Originally Posted by ChiefaRoo (Post 17452300)

I’ve never understood the whole idea of wanting cheap dentistry. Some people talk about it like it’s a rip off to get high quality dental work.

You need a healthy mouth to function. You need a nice looking mouth so as to not look like a troll when you’re older. Then there’s the mechanicals of keeping your jaw aligned and all the possible TMJ and cervical issues if your bite is all jacked up because of missing teeth. Teeth do so much for us.

Spend the money. ( I’m not affiliated with any form of dentistry)

Originally Posted by O.city (Post 17453712)

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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.

Originally Posted by displacedinMN (Post 17453793)

Make sure the wife knows they are his, and will be charged for them. They are non-refundable.

Originally Posted by Rain Man (Post 17452508)

My wife bought one of those water flosser things a while back. She doesn't like using it since it involves a lot of water spillage, so it's all mine. I don't mind water spillage.

It uses so much water that every time I use it, a lawn in southern California dies. But I feel like a new man afterwards with factory-fresh teeth.

Originally Posted by O.city (Post 17453712)

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.

Originally Posted by raybec 4 (Post 17453821)

You should have kept the money and told her you weren't the husband's dentist. That's a clever trick.

Originally Posted by O.city (Post 17453729)

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.

Originally Posted by O.city (Post 17451568)

I've started just saying I won't do it.

I'm not wrenching my back standing on my head for an hour to do shitty work that you'll then bitch at me about when the crown doesn't seat or the filling is sensitive.

Originally Posted by tooge (Post 17454411)

That or a large fat person that says they can’t open very wide, L O L. Yeah I’ve quit working on people that can’t lay back. I just tell them they need to go to a dentist where they can be sedated. I’m not breaking my back for anybody.

Originally Posted by bdj23 (Post 17453791)

I understand that but at the end of the day I was broke and the tooth had to go because i kept getting infections. I went to an oral surgeon and the whole process took 20 min.

Originally Posted by Monticore (Post 17454511)

I have a very small mouth and can’t open very wide I’m sure dentist hate working on me especially one with bigger hands luckily my dentist has small hands .I have. Sucks eating burgers or club sandwiches etcz

Originally Posted by Pasta Little Brioni (Post 17455550)

What's the grossest mouth you've ever seen?