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will need some cavities, a lot of your gums are healthy, the sides of your tongue look very pink, a good thing! The gums on the lower molars will need gum therapy called a scaling. Good news, most of your teeth are in Great shape, your tongue, cheeks, roof of your mouth, are looking very healthy
April 20, 2011
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' strategy is no longer congruent with their aims of having healthy teeth for a long time :P explain up front. what is gum disease and why is the dentist shitting himself when there isnt any pain. what happens if we dont do anything/stay the prophy course. what we can do to treat (initial-maintenance-kiv
November 07, 2016
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across the street from me stated they hardly order any filling material. It's all crowns and onlays. Oh and everyone has gum disease and requires an $800 cleaning even if they have no bleeding and 2 mm pockets. Totally agree with you Sparrow.. the HMO patients think they are better off paying less
October 03, 2025
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ingredients from their food... average consumer in the US weighs 20-30 more pounds than a European. Why do you think obesity and other health conditions are higher in our country? We are what we eat. Actually a regular American McDonald's burger is pretty healthy. No oils or additives, high quality beef. You
February 27, 2026
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. Boards aren't messing with large dsos. You think they want a piece of heartland, pds or western? Worst case dso throws dentist under bus and brings in next associate. Yes, I get patients that claim they got a $4000 treatment plan at aspen for a deep cleaning and medicine for the gums
November 16, 2022
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can of what an owner would do and see how it goes! Second the mindset - your concern shows a healthy level of self-awareness. That's a good thing and probably what makes you a better clinician than some of the jokers in your dental school class. But here's the thing: those jokers you wouldn't let
March 31, 2026
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We have an endodontist who treats my patients but he isnt very nice to them. He rips up their gums with the clamp, his work is so-so. The kicker is when I go to cement their crown their gums are so beat up theyre in pain and theyre usually mad at me. The gum tissue is so beat up it packs cement
November 05, 2020
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, Gum treatment (Periodontics), Cosmetic Dentistry and Preventive Dentistry for Kids. Evening and Saturday hours are available for your convenience. Gentle Dental is the easy way to affordable dental health. Gentle Dental of New England has been providing quality, multi-specialty dental services across
February 26, 2020
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Nothing will change. You need to look for a different opportunity. I paid my associates 50% of the adjusted production he was horrible and abused my situation I was sick with cancer all of the sudden it was not a good experience but you deserve at least 30% from what you produce assuming that expenses are at 50% but working like a horse for. $700 is not worth it keep your energy and stay healthy
May 04, 2025
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you would say that because it's hard to defend healthy athletes being asked to eat bad dietary food. No wonder US women hockey who also won gold turned down twice to go to the White House and be subjected to eat trash food. LOLOLOL. You reading along Marshall? Ballroom. Epstein. Now we've got
February 27, 2026
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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
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week You're worth twice that. I agree that you are worth twice that guarantee. If you will join some DSO get ready to make half of your county edentulous. Some with healthy teeth. Floating alginate immediate dentures. I still regret my two months stint. But I was a GP. The omfs associate that works
November 28, 2023
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periods that function like handcuffs, floating to slow satellites without a minimum guarantee, and 'you will be busy soon' as a business plan. Also watch for remake blame culture. In some practices, remakes are used like a performance review weapon. In a healthy practice, remakes are a systems
February 26, 2026
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Just wondering on average how many New Patient Full Exams do you personally (just you) see per month? I'm wondering if Im seeing enough new patients where I should have a healthy schedule. On rare occassion, I see as high as 27 per month. Some months I see as low as 13. My schedule isnt great
November 26, 2018
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She said snotty yeah I am missing too much work Why can't you be open on Fridays? (again snotty) I told her it makes no sense fiscally. I then said well now at least you have a healthy mouth so you won't have to miss work in the future if you do your part with your home care! Silence. Two can play
August 02, 2021
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after the root canal as a 5 surface restoration even though the access opening or prep was only one or two surfaces. He will also tx plan existing 2-surface restorations as crowns even when there is a lot of healthy tooth structure remaining. The company is very big on CEREC crowns. He often times
August 24, 2018
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job you will ever have. There are many many opportunities in the corporate dental world. I wouldn't worry too much over an associate position. My 2 cents is get 100 percent healthy. Get your license in the mean time. When healthy reapply and look for opportunities. You can tell them as little
