SheepshaggerMini

Hi

Practice owner for the past month, start up in rural with nearest competitor 20 minute drive away.

0 debt, 4 surgeries

I’m only open 3 days a week. Spent 200 euro on google ads so my practice is shown .

I don’t know when I should open full time , I think being part time is just hindering growth a lot and I would like to hear opinions on when to actually start spending money on ads

Hi,

I’m a dentist in Ireland and I always hear about the dentist shortage. Honestly it boggles my mind because working in dentistry there is no shortage.

Now there is a shortage of medical card and rural dentists. But this is because the medical card system isn’t even really dental care. The HSE instruction to dentists makes it very obvious that it’s a scheme designed around emergency dentistry not providing actual dental care. And the reimbursements are a fraction of private fees with the majority of procedures causing a loss to the practice .

There’s a shortage of specialists especially paediatric dentists.

Ultimately the “shortage “ comes from terrible public funding. The fact that’s

New player ( well I got game - month ago and have 80 hours now )

Game is going well, playing Prussia

Colonised Congo, then pressed colonial administration. But they aren’t colonising anything?

I’ve colonised all of east Africa since starting the colonial administration in Congo but nothing has happened.

What am I I doing wrong?

My colony was just the Congo that I conquered

Hi

New practice owner

In a poor area , lots of kids. In Ireland so everyone pays cash, almost no insurance.
About 50% of kids I see are uncooperative and need to be referred. Honestly, most dentists I know see decay on primary teeth and just monitor because they don’t want to treat kids. Likewise with infected teeth, they are given antibiotics and parents told to let them fall out naturally and let act as space maintainer.

I’m struggling with implementing hall/ ssc and SDF. Everything here is just filling

How do you explain benefits of SDF and most importantly how do you price it? I’m trying to keep hourly gross at 300 an hour

For SDF how do you price and explain to them it’s a rec

Hi

I want to educate myself on sleep medicine and how to help patients with grinding from poor sleep. I have no idea where to start

Any doctors have good resources /books/ videos they recommend to learn more about it ?

Hi

I need help explaining hall crowns for paeds patients.

In Ireland so no insurance. Charge 80 for a paeds filling and 150 for hall crown. My paeds filling is standard price, I’m undercharging hall crown.

The issue oi have us parents just go for filling cuz it’s cheaper and a baby tooth. But I make barely any money on fills and fail rate is very high and then they complain the filling failed ( meanwhile their kid can barely co operate.

How do you guys actually get parents to go for hall crows?

My patient base is poor and can’t afford private paediatric dentist

Hi

Not racist here emphasis

European here and the DSA platform seems to be great, I think if mamdani was born in America he’d be an amazing president.

All the DSA I see on the news are mainly Muslim ( Mamdani, al-sayed) , except for Bernie sanders

Is there a cultural reason why so many immigrants are DSA proponents ?

I’m looking into 3 d printers , I love the tech.

Is anyone using capsule based printers like sprintray Midas or the shining3d ceramic-nano

They have had approval for permanent crowns from the FDA.

Interested in them for onlays and inlays. , and if I could bang them out cheap that’s great. Just want to know what people’s experince is and what verdict is

My patient base is poorer, not lucky on aesthetics just wants it to last decently long

Thank you

Hi everyone, this isn’t really a political post at all, I don’t care about immigration, only money.

I’ve invested a lot of money into a business ik starting in a small rural town, and just heard many rumours of a large ipas centre opening in the town.

How does this usually affect business owners in small towns or the economics of a small town?

My business is not catered toward being “affordable” to people with no income.

Anyone got anyway to make paeds
Profitable ?

I’m in Ireland, so kids don’t receive any subsidies or insurance coverage. Everything is FFS basically, but people don’t have much money

Every paeds patient I see is less money. On average I find kids take twice the time, and the fee is usually half the price. Patients do not appreciate prevention. I have no idea how to even price SDF and not get parents pissed about reapplication

And about 70% of kids I see need to be referred to specialist, then parents complain about me charging for the exam I did ( because I couldn’t pull a tooth cuz kid kept screaming). Public facilities for GA are years long. Most of my patients can’t afford private .

If butcher didn’t kill homelander do you think he would’ve gotten more compound V from Vought?

Do you think once his Cronies like Ashley, the Peak, All-Father would give him compound V to win his approval?

Or do you think they’d curb stomp him as soon as they could ?

I don’t know what’s happening to me.

I’m getting loads of complaints, but the complaints are always just stupid. Like patient was in pain after extraction and want compensation.

I got a complaint today because I extracted teeth for a patient and the denturist I referred them to cancelled their appointment.

Like all the complaints are over stupid things, and I explain and consent the patient all the time

Anyone else been in same boat?

What’s the verdict on 3d printed resin dentures? I’m going to invest in 3d printing for my clinic , mainly for nightguards. What’s people’s experience with 3d printed dentures?

For my patient base aesthetics don’t matter. I just need the denture to last for 5 years

Thank you