Just left mine… root canal in my future.

FML

Will be my first one.

Eh, they can be bad but for the most part they're fine.

You wanna do some work for free man!!?!?!

I am so overdue for a dentist it's not funny. Last one was around 2015 in Virginia.

Looking for a recommendation from all my doctors but none so far. Wanting one that does sonic cleaning.

I have a broken lower first molar where I had a root canal like 25-30 years ago and it sheared off at the gum line. Looks horrible. Have another 1/4 broken lower back molar and other small chips and crap. They are discolored from cigars.

I hate my teeth.

Nah, not today.

You wouldn't offer a discount to your fellow Chiefs planet brethren?

I could engage you about some good 1st round pick for player discussion if it would lower my bill if that time comes.

Do you judge people that don't floss? Or those that say they do? Because those guys are lying.

Nobody flosses. And dentists essentially sigh when they ask you if you do because they KNOW you don't.

I'd charge you extra for that.

Honestly, I quit asking. It's pretty obvious when I have to do work on people and they have strings of chicken from lunch the day before in there that flossing is an afterthought.

I use my new water flosser, and I am a better man for it.

I have a food trap , and pretty much have to carry a floss pick all the time , before those picks I definitely didn’t floss enough

damn i knew it thanks doc

Got a lady coming in today that I'm gonna do some extensive crown and bridge/removable partial work on. She'd rather do implants, but due to lack of bone the surgeon doesn't think she's a candidate for them, unless we do some GBR grafting, which even with that it can be pretty difficult.

So I'm gonna do some precision attachments on a couple crowns around edentulous spaces and make partials that "lock" in. It will allow us to do away with any metal clasping, she's fairly vain and doesn't want that.

Then, I had a patient that we had made and upper and lower denture for, ready to deliver. His wife called today and informed us that he had passed and they would like me to go to the funeral home to deliver them so he can have them for the funeral.

I....don't think I wanna od that.

I've had some scuba students throughout the years who needed a filling do-over because of trapped air under their current filling. In fact I have a student who will be leaving on a trip in a couple of weeks who I did scuba refresher for who needs to get in and have it done in sort of an emergency fashion, or risk not diving/painful diving.

How does that (air trapped under a filling) happen?

I've never heard of that, but theoretically.....

Most restorative fillings and such now are composite (white, tooth colored) and are bonded in. There are multiple different bonding systems we use, but for the most part they all use the same steps

First there is an acid etch that etches the enamel rods and prepares them for the bond, then a bonding agent is applied. The bonding agent has to be air dried to blow off the reagent (I can't remember which one or what that is), then UV light cured. THen you place the composite resin in layers and cure each.

If you over dry or under dry the bond you can introduce some air, so that would be my guess as to what the "trapped air" would be?

I've had some issues in the past with patients having post op sensitivity on these, mostly chalk it up to moisture as these are to be placed with no moisture present. Inadequate bond or light cure can cause leakage which leads to sensitivity. But I've never really thought about the air trap stuff. Interesting though.