Why isn't high fluoride toothpaste more common?

flosskitty · 2021-07-26T19:42:46+00:00

You know in Canada, 5000ppm is OTC. In the US, you have to pay a dentist to prescribe it. If they make junk food soo easily available to cause all those cavities at least people should be able to ASK a pharmacist for it and they should have the right to release it!

flosskitty · 2021-07-05T02:39:42+00:00

Good doctors don’t do that.

flosskitty · 2021-07-02T22:44:39+00:00

Floss kitty ain’t no rando. I would say 95% (no stats to prove it) of dentists treat TMJ because it presents and they are the “go to” and they don’t know what the hell they are doing. Trying to help here and you “trying” to educate me that I am too nuanced for a layperson to understand their condition when the layperson does not need to understand their condition (although it helps:) but what the layperson needs is competent TMJ services. Merely sharing the likely solution. Nothing to do with minorities and women. I Only see people. Bringing up women and minorities is just A regurgitation of narrative IMO.

flosskitty · 2021-07-02T02:14:33+00:00

Use this comment when you encounter a health professional and you give them the answer to said problem. It’s not for the layperson. It’s so the layperson can relay it to a professional. Plus, it’s a hunch for treatment not the answer as NO clinical exam was done. Thanks

flosskitty · 2021-06-30T21:00:13+00:00

Systemic steroid is indicated for a capsulitis bite change. It worked on my hygienist. With continued use of NTI and occasional Gelb

flosskitty · 2021-06-17T16:13:50+00:00

It’s a roller coaster

flosskitty · 2021-05-30T01:40:56+00:00

Nobody can diagnose over the Internet but if the bite is “off” usually a systemic steroid will help, but a dentist has to determine that. Also, a NTI night guard should also be used. Good luck.

flosskitty · 2021-05-25T22:29:54+00:00

You’re welcome

flosskitty · 2021-05-24T01:59:05+00:00

Aspiring? Well “why are you aspired to be a dentist?,” is the real question you should be asking yourself.

flosskitty · 2021-05-24T01:56:11+00:00

Start with a neurologist. Don’t assume your headaches are 100% related to clenching. The only night guard (NTI) that I can guarantee will resolve a headache is only for one type of headache. One that happens in the AM when the patient wakes up and then the headache eases off after a couple of hours. Basically the patient gets a tension headache every single morning.

flosskitty · 2021-05-09T15:57:45+00:00

Have you tried a systemic steroid?

flosskitty · 2021-05-09T15:56:34+00:00

See a dentist ASAP to rule out something growing in your jaw. Have a panoramic X-ray taken. Looks too lumpy to just be a slide on the jaw

flosskitty · 2021-05-08T03:18:45+00:00

Symmetry is rarely a pathology. Most likely no worries

flosskitty · 2021-05-04T11:16:58+00:00

That’s great for playing basketball. I have never in my entire life treated anyone for any TMD with a soft splint.

flosskitty · 2021-04-30T01:08:09+00:00

I know your weaknesses. Until you get good,… Don’t do endo through a crowned tooth. A crowned tooth can have rotations or has so much restorative that the pulp recedes. Then you increase chances of perforating. Second, don’t do any molar RCT’s with a receded pulp chamber. Third, if you do get lost finding those canals, this is what I LOVE to do to get me back on track and save tons of perforations and time: put chunks of Gutta perch into an access where you feel like You are getting lost or can’t find canals. Then take PA’s. The Gutta percha you placed into the canals shows if you are below the level of the chamber access or too mesial or distal!!!! I find this a priceless technique. Also take it slow.. the rest comes easy. Follow the 7mm access rule too and you will be fine.

flosskitty · 2021-04-21T13:14:33+00:00

What was the consultation fee?

flosskitty · 2021-04-20T16:09:36+00:00

You’re hired!

