Pacific Dental Services

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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.
 
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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
 
Trigeminal08 said:
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
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Wait until you get specialists; it is a different story!
 
PerioDont said:
this sounds awesome to me 😉
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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.
 
Shim-stock said:
Wait until you get specialists; it is a different story!
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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
 
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