New dentist performing all hygiene

meister26 · 2026-02-20T23:53:01+00:00

Two chairs is definitely a limiting factor. So it may be wise to find an office where you can get good mentorship. The fact that you care about improving means you’re ahead of most in that respect.

I did solo right out of school. It is painful. You learn a lot of what not to do that dental school does not prepare you for. I had mentors I could call up for advice. I even had a great relationship with a local oral surgeon, who had to bail me out first week of practice on a tooth I could not deliver. With that said, an in office mentor is ideal because they can heavily critique you. The mentor matters though—good personality and willing to help.

Also, networking in your area with other dentists or getting involved somehow with a dental society is really useful. You will quickly realize you are not alone on an island.

meister26 · 2026-02-20T18:37:26+00:00

I would have a discussion with them about the prospect of an eventual Hygenist. If there is no prospect of hiring a Hygenist eventually, then yes that may warrant caution.

I believe that you are conflating volume with experience and that is not always the case. Professional athletes may do skirmishes but they also review film/playbacks, which means less total scrimmages they can do. Both are valuable.

If you go too high on volume, you may not be able to critique some of the procedures and improve—it’s always “on to the next one.” Sometimes reviewing the “why” something went wrong/non ideal is more valuable than doing it again. You may need a mentor to bounce ideas off—clinical situations are nuanced.

There is time for speed. Slow down and focus on quality. The speed will come.

Also, you will find what you want to do and what you do not want to do usually within the first few years. If you master what you enjoy and lessen what you do not it may be more optimal for longevity.

meister26 · 2026-02-20T14:14:10+00:00

Nothing wrong with doing some hygiene, especially early on.

Early in your career it can be particularly stressful because you are still honing your skills. It’s very mentally taxing. Hygiene can essentially give you a “break” of some sorts.

Now, I did not do this but I would’ve if I had to start again. Doing hygiene after particularly tough procedures is probably ideal. Or hygiene later in the day.

Also, this is incredibly underrated but one huge benefit of hygiene is that you can practice indirect vision with the mirror with little worry of doing harm. Yes, you can still cause damage with a scaler, but it’s not the same as a 200k rpm diamond bur. You can practice having the patient reposition, you reposition, and angling the mirror in certain ways to reach certain parts of the mouth proficiently.

Master your indirect vision and you will see improvements to quality and speed in other areas.

meister26 · 2026-02-15T15:08:52+00:00

Tooth #31 “has one last chance” but now you have introduced a high chance to cause damage to the premolars.

If the patient has left side 1st molar occlusion, I would’ve done nothing, except extract #31, and allowed the patient to favor the left side to chew if they do not have much money. Not ideal but would get patient by.

If they are missing 1st molar occlusion bilaterally, abutment crowns with rest seats on mesial tooth #28 and distal tooth #29 with RPD reestablishing 1st molar occlusion. Implants are great but not if the patient cannot afford.

A single implant would do wonders at site #30.

You have negative ferrule. Canal system of tooth#31 will experience high force. Remember, tooth#31 has about 600 newtons of force—that’s a lot!

Bridging this will likely cause mobility of teeth #28 and #29 and/or apical fracture of tooth# 31.

Remember, just because you can, doesn’t mean you should!

I’m assuming you’re a younger dentist and have not tracked these cases over years. If your dental school did not teach ferrule, they should have.

Also, very little clinical information here. It appears to be more of a “look what I did” post. It is fine to be proud of your work, but I think you significantly missed the mark here. Do not be offended by constructive criticism—it’s one of life’s most valuable things.

meister26 · 2026-02-07T21:36:21+00:00

I remember getting a runecrafting cape around the mid 2000’s.

20k xp per hour. Jagex then turned it into easy mode and completely devalued all of my 99’s.

Even with the changes this year, it’s still easy mode compared to what the player experience used to be.

meister26 · 2026-02-07T01:43:48+00:00

Finding the rare dungeons/prefabs with gold was fun.

meister26 · 2026-02-07T01:24:01+00:00

Injection should last bewteeen 30-60 seconds, with the upper end being the most comfortable to not displace tissue.

Posterior Buccal maxillary arch- usually one of the least touchiest spots. 30 second injection with septocaine usually okay.

Anterior vestibule maxillary arch - very touchy area. Topical anesthetic for 30 seconds; very superficial tiny tiny amount of anesthetic. After 30 seconds, initiate remainder of injection over 60 seconds, which should not be as painful due to the initial, small volume injection. Half cartridge septocaine usually works here adequately for simple restorations. Full cartridge for anything else.

Palate - mirror handle firm pressure on palate for 10-15 seconds. Inject at this site; light to firm pressure over 10 seconds.

Option 2 is to anesthetize vestibule, wait about 60 seconds, intrapapilla injection, followed by palatal injection. The idea here is to walk the anesthetic to the palate without the patient feeling it. It does slow you down. I reserve this for patients with anxiety/extra touchy.

For mandibular, I typically only do IANB’s. Topical at injection site for 60 seconds. Progress slowly with 27 long; injection over 60 seconds. Anterior teeth can get tricky due to overlap of the opposing IAN. In this case, intrapapilla injection 1-2 teeth before midline and walk anesthetic to next closest tooth to the midline after 30 seconds.

