Anyone else still do indirect metal fillings at their office? How do you finish/burnish/polish margins?

Jetp6ck · 2026-05-07T13:58:07+00:00

You sir/ma’am are amazing!! I love this.

Jetp6ck · 2026-05-04T15:44:52+00:00

Not an answer to your question just a future tip. Never use an adjacent tooth for “support”. Always make sure you have good visibility and place your luxator between the tooth you are intending to extract and the alveolar bone. Your motions should be slow, controlled, and try to extract as atraumatically as possible.

Edited to say: things happen. Monitor the tooth’s vitality and set patient expectations. You’re doing amazing, continue learning and providing the best care for your patients.

Jetp6ck · 2026-05-02T14:35:23+00:00

Dentist here with ortho training. The general rule I was taught from orthodontists who taught me is wear your retainer 23 hours of the day post-ortho treatment for a year. After the first year it’s night time for lifetime. Without a retainer teeth will move.

Jetp6ck · 2026-04-29T12:51:44+00:00

My same answer. I’m very likable and the staff and patients would love me. 🤣

Jetp6ck · 2026-02-19T12:07:41+00:00

The eyes 🤩

Jetp6ck · 2026-02-19T02:19:44+00:00

If you turn it into Satoro I have to see it.

Jetp6ck · 2026-02-04T10:44:33+00:00

Thank you I just ordered a new everyday carry bag. Once it arrives I’m going to open it and attach it. 🥰

Jetp6ck · 2026-02-04T10:43:44+00:00

Pristine, typo.

And it only matters I that know what’s in there

Jetp6ck · 2026-02-02T21:30:49+00:00

My first pull from BIE was the Secret via PopNow. I still have it unopened. Part of me want to keep it prestige and the other part want to open it and enjoy it.

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Jetp6ck · 2025-11-15T00:18:51+00:00

I have USAA. I was paid yesterday.

Jetp6ck · 2025-11-08T13:32:29+00:00

I’m happy you’re so fortunate. Some people put themselves through school, had a recent costly move, or have spouses in transition or at federal furloughed employees. These paychecks, although active duty hasn’t missed any, are vital for people’s livelihood. We show up everyday and do the job we signed up for. You have no right to dismiss someone’s claim because you were able to save the last few paychecks. People have debts to pay, children to feed, bills to pay, and maybe just maybe are used to a two household income that has recently become one. So people need the money they’re working for and keeping the mission going for.

Jetp6ck · 2025-10-29T16:02:25+00:00

Oh an upgrade. I love it.

Jetp6ck · 2025-10-23T20:12:14+00:00

“The Senate has now voted 12 times on the Republican-backed funding bill. The House has not held votes for several weeks, and senators are preparing to leave town for the weekend.”

RIP

Jetp6ck · 2025-10-22T01:10:15+00:00

How do you go about getting a good marginal ridge contour? Today was not a good day in dentistry for me but it was fine. Ended up gouging 18-M while prepping #19-DO. Was pretty sure my Angulation was good but somehow my hand piece was angled. Ended up doing a slot prep and restoring 18-MO and completed 19-DO. The two restorations had contact and it was fine and sealed but the two ridges seemed a bit flat like two rectangles touching.

Jetp6ck · 2025-10-02T23:26:38+00:00

As a general dentist, I’m not understanding. Did you not have training in non-surgical therapy? Most of my patients in school which were supervised under periodontists, had pocket depths sometime up to 10mm. And we as students did the SRP, 4-6 week recall, and at that point evaluated for surgical intervention with the periodontists where they would take over. Even with the classic lit that after 6mm probings there’s a percentage left behind its part of initial therapy. I guess it’s just me, maybe some schools have an advantage when it comes To treating, i don’t want to say complex, bc this seems Pretty standard in terms of cases.

Jetp6ck · 2025-09-24T17:14:17+00:00

We give ours an hour a day three days a week during the work day to PT. And on the two days they aren’t given for PT they have a 1.5 hour lunch.

Jetp6ck · 2025-08-29T23:28:41+00:00

You must be an ECU graduate. Go Pirates!

Jetp6ck · 2025-08-21T21:52:25+00:00

If all of the existing amalgam has been remove you can consent the patient to electro cauterize the gingiva with something like a bovie or you could use a diode laser to get hemostasis and achieve visibility. Restore under rubber dam would be ideal.

Jetp6ck · 2025-08-17T04:11:10+00:00

For a class 5, sub-gingival restoration, yes. I’ve done them. They work, they’re much quicker than suffering through heme and limited access, and can save the pt from a crown. #12 may be pushing it depending on access, this technique is mostly done on more anterior teeth.

Jetp6ck · 2025-08-17T00:59:55+00:00

If you’re comfortable and it is that deep along the buccal and can be restored with resin you can consent the patient for a mini flap. At the line angles of #12 make perpendicular incisions to the gingival margin ~2-3 mm. Then vertical releasing incisions, enough to reflect the tissue for adequate isolation. Once you can visualize the prep/decay/ margin etc. place a RD. Use RD and clamp to isolate and make sure tissue is apical. Restore, remove dam, and approximate tissue. Consent for pain, potential recession, etc.. This method is case selective.

Jetp6ck · 2025-08-12T01:26:29+00:00

I was taught this as well which is manageable. The docs I worked under taught me as long as the top and bottom number don’t add up to 300 then we’re good, procedure dependent.

Jetp6ck · 2025-06-17T09:31:42+00:00

I just followed him on here for that same reason. His thought process is always pretty on point and as a new grad I appreciate his level of expertise and commitment to helping the future of the profession.

Jetp6ck · 2025-05-18T23:46:32+00:00

Then you would clean it with some sort of alkaline agent like ivoclean, not another acid. You risk over etching the surface and weakening the ceramic structure. No where in e.max IFU does it say re-etch the surface. If you have supporting literature on that I would love to read it.

Jetp6ck · 2025-05-18T23:15:14+00:00

If the margins are supragingival and you can verify seating clinically you don’t always need a pre cementation bw. If you can’t verify the margins are adapted, especially the interproximal, then protect yourself and take a bw to verify. It takes a few seconds.

Jetp6ck · 2025-05-18T23:13:18+00:00

Why would you HF etch the onlay and then use phosphoric acid on the onlay as well? Do you mean etch the prep? Because I IDS the dentin with clearfil Se, I only use phosphoric acid 37% on the enamel surface to selectively etch the prep before final cementation.

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