May 09, 2018
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day treatment out of hygiene/ emergencies as I can. I run 1 room with 2 assistants and an available overflow room. Procedures are restorative ( use rubber dam), extractions, removable, and some endo. I am taking an implant course in the future. Only accept Delta PPO insurance and Healthy Kids. 8.5
August 06, 2018
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Hey everyone was curious as to what people thought of some aspects of an associates contract. I appreciate the input. Practice: 60,000 population town, very healthy practice doing multiple aspects of dentistry, fair cost of living, good number of new patients. Contract: - 1 year - employee - 4
February 07, 2017
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suppose to produce and this is the business part which is not your responsibility to be wellexcavated. It's not a healthy place to be. Find another place and get out ASAP. Do you know how to find a reputable business to work for? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks. It's not a well
July 10, 2024
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, implants, cast paritals) unless the patient is in the right phase. The difficult part with that is the guidelines for getting the patients healthy is pretty strict so even though a patient needs a cast partial and they only have slight periodontitis ( even if just one or two teeth have 4-5mm pockets
August 16, 2017
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. This will take a bit of time, to get good at endo, then wizzies, then implants, or any order that you see fit, then maybe even gum grafts. And maybe by then, he could be ready to let you buy in. Grow into it. You never know:))) Thank you all for the good tips. These were all very helpful. I will post
January 13, 2020
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November 12, 2025
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$3698 A month andif married then an additional $1849 for a total of $5547 or a total of $66564. What this means is that Most dentists who are able to (healthy) will want to/need to be fully earning until age 70 in order to maintain an upper middle income lifestyle based on $66564 plus returns on a $1m
September 13, 2018
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attached to a brush tip. Rub it in the gums with a brush tip and it works phenomenally to stop the bleeding. The only downside is itll turn your preps black at the margin, but that gets off easily when rubbing the margin with hydrogen peroxide. For hygiene checks, all the hygienists knew I would
October 26, 2024
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. All the best on your career! As an associate and when I first got out into the real world, I took a lot of hands-on CE and I tried everything to see what I liked and didn't like to do. I tried molar endo, gum grafts, sinus lifts, bone augmentation, pedo, and through a lot of sleepless nights, a lot
August 04, 2020
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considering fairly healthy new patient numbers. Percentage of acceptance is little low but I suspect real issue is lack of diagnosis ? Or pt pool that don't need a lot of dentistry.I would start looking. The proof is in the pudding with previous associate's compensation. If no one has broken $10k, you
August 15, 2018
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don't think it's healthy at all. Very normal. I see about 30 patients a day. 20 tend to by hygiene checks. 10 or so treatment. Work hard, play hard is my motto. This doesn't sound normal. There's a difference between doing 20 hygiene checks and doing 20 prophys! How
November 05, 2018
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by the fact that y'all are unable to see it for what it is. Trump breaks people. It's not healthy. For you haters, or for society in general. I voted against Trump in 2019 because I saw this. Trump is just too much for the masses. The reaction to Trump. Epstein files. Ballroom. Insanity. For sure
February 25, 2026
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. The main categories (staffing 21-22%ish, supplies 7-8%, marketing 3.5-5%, facility 4-5%) appear to be healthy, but they’re not overly outstanding. They are saying that they need the capital to open more practices. Thanks everyone seriously...on the strikes, why not 50% ? even at 50% it'll
February 04, 2016
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in with your experiences. I understand you can make a healthy living everywhere with constant hardwork, but I am sure certain areas will be better in some ways.. ADVISE DT please!! denatb I doubt dentistry is easy anywhere. Pick a place where you want to live and where you would be willing to have your
October 20, 2014
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and today I am playing dentist Or oh stop it, you're making me blush They laugh every time and relax. Also, a little more subtle, but I find thisworks: Even thoughI prefer to talk in laymans terms with patients Ms Jones you have gum disease and a hole in your bottom right tooth
July 20, 2016
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pretty cool (in a nerdy dental way...) Upon extracting this 5 unit FPD, the silver points/BU and crown came out in 1 piece. Digging the hollow roots out was not very fun. This 20-something year old patient is on her way to a Full denture, nearly all teeth broken off at the gum line. EXCEPT K
February 13, 2015
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patients a day and was 2x-3x booked. I worked super fast and could out do the other 2 medicaid doctors. I worked this for a couple months and moved on. I was beat at the end of the day and would drink beer instead of being healthy and going to work out. It wasn't for me and not my style of dentistry
