Absolutely! And thirds are so easy that they rarely take more than 3 minutes! You never have to do pre-op consults or post-ops. Who cares if they are ASA I or II or III or even IV; as long as their heart beats enough to push the blood to their fingers while they are writing out the check. Just bring them in take their money, stick an IV in their arm, put them in a diprivan coma, rip their teeth out and leave the office. Sounds so easy. I don't know why people have a hard time believing an OMFS can make 3 trillion dollars a year. The math is very simple: 8 hours a day. 1 1/2 hours doing bogus TMD consults listening to "whiney, white, women" complain of pain in their face-prescribing palliative care, 1 hour taking out psuedo ankylosed mandibular molars on 30 + year old black men who brux. 2 1/2- 3 hours of taking out 6 sets of third molars, 2 hours of seeing consults (so you can have six sets of thirds to take out tomorrow) and post ops (little Jenny who still has a numb tongue, Junior who is in for his third tx for osteitis, one subperiosteal abscess)... then the ED calls and wonders if they can send a mandible fracture to your office (simple non dispaced fracture). When that patient arrives they also have 6 cm of lacerations and the fracture is multiple and needs to go back to the OR for tx. Oh, no insurance, no problem, I can do it for free, I make 3 trillion dollars a year! Why not, and since I've only worked 8 hours today, whats another 3.
I don't know why people can't believe that a GP can't make 1 million a year. Do the math. Class I amalgam takes 2 minutes. Staff starts to numb them up as they hit the door. Assistants put on the rubber dams in the waiting room. Then we move them down the hallway with cattle prods. At $100 dollars a piece and doing 40 a day... cake...