lifes a bitch
 

I broke a couple of teeth this weekend and spent a good part of my morning in my office with my partner prepping teeth for crowns. Dammit!

What do the wife's knuckles look like?

Don't fix that shit. Then when kids come in you can say "LOOK WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU DON'T BRUSH YOUR TEETH". Best. Dentist. Ever.

Ummm....

I think they prefer the term, "Life Partner."

I'm getting ready to apply to dental school and I'm looking to do some job shadowing at different offices. Where is your practice?

LMAO... ohhhhhhhhhhhh... I missed that....

Gladstone. We dentists tend to put off our needed care because it seems like either I'm with a patient, or the other dentist in my office is with a patient all the time. This time I had to clear a spot in both our schedules. Believe it or not, they broke eating a bagel and cream cheese. They had giant old silver fillings from when I was a kid. those are destined to break at some point.

Shit. I have like 4 of those.

This seems like a really good idea.

Lifes a bitch and then you die.

These things happen...

I'd think with all your training that you could do it yourself.

At least you won't have to actually pay for them.

Imagine if you had broken your teeth and then were paying for them out of pocket. ;)

i've numbed myself up and done a small filling on a lower tooth. These are two upper molars. Impossible to prep for crowns on myself.

My dad was a dentist and chewed tobacco until he was about 50. Only in Arkansas.

He'd actually put a chew in if he was seeing an emergency patient after hours. Otherwise, he only chewed at work when he was back working in his "lab" on crowns and fillings and molds and such.

I think it's great experience for a dentist to have to sit in the chair.

I didn't know you were a dentist. I'm currently in my second eyar at UMKC. Right in the middle of 12 finals in 10 days.


Got an ortho final at 8 in the morning and a fixed prosth at 10. YAY.

What teeth did you break?

Yeah, those axe handles can do some damage.

That would be AWESOME!! They could make a movie like the hiker guy that cut his arm off.

Still have to clear time from production for both him and his partner just to do this=$$$ and they have to pay the lab to make the crown. Not as cheap as you might think.

That is awesome I don't know if I could pull that off. How hard is it to give an IA to yourself? It's all feel and depth with bur but I would miss caries trying to look in there with mirror in a mirror.

some dentist is rubbing his greedy little paws together hoping they'll break.
Ho ho ho ho!

That's okay. Tooge needs more caries.

Good luck! Just took Part 2 on Monday/Tuesday. The written tests actually do end someday. Believe it or not.

Yeah I'm sure they do. I'm just in survival mode right now.

I'm just....well always tired. :huh:

Semester done tomorrow?

Next friday. Classes are done tomorrow but have finals all next week.


Which will be better than this week. Having finals then lab, then another final isn't my favorite thing to do.

well i chipped my tooth on a frozen milky way once

For the love of god, I was kidding. You've actually given yourself a filling?

Get treated like my office manger did. Dentist took one look in her mouth, the next day sent her a dozen roses. Hooked her for life!

Haha! Lucky you that's just a few teeth, and not all. ;p

Good! I hope it was painful.

naw, j/k

I'm probably in the minority and have come to like dentists. I would be at the dentist every week just for the free toothbrush, if my insurance would pay for it.

It's the old bitty hygienists that I don't care for. What is it with older hygienists that think they need to scrape my teeth like they are carving Mt. Rushmore?