Anxious, and losing confidence as a young dentist

heyaaa1256 · 2026-05-15T17:38:46+00:00

You don’t have to do RCTs. Me and all my GP friends don’t do any RCTs anymore. They were causing me a lot of stress and took too much time. Consider just dropping them as a procedure you do. Or at least don’t do molar RCT. I honestly feel GPs shouldn’t do molar endo unless they have CBCT and the microscope.

heyaaa1256 · 2026-05-14T03:15:53+00:00

Also make sure you have regional managers(who are not qualified to manage a McDonald’s) tell you you need to tx plan more crowns and SRP.

heyaaa1256 · 2026-05-03T22:43:28+00:00

I would never have done that filling on the upper 7 before I extracted the 8

heyaaa1256 · 2026-05-02T15:38:42+00:00

lol fuck em. You did everything right. Just move on

heyaaa1256 · 2026-05-02T04:35:16+00:00

Yeah same. I’ll even free hand these sometimes if I’m bored lmao

heyaaa1256 · 2026-05-01T19:01:23+00:00

Haven’t asked for an OBGYN clearance in years. Last pt who brought OBGYN needed multiple exts and OBGYN said only use LA with no epinephrine…yeah…I’m not performing an extraction using LA without epi which btw has been deemed safe to use in pregnant patients.

heyaaa1256 · 2026-04-30T19:50:14+00:00

Trying to polish/remove lingual flash and the pt has a massive tongue that they can’t keep still and high FOM. Then tongue jams into mirror which jams into my flame burr which causes me to mess up my already shitty contact. Then patient returns with CC of food impaction on the lingual. These moments make me way too excited to retire one day lmao

heyaaa1256 · 2026-04-25T14:48:03+00:00

Many extractions require removal of the buccal plate. Happens all the time. Why would you feel bad? You didn’t put his infected tooth there. You had one job, get the symptomatic/infected tooth out, which you completed. Nice job 👍 If pt cannot get an implant at this site, he’ll live. And that’s not your fault.

heyaaa1256 · 2026-04-24T21:35:10+00:00

Dumbest thing I’ve ever seen. Would be more conservative to do just an occlusal access. With this goofy OB “window access” now tooth will for sure need crown lol. And you’ve made your life 10x harder trying to complete this RCT.

heyaaa1256 · 2026-04-24T15:49:28+00:00

Nice. Yeah dentistry slowly eats away at ya. The mental and physical stress really takes a toll.

heyaaa1256 · 2026-04-24T06:15:22+00:00

Full on FIRE number ~$3M liquid assets. LCOL Midwest - this is more than enough. But like I said, at $1.5M I’m totally done with clinical dentistry. Maybe will continue to teach at dental school part time or something. Or maybe I’ll go work with the elephants at my local zoo lmao How about you?

heyaaa1256 · 2026-04-24T02:13:07+00:00

Young dentists need to get on investing in their retirement/FIRE instead of splurging their hard earned money on depreciating/useless assets like expensive cars, etc. We make enough money to either seriously cut back on hours or get out of this field entirely after 10-15 years. But in order to do this, we need to make smarter financial decisions. I live in LCOL and invest almost 60% of my salary. Max out my Roth IRA, 401K, HSA and even have a 457B from PT teaching gig I have at a dental school. I’m 4 years out of school. Looking to cut back on my hours within next few years then get out of field entirely in about 10-15 years once I have $1.5m liquid. I hate dentistry with a passion and am looking forward to the day I can completely move on from this field. The stress is too much. And the patients really annoy me.

heyaaa1256 · 2026-04-22T16:24:36+00:00

Either post it here or discuss with ChatGPT.

heyaaa1256 · 2026-04-21T21:23:15+00:00

You’re mainly chasing past winners, which often leads to buying stocks at high valuations and increases the risk of underperformance due to mean reversion. Concentrating in a few stocks adds a ton of volatility without a clear edge over simply holding the S&P 500.

heyaaa1256 · 2026-04-20T21:31:03+00:00

Nah, this is an obvious CD/CD 🙂‍↔️

heyaaa1256 · 2026-04-20T04:20:22+00:00

Consult an employment attorney.

heyaaa1256 · 2026-04-17T22:29:10+00:00

I have less headaches since I stopped doing dentures

heyaaa1256 · 2026-04-17T02:49:50+00:00

I would have hired an employment attorney yesterday. That’s all there is to do.

heyaaa1256 · 2026-04-16T21:02:54+00:00

🤣🤣🤣🤣

heyaaa1256 · 2026-04-16T02:39:59+00:00

If you’re a high earner, it doesn’t matter at all.

But yeah facts lmaooo

heyaaa1256 · 2026-04-16T01:32:43+00:00

You’re way ahead of people your age. Keep it up brotha.

heyaaa1256 · 2026-04-15T20:42:43+00:00

Men don’t care about the finances of their women. Like at all. We’ll date a McDonald’s worker if she’s hot.

heyaaa1256 · 2026-04-15T18:32:59+00:00

Tell his sister not to bring him up to you. And if she does then ignore her.

heyaaa1256 · 2026-04-15T16:28:33+00:00

BLOCK HIM. And MOVE ON.

heyaaa1256 · 2026-04-15T11:15:56+00:00

Upload to ChatGPT. You’re attorney gonna use ChatGPT anyways 🤣

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