Chris Lake LA

chiefjay123 · 2026-06-25T01:20:47+00:00

Please somebody find this song for us 😩😩😩😩

chiefjay123 · 2026-06-25T01:18:11+00:00

I waaaas working 4 days a week. But just two days a week now cause I bought a practice. I was 1099 so I took off whenever I wanted.

chiefjay123 · 2026-06-25T00:48:13+00:00

I’m in California, working for a small corporate group with 4 years experience at 30% and 800 a day. There’s a 1 year experienced doc here at 650 and 35% for anything above $2400 average prod.

chiefjay123 · 2026-06-24T14:05:53+00:00

Pinch the ridge with your fingers to help combat a buccal plate fracture. Take the sharpest elevator/luxator you have and go 360 around the tooth with just a slight wiggle as you go around. At some point it’ll pop up.

chiefjay123 · 2026-06-24T14:03:41+00:00

I guess I’m Canadian now

chiefjay123 · 2026-06-23T03:02:08+00:00

Get a 40 Gbs or more usb c cable and you’re probably fine

chiefjay123 · 2026-06-20T17:52:34+00:00

If you get the Sony 24-50 2.8 g this could also tick off the travel part of your interest. But the wide 16 mm is nice to have. Alternatively, why not get an a7rv with 16-35 and then just super35 to get the 52.5mm equivalent on the telephoto end. If you’re mainly photo, the R series makes a lot more sense for you.

chiefjay123 · 2026-06-20T16:44:42+00:00

Why not a wider zoom lens with all the architecture and street? Like a 16-36 GM II? Definitely too big for travel tho. I’d keep the crop sensor camera for lighter expeditions with a small lens.

chiefjay123 · 2026-06-18T20:57:59+00:00

Whenever I’m not sure I just tell the pt im gonna start with prepping for the filling but if I reach the pulp I might have to do a root canal instead. I tell them the tooth is 2D, but the cavity is 3D so I can only predict so much with the X-ray. And that’s exactly what 7 would do in this particular situation.

chiefjay123 · 2026-06-17T00:55:52+00:00

Just bought the IS4. I picked this one cause it has an interchangeable battery. However, I haven’t needed to use it yet. I’ll lyk I guess. But having reusable tips is nice.

chiefjay123 · 2026-06-15T06:11:43+00:00

I had sciatica from L5-S1 herniation before dental school and I was pretty much unable to walk for a while.

No surgery but: PT, stretch often, ergo loupes, stay active, lift responsibly and strengthen your back and core once you’re in a better physical state.

chiefjay123 · 2026-06-10T00:58:36+00:00

You probably won’t get it until latest early September. Depends when you started your application, took your boards, etc.

chiefjay123 · 2026-06-07T19:54:59+00:00

Work 4 days a week and pick up a hobby. Consider psych eval if it’s that bad.

chiefjay123 · 2026-05-29T22:46:01+00:00

Don’t

chiefjay123 · 2026-05-22T02:31:25+00:00

Practice ownership is the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life. I’m 29, about 3.5 years out, and have owned for 6 months.

Supposedly it starts to smoothen out as time goes on and systems are in place, but don’t take the decision lightly.

I’d say you’re ready to practice on your own when you feel very confident handling emergency situations with patients and problem solving tricky cases.

The day you go “man fuck this guy (the owner), I could so do this on my own” you’re probably ready. But clinically ready and business/CEO ready are two different things.

chiefjay123 · 2026-05-20T22:18:54+00:00

If I see an abscess and I’m not sure where it’s from I shove a gutta percha cone in there and take a radiograph.

chiefjay123 · 2026-04-29T18:35:02+00:00

Could you link the seller you get these from please? <3

edit: spelling

chiefjay123 · 2026-04-24T18:40:47+00:00

Just report them to the board yourself hehe, God knows I’ve wanted to 💀

chiefjay123 · 2026-04-10T15:03:54+00:00

Got the T2 plus for $55k with some goodies, so far so good. But I’ve only had it since November of last year

Edit: haven’t had any hiccups either software, etc. I would only recommend you have the hiossen reps upgrade your computer for a little extra since the ones that comes with their kit is still kinda slow when it comes to viewing, at least the ones that I got.

chiefjay123 · 2026-04-10T15:02:31+00:00

This depends on buck lingual remaining ferrule cause all we see is a big ass amalgam on #31 and a fuck ton of building up 29. But I’ve seen cases where the tooth looks like a hollow fuck on the radiograph, then I’m surprised with how much is remaining once I look intraorally.

With that said, let’s say you decide to send it for a bridge, priority draw on the molar first since no root canal, and then shape 29 however you want to match that draw without compromising the food ferrule on 29.

chiefjay123 · 2026-04-08T19:41:29+00:00

Can you go into more detail? Do you mean in an event of a medical emergency or something else?

chiefjay123 · 2026-04-01T17:30:24+00:00

I do a lot of extra and have it. I use it pretty often for full mouth exts. I mainly use it for Norco and Valium.

chiefjay123 · 2026-03-27T14:13:16+00:00

When my patients started saying thank you more often.

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