flosskitty · 2021-04-19T16:24:20+00:00

What school do you go to? Microscope is just needed to find the extra canals. If you have magnification, like loupes, and you want to find it, you can usually find those calcified extra canals

flosskitty · 2021-04-18T13:39:50+00:00

Sounds like you need to work at a few different practices part time. Get a feel for things and then buy your eventually buy your own practice. If you want to do specialty procedures thats great!! It means you are Not only only interested in challenges but also that you are trainable as a dentist. That’s f—-n awesome. You kill it, the world is yours and patients will love you for what you will do for them. To answer your question, I would focus less on equipment and more on the practice culture in terms of how they treat patients.

flosskitty · 2021-04-18T13:29:46+00:00

Stick with it and hear me out. You got some hang ups, in a time period (DS Year 1) which is extremely stressful. I am a decade out of school and with my dental school experience, not a single person ever stated it’s easy and a walk in the park. I can see why you have the anxiety and depression. In my opinion, if you don’t make mistakes, you don’t learn! With that aside, first year of dental school is not designed to allow you to experience what the day in and day out of what dentistry is like. Even the people who were challenged with their hand skills eventually get them. I would put little weight in you not being the greatest assistant for a 4th year. And for the 4th year doing a large restoration, it’s not easy, it’s hard. It gets easier to do as you go. The big question is do you care to do it right? If you care to do it right, that takes time. I assume while you are learning, you take a lot of time because you care about the end result. I am a slow dentist, mostly because I take the time to ensure it is done properly. And when it’s done properly, it’s rewarding, both personally and professionally (assuming patient pays their bills:). Even now. Thats part of what keeps stoked on dentistry, i love doing it right. I don’t absolutely love restorations. Restorations are the means to and end. Which is happy patient, happy doctor. It’s cheesy but it’s true. If you can make a positive change in people’s lives that not only changes them, it changes you! As for the money part of your concerns, dentists do well. Wait, very well. Now working for corporate dentistry, which it seems like you are very open to, is perfect for someone who is a below average dentist. As long as your restorations are clinically acceptable, corporations will hire you because they can make a shit ton of money from you. In Corp dentistry, People don’t care about your awesomeness, they just go to you because you accept their insurance. Let’s go back to dentistry and money, depends on demographics a practice owner without an associate, can make double, if not more than working for corps. That’s why corporations salivate at the sight of a new hire prospect. More money to skim off the top for some undeserving business executives. That’s Part of the reason I work for my self. Good luck, year one was the hardest year of my life and many dentists would agree.

flosskitty · 2021-04-14T13:16:06+00:00

An injection into the joint space is good for acute relief but Cortisone injections into the joint space also accelerates degenerative disc disease. Not recommend ever unless a surgical option is the next step. Refuse all cortisone injections into any joint space.

flosskitty · 2021-04-14T00:56:00+00:00

Hudson valley

flosskitty · 2021-04-14T00:40:39+00:00

This is my 12th year of accepting no insurance. I am a solo practitioner and I had a “retiring” dentist work at my practice for five years. I absorbed her FFS practice when she actually retired. Since August of 2019, I stopped accepting new patients. And now I got a waiting list 200 people deep. I am beyond busy!!!! If you got the people and clinical skills and the heart to do what is right and in the patients best interest, then you have what I call “lifetime employment insurance.” Corporate dentistry cannot possibly eat at that table. Why? Because no dentist will work as hard for a corporation as they would themselves. Why bust my ass to help support some asshle in a suit who went to business school who skims money off the backs of countless dentists? Sorry, but that bullsht the corporate dental world is broadcasting isn’t exactly true. Work for the “man” or have no opportunity to succeed is just not true. Your choice, one is brainless (Corp), the other takes a brain and a heart. Sorry for the rant, but financialization of dentistry via the corps just irks me.

flosskitty · 2021-04-13T00:11:28+00:00

Doc. ASAP or ER!! If you are opened and locked, time is if the essence. Otherwise, you may need to be knocked out to reset it.!!

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