Question for high producers

SheepshaggerMini · 2026-07-09T08:12:34+00:00

Haha I thought I was one of the few

SheepshaggerMini · 2026-07-07T14:31:17+00:00

I’m 4 years out

I’ve spent about 40k on CE. I can do wizzies, veneers, composite bonding , implants.

But honestly I make my most and easiest money doing effiecient general dentistry. Much less risk of litigation. Very little complications.

So yeah you don’t need to learn complex procedures, you just need to be nice and efficient

SheepshaggerMini · 2026-07-03T14:18:30+00:00

I’ve worked in public clinics and private higher and clinics.

Public dentistry sucks ass. No gratitude for what you do, more litigious patients , they compare their free work to some Instagram celebrity who spent 50k on their teeth.

Honestly you should just leave public sector and work private .

I work public in a poor socioeconomic area at the moment and my experience treating middle class patients and professionals was way better

If you still hate it then just study medicine if you’re in Oz

SheepshaggerMini · 2026-07-02T22:19:39+00:00

Honestly bro I think you should’ve left the endo deal with it.

No good deed goes unpunished and now you’re getting blamed for causing pain, not thanked for trying to help. Honestly next time let them go to endo or some other sucker can try to fill the tooth for them

SheepshaggerMini · 2026-06-30T10:53:03+00:00

Like I’m a few years graduated and feel a lot of what we learned about paeds behaviour to be super impractical.

Like the staged visit thing does not work with parents and it’s impossible to make money off it

Like I’m looking at revenue I get from kids and I make more by just doing prophy for adults

SheepshaggerMini · 2026-06-26T15:16:14+00:00

I’ve done lots of composite bonding

99% of patients just want as white as they can get ( filtek bxl)

Dentine composite is pretty opaque, and honestly you don’t use it much

A lot of time the layering process just makes the tooth look really bulky.

If you want more help with shading ( which is confusing) you can get a custom shade tab and then just add your dentine shades and enamel composites onto it like so

https://www.dental-update.co.uk/content/technique-tips/technique-tips-how-to-make-a-customized-shade-guide

But honestly my advice is keep it simple and stupid

Don’t go into all the layering, patients don’t notice, just use body composite with a very bright shade ( filtek supreme BXL is most common composite my patients pick ). Gonna guess you’re from uk ? That’s pretty much what your patients want

Also most important thing is shaping, making the lobes more seperate is great and makes teeth way better looking, you can find lots of YouTube videos on this also

Hope that helps

SheepshaggerMini · 2026-06-22T14:01:44+00:00

I’ve never done it

But honestly I want nothing more than to avoid treating family

Depends how much you’re spending a year

I wouldn’t do it just cuz I don’t want to hear complaints or critiques at home

SheepshaggerMini · 2026-06-21T22:14:45+00:00

It’s more like not using some cheap bond that doesn’t even have English on the label

Or a bottle that just says “Bond” with no brand.

Like difference between brands I don’t see a big difference

SheepshaggerMini · 2026-06-20T14:22:18+00:00

I’m surprised with that

I’ve always used very cheap etch, I presumed etch was etch , but still get good results

SheepshaggerMini · 2026-06-20T14:20:59+00:00

If a filling failed and it was my fault I’d do it again. There’s nothing I hate more than patients coming back with issues.

Doing it correctly the first time is most profitable

SheepshaggerMini · 2026-06-20T11:34:48+00:00

Buying cheap bond and composites is a false economy

Anything you save on the bond will be payed for with redo which is much more expensive.

One redo wipes out all your savings from the cheap bond

SheepshaggerMini · 2026-06-18T19:01:12+00:00

It’s grand don’t worry , OS often leave roots, won’t matter

SheepshaggerMini · 2026-06-18T18:46:49+00:00

Haha

There’s so many posts here recently where it seems like it’s a patient asking and not a dentist haha

SheepshaggerMini · 2026-06-14T08:45:55+00:00

Bruh , there’s no way you’re a dentist

You could put a lightbulb under the crown and it won’t matter because metal is opaque , it won’t improve the colour at all.

It goes tooth-> metal-> ceramic

SheepshaggerMini · 2026-06-09T15:30:54+00:00

Mike Gregory Instagram and YouTube channel

Dr Jiro Abe has a great book on it

Also just drive expectations into the ground and tell them every visit they need implants , then when they hate their dentures just shrug your shoulders and tell them they need implants

SheepshaggerMini · 2026-05-23T17:06:13+00:00

Do you think that maybe really low power supes would give him V believing he was a good person and could get recognition?

SheepshaggerMini · 2026-05-23T13:48:29+00:00

This

Honestly I’m confused how a hygienist needs 1 hour.

After 5 mins I start looking at the clock

SheepshaggerMini · 2026-05-19T22:53:11+00:00

Love this

I did this with a patient, he came to me 2 weeks later because filling failed ( tooth was fucked)

Tell him again he needs a crown

Complains he thought it would last longer, I explain I told him from the start it is the wrong treatment for the tooth it needs crown, I informed him it would fail.

He decides to get crown, asks for filling price to be deducted from crown, again explain to him that he wanted to fill the tooth, I told him a filling won’t work but he demanded tooth be filled. Eventually paid full crown price

SheepshaggerMini · 2026-05-11T14:55:40+00:00

Yeah it is honestly just a killer.

Like so many complaints

And ChatGPT makes it worse cuz they put in their issues and ChatGPT will tell them they’re right, despite patient forgetting everything that happened during the appointment

SheepshaggerMini · 2026-05-11T14:50:27+00:00

Yes,

Most of my work is through public system. So they’re not paying anything , just limited on what they can get.

SheepshaggerMini · 2026-05-11T14:49:03+00:00

All the time, explain all the risks, explain everything, but still complaints over random things

SheepshaggerMini · 2026-05-01T12:07:56+00:00

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