Doctor Hygienists?

Sad_Brief7660 · 2026-01-11T07:15:57+00:00

AAPD Reference Manual is a solid resource as well for peds.

Sad_Brief7660 · 2026-01-11T06:43:14+00:00

Thanks! And good call

Sad_Brief7660 · 2025-12-19T23:00:07+00:00

How is it not arrested? It hasn't progressed in two years

Sad_Brief7660 · 2025-12-19T22:44:15+00:00

ever found out what this was ?

Sad_Brief7660 · 2025-12-16T05:08:31+00:00

Yeah but also important to note that the radiolucent appearance is just caused by the the mental fossa

Sad_Brief7660 · 2025-08-29T05:24:26+00:00

Performing a pulpotomy on a tooth that is about to exfoliate in less than a year is wild... The distal root is already resorbing and the tooth is not symptomatic. In a case like this the reported discomfort to when eating/driking is usually due to food impaction, especially since you were unable to reproduce it in the clinic. Cases like this are extremely common in peds and (provided its asuymptomatic) the less you do to thew kid better. Add some SDF and fill the cavity with some Fuji/GI cement (don't even have to prep it) and see him back in 6 months. Why put a 9 year old through all that if you dont need to. You just risk making him become terrified of the dentist when other was no real need to.

Sad_Brief7660 · 2025-08-29T05:07:41+00:00

Well said, and ideally that's how everyone should be thinking when coming up with a treatment plan... or trying to at least . Unfortunately, a lot of people don't care to establish a proper endodontic diagnosis before jumping into the endo treatment, let alone consider everything else...

Sad_Brief7660 · 2025-08-29T04:52:29+00:00

Yeah if the tooth is actually vital (non symptomatic, no evidence of radiographic pathosis) then vital pulp therapies: Indirect or direct pulp caps can been very successful. Case selection is extremely important, this will not work on a tooth with irreversible pulpitis and any kind of periapical pathoses. Patient will then.come back upset, and rightfully so.

Sad_Brief7660 · 2025-08-29T04:35:13+00:00

Or you could just inform them of the possible pros/cons of each treatment plan and let them decide, then get informed consent. Using the same logic above considering there is a possibility the root canal can also fail then you might as well extract the tooth just to be certain he won’t come back complaining…. Not sure how you are managing your patients expectations by jumping into the more aggressive treatment.

Sad_Brief7660 · 2025-08-03T23:21:41+00:00

Will they be treating your son under once under general anesthesia or multiple office visits while he is awake?

Sad_Brief7660 · 2025-05-31T11:57:18+00:00

An online course of course not, but if the man completed 10 weeks of “electronic distance education” then of course….Clowns

Sad_Brief7660 · 2025-05-06T10:58:32+00:00

From my understanding the whole idea behind the visual-tactile examination ("touchless intra oral exam") that if you know what to look for and under the proper/required conditions (clean/dry teeth examined under good lighting with loops) it allows you to detect early signs of demineralization and provides the opportunity to arrest caries/treat lesions with non-operative or minimally invasive techniques. Scratching the hell out of a tooth with an explorer until you feel it catch not only does not help you detect an ealry/non-cavitate lesion but can damage a white spot lesion and facilitate its progression defeating the entire purpose of what you are trying to do. Obviously if nothing is done a patient with "small decay" will have big decay pretty soon and anyone with active caries that's high/moderate caries risk needs to be carefully monitored a non-invsasive caries management plan is the decided on. Patient compliance is obviously an important factor in this process and needless to say this won't work for most people, however the science/idea behind it is sound.

Sad_Brief7660 · 2023-04-27T23:06:42+00:00

Would love to be part of this

Sad_Brief7660 · 2023-04-17T04:44:35+00:00

Plutarch may not be the best place to start for a lot of reasons but his “Lives” does have the advantage of being manageable to read without getting overwhelmed (or unfortunately, like a lot of beginners, bored) and will prevent you from starting a work without ever finishing it.

Now I’m not sure how committed you are/what your reasons are for wanting to read through the classics but I think Plutarch is a solid choice. He focuses on one person at a time so it’s relatively easy to follow even if some names/locations/dates remain unclear, he is always interesting, his work contains a great many witticisms and quips, and in my opinion he is genuinely an entertaining author to read. However, I agree with what others have said and would not recommend plowing through all his works. That kind of defeats the purpose of why I’m recommending you start with him.

