Excessive sweating

[KrentistDDS]

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This might be a weird post but I suffer from excessive sweating. There are times when I just bucket sweat from my head. My question is how this will affect me as a dentist. How will I deal with leaning over someone’s face during procedures if I’m dripping sweat all over? I was wondering if anyone else suffers like this to the extent I do and how they manage

 

[321931]

This might be a weird post but I suffer from excessive sweating. There are times when I just bucket sweat from my head. My question is how this will affect me as a dentist. How will I deal with leaning over someone’s face during procedures if I’m dripping sweat all over? I was wondering if anyone else suffers like this to the extent I do and how they manage

No effect. Most procedures in dentistry are quick. Simple filling? 10 min. Simple class 2? 15 min. Ext? 5 to 30 min. Partials? 5 min depending on the step. Crown seats? 5-10 min... Crown? 10 min.

The procedures are long in a sense that you book a crown for an hour. But 5 min is your assistant getting patient ready. 2 min numbing. 5 min wait to get numb. 10 min drill. Assistant pack cord. 2 min impression then assistant does temp.

There’s a lot of breaks in dentistry where you can wipe off your sweat. The only long procedure is root canals and honestly you don’t have to do them to be a profitable GP. I did 20 last year. Accounted for less then 1% of profit. I’m debating on just not doing rats ever again. Less then 1% profit but 99% headaches. No thanks

 

[Saddleshoes]

How about setting a fashion trend in your clinic...
Use a brightly colored cloth surgical cap when you are working. (you could change it out a couple of times during the day.)

 

[REACHOn]

I am a little worried about that too. I've shadow some dentist and see a little bit of sweating but not excessive. There's even an article about the darkside of dentistry that talks about this too. It could be a small case of anxiety and then it just passes. Perhaps tell your doc about this and get on a small dose of anxiety meds to see if it helps. Then get off the meds when you feel comfortable with the dental procedures. The pressures on new grads are real.

Disclaimer: Just my opinion. I'm no doc

 

[321931]

I am a little worried about that too. I've shadow some dentist and see a little bit of sweating but not excessive. Theres even an article about the darkside of dentistry that talks about this too. It could be a small case of anxiety and then it just passes. Perhap tell your doc about this and go on small dose of anxiety meds and see if it helps and get of the meds when you feel comfortable with dental procedures. The pressures on new grads are real.

Disclaimer: Just my opinion. I'm no doc

After doing your 5000000 filling it’s like riding a bicycle. You won’t sweat it all. It will be boring.

 

[lemoncurry]

Surgery caps would be the way to go, IMO. I don't think anxiety meds will do much as there are always going to be procedures that cause some stress (MOD-MOD-MOD-MO, ankylosed molar, etc) and the sweat is going to come. Best you can do is try to minimize the drippage.

 

[KrentistDDS]

It’s not about anxiety, I just sweat a lot even in moderate temperatures

 

[Dr. Cosmo Kramer]

I have hyperhidrosis (excessive sweating), and after years of dealing with it, I talked to my doctor about a year ago. First I used a prescription antiperspirant called dry-sol, which burnt the hell out of my armpits (not recommended unless you're into that). Now I take a small dose of glycopyrrolate 2 times a day and it does wonders. I sweat more normally now. In short, talk to your doc and they will give you options.

 

[REACHOn]

Sweat from the face, the forehead, the upper lip, all over 🙁 Anxiety was just a suggestion. Just try and find different ways to address it and experiment on yourself 😛 I'm going to try different ways to address it myself (already googled up glycoporrate). All else fails imma look into an amazing fan that attaches to the loupes.... a joke 🙂
oh also try to get use to wearing a surgical mask. I'm wearing one right now at work so that I'll get use to the warm breath coming out my mouth.