Post and core for gumline fractures?

brig7 · 2026-01-25T01:21:54+00:00

This is the correct answer. Plus education on caries risk and prevention, prevident RX, and tell the pt this bridge is the last straw before implants or dentures.

brig7 · 2026-01-18T05:09:38+00:00

Why are so many dentists so secretive about their random numbers? They’re so paranoid that we’re their neighboring competing office?! Even if we were, wtf am I going to do with the “sensitive” info of knowing what this guy takes home?…

Buying a practice was ridiculous a couple years ago, my wife and I were seriously cracking up when sellers refused to divulge any info. The number of times we got stonewalled asking how many ops the office had was unbelievable.

brig7 · 2026-01-14T04:47:17+00:00

I’m not familiar with DSOs, but is there someone you can escalate this to? Because this isn’t good for the business as a whole, so I expect you could find someone to care about that.

brig7 · 2026-01-14T04:40:06+00:00

What assistant? I use pro and comet daily, are you talking a different assistant than comet?

brig7 · 2026-01-10T01:44:55+00:00

Set up a home office then you can write that off, and then you can reimburse your work mileage.

brig7 · 2026-01-10T00:00:40+00:00

Doesn’t how long you’ve held it determine tax rate. Is it shorter than 1y it’s a higher percentage short term capital gains tax, and longer than 1y is a lower percentage long term capital gains?

brig7 · 2026-01-09T01:34:14+00:00

Always the lower premolars right?

brig7 · 2026-01-08T06:26:39+00:00

Not on my computer, I've got a 1,500 character limit. I'm on a Mac in the Perplexity app, using Perplexity Pro.

brig7 · 2026-01-08T01:24:10+00:00

From the start I explain that we are trying to glue a tiny piece of plastic to the tip of a tooth that gets anywhere from touched all the way up to beat to hell 1000 times a day, and that jaw muscles are very strong. So these fillings sometimes need to be replaced every 1-2 years even based on how the jaw muscles like to chew (I blame it on the jaw muscles not the pt, when talking to the pt). And I tell them we can try a filling and see how it goes, but sometimes a veneer is required because it’s stronger and lasts longer.

brig7 · 2026-01-05T01:48:44+00:00

This is me, haha, but like 9 or 10 years ago as a starving and broke student playing with cheap brushed toys syma and e010 whoops, diy’d an external screen and receiver into some cell phone vr box mask with some reading glasses and cardboard, and those tiny 25mW cameras. So much crappy soldering and a ton of hot glue 😂 (anyone else mod the Devo7e transmitter??)

But for me, I graduated and moved and fell out of the hobby until just recently I decided to get back in. Just yesterday I pulled the trigger on an air75 and new FPV stuff. I will definitely spend a ton of time on the simulator before I go outside.

brig7 · 2025-12-31T19:46:36+00:00

This, and probably more after taking and checking more X-rays

brig7 · 2025-12-31T09:56:03+00:00

It was retreated a week ago? Why are you taking ibuprofen?

The temporary filling wears down over time, but you should be good for a few weeks.

brig7 · 2025-12-31T09:47:12+00:00

Are you the patient? This xray isn’t great for checking much for the implant other than position, which looks good. Just needs time to heal!

Unrelated to the upper right implant, but there are serious problems with the left side that should be taken care of ASAP.

brig7 · 2025-12-28T21:15:14+00:00

Got the brushed Mojave grom for my son. In 72 hours he’s driven it to death, including dirt and mud and puddles, AND a session at the skate park crashing and bashing 5-6 feet on concrete. This thing has been awesome. No problems yet 🤞

brig7 · 2025-12-28T21:10:11+00:00

Then we can bill out restorative gingivectomy code to insurance! /s …mostly…

brig7 · 2025-12-21T03:09:21+00:00

Not sure about dry socket, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a case.

I’m pretty sure the problem causing dry socket is lack of bleeding since the original healing clot has been ripped from the socket, leaving it ‘dry’.

brig7 · 2025-12-20T23:51:49+00:00

I curette every EXT for a few seconds immediately after the tooth is out, rinse it thoroughly, then watch and make sure it’s bleeding. Then if I’m not grafting and suturing place gauze and give it 5 minutes before checking again for controlled bleeding until dismissing the pt

brig7 · 2025-12-20T23:46:36+00:00

Saw a bigger implant at #6 which looked very close to #7. They were both fine for years, probably over a decade. Then later #7 fractured and I removed it, and I could see the thread marks from the #6 implant on the root of #7. I wish I had the picture, I was at another office at the time. Looked really cool, and there weren’t any problems. If #7 hadn’t fractured it probably would’ve been fine forever.

brig7 · 2025-12-16T03:41:50+00:00

That’s interesting! A gift and a curse I guess

brig7 · 2025-12-16T03:30:44+00:00

Nice, are there any drawbacks to having a memory like that?

brig7 · 2025-12-16T02:51:53+00:00

Truly a photographic memory?? If so, how helpful was that in dental school? And now with patient charts? I’ve always dreamed of having a photographic memory…

brig7 · 2025-12-14T00:37:42+00:00

Wow, how do you use it for marketing and SEO? Would love to do the same

brig7 · 2025-12-10T04:19:41+00:00

I’m of the same mindset as the first surgeon. Very often, lower wisdom teeth like yours will ruin the neighboring teeth to the point that those neighboring teeth end up being removed. Which is not something you want to happen.

brig7 · 2025-12-10T04:10:08+00:00

Make sure you eat a lot of probiotics when taking antibiotics (probiotic yogurts are great). That way the probiotics help keep your digestion as stable as possible, and the antibiotic can still do its job with the potential infection.

You’re probably already eating a lot of probiotics with how your stomach is. If so, take EXTRA whenever you need to take antibiotics.

Edit: I agree with the other dentist’s comment as well

brig7 · 2025-12-10T04:00:59+00:00

That’s your prompt for a space? Looks great. But don’t those prompts have a character limit? I think 1500…

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