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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a dentist and I would NEVER encourage anyone to go into it. And this comes from someone who sincerely loves the science and artistry of dentistry. It’s the people aspect that is soul-crushing. I am lucky to have wonderful employees but if any of them leave my business would be on life support as it is now EXTREMELY difficult to find employees. There is a nationwide hygienist shortage with them demanding more in pay than dentists do working in corporate dental office or even as associates. Patients have gotten more entitled and mean, particularly after Covid. Kids are graduating with $500,000-700,000 of student loan debt. There is no way they can make that worthwhile. PE is the worst thing to happen and it’s getting worse—they have now started their own dental schools that require no admissions tests and they have no clinical areas for them to learn but instead put them in “outreach clinics” which I can only assume are their corporate office where they work on paying patients. It’s completely messed up. And don’t even get me started on dental insurance. It was started in the 50s and the maximum amount has hardly changed at all yet the cost of employees, lab bills, supplies, utilities etc has gone up exponentially. You should google the salaries of insurance CEOs and then for fun compare it what it was pre-Covid. [/quote]

[b]Can you explain the deal with the dental hygienists? My dentist basically fired all his hygienists and told me they are spoilt brats and he can do their work himself lol.
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OP, I still think it’s a good career compared to other jobs. All jobs suck now but at least dentists can work less than 5 days a week if they so choose or at least set their hours. Also you interact with patients on a daily basis so it’s nice that not to sit in front of a laptop all day. My friend who is an orthodontist tells us lovely stories about her patients :) Most of her patients are teens and tell her the most interesting stuff! [/quote]

Not PP.

But this caught my eye because my dentist did my last cleaning, and that had never happened before in my entire life. I didn't ask her why, and didn't ask her where the hygeinists were. [/quote]

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