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re: dentists - the resurgence of wealthy
Posted on 7/5/14 at 12:47 pm to tween the hedges
Posted on 7/5/14 at 12:47 pm to tween the hedges
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It's really not as great as you think though. Lot of hard work and you don't reap the big salaries until you're well out of school
Please do some free shite from time to time when you get out and take care of your pt's instead of dumping your mistakes back on their doc. In return, I'll bet local docs will load you up with referrals.
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Posted on 7/5/14 at 12:50 pm to Trout Bandit
Oh yeah it's a well paying stable career. If you're flexible youll never be out of work unless they have robots that can do dentistry in 30 years. The real money doesn't come until you start up your own place and that's not easy for everyone. It's trending now for 2-3 dentists to work together to make it easier
I enjoy my time in school but I'm kind of envious of my friends who are already making money and done studying
I enjoy my time in school but I'm kind of envious of my friends who are already making money and done studying
Posted on 7/5/14 at 12:51 pm to tween the hedges
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they have robots that can do dentistry in 30 years. The real money doesn't come until you start up your own place and that's not easy for everyone. It's
Or doctors.
Posted on 7/5/14 at 12:54 pm to CharlesLSU
I know a guy that is a dentist in a rural area. He thought he wouldn't make much money because he had stereotyped country people as not taking care of their teeth.
He's making $350k after all of the expenditures for his business. His wife is a lawyer. Don't know how much she makes. They live in a big, big house in Mountain Brook, AL.
He does have to drive an hour and 15 minutes to get to work each day. But he goes against traffic, finishes at his office at 6pm and has had three day weekends for the past four years. Also takes a shitload of vacation time.
I asked him point blank if he thought dentists should be paid that much and he said yes because the market pays for it. He's a great American. 
He's making $350k after all of the expenditures for his business. His wife is a lawyer. Don't know how much she makes. They live in a big, big house in Mountain Brook, AL.
He does have to drive an hour and 15 minutes to get to work each day. But he goes against traffic, finishes at his office at 6pm and has had three day weekends for the past four years. Also takes a shitload of vacation time.
I asked him point blank if he thought dentists should be paid that much and he said yes because the market pays for it. He's a great American.
Posted on 7/5/14 at 1:05 pm to StringedInstruments
My mom's whole family are oral surgeons or dentists (Grandfather was dean of a dental school at one point )
Trick of being a dentist, it is just as profitable to charge double as it is to double your volume. My uncle works 5 hours a day, fridays off and still nets 400k+ /year on average. He learned a speciality as being at the forefront of cosmetic dentisrty and he just rolls in the dough
) Trick of being a dentist, it is just as profitable to charge double as it is to double your volume. My uncle works 5 hours a day, fridays off and still nets 400k+ /year on average. He learned a speciality as being at the forefront of cosmetic dentisrty and he just rolls in the dough
Posted on 7/5/14 at 1:11 pm to The Third Leg
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What's a good dentist make, $150, $200k?
Now that's funny.
Posted on 7/5/14 at 1:15 pm to StringedInstruments
Yes rural areas are where the money is at. I'm more of a city person so it's going to be difficult. I'll probably work for someone else in Atlanta for a few years after graduating and then when I want to settle down bite the bullet and move to a smaller town. The dentist I worked for before school works in a town of about 10,000 people and has the lifestyle you mentioned.
Posted on 7/5/14 at 1:33 pm to SmackoverHawg
Smack, what kind of complications are you talking about. I practiced dentistry for 20 years in a town with around 15 other dentists and an oral surgeon, and knew docs in the area, and I have literally no clue what you are talking about.
ETA: dentists>docs. 3-4 years of college, 4 years of ental school (+2 if you specialize), and you're ready to set up shop. 32 hour work week, vacation at will, never work weekends, rarely work after hours.
ETA: dentists>docs. 3-4 years of college, 4 years of ental school (+2 if you specialize), and you're ready to set up shop. 32 hour work week, vacation at will, never work weekends, rarely work after hours.
This post was edited on 7/5/14 at 1:38 pm
Posted on 7/5/14 at 1:34 pm to tween the hedges
My grandfather was a dentist in 50's-60's and in those times he couldn't make as much as a doctor because he couldn't have the same patient volume in a week. Times have changed but I think you still can cover luxury car, country club, and ex wife payments OK.
Posted on 7/5/14 at 1:39 pm to CharlesLSU
They're basically salesmen for unneeded procedures
My dentist I grew up going to is the only one I like and he's retiring to drink beer everyday with my dad
My dentist I grew up going to is the only one I like and he's retiring to drink beer everyday with my dad
Posted on 7/5/14 at 1:54 pm to 911Moto
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Smack, what kind of complications are you talking about. I practiced dentistry for 20 years in a town with around 15 other dentists and an oral surgeon, and knew docs in the area, and I have literally no clue what you are talking about.
Smack is a know it all. Ignore him.
Posted on 7/5/14 at 1:57 pm to Iona Fan Man
Yea. Deep cleaning was fricking awful.
Posted on 7/5/14 at 2:13 pm to Xenophon
They are profiting from subverting our precious bodily fluids with flouride.
This post was edited on 7/5/14 at 2:16 pm
Posted on 7/5/14 at 2:22 pm to Xenophon
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Yea. Deep cleaning was fricking awful.
It beats the frick out of losing your teeth and wearing dentures though.
Posted on 7/5/14 at 2:27 pm to 911Moto
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It beats the frick out of losing your teeth and wearing dentures though.
almost as bad as getting bitten by a snake
Posted on 7/5/14 at 2:32 pm to 777Tiger
The dental office is like an assembly line compared to the way the dentist was when I was a kid.
Mine has what seems to be 10 people doing all the repetitive low-level stuff, just breezes in for a couple of minutes, blesses the work, and breezes out.
I am an efficiency guy, impressed by it. Fooling around in people's mouths all day is not something I would want to do for all the money in the world so more power to them.
Mine has what seems to be 10 people doing all the repetitive low-level stuff, just breezes in for a couple of minutes, blesses the work, and breezes out.
I am an efficiency guy, impressed by it. Fooling around in people's mouths all day is not something I would want to do for all the money in the world so more power to them.
Posted on 7/5/14 at 2:38 pm to gthog61
Yeah, screw that deep cleaning bs. "Can I pay extra for 30 minutes in hell, please?"
Posted on 7/5/14 at 2:43 pm to SmackoverHawg
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Please do some free shite from time to time when you get out and take care of your pt's instead of dumping your mistakes back on their doc. In return, I'll bet local docs will load you up with referrals.
Smack doesn't know shite. We dump the mistakes on the oral surgeon not you whiney don't know how to pull a tooth if it was floating in tissue MD's.
TIL;
quote:is pissed he didn't get into dental school.
SmackoverHawg
Posted on 7/5/14 at 3:29 pm to SmackoverHawg
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They can balance bill. We cannot, it's illegal. I think they should be held to the same standards as docs. I get tired of dealing with their complications after hours. Like us, they should lose their license for pt abandonment for not addressing these calls. Even if the do answer, they tell them to call their doc. Guess what...we don't get paid for "dental services". I'm not a big fan of dentists and their bullshite practices.
This is laughable on so many levels.
Posted on 7/5/14 at 4:39 pm to CharlesLSU
They are not subject to variances in government reimbursement, unlike physicians, who (as hospitalist anyway) have to treat indigent patients and Medicaid patients. No EMTALA laws for dentists, obviously. Good for them--I certainly couldn't do it (dealing with teeth all day).
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