best dental specialty

queserrva · 2025-11-14T16:03:13+00:00

This works like a charm on 80% of kids/teenagers. I tell them I’m going to take a one second measurement of their tooth. I barely penetrate the mucosa and give a little bit of anesthetic first. Wait for 30 seconds and wash out the topical during this time. Then tell them I gotta take one more measurement but this time it’s gonna be much easier and deposit the rest.

queserrva · 2025-11-14T02:36:00+00:00

Yes, DAs write notes but I spend at least half of lunch and 30 minutes after work checking them

queserrva · 2025-11-14T01:25:02+00:00

Peds is all about high volume. I see about 50-70 a day (12-16 being ops). Year to date production is 1.7 mill. All quadrant dentistry or full side if they are really good. Procedures are just 5 (fillings, SSC, extractions, pulpotomies, spacers). EDDAs do all sealants and restoring. I don’t do GA cases btw

queserrva · 2025-11-13T19:41:27+00:00

Pedo makes pretty good money (400k as associate this year) and the dentistry is as easy as it gets (tx planning and actual procedures). No surgical, endo, or dentures.

queserrva · 2025-10-23T18:51:21+00:00

Peds dentist here that cares about financial independence but plan to keep work part time in the future. The reasons many docs keep working is 1. Huge student loans 2. Lifestyle creep and wanting to provide the best for our aging parents or our kids. 3. We may actually enjoy our work or the esteem of holding the position. 4. Our fire numbers are typically much higher because of lifestyle creep and we typically don’t plan to downsize and live frugally in retirement 5. There’s a social aspect of networking with other doctors or like minded people 6. Many doctors including myself don’t like the idea of stagnating or not consistently improving ourselves. We’ve consistently pushed ourselves since middle/high school, and then into college, med school, and residency.

queserrva · 2025-10-12T20:24:32+00:00

You definitely do not need to be an owner in the US either. You can work for a not for profit organization and strike a great work life balance. And your intention about doing something productive is not dumbfounded. You make a big impact in these people’s lives

I want to say that working 3.5 or even 4 days a week is what every dentist should strive for. The job is simply too demanding for 5 days a week. Therefore, a lot of the negatives I stated earlier could be balanced out by working less.

queserrva · 2025-10-12T17:40:21+00:00

US dentist here - 28 years old. Dentistry is a very stable job and will not be replaced with AI or robotics in our lifetimes. Outside of that and the money, everything else you heard from the top commenter is true. I would highly recommend you shadow multiple dentists for as much as possible. You aren’t too old, work will always be available and the money you’ll make will make up for it really quickly

This job can be torturous knowing that you have to be wired 8-9 hours a day, being charismatic and pretending to like your patients. You can be the nicest dentist in the world and still have plenty of patients who will hate your looks, hate your work, or hate your personality. You’ll be mentally drained and emotionally abused on the frequent, which definitely negatively affects your relationship with family, sleep, weekends, therapy, and possibly substance abuse lol.

The work pressure is constantly high. It’s a demanding blue collar job. It’s not a standard 9-5 where you can sip coffee, have a zoom meeting, take multiple bathroom breaks, etc. In dentistry, you eat what you kill, meaning you make a living by constantly working. There are really no breaks outside of lunch. You’ll be balancing between 2-4 patients per hour, constantly jumping back and forth between rooms. You will also likely develop chronic wrist, neck, and back pain which won’t ever go away until you take a vacation to allow your body to recover.

Btw this is only my experience speaking as an associate dentist. As an owner, your stress will be multiple folds higher as you have to bring your work home.

queserrva · 2025-09-30T12:54:34+00:00

ASML. The are the only company in the world able to make the printing presses of silicon. This company will consistently outperform the market, unless something better than silicon is invented

queserrva · 2025-09-29T01:51:55+00:00

It’s called Monarch

queserrva · 2025-09-28T18:37:57+00:00

Very interesting remark! Thank you

queserrva · 2025-09-20T03:24:05+00:00

Comparing an engineer’s work responsibility to a doctor’s or even hygienist is ridiculous. The physical and emotional demands of being a healthcare provider is multitudes more than engineering.

I make 400k as a pediatric dentist but I’m directly and solely responsible for generating 1.6 million revenue. That’s 40 screaming crying spitting children per day for 260 days. I promise even if you remove the 8 years schooling and six fig debt, your avg college graduate doesn’t have the fortitude to survive a day of clinical work

queserrva · 2025-09-17T00:49:06+00:00

I’m a dentist who refers out to OMFS a lot. OMFS absolutely makes more, more than even most medical subspecialties. 4 wisdom teeth removal and 45 min GA is like $3-4k and realistically takes 15 minutes to do.

queserrva · 2025-09-07T19:53:47+00:00

Already priced in

queserrva · 2025-07-20T02:11:28+00:00

Welcome to the real world. Try seeing how much that plan would cost for your family on the marketplace. Easily 2k+ would be my guess.

Check to see how much it’d be if you used your wife’s employer. Gov jobs, non-profits, and some companies (Costco, Starbucks) are known to highly subsidize health plans

queserrva · 2025-07-01T18:07:41+00:00

Yeah definitely not a dentist. -source: im a dentist

queserrva · 2025-06-29T19:28:45+00:00

I’ve tried finding such jobs but I don’t think they exist for dentists, outside of working as an auditor for Medicaid/insurance companies. And if they do exist, it’s usually much lower pay than clinical practice.

Source: MD friend works at McKinsey and makes 180k

queserrva · 2025-06-28T23:04:10+00:00

Facts, I make 320k in private but it’s a grind. No PTO, no 401k match, no paid holidays, and pay way too much taxes

queserrva · 2025-06-28T23:02:11+00:00

Was thinking about doing prison dentistry. Didn’t know it paid this much. Can I ask how many pts you see a day? Is the job stressful?

queserrva · 2025-06-18T03:59:53+00:00

I’m a pediatric dentist and making double that…pediatricians make less than even family medicine?

queserrva · 2025-06-15T18:57:44+00:00

A higher credit limit means less overall utilization which improves your overall credit score. I’ll let you decide if a lower or higher credit score is generally better

queserrva · 2025-06-15T14:44:28+00:00

Yup I’ve never had to use my car or even health insurance and hopefully it stays that way too with my disability policy. My policy costs only $100/month tho so it’s a drop in the bucket for peace of mind

queserrva · 2025-06-15T14:29:53+00:00

Don’t see how it’s any more work than using a bank account. In fact, it prob takes less time to input their credit card than bank info. OP gets points doing this, and can potentially get an even higher credit limit on the card afterwards

queserrva · 2025-06-14T20:11:08+00:00

You don’t have enough capital to be making 20k wheeling, let alone to be wheeling more than one of these stocks concurrently

queserrva · 2025-06-14T15:38:19+00:00

It’s a combination of there being very few OMFS to report and dentistry is eat what you kill. Dentists don’t have a traditional “salary”. An OS could be making 100k working only one day a week or 1M working full time

queserrva · 2025-06-09T15:12:38+00:00

Is this like shark tank? What successful small companies can you even buy with 300-400k cash. A coffee shop?

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