I got my #32 out yesterday. Before he put me to sleep he told me that I don?t need to specialize in oral surgery to administer general anesthesia and that I can do a year of residency and become certified. He also told me that there is a big niche for a general dentist with this certification. Have any of you heard of this before?
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Good luck if you want to consider general anes. You're asking for trouble if you do it! If you have cases like that, do what I do and hook up with an OS and let their CNA do the anesthesia part. I did one last week on a 20yo patient with mild MR, combative disorder, etc. Completed 9 RCTs in 42 minutes (I love rotary endo....). A good service if you want to do it.
Now if you're talking about IV sedation, you can get that without a specialty. Takes a whole lot of classes, a whole lot more malpractice insurance, but can get some of those patients in the door that otherwise would never get their work done. Seems like too much of a hassle for me, but there are some dentists I know, besides surgeons, that do quite well from it.
Now if you're talking about IV sedation, you can get that without a specialty. Takes a whole lot of classes, a whole lot more malpractice insurance, but can get some of those patients in the door that otherwise would never get their work done. Seems like too much of a hassle for me, but there are some dentists I know, besides surgeons, that do quite well from it.
You did 9 RCTs in 42 minutes? DANG. I would be flying to get 2 done in that time, even extracted teeth I don't think I could do that many!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If my math is right, thats like 3000 bucks in a matter of 42 minutes. In that case, all I have to do is work roughly 230 hours and I would be a millionare and could retire and live on my 5.4% interest off a cd. That would be 54000 a year for just sitting flat on my arse and fishing all day, man thats the life!!!! Now if I can just squeeze by these dang boards
Had my xrays before hand and put a rubber dam on #23-31 and just started. Actually it's really easy to do that with rotary and not having to fight a patient whatsoever. When all was said and done.... 11 RCTs, 16 Crowns, gingivectomies, 4 post spaces and temps in 3 hours. Total $$ = $17K. Wish I had more of these cases. As I said, I had a CNA do the general anesthesia, monitor the patient and take the liability for it. I just did the dentistry. Why would I want that extra burden? I made enough cash that day....
you gotta count those anterior teeth as 1/2 root canals though... 😀 ...you should be able to do all of those w/o rotary instruments in like 10 minutes... 🙂
