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are criticized for begrudging hygienists $100,000 earnings a year??????????????? See this all the time. Husband and wife came in with perfect gum health and hygiene Were being charged for perio maintanance, irrigation, Atridox, totaling $150 more than insurance paid, and paying it every 4 months! They are my faithful patients now.
August 20, 2025
Staff Management Issues
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do because you are the one who is going to hear about sensitivity, and try to cement a crown with bloody inflamed gums mucking up the joint. So much good advice already. I'm not sure why no one ever told us in school or GPR that the first years out are hard AF. You are new . You will make mistakes
August 16, 2025
Mental Health, Well-Being, and Stress Management
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over to the gym for social hour, did a few dips and a set of bench press with a friend. But, got my gums pumped up pretty good. The dip station I ordered is supposed to arrive this pm. I'm curious Greg, are you able to do the same weight with both arms? 50# sounds insane, and you keep improving
August 10, 2025
General Health
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and communities should not be scared into making a decision that will harm their oral health and overall health. Have you read this thread? Parts of it yes Did you know you will never have to visit the dentist again after you buy this gum? Did you know you will never have to visit the dent I don't really want
March 26, 2026
Water Fluoridation
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blanket advice. If someone bought an existing, healthy practice, and has good patient flow, then the quickest way to increase income is to diagnose and treatment plan comprehensively, and to learn to communicate effectively to increase treatment acceptance. If a new grad does $500 more a day
August 20, 2025
Dental Students
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a healthy vital nerve for the apex to close. Again hats off to the treating pediatric dentist who knew this and treated the patient with VPT. This tooth remained vital and pain free a win for this very young patient. I've posted this before, the death cycle of a tooth by Marcus Blatz. It all begins
August 27, 2025
Pediatric Dentistry
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money or result in what i would call a low hourly rate. 4. I have seen alot of videos of american dentists violating healthy teeth in the name of being comprehensively diagnosing... crowning every tooth with a small craxk etc etc. Not weighting risk vs reward. As a doctor should. Who gives a shit
August 15, 2025
Dental Students
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? You are regurgitating dental school rules that are made to not have newbies destroy everything. its fine to have a healthy respect but too much respect and you dont get the job done. facially on lowers I often through not all the way up but lower down where the buccal bone is thicker and I drill
August 17, 2025
Dental Students
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, maintaining enamel integrity and avoiding unnecessary removal of healthy tooth structure. This approach aligns with the principles of biomimetic and minimally invasive dentistry. A key feature of the chosen material and adhesive protocol is the option for future removal using erbium lasers. Unlike
September 06, 2025
Cosmetic Dentistry
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not spending that money either. I only spend money where I cant make the item like sashimi, or some unique cuisine. But a coffee? A basque burnt cheesecake for 8$? Pass I can make it with healthier ingredients and 1/10 the cost give me 4 ribeyes from Costco and I can make better steaks
July 23, 2025
Personal Finance
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days to be easier to maintain a healthy diet because Im distracted by work. Its being home on the weekends around the pantry that make it difficult. Give yourself those cheat days. Dont beat yourself up if you have a weekend day where you eat less than ideal. Its okay for the long-term, but make
June 20, 2025
General Health
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an accident with my Vitamix an a finger critical to dentistry. That is the problem. Term life for most is cheap if you buy 10,20,30 year term when still healthy. I have $2.75 M at this point and it is cheap. I will probably not renew when the term is over but large life insurance policies give the peace
August 05, 2025
Retirement Planning
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the palatal bone thickness. MHD has a good post on DT about this. It is normal and healthy to have disagreements. I read your responses above and still feel that the arguments for the CBCT are not enough to sway me. In time I might change but not yet. Let me just say that the pain argument after
July 17, 2025
Implantology
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they should earn less than an associate DDS. They cannot seem to see the great potential and benefits of an engaged, productive hygiene dept that helps to find restorative and elective work for the Drs and keeps patients healthy, so you don't have to contend with excessive bleeding when you do your
August 14, 2025
Staff Management Issues
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and lose a lot of bone. This valplast Cu-Sil denture is ideal in this case. Pt has all lower teeth, except 24,25. All reasonably healthy. I had to ext some upper teeth with gross root decays. I wanted to save 6 and 11. 6 was root canaled and composite on lingual. 11 was vital and I covered it flat
January 21, 2026
Removable Prosthodontics
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there's also a deeper gratitude. To whom should we give thanks that the people around us are healthy and happy, and that they were not struck dead by a drunk driver yesterday? For that one, it's either Fate or the Sky Daddy. We been friends too long to take offense. Happiness is a choice, unlike
November 14, 2025
Politics
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it. anyhow nice healthy debates. My mind is fried after watching fomc and tickers from 11-1. Gonna go do actual dental work lol Why does any of this matter? You are either right or you're wrong about the structure of our nations financial system but what does it change about how to handle it? What
