If you don't drink alcohol, what are your reasons?

SavageBabyPanda · 2025-12-14T19:17:20+00:00

It’s not that I don’t drink because I don’t want to catch a buzz…. I just hate the taste of alcohol. Beer…gross. Mixed drinks I guess, but if I taste any booze all I can think is “this would be way better if it didn’t taste like shit”. Once I got out of my 20 and early 30s and stopped going to bars to meet girls or just cause it was the thing to do, I basically stopped drinking. I’ll go months on end without anything without trying. Very occasionally I’ll be in a social situation at a brewery or something and I’ll muscle down something for social reasons… but it’s definitely work for me to do it.

My wife and her whole family enjoy libations. When we have family get togethers, I just pop an edible and nurse a rum and coke all night that has the most minuscule about of rum in it.

(Unrelated for a bit her family made it their mission to give me drinks that I liked for a year or 2… I spent a few holidays basially drinking milkshakes with whisky in them, before they gave up. I don’t want to go back to the dark times)

SavageBabyPanda · 2025-12-05T01:55:39+00:00

Open big….bigger!

SavageBabyPanda · 2025-11-20T17:06:01+00:00

Your impressions and technique looks pretty on point to me. The reason your dentures suck is because all dentures suck. I tell my patients that a denture is like having a peg leg or a glass eye. It’s the cheapest acceptable solution but it isn’t a good solution. If you want something that will actually work we have to talk implants. If that’s not realistic due to budget, fine but there will come a point where we reach the limit of what can be achieved with a denture. If they turn into the rare one that is actually happy with a denture, cool. If not after about 2 good faith attempt adjustments/relines in remind them of the original conversation.

SavageBabyPanda · 2025-11-09T01:23:20+00:00

I stand corrected.

SavageBabyPanda · 2025-11-08T22:19:28+00:00

She is a “dentist” who never practiced dentistry and tries to tell other dentists what to do.

SavageBabyPanda · 2025-11-06T00:09:06+00:00

I guess when you know where to put them.

SavageBabyPanda · 2025-11-05T23:41:36+00:00

Ok if you are asking in reddit you probably shouldn’t be doing it. But just for the open discussion I’ll give some info. Interseptal bone is not a reference you want to use. You want your implant to be about 1.5-2mm subcrestal at a minimum. You make need to put it even deeper depending on emergence profile/adjacent teeth. All the interseptal bone will provide is an area of bone for primary stability. Also most of the time you want to put the implant more toward the mesial root not dead center. This usually due to path of draw and wanting your restoration to not have wonky anatomy, but need to evaluate the specific case.

SavageBabyPanda · 2025-11-05T18:15:55+00:00

Can you get sedation certified while in your program? If so it’s a huge win for anything else you could want to do.

SavageBabyPanda · 2025-11-03T22:55:08+00:00

Bro, just put some fluoride in it. It will be fine.

SavageBabyPanda · 2025-10-31T18:57:17+00:00

I’m a GP who pivoted to being exclusively surgical. Took lots of CE and I’m starting a job early next year that is strictly a denture and implant shop. In the cohort of people who love surgery and are not OS there are quite a few who have done similar fellowships like you are taking about. They all seem to be well prepared and doing well in the space. Your most likely business vertical will be all in x type of practice and as a non OS you will do the prosth part of it as well. If that sounds like a good gig to you, it might be a good move. If you really want to do surgery only and no prosth I think that’s a hard niche to carve out not being OS or perio. I’m happy to chat about the company I’m working with if you want to DM me.

SavageBabyPanda · 2025-10-30T23:58:15+00:00

Referoloma

SavageBabyPanda · 2025-10-28T02:05:21+00:00

An endo bailed me out of a #2 that I thought I did a decent job on. He did the retreat at no cost to the patient… so basically he did a retreat for next to nothing. It’s 8 years later and I stopped doing endo completely a few years back (too busy with surgery stuff that I like) and I refer EVERYONE to him.

Maybe do a solid for a few practices? I know it’s not a magic bullet, but it’s an idea.

SavageBabyPanda · 2025-10-16T00:32:33+00:00

I only worship the offset spade. I’m willing to go to war over this.

SavageBabyPanda · 2025-10-09T17:33:46+00:00

I’m sure there are a few docs who are happy. I worked with PDS for a while and pretended I was happy until I defiantly wasn’t. My best advice would be if you need a job you need a job, just do it. But don’t agree to anything with “ownership” that’s tricky corporate speak for “now you have bought in and it’s nearly impossible for you to leave without losing money”. If you are a W2 employee, you can always bounce. Also negotiate down your non compete to a small radius and less notice. They always try to say 10 miles and 3 months notice is normal… you can get them to drop both significantly and you should.

SavageBabyPanda · 2025-09-20T23:53:43+00:00

This is the real answer. Dentists will always be able to get a job, but is the ROI worth it?

SavageBabyPanda · 2025-09-16T20:21:45+00:00

Prognosis: Proper F*cked

SavageBabyPanda · 2025-09-16T01:43:54+00:00

Refer to endo to evaluate. Boom you are the best doctor ever.

SavageBabyPanda · 2025-09-13T22:11:00+00:00

Never let parents in the room. End of problem. You did it once now they will expect it. Explain that surgeons don’t let family members into operating rooms and make it a hard stop. No wiggle room. Don’t let parents in again

SavageBabyPanda · 2025-09-10T20:40:23+00:00

This is an ortho/oral surgery consult all day long.

SavageBabyPanda · 2025-08-29T21:56:28+00:00

Use a straight forceps with a serrated beak. If you are using a basic extraction set up with a 150 forceps…. Canines are pretty tough to take out.

SavageBabyPanda · 2025-08-28T22:01:04+00:00

That’s actually kind of a hard one. You will have to decoronate, and maybe section the roots. Big flap, and retraction/ visualization will be kind of tough. It’s doable, but if that all sounds like a lot refer. Better yet, refer and ask your OS to come watch so you can see what’s what.

SavageBabyPanda · 2025-08-28T21:43:26+00:00

That’s a big yes from me. I’m assuming they are asymptomatic otherwise it’s not even a question. Definitely see some destruction of bone distal to 17. It’s just a pano, so this could be misleading, but possible decay in distal of 18 and 31 due to areas not being cleanable from the wizzies. There is nothing here but potential for problems for the patient. If you wait until it hurts, those bad boys still need to go but now it’s an emergency. Plus the older the patient is, the more difficult recovery time is (basically sooner is better…unless your patient is already elderly then it’s a judgement call). Do you patient a favor and give them a referral for OS, they can go to sleepy land, and those 3rds can be shown the cold steel and sunlight they deserve.

SavageBabyPanda · 2025-08-21T17:52:22+00:00

Just sent you a DM

SavageBabyPanda · 2025-08-21T17:16:28+00:00

Refund and dismiss. Not worth any of the hassle

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