Dentist

Does dentistry become boring after years of practice?

Asked by sensito about 12 years ago

Not really--   It takes about 14-15 years to reach your peak performance and proficiency and all patients present with miriad of problems and personalties-so no two are the same. It remains exciting and intersting during this process and much more lucrative(one of the reasons I chose this profession).

We are required to take 20 Continuing Education Units (CEU's)/year to maintain our licenses.Each course is weighted differently -eg. an 8 hr course may only be 4 CEU's so we spend a fair amount of tine honing(no pun intended) our skills and expanding our knowledge. As I said in the opening sentence, as we become more efficient and re-educate ourselves we may add procedures that may have been referred out to "specialist" in the past.

        That being said there are "tedious" aspects of Dentistry such as dealing with --EPA, DEP, OSSHA, govermental and legal beauocrocies, etc. but that is endemic to our society.

       I approached Dentistry as an art form and often used the line , "I could sculpt a bicuspid to fool God" but any avocation eventually becomes a vocation and then morfs into just a job. My belief is no matter how much you enjoy pursuing and engaging in a field ,eventually or unfortunately it comes down to just "work". To keep the excitement and enthusiasm alive I branched out into Teaching(part-time only 2 days/week) and started a couple of businesses all based on my knowledge and education in dentistry. In my opinion there is no coasting in life.  As far as "boring" I recevied this question approx. 2:30 AM????????????. 

          I hope I answered your question-- to have to "work" at staying "fresh" in your chosen field.

   

I never understood why oral sex is not a high-risk activity for HIV transmission. Even without an open sore in your mouth, wouldn't bodily fluids make their way down to (and easily permeate) membranes in the throat or stomach?

Asked by James about 12 years ago

I'm Dr. D. not Dr. Ruth----Wel lhere goes,,,,,,,,,, Digestion begins in the mouth, the saliva contains lysitic  enzymes and is acidic on the pH scale. Do u remember iin 7th grade Science the experiment chewing a saltine cracker  until it became sweet? The saliva and mastication process (chewing== not what you're thinking) render the simple carbohyrates into sugar in a matter of seconds. Stomach acid that continues digestion is so strong a drop on your arm would causd a severe burn.  Your oral cavity and all other parts of your digestive system ----to the other end --contains various strains of bacteria that aid in the digestive process and are highly competitive in their niche with the virus; HIV/AIDS is virus and somewhat fragile to the digestive "juices" and bacteria's lysitic action. With the acception of Herpes Simlex which is always present in small quantities in the oral cavity and become prominent when your immune systems is "taxed".("cold sores" on the lip and genital ares as well))

HIV/AIDS is an Acquired Immune Defiency disease meaning you need repeated innoculation (exposure) to contract it, since the immunity to it has to be "worn down" to take hold ( again another exception--blood transfusions, etc.). Most STD"s (sexually transmitted diseases) are bacterial in nature and can be contracted orally as you descibe. They are easily ???? treated with antibioics. This is a simplistic answer in lay terms( or should I say layman's terms) of a complex procees.

            Do your parents know you talk like this??? Anyway practice safe sex and all this is a moot point.

  

Are USA Dentists using (Audio tooth Implants... And please do not lie!) and if someone does it illegally without your permission through a local dentist ... Can anyone sue the dentist or person(s) involved, especially if it was used for entrapment!?

Asked by Franky over 11 years ago

Watching a few too many James Bond movies ,are we? I have no knowledge of this being done, I suggest it is more of an urban lengend.

If you have had any metal restorations in your mouth and ever touched with a tarnished fork or a piece of aluminum foil( or hte dentist's autoclaved explorer) , you would have experienced a sharp pain called "galvanic shock". With two disimilar metals and an acid saliva enviorment you get a shocking sensation transmitted to the nerves of your tooth and eventually to your central nervous system---ouch!!

This is how a battery in your car or flashlight, etc, functions----two disimilar metal in an acid medium.

That being said , back to your premise-- with some sort of metalic ,or electric power source implanted in your tooth it would have to be heavily insulated and selective for certain frequencies-- since your teeth come together 2-3000 times per day, swallowing, blood flow background noise and breathing and speech I'm not sure how succesful reception would be.

I'm sure anything is possible --but I have no real knowledge this was used or successful.

For example our military went from the U-2 Spy Plane to th eA- 12 Blackbird to the SR-71 and then to satellites, And we found  the most successful way to obtain data is the almighty US DOLLAR. Still the most effective tool.

CIA-U-Around

I have my diploma in Russia and I want to continue a specialty in France is it possible?

Asked by Kappoo almost 7 years ago

Can salt water actually cure a cavity?

Asked by DS over 6 years ago

One of my top, front teeth is becoming shockingly loose (I'm 55 years old). I have no money to pay a dentist. I've been doing some research. I think a splint would work for me at least temp. Can you tell me a ballpark $$$ Upstate NY? TY

Asked by All_I_Want_4_Xmas almost 10 years ago