May 24, 2016
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we do. This is so far and deep, it's pretty clear that this was used as leverage on..I would guess all segments of American politics and society for decades. You can't let that level of corruption go, or continue. I think, luckily, the country can walk and chew gum at the same time. I would bet
February 12, 2026
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is still on the very high end. Congrats Thanks for putting those numbers in context. It does sound like a pretty healthy practice and if the other docs are busy I would just be patient. If there is a clear partnership track and another doc retiring soon then it could be a really good opportunity. You
December 03, 2020
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companies decrease their pays, more new dental schools are opening, the new docs setting up their practice next to ours etc. We want our nephew to be like (or better than) us when he reaches our age. And this requires a lot of hard work and sacrifice earlier in life..and his young healthy 27 yo
December 23, 2024
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Hello. I'm a couple years out of school, did GPR and have had several previous associate jobs. I started a new part-time associate job recently in a nice insurance-based group practice. Busy with a healthy hygiene schedule. My concern is this---80-100% of my schedule so far is prophies. I don't
June 02, 2018
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**EDIT** From top to bottom: Owner dentist Office manager Front desk staff Hygienist Assistant Janitor Dog Dirt Crud Gum on the back of the shoe Cigarette butt on the pavement in the parking lot Grime in the sink Mold in ceiling Turd in the toilet bowl Associate dentist And after a couple
March 23, 2021
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get it---what it takes to keep a healthy practice thriving. To quibble over a few bucks after the office did not deliver good service to the pt. is inexcusable. To do so on the back of an associate is just wrong wrong wrong. We all make really great money doing this dentistry thing, it boggles
November 15, 2015
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guess the same scams are still going around. You already know the answer that you are asking for. Start looking now. Hells bells, I'm no dentist, but I too would refuse to restore a hopeless perio tooth. Sheesh, the teeth are great but the gums gotta go....that never works. And yes IMO
August 15, 2025
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the qualified applicants and I would make the final hire. Im unsure if I have any input if someone needs to be fired.Compensation: I would receive 35% of my collections minus half of the lab bill. There will also be a really healthy sign on bonus. Im still waiting for specifics on that. Apparently
October 30, 2020
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dentist 2.Office manager 3.Lead assistant that's been there for like +20 years 4.Front desk staff 5. Hygienist 6.All other Assistants 7.Janitor 8.The dog 9.Dirt 10.Crud 11.Gum on the back of the shoe 12. Cigarette butt on the pavement in the parking lot 13.Grime in the sink 14.Mold
April 30, 2024
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clinically and financially, healthy growth for associate means healthy growth for practice and vice versa- I dont expect the owner to be like my school mentor but to share experiences and give advice, every dentist practices differently and an associate needs support and endorsement from the employer
June 07, 2019
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world into my business so I had an advantage that most of you didnt. Sparrowit doesnt work like that. These cases are taken on contingency by the scum of the earth. Employees can contend all sorts of ridiculous things.the stress of working as a receptionist prevents me from having a healthy sex drivehow
August 01, 2023
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for a long time and you want that dynamic to be healthy and professional and what happened the other day was neither. Good luck.1. X 2. 3. X 4. Associates don't get the respect the older/owner docs get. Some of this is their own doing, lot of associates become friends with staff, initially
May 05, 2017
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picked dentistry over other health care fields -- It's just teeth. My overhang is not going to kill anyone. My shitty contact is not going to send them to ICU. I'm very open with my patients and tell them if a filling was shitty and that I want to re-do it once their gums stop squirting blood
March 25, 2017
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and generate a healthy income with your own hands. Don't go for the high dollar per procedure non gp procedures. Concentrate on GP procedures, the bread and butter low hanging fruit procedures. If you can already perform gp procedures with skill and speed then the next step is to assemble
September 12, 2023
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that patients who walk in or call in to be seen that same day will not find themselves under your care, and the collections wont be yours.Do what you gotta do, and do what youre able to do to maintain a healthy work/life balance
March 19, 2020
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fix nothing. Indeed. Best to move on. I made a thread awhile ago about hierarchy of single doctor private offices. Here it is: From top to bottom: Owner dentist Office manager Front desk staff Hygienist Assistant Janitor The dog Dirt Crud Gum on back of the shoe Cigarette button pavement
August 31, 2020
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