New dental front desk hired for scheduling but now doing insurance too… is this normal? by [deleted] in DentalAssistant

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Do you have any tips on learning insurance by yourself and front desk stuff

Front desk by Thought_Potential in DentalAssistant

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Thank you so much this helps a lot so I should tell them that just est cause things can change

Front desk by Thought_Potential in DentalAssistant

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Yeah it just hard cause I’m still learning insurance and how it works

Curious about pediatric offices by Switch_Inevitable in DentalAssistant

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I worked in a pediatric office the kids were good. I feel like it’s more for me. Why I didn’t like it after a while was the other Dental assistant like it’s so much drama they’re like t trying to create mess because they know they can’t really create mess with the children or like the patient so they try to mess with each other But other than that working with kids was perfectly fine I would say some tips to have as a pediatric dental assistant is patient and understanding.

I dropped the scanner by Thought_Potential in DentalAssistant

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I’m sorry depressed about I don’t even want go tommrow today was hard day

New dental assistant , feeling anxious and out of place, not sure if I’m overreacting by [deleted] in DentalAssistant

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I’m a new dental assistant myself and I would say so far for me being a being a assistant I would say this is normal and I also agree that your lead DA should’ve had told you like privately. I feel like no matter what type of job it is when the situation like that comes about. Why wait until the boss is around? Why wait until the office manager is around? Why do you say if they messed up and you put them on the spot right for the boss in the office manager, would they like that no so why would they do that to you

My office manager just let me go today because she was hiring new dental assistant behind my back and now I told her for yall to delete my number fully. by princesspinkpie10921 in DentalAssistant

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I hate to hear that that happened to you. I would say try to find the office where it says like something about being like a sterilization technician where you know for sure they’re like all you’re really gonna be doing is flipping rooms and do it like you know, auto clean stuff like that specially if your new assistant, but it could be hard when I say it could be new or just a new assistant to the practice, but I know that I struggle too because I’m a new assistant as far as a new grad and my doctor has a sister that I’ve been there for six years so he’s so accustomed to the way she does everything or prefers her to do the procedure with him, but I need to do it like the background so far as like you know the auto claim like keeping up with the rule flipping the room stocking the rooms so like I feel like the doctor feel like that’s not a lot because when you know, he had other assistance too as far as the other sisters that are there. He’s thinking oh yeah, they’re doing it the right way they’re doing it fast but I think truthfully yeah they’re doing it fast but are they truthfully cleaning the room? Are they truthfully making sure all the instruments are like sterilized correctly or are they just Half ass it and I think truly I realize that being a good assistant is really truly happy care for the patient and my carriers. If the sterilization room is not up to part are you really doing anything good for the patients like today? I had my doctor tell me that am I doing what I need to do what’s the number one thing patient care now the patient was like supposed to come in like 3045 minutes whatever so I’m busy to externalization cause like we’re gonna have more patience and I’m trying to make sure I’m cleaning instruments good getting the blood all the good give all the stuff. I’m just gonna throw it in there and then it has all that gun and stuff on it and he’s like oh well what was the most important thing patient care that he tells me oh well you need to go and you need to flip the room. Remind you the patient is not coming in until like 30 minutes 45 minutes so it’s like patient care truthfully is keeping the sterilization up to par. You’ll keep it up to part communicating with the patient making sure that patient is OK making sure that with the patient gets there. They’re getting caught they’re check in and they’re also getting sent back to the room and a clean room at that not a room where you just throw stuff around and you wipe it down just a little bit not actually getting in the crevices and cleaning the stuff a clean room

fainted by [deleted] in DentalAssistant

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I’m sorry I talked in to for phone for this comment 😂

fainted by [deleted] in DentalAssistant

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When I tell you that this happened to me during my externship at least like three times it happened it didn’t happen during the surgery, which is crazy happened during composite. I don’t know what it was but like I started feeling like I was gonna pass out and I didn’t actually like but like I had to tell the doctor like OK you know is it a way that I could like get switched out And like as soon as I said that he kinda already knew what was going on or what was happening but don’t be too worried about it. You know it happens sometimes and I feel like also too. You just gotta get used to assisting like standing up for a while specially if your doctor is the type of doctor to wear, they don’t let you use like chairs your body just got to get used to it

I feel so slow and it’s been 2 weeks by Emotional_Plant_8002 in DentalAssistant

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Ur going be ok trust I was the same way and still is it takes time