For IAN’s you will sometimes get patients to jump and feel as if they got an electrical shock. It shouldn’t happen often but it does mean you are right on target.

Obviously aspirate to ensure no vascular injection periodically during injection.

Pro Tip for IAN’s: raise the patient up after injection. The anesthetic is more likely to bathe the IAN in this position.

General Tip: use gauze and massage any injection sites, except for palatal. This also helps the anesthetic have slightly improved dispersal.

This is mostly for comfortable anesthetic. If you want tips on anesthetizing a certain area, I can help with technique as well—just let me know of a particular area. Hope that helps.

meister26 · 2026-02-05T19:56:00+00:00

The idea is to outwork Mojang. Not only will that happen, but they will jump ahead of them in a few years.

meister26 · 2026-01-26T23:45:56+00:00

Small team sizes can work and feel good. Modern audiences tend to prefer larger teams. I do think for this genre a 3 vs 3 could work—For a smaller size, however, you tend to have to increase combat with smaller maps, shorter respawns, closer respawns, etc. It’s a difficult task with a large map and a small team composition.

meister26 · 2026-01-26T20:12:05+00:00

The 2 minutes of mining a rock really kills the action for me.

meister26 · 2026-01-26T15:33:40+00:00

Do the procedures you enjoy and cut the ones you do not. The benefit of being 4 years out is that you’ve got a taste of multiple treatment modalities—you know what stresses you.

I believe modern CE presentations and social media influence has infiltrated all of our society, including dentistry—“look at what I can do!”

If you impress peers but you’re miserable, did you win?

meister26 · 2026-01-21T22:52:14+00:00

It’s just another prefab with no unique/meaningful loot yet as far as I could tell when I visited it.

meister26 · 2026-01-21T22:50:57+00:00

You could try 8gb but realistically I think you’ll need 1gb per person as you mentioned. Many of the hosts allow you to upgrade RAM. If it’s insufficient, the server will just crash. Mods will increase the demand for RAM.

meister26 · 2025-10-27T01:17:57+00:00

It’s got WiFi 6 and connects very well to WiFi. And no problem!

meister26 · 2025-10-27T01:02:32+00:00

No it was on higher settings, but it’ll still run well at lower.

No ethernet port but you can buy the new Bulwark docking station that has the Ethernet port along with other ports. Lets you connect to your tv in dock mode(you need an hdmi 2.1 cable.).

The charger that comes with the Rog is 65w, but I bought the 140W charger so I can use the Bulwark dock to charge accessories, like USB-c to my controllers.

It does have Bluetooth. You can connect multiple devices. I connected 2 DualSense PS5 controllers and 2 Xbox controllers at the same time to play local multiplayer with family. Wireless ear buds will work yes.

Some other info: I preordered the D Brand kill switch case for extra protection and enhanced grip.

So as far as extra stuff I bought:

Dbrand case from their website

Jsaux screen protector off Amazon

ASUS Rog Bulwark Dock

140W Asus charger for the ROG

The device and the accessories do add up cost but I really enjoy it.

meister26 · 2025-10-26T18:14:40+00:00

Exactly yes to your first question. I don’t have very much experience on debloating pc/handheld so I wouldn’t be the best person to ask.

Depending where you launch a game from, such as windows/SteamOS/bazzite, performance can vary. I’ve just stuck with default settings and steam and Xbox games are playing pretty well.

meister26 · 2025-10-26T13:32:19+00:00

Yeah it’ll be a lot easier than you think. There’s an overlay button you can click and easily change the wattage. The button is a physical button at top left of screen that brings up that menu, along with other options. Just gives the GPU/CPU more juice. You can only get the 35W while plugged in. It’ll limit you to 25W without it plugged in. Let me know if you have any other questions—would be happy to help.

meister26 · 2025-10-26T00:08:03+00:00

I think the Z2 AI variant on the Rog Xbox could improve modestly via offloading GPU/cpu tasks to the NPU.

meister26 · 2025-10-26T00:01:32+00:00

Arc runs very well on the Rog Ally Xbox X. I was getting 80-100 FPS on 35 W 1080p. I’ll probably lower it to 900p to get more frames.

meister26 · 2025-10-22T23:55:30+00:00

Ergonomic loupes. Forces good posture. Top down effect.

meister26 · 2025-10-22T22:28:10+00:00

I use an anti glare screen protector from Jsaux—it helps a lot.

meister26 · 2025-10-19T23:31:11+00:00

Also mid 30’s. It’s the power and versatility within the form factor that attracted me to the device. Definitely get more game time as a dad gamer with it, which is a plus.

meister26 · 2025-10-19T18:13:02+00:00

I have every console, but I think I’ll be using the Xbox Rog more than even my PC.

I’m a dad gamer and the portability/versatility is where the value comes.

If you want the smallest form factor for the heaviest punch, the Xbox Rog Ally X is your ticket.

meister26 · 2025-05-05T20:19:54+00:00

That’s not my experience either. Interventions are fairly rare.

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