December 11, 2025
Retirement Planning
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practicing dentistry but rather from being your own landlord. Muddies the waters. Each study can use different inputs. strange reasoning. Data says Americans are getting fatter every year, so I won't try to eat healthier and exercise more. But like Sunshine said, neither of us needs the other's
December 12, 2025
Retirement Planning
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comfortable with before we made the move, we do recognize that we are incredibly lucky. I did take a 16 month Sabbatical from Dentistry after selling the office. After we settled in East Coast, we did a fair amount of traveling. I did lots of biking, working out, healthy living, beach going, skiing
December 14, 2025
Retirement Planning
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of state tuition in his 529 so we have been floating his room and forward with cash flow. Middle child got a healthy scholarship at an expensive private institution. We ended up with about 80 to 85% of her four years tuition room and board. The high schooler already has more than enough saved for four
March 04, 2026
Retirement Planning
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surgery. glad you are healthy and happy. he is in his 50's. i wouldn't have wanted an older surgeon on my case because i was a super difficult tough case. he worked really hard to get it done perfectly. it took two hours just to get the heart exposed and on bypass. There are too many dentists. We need
April 22, 2026
Retired and Soon to be Retired Dentist's Forum
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start crowding out others who value dentistry more, than yes absolutely start collecting a CC or deposit, drop insurance, etc. I think these are all different business strategies depending on the practice so it just depends on where you're at with your practice. Great healthy discussion If I were
April 29, 2026
Front Office Discussion
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on campus by a Florida 'implant' specialist who did terrible work as far as i was concerned. Blade implants, subperiosteal, etc that the number one commonality between them were healthy amounts of pus being involved. Sometime in the late 2000's I had a lady come in for a complaint of a loose bridge
May 04, 2026
Dentistry In The News
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, enjoyment from doing dentistry. One of the best dentists in my town, and very nice guy, basically deliberately died in the office. He wasn't very old, maybe 50ish, very very fit, he rode road bicycles and played tennis. Lean, athletic, healthy his whole life (he was a family friend), got colon cancer
May 08, 2026
Retired and Soon to be Retired Dentist's Forum
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October 31, 2025
Billing
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hemostatic challenge they present but still..... Always better to know the big picture ;) mark My understanding of the UK guidelines was that an INR below 4 was good. Certainly I have used this ( 4 or below ) in an otherwise healthy patient for single tooth extraction with just local measure
May 16, 2025
Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
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, and healthy growth. Those speaking in general say the demand is huge. There are more than a hundred PE-backed dental groups across the United States and they are not slowing down. Recent data shows dental deals account for a big share of healthcare acquisitions this year. That energy is driving
November 06, 2025
DSOs Dental Group Practice, Multi-location Dental Practices, and Dental Su
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have time for people that are wasting our time. There are people that actually value their health and understand how pivotal a healthy mouth is. I've cultivated a few thousand who pay their bill, do their homework and leave 5 star Google reviews when it's all done with. You should come see what a three
January 16, 2026
Dental "Pearls"
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if healthy 40 y/o Sally with Delta dental wants to be my patient or not - I like patients with problems, who know they have problems, and who know it's gonna cost money to fix them. BUT I'm sure if I were in a different area, or ran an insurance-based office, my answer would be different
November 25, 2025
Front Office Discussion
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and more about specializing, specifically in endo, and I'll try to condense it down to three reasons. 1. I can excel at a handful of procedures. I currently do molar endo, implants, and some impacted 3rds. I feel like I've invested a healthy amount of time and resources into these specific procedures
September 17, 2025
Practice Start-Up
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manager is up around 1500 folks I know. I'm glad to be 70 and healthy, I'm forced once a year to delete the dead ones from the contact manager. Back in the day was Act software, switched years ago to Google. Makes life really easy when it's a live calendar for the family now. No merging databases
April 11, 2026
Retired and Soon to be Retired Dentist's Forum
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. This is not hype or sales copy. It is decision support. Second, educational FAQ content is critical. A huge number of people now use ChatGPT as their first stop for research, not buying. They are asking things like whether implant surgery hurts, how long crowns last, what happens if gum disease
February 04, 2026
Marketing
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therapy early Though it is the current standard medical practice to prescribe statins only when an otherwise healthy patient already has high LDL cholesterol (LDL-C >160 mg/dL), there are substantial benefits to using lipid-lowering therapies before this threshold is reached. An individual who
May 26, 2025
General Health
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person is positive EV. Eating healthy is positive EV. Timing the market is, on average, a negative EV action. Even if it works out for you, it's still the wrong play because eventually you will get burnt. It's like going all in with 2/7 off-suit against a pair of aces. Sure you might win the pot 1 out