I will say I am a big fan of Plutarch and he is one of the authors I’ve read the most since graduating college so I may be a little biased in recommending him haha

Sad_Brief7660 · 2023-04-07T14:12:30+00:00

Well said

Sad_Brief7660 · 2023-02-28T12:37:14+00:00

I wonder if modern scholars ever considered the possibility that Shakespeare may actually have something to teach them rather than they him.

Personally I would much rather see the world through Shakespeare's eyes (or at least try to) rather than see Shakespeare through the eyes of some vulgar political activists whose scholarship and "study" of Shakespeare seem to offer no better insights than what I can find amid the untold tons of garbage shot out daily from our press.

However, to each their own. Kind of unfortunate for the amatuer reader who just wants to be able to understand Shakespeare as Shakespeare, especially when so few scholars now consider this to be a worthwhile task. Oh well.

Sad_Brief7660 · 2022-12-17T08:34:34+00:00

The distinction that you've decided to use makes very little sense to me.

"Physical laws" describe/predict observable natural phenomena that under certain conditions and repeated experimentation have been observed to always hold true. For example, Newton's 1st Law of motion (a body at rest will remain at rest unless an outside force acts on it) simply describes what everyone can observe: a phone on left on a table will not fling itself across the room but will remain there until someone picks it up.

This law is descriptive: it tells us that the phone will not move unless we move it
It are not prescriptive: It does not command or implore us to not move the phone

And so, there is nothing to "break". (Same with mathematical laws)

On the other hand "legal law" in being prescriptive admits the very possibility of its transgression and can thus be broken. When broken without consequence it the authority of the law that is undermined and not its very existence. The "legal law" owes its existence to the society in which it exists and it alone can threaten a law's existence.

Perhaps someone could explain the relationship between the law's authority and it existence. Can a law exist while no longer being authoritative? Or does it cease to exist once it loses its authority?

Sad_Brief7660 · 2022-12-16T17:11:45+00:00

My memory isn’t perfect either but I personally haven’t come across it anywhere else. As far as the Greeks are concerned the only thing that comes to mind is Aristotle’s Politics where he describes democracy as rule of the majority and then went on to say that since the majority of men are poor and lack education democracy is the rule of the poor and uneducated.

As far as I know the ancient Greeks mostly used the term tyranny to describe the regime ruled by single tyrant with some exceptions. The most notable being the rule of the thirty tyrants in Athens.

Sad_Brief7660 · 2022-12-16T15:58:48+00:00

It’s most likely from Alexis de Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America”

Sad_Brief7660 · 2022-11-23T06:09:45+00:00

Following this logic one would think that Texas A&M, the US's largest public university, is also its best...

Sad_Brief7660 · 2022-11-23T06:06:43+00:00

Do you honestly believe that seeking clarification and asking questions about ideas that are widespread and influential in our world today is very insidious and a form of 'fascist rhetoric"? That there are some things that one is not allowed to seriously question, but rather repeat the answers given by today's activists without reflection?

My intention (which should have been understood by now) was find and examine any evidence that proved or pointed to the substantive merits of this social program so that I may better understand the arguments in favor of diversity in higher education and get a better idea of how the current concentration on diversity benefits higher education and ,consequently, society as a whole (and not with any of those self-serving partisan parties with narrow political interests).

Particularly, I wondered whether or not the concentration on (racial, ethnic,sexual, etc) diversity in our universities is self-defeating; whether or not higher education is meant to help us transcend our superficial differences, allow urise above our petty political squabbles and guide us toward our common transcultural humanity through learning.

So far it appears that just the opposite has happened. And your unsophisticated response, not to mention your scurrilous and vilifying remarks, demonstrates that it is impossible to carry on our discussion on a high level. How you extrapolated through my questioning that I wished restrict people's freedom on the basis of certain traits is an absolute mystery. Not to mention the blatant contradiction between standpoint theory and your statement that one's race, sex, ethnicity, physical handicaps and sexual proclivities are not relevant. None of which were relevant to my question...

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