again. That's what I chose. A Dreams come true. Make sure to forget dental school asap as you aquire competency. If you are a dental school dentist. Life is hard
July 19, 2025
Dental Students
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. Of course, this is early data. The researchers are careful to note that these were retrospective studies, not randomized trials. It's possible that vaccinated patients were healthier, more proactive, or had other advantages. But the biological evidence in both animals and humans makes coincidence
November 05, 2025
All Things Coronavirus (Covid-19, SARS-CoV-2)
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showed me a picture of her patient at a gathering about 2 years ago and his front teeth are full size. Healthy guy for the most part but went through prostate cancer treatment during this time. I believe it was only radiation treatment. MLD composite rehab would be a good suggestion for him -- cost
January 12, 2026
Cosmetic Dentistry
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offices in the united states. to put things in perspective. 2 hipaa violations in 6 years...pretty low chances. I'll just mention my stats here - I've been here at dmi for 13 years now. We have worked with hundreds of dentists, and have a healthy long-term client base. In all that time, I have helped
January 15, 2026
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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The Democrat campaign motto. That's what I had for 30 years. So great for me and my family. fruit trees and berry fields and grapes big veg garden and sheep (hence my name Flock), and 2 donkeys, chickens, geese, goats, milked, two ponds fished...... exhausting..... but kept me healthy. busy days. now just my
January 18, 2026
Politics
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of America, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the American College of Physicians, said at a press event that limiting the long-standing recommendation to give all healthy babies the hepatitis B shot at birth undermines decades of evidence showing the vaccine prevents cancer
December 11, 2025
All Things Coronavirus (Covid-19, SARS-CoV-2)
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of the house now.'" 2. "One day Chuck Norris told a woman to calm down, and she calmed down." 3. "When Chuck Norris was born the doctor said, 'Congratulations! You have two healthy parents.'" 4. "He took this photo with a payphone." 5. 'Chuck Norris doesn't have to learn Spanish; Spanish has to learn Chuck
December 12, 2025
Politics
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for. I would think Addiction has touched many of us through family, friends, coworkers, etc- I sympathize with your friend that is trying to hold things together during this tough time. I wonder if the partner saw this coming at all? I can't imagine dealing with these circumstances, managing healthy
December 08, 2025
Partnerships and Associates
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stress but learning how to navigate it without losing yourself. Therapy, community, healthier routines, and perspective make the difference between surviving and burning out. Final thought: Dentistry attracts perfectionists, but perfection is impossible in a profession done on living, imperfect humans
December 05, 2025
Mental Health, Well-Being, and Stress Management
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coming in for their biannual checkups with healthy sets of teeth in their mouths. Question is how's his systemic health holding up? stable? deteriorating? do any of the roots show signs of infection? swelling, redness, purulence? I have done a lot of nursing home dentistry. I would apply SDF
March 24, 2026
Geriatric Dentistry
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the locater abutment, measure from the implant platform to the gingival margin. Don't add any to this measurement. This is the height you order, which is generally 3mm or so. They will send you an abutment that is the correct height above the gum tissue. Glad you got this one off. Too bad we all
May 29, 2025
Removable Prosthodontics
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. $555.55/hour production. Now I'm paying $30 for that same zirconia crown, getting the same 1250 from insurance, no PVS or temp material, no post op crown coming off, patient is numb, no bleeding gums, etc. I book 3 hours. While the crown is milling today for instance I was doing a quadrant of fillings
August 25, 2025
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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- truth - then some sort of reliable, scientific approach is our best bet. IMO, we can walk and chew gum at the same time - lament the damage while seeking truth. Maybe truth cuts down on such things in the future. The WP violated those standards. And, due to the frequency of bad information from Hamas
July 05, 2025
Politics
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, and if they are closer together to the front of the jaw, there will be less odds of creating a rotation and more odds of keeping the denture stuck to the gums. The case as it is, seems borderline not workable. And even with a bar, if you are uncertain of having enough space, the bar will be thinner, but it will also
January 20, 2026
Removable Prosthodontics
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potential problem in my mind, is that you can almost see the implants through the first few MM of gums. This case reads like the implants are going to fail sooner than one would like. I would be uncomfortable restoring this case for this reason alone. Then there is the other stuff... In one case like
January 17, 2026
Restorative Dentistry
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from the gums differently, and teeth shift while implants don't. the last 10 of my implant crowns are all screwed on now. The retrieve ability of that alone and now seeing this- cements in my mind (get the pun) that this is the way. IF this was screwed on- simply unscrew it- send to lab- either new
December 11, 2025
Implantology
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the denture getting locked in when you do a chair side pick up. No. With short Locator abutments with the retentive portion just above the gum, you don't need to worry about locking in the housings when you pick them up chair side. Place both housings on the locator posts, and make sure the denture
April 24, 2026
Removable Prosthodontics
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/ articaine. I did it at both prep and seat dates and patient moaned the whole time. did you try poking into his gums with your explorer to test? Or put a finger on the tooth but act like you are putting an instrument on and see how they respond? I find usually patients like this are just freaked
May 07, 2026
Anesthesiology
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