October 07, 2025
Retirement Planning
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of culture/intellectual stimulation argument, and the fact that overall food is not healthy here. Your trip sounds great, Greg. Maybe you can find a doggie daycare for a drop in some place? Our friends don't have kids, but they have 2 dogs. The dogs love going there (even though our friends are mostly
September 08, 2025
General Health
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, or something else entirely. Given how much you hate doing dentistry, I can't imagine why you continue. We only get one life. Spending the biggest amount of your waking hours on something you despise can't be a healthy choice. I think lots of us were seriously worried that you would not get out alive. I'm
October 27, 2025
Retirement Planning
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hides in tunnels, has no uniforms and has zero regard for civilians, would you want to feed them to keep them healthy and fighting? Dayman, As far as surrendering, Germany and Japan weren't facing the complete erasures of their country. Uh Incorrect. Unconditional surrender means exactly
July 27, 2025
Politics
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are generous. Going OON for some is not that simple. It is definitely a solution for some, but in saturated areas patients just have other choices. I have such a large percentage of patients that are healthy and don't even have a single filling in their mouth. I feel like they will often run
June 23, 2025
Hygiene Discussions
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validity here, but we also can't be so arrogant to think that we know better than mother nature in some regards. I don't think western society can be described as healthy in many aspects, and a lot of the reason for that is that we are fighting our biological design. Yea exactly. Families used
July 31, 2025
General Discussions
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cheaper, with little effect on the experience. A home cooked meal is even less expensive, likely healthier, and a better bonding environment. I try not to impose my values on others. The things they value are meaningless to me, and they will probably not understand some of my expenses either. I get
November 30, 2025
Retirement Planning
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for why dentistry still needs a healthy ADA. But needing a national association is not the same thing as being excited to pay dues to one. That gap is where the trouble lives. The recent budget cuts, including more than $20 million in expense reductions, suggest leadership understands the math
March 18, 2026
Just Plain Bitching and Moaning
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the best that we can do is be there for our loved ones and if we detect something different, try to find out. this is one of the reasons I promote male bonding. We are raised to be islands, and that is just not healthy. We don't need to bond in person, we can do it by just picking up the phone. Tuan
August 30, 2025
Dental Students
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wish you nothing but the best. I would also add that having a good,healthy support system (like family, spouse, genuine friends) helps make miserable jobs more tolerable. When one doesn't have that and realizes that they hate their job, it is just hell on earth. I also think one's health starts
October 02, 2025
Practice Management & Administrative Forum
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reckless spending. Housel warns that unaddressed trauma turns money into a controller rather than a liberator, urging listeners to recognize these patterns for healthier habits. Saving vs. Spending: Finding Balance and Alignment Saving is framed as "buying independence"-every dollar saved owns a piece
October 11, 2025
Retirement Planning
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amount, just acknowledge that it will be substantial increase in monthly spend. In turn, I've planned to eliminate a large fixed cost prior to that occurring while simultaneously working to provide a healthy financial cushion. I'm not hellbent on a traditional retirement in my 40s, nor am I hyper
January 09, 2026
Retirement Planning
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an exam and realized that the previous dentsit billed for 4q sc/rp in a periodontally healthy teenager). But please don't group us all together. Many of our colleages here I've spoken with will tell you (whether or not they became clients of ours) that I always give the straight dope about whether
January 15, 2026
Dentist Websites
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or perfectly independent but to think that Trump has full control and influence isn't healthy. I'd say the same thing about a Dem president. Now, as for you defending David's loonie bullshit. Please quote a post of his you felt was well thought out and why? He's got to be the most polarized
January 16, 2026
Associates Corner
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true.. Does twice a year prpohy stand on its own? How about drift, irrespective of age and oral health status? Are you old enough to remember "Extension for Prevention," which required massive tooth structure removal...really? Routine dental x-rays? Removing amalgam restorations makes people healthier
February 20, 2026
Ethical Issues
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healthier foods. I spent much of my life going to church, grew up in a Lutheran church. Spent my life as a father taking my father going to church in an episcopal church. Was a vestry member, then the head of the vestry, then 11 years in the choir. Read the Bible from beginning to end. Was a very close
April 21, 2026
Politics
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amalgam has some sort of line coming off of it, 90% of those are fine to leave alone. As per the 'I feel bad telling them they need A,B, and C....'' its likely coming across as timid and easy to brush off Your job is to explain to them how to get their mouth as healthy as it can be, and keep
July 15, 2025
Ideas To Make Your Practice Grow
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