Is this where I post on this suicide crap, and the stress of dentistry. Damned right it's stressful, if you give a damned about how good a job you do. The more successful usually go into this field thinking it's easy money..duhhh! Stupid reason. Nothing is "simple" about dentistry, and broad generalizations don't mean crap. I' ve been practicing almost 40 years in this sorry ass field, and perfection is very much an absolute requirement if you are worth a damned, and care about your patients. Yes, dentistry is damned stressful. Painless dentistry is BS! So be ready to have a significant number of people got completely nuts when you barely enter their mouth. Fact number one about dental suicides, which likely enter the average of most professional doctors, is that many professional fields have stress factors, and your personal life are the key component to what the hell you will do under constant stress. To be really good in dentistry requires you pretty well better "marry" the job, and your damned wife had better not be a demanding bitch type. If you have kids, it's your damned funeral. FAct number two: Amalgam alloys may not be so pretty, unless you take the intense time to carve and finish them down to perfection and do a super finish on them. Polishing is rarely done to get them to a fine lustrous finish. Most don't do that because it takes time, and time is money. Oh yes, my friends, you'll turn out some crap from time to time because you are fighting a stressed out patient all too often, and those dentists who claim "painless" dentistry are liars or sorry damned dentists. Sure you inflict some pain. That threshold varies all over the place. But if you go to dental school, and use only a local anesthetic, there will always be a few patients who freak out, get pissed, scared, occasionally go into syncope, and your stress levels with any volume of patients doing any invasive, deep cutting with burs, scapels, cutting bone, and trying to practice 5 or 6 types of dental procedures will be working your ass off trying to be a "specialist" in those 5 or 6 areas to perfection. Patients expect perfection and some will hound you to death over a slight shade imperfection on an otherwise very nice restoration. Fact number 3: Be a tough SOB, or DON'T go into dentistry. You will be hated by a lot of patients cause they don't like your ass. They don't like pain,tough ****. Get used to it. If you can't deal with dingus patients, and there are plenty of them who whine and complain about everything, are scared damned babies, and want something for nothing. So they don't give a damned about your huge overhead costs, but want cheap prices for your ass-busting efforts. Get rid of the damned cheapskates! You have to be tough, no doubt about it. Patients will demand all kinds of crap for trash mouths they've neglected for 20 damned years, and want you to fix them up in 4 weeks for a stupid ass damned wedding where they want to "look good" when they smile. Remember always, you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. FAct number 4: YOu are **** in most professional's eyes. Get used to it, or don't go into dentistry. After all, you'll never be considered a REAL doctor! You are the bad step child of medicine and labeled as the "loser" who wanted to be a real medical doctor. People are stupid dinguses. Shut them down,and get them out of your face, and carry a big stick. YES Dentistry, if you practice it for many many years, and only the 30 yr man has seen the real, constant hell of these bitching patients, is PAINFUL! It also is painful for you if you are not tough as nails. So you have to develop compassion, act that way, get your money up front, or they will take you to the cleaners. Dentists get paid last, or not at all. Now, as for this amalgam (silver alloy bull **** about mercury), poppycock. That is pure crap. It has been the bread and butter most reliable posterior restoration for over 150 years. So spare me the idiots who rant on about "mercury toxicity". It is NOT proven by significant double blind studies, and the theory is shot full of holes. I can guarantee you the pretty white fillings, so needed in this soft society of wimps are toxic maybe even more than amalgam. So tell the critics of amalgam, and minimal mercury involved in it, that taking out all the amalgam restorations in favor of resin filled crap that won't hold up as long, that they are committing malpractice by taking out good amalgam restorations that have been serviceable for years, and still are. Fact number 5: Did I say that you are HATED? By doctors, and patients? Yes you are. Get used to it. As far as suicide, that is governed in part by the stress of many professions, and dentistry IS demanding if you perform it well, and that marriage, kids, and stress at home will either make you depressed possibly into the thoughts of suicide, or you develop a healthy hateful psychotic mind to deal with the bastards and bitches of this world. Otherwise, consider going into a monastery. Does this clear anything up? Dont judge me, those of you hypocrit sorry bastards out there. I know you're there,,you are everywhere, and I'd just as soon see you dead as alive. You don't mean crap to me. Put that in your pipe, and choke on it! I hope this gives you new novices some idea of the demands of dentistry, and how much you will be hated if you use only local anesthetic as we were required to do in the "Stone Age" of my learning and a tough dental school environment where professors reigned supreme, and hate your young student asses. Get used to it. The Marines need a few good men. It take the patience and toughness of a Marine to make a career of dentistry. I hope this is clear. I KNOW the truth of this damned sorry business. So you get the perspective you should know. Suicide is high among dentists?? Well, I don't know. But rest assured nobody will miss you for over a week or two if you kill yourself. So be ready, be tough, be a Marine! Take no **** off "real doctors", expect bad dental jokes about you, and be ready for the bastards you will treat time and time again. Trash mouths are everywhere, and perfection is very much required in dentistry. There is little room for error, and it is NEVER tolerated by others. In the U.S.A. there are lots of lawyer buzzards who want to eat you alive in court if you screw up. So bear that in mind. Maybe suicide ain't so bad after all? Good luck, think about this very hard, and find a rich woman. Above all, be tough, and cover your ass. Sincerely, Goliad
