Life as a dentist

[dddoch]

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"Being the dentist is a slick job. At times it can be stressful, but mostly dentistry is a lot of fun, a little grief, and an overall great way to work. Unless you're a major loser with a rotten/nonexistent personality (like most of my classmates in dental school), your hygiene department will make you so much money your bigtime physician friends won't believe it.

It's pretty easy stuff. I tell people what they need and give them what they want. No hard sell here. Why would I? My life is already so sweet I don't need to sell. I joke around with patients, play video games in my office, drink coffee, flirt with the hygienists, etc. And they call this working. "

 

[Contach]

How accurate is the below description?


"Being the dentist is a slick job. At times it can be stressful, but mostly dentistry is a lot of fun, a little grief, and an overall great way to work. Unless you're a major loser with a rotten/nonexistent personality (like most of my classmates in dental school), your hygiene department will make you so much money your bigtime physician friends won't believe it.

It's pretty easy stuff. I tell people what they need and give them what they want. No hard sell here. Why would I? My life is already so sweet I don't need to sell. I joke around with patients, play video games in my office, drink coffee, flirt with the hygienists, etc. And they call this working. "

I think that once you've 'made it' this is probably true. But at the same time there are a lot of dentists who don't make it to owning their own practice (and thus dont make bank off the hygeniests).

The dentists I've shadowed are all really chill. They pop in the anaesthetics and go back to their office if they dont want to talk to the patient. They come back in 5 and do the procedure then go back to the office. I could see myself playing video games in the downtime. Also, when you aren't booked wth a patient - more free time!

 

[slick90210]

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[rdhdds1]

Well all I can say is that dentistry, overall, is quite the profession. The dentist that I work for hangs out in his office, talks on the phone, surfs the net, watches TV and the like. Keep in mind he is the dentist and he earned the right to do what he wants since it is his practice and he signs the paychecks.

As for a dentist flirting. It happens. Especially when there are some pretty fine hygienists out there.