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Predents, you guys should create an account here. It is an amazing resource.
A few things that i learn from DT are:
1/ The real learning of dentistry is after dental school
2/ Dental schools just give you a license to learn
3/ Every dental school is the same. Chose the cheapest as possible. Insurance companies are not gonna pay reimbursement higher to Harvard grad.
4/ I learn a lot from those wise dentist on DT.
 
haha i lost some respect for this mag after i saw the "call system girls" cover a few months ago
 
Dentaltown is about 95% bull****. The most prolific posters are either selling a service (like practice management, their CE course or a lab) or are sycophants sucking up to Howard Farran who is the Ron Popeil of dentistry
 
The Hammer said:
Dentaltown is about 95% bull****. The most prolific posters are either selling a service (like practice management, their CE course or a lab) or are sycophants sucking up to Howard Farran who is the Ron Popeil of dentistry
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what is the decent 5% in your opinion?
 
The Hammer said:
Dentaltown is about 95% bull****. The most prolific posters are either selling a service (like practice management, their CE course or a lab) or are sycophants sucking up to Howard Farran who is the Ron Popeil of dentistry
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i dont know waht most of those words/names mean...
 
jmt1984 said:
what is the decent 5% in your opinion?
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There are a few posters who make sifting through the crap worth it. People like prosthodontist Howard Chasolen. If you lurk there enough you will start to see who to pay attention to and who to ignore
 
I have found it pretty useful myself, including those who are pitching services. You can also get good advice on procedures, consults on cases, management, transition issues etc there. In fact, there is a ton of good info and people on there to utilize.

Not sure where your opinion came from, but maybe you should rethink it or revisit the site once you've gained a little more knowledge about dentistry.
 
Regmata said:
I have found it pretty useful myself, including those who are pitching services. You can also get good advice on procedures, consults on cases, management, transition issues etc there. In fact, there is a ton of good info and people on there to utilize.

Not sure where your opinion came from, but maybe you should rethink it or revisit the site once you've gained a little more knowledge about dentistry.
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na, hes a predent, he shadowed a big whole bunch, waht more could he possibly need to know?
 
Regmata said:
I have found it pretty useful myself, including those who are pitching services. You can also get good advice on procedures, consults on cases, management, transition issues etc there. In fact, there is a ton of good info and people on there to utilize.

Not sure where your opinion came from, but maybe you should rethink it or revisit the site once you've gained a little more knowledge about dentistry.
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I've been a member of DT since 2004. I've also hung out with Howard Farran enough to get a good perspective of his views of dentistry and have been featured in an article in DT magazine. Most of the "good advice" that you are talking about is really bad advice but you just don't know enough to know that now. Also I may have understated my credentials when I signed up as a "pre-dent"
 
You were right, another good laugh. Not sure why a guy who has been practicing for over 15 years would sign up on a student doctor forum as a predent. I still stand behind my statement about the site. Just because you don't care for Farran's dental perspectives doesn' t mean the entire site is garbage. There are plenty of valuable threads on there for upcoming dentists. Of course you have to critically think about everything you take in on the site, but that is true of every source of information out there. Dentaltown offers a chance to get many different perspectives on various situations quickly. Do I take any of it as gospel? Hell no, but the site does offer different insights that can point you in the right direction for inquiry and myself and thousands of others have found it useful.
 
Regmata said:
You were right, another good laugh. Not sure why a guy who has been practicing for over 15 years would sign up on a student doctor forum as a predent. I still stand behind my statement about the site. Just because you don't care for Farran's dental perspectives doesn' t mean the entire site is garbage. There are plenty of valuable threads on there for upcoming dentists. Of course you have to critically think about everything you take in on the site, but that is true of every source of information out there. Dentaltown offers a chance to get many different perspectives on various situations quickly. Do I take any of it as gospel? Hell no, but the site does offer different insights that can point you in the right direction for inquiry and myself and thousands of others have found it useful.
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Now that I think about it I agree somewhat with you. I think that a lot of the information that a new dentist would find useful on DT is stuff that I tend to gloss over as I am in a different phase of my career so I recant my statement about DT being 95% BS. 👍
 
It is a great resource!!
 
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