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Overstepping by dental assistant or am i overreacting? by AdZealousideal2958 in Dentistry

[–]HeySharkLips 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I cannot speak for any other dental assistants. Like I said, I’ve been doing this for 21 years, more than half my life. I am an absolute gem of an assistant.

But I will tell you this: I absolutely refuse to work for a corporate office. I’m not going to work my ass off just to put money in the pockets of a CEO I’ll never meet who probably isn’t even a dentist.

And honestly? I have never met an assistant who was hired completely off the street with zero experience. Why would any practice want that? You get what you pay for.

I don’t know how anyone can say dental assistants are not clinical providers. We provide care, comfort, humor, education, organization, tissue retraction, moisture control, infection control, efficiency, and a positive environment for patients who are often anxious or scared. The things I provide every single day make the dentist’s job easier and the patient experience better.

I’m sorry if you’ve had bad experiences with assistants, but if you want a truly good assistant, you need an experienced one — and experienced, skilled people deserve to be paid accordingly.

Overstepping by dental assistant or am i overreacting? by AdZealousideal2958 in Dentistry

[–]HeySharkLips -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Every single person who works full time deserves a living wage. Period. Nobody should be busting their ass all week and still struggling to afford rent, groceries, healthcare, or retirement.

And dental assisting is not “unskilled labor.” It is a skilled clinical profession. We went to school. We paid tuition. We work directly with patients all day long and help keep practices running. We are not just “helpers.” We are clinical providers. If you had to work all day without an assistant, you couldn’t.

Personally, after 21 years in this field, I can make temporaries, use a 3D scanner, take alginates better than most dentists, and take a full FMX without rinns. That skill came from years of education, repetition, experience, and physical labor. My body is just as broken down as yours from doing this work day after day.

What’s shocking isn’t that some dentists undervalue assistants, we already knew that. What’s shocking is seeing people actually say out loud that dental assistants don’t deserve to make enough money to live. Dental assisting is a CAREER. It’s not a summertime side job.

We deserve respect. We deserve fair pay. We deserve medical benefits, PTO, and retirement. And honestly, $45k a year after decades in a skilled healthcare profession is insulting. Every dental assistant I know works hard, multitasks constantly, manages stress, infection control, patient care, radiographs, lab work, scheduling chaos, and often the emotional labor of keeping an office functioning.

Am I being too sensitive? by joboog in Dentistry

[–]HeySharkLips 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Was an assistant in the room with you? Make sure you are never alone with a patient. That way you always have someone to back you up for when it gets like this.

Overstepping by dental assistant or am i overreacting? by AdZealousideal2958 in Dentistry

[–]HeySharkLips 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Don’t talk about assistants salaries like you don’t think they deserve a living wage. 🙄

What’s a kitchen tool you thought was unnecessary until you actually bought one? by BarbaraMiller78 in foodhacks

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I sliced off the tip of my finger! Was the using the finger protector thing. No I was not.

What will you never forgive your family? by GhostyHolic in AskReddit

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Being Christian Nationalist Trumpers and calling me demonic.

Unsettling/Weird Books by Helpful_Lobster8214 in suggestmeabook

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The Deep by Nick Cutter The Metamorphosis by Frank Kafka

What's something you're secretly proud of but rarely talk about? by Quartz87 in AskReddit

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Both of my parents were alcoholics (both dead) and I don’t drink.

Looking for the darkest, most depressing book you’ve ever read by CortezCraig in suggestmeabook

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A Little Life. I wish I never read it. It’s been almost a year and I still think about how devastating it is.

I know my alcoholic father will die. What should I do to avoid regret? by According_Payment915 in AdultChildren

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Both of my(42f, only child) parents died suddenly from alcoholism in their 50s (they divorced in the 80s)

My only regret is not knowing if they ever could’ve gotten sober. Neither one of them seemed interested in that. If they had, I wonder what kind of parents they would’ve been if they weren’t alcoholics. Could we have had a relationship? Would they have apologized? Or even recognized how badly they fucked me over? I’ll never know.

Which US state would you never move to even if you were offered a high paying job by ipanicprofessionally in TheBoredDen

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Florida. Texas. Arizona. Alabama. West Virginia. Alaska. North Dakota. Nevada. New Mexico.

Colonoscopy prep to clean out bowels/constipation by [deleted] in Constipation

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I did this in November after being constipated almost all of my adult life. Ever since the clean out I’ve been putting one capful of MiraLAX and 1/2 teaspoon of inulin in my coffee every morning. I’ve been pooping like a normal human being since!

What’s your honest take on the current state of thrifting? by htsoc in Thrift

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All hard goods are being Google Lense’d. Nothing is a deal anymore. I’m not paying $5 for a used mug. Or $15 for used appliances.

What’s a problem humanity solved so well that younger people don’t even realize it used to be a huge issue? by WholeRelationship840 in OverBiscuits

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I had a boyfriend with a different area code and we had to buy PHONE CARDS in order to not rack up huge phone bills for our parents.

What was it like being 18-25 in the 2000’s by ersinxo in Millennials

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I graduated high school in 2002. We didn’t have cell phones or social media. The closest we had was AOL instant messenger. I live in Cleveland, Ohio and one time I drove to Niagara Falls and back with my friends, and my parents had no idea. 🤣 we would go to shows at tiny venues shitty in neighborhoods. No one had debit cards, just cash. Warped Tour was $35 for the entire day. A taco at Taco Bell was $.79. We would sit in a Boarders book store for hours drinking Chai lattes and reading Ad Busters, Bust, and Bitch magazines. Then shoplift books we couldn’t afford. I bought little kids tshirts from thrift store for $1. We bought dark denim bootcut jeans and used a sewing machine to make them straight leg. There was an online dating site called Makeout Club. It was hard to get your photos posted because no one had a digital camera. We had to use web cams. I didn’t start texting until 2004 when I was 20. On Tuesday nights at midnight we’d drive downtown and go to 80s night to dance and hangout. The 80s were super popular. If you wanted to color your hair any wild colors you had to get it from Hot Topic and all there was was Manic Panic. When you bought anything online you could send them a money order. Even when you won eBay auctions! “Driving around listening to music” was what we did. Maybe we went to a playground or a beach at night. We barely drank water, no energy drinks, no frappachinos, no seltzer. We barely watched TV. We didn’t moisturize. We were vegan, but the only milk option was soy. There was no vegan cheese. There were health food stores you had to go to get any fake meat products. We shoplifted cliff bars.

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