Pacific Dental Services

[A Sweet Tooth]

Any recent (2020 or 2021) or new (2022) grads working in a PDS office? Care to share your opinions/thoughts/likes/dislikes?

and does anyone have any info about this Dentist-in-Training program they have? Recent Dental Grad Jobs | Pacific Dental Services

PDS owners feel free to chime in too!

Thanks!

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[nade0016]

As a GP or Specialist? I only have a specialist viewpoint.

 

[Shim-stock]

Stay away from it! you will be doing probing and prophys for your hygienist so that the hygienist can do more SRPs so that the office (not you) make more money; you are not allowed to do extractions or think about doing implants; you will be as if you are an EFDA with more restorative rights; the specialist you have on board are not there to help you only; they are there so you do the exams for them and keep their schedule busy.

 

[Shim-stock]

As a GP or Specialist? I only have a specialist viewpoint.

I believe OS can only do 3rds; no implants or anything else

 

[Trigeminal08]

I'm working at a new PDS office. We are currently 2 docs, 3 assistants, and no hygienist. Since we are new, we are currently in the works with getting specialists onboard. We do our own prophys/SRPs until we get an hygienist. Lots of fillings and crowns. I get to do endo if I want, however I choose not to because I dont like the guttacore system. I can extract and bone graft whatever I want since I have the training. We don't do implants as GPs mainly because the owner doc does not place implants himself and he does not wanna take over implant cases if an associate decides to leave the office.

Likes: I get to do pretty much whatever I want, but this also depends on the owner dentist
Dislikes: Dealing with assistants who have literally no background in dentistry, but hopefully this gets better with time.

let me know if you have any questions

 

[bergus95]

As a GP or Specialist? I only have a specialist viewpoint.

Would like to hear that

 

[Shim-stock]

I'm working at a new PDS office. We are currently 2 docs, 3 assistants, and no hygienist. Since we are new, we are currently in the works with getting specialists onboard. We do our own prophys/SRPs until we get an hygienist. Lots of fillings and crowns. I get to do endo if I want, however I choose not to because I dont like the guttacore system. I can extract and bone graft whatever I want since I have the training. We don't do implants as GPs mainly because the owner doc does not place implants himself and he does not wanna take over implant cases if an associate decides to leave the office.

Likes: I get to do pretty much whatever I want, but this also depends on the owner dentist
Dislikes: Dealing with assistants who have literally no background in dentistry, but hopefully this gets better with time.

let me know if you have any questions

Wait until you get specialists; it is a different story!

 

[Shim-stock]

Would like to hear that

3rds! only 3rds! all other extractions and implants are done by the periodontist

 

[PerioDont]

Would like to hear that

agreed

3rds! only 3rds! all other extractions and implants are done by the periodontist

this sounds awesome to me 😉

 

[011110]

agreed

this sounds awesome to me 😉

Sounds like a **** deal if you’re an OS, no way I would sign up for that

 

[charlestweed]

this sounds awesome to me 😉

If I were a new grad OS with high amount of student loan debt, I would love to work at al place like this….extract 3rds all day long. That’s what a lot of the OS’s do. They work part time at an office (or offices) that has (have) mostly 3rd cases and get paid a lot. And they have their own private OS office, where they get to do a wide variety of procedures.

 

[Trigeminal08]

Wait until you get specialists; it is a different story!

They are already on the schedule. I haven’t had a single ounce of pushback from doing any extractions so far, and knowing my owner doc, probably won’t have any in the future either. The office manager wants me to extract and bone graft. I want to keep the specialists happy too with a packed schedule. There’s plenty of work to be done even with giving the specialists the harder cases. Sounds like you’re having a much different experience

 

[Shim-stock]

Has anyone worked for Dental Dream, Aspen or Pacific Dental Service?

Does any one have any kind of experience (first or second hand) with these guys? Any advice will be very helpful! Dental Dream, Aspen, Pacific Dental Service?

forums.studentdoctor.net

 

[Shim-stock]

this sounds awesome to me 😉

But perio got stuck many times with difficult extractions and so she ended up referring to OS; just to be fair. One time she pushed an implant into the sinus LOL!