What a typical day is like - Dentist Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
A typical day for a dentist includes seeing patients. We would meet with a new patient and do a complete exam and x-rays, reading the x-rays and diagnosing any diseases of the teeth, including fractures or cavities and diseases of the gums, including periodontal disease that would require a deep cleaning or gingivitis, a regular cleaning. We do fillings, which removes decay and fills them with a resin composite, a plastic filling material that's tooth colored, a crown, which means preparing the outside of the tooth and then scanning or impressing to make a ceramic porcelain covering, root canals, cleaning out the inside of a tooth, extracting teeth or placing implants as a restoration for the teeth, and sometimes making dentures. The variety is fun for dentistry, but the crankiness of people or the challenges of it are not always.
Video 2 Transcript
A typical day for a dentist is pretty much just kind of like a school day. So I normally wake up at, you know, seven, seven 30. I had to work, start work at eight. I see my first patient at eight. I do whatever they need. I do, you know, crowns, fillings, um, any type of need that they have. And I just keep seeing patients. I see around 30 to 45 patients a day. We work a lot with parents, especially as, um, I'm a pediatric dentist. So I kind of just see mainly kids and, uh, children with special needs. You know, it's, it's a fun experience. Just kind of helping the kiddos and helping the parents and kind of navigating their, their concerns for the dentist or their dental needs. And then we typically get done around four or five and yeah, it's a, it's time to go home.
Video 3 Transcript
I established a private practice and because of that I was able to control the days that I worked and the hours that I worked. Of course starting out was five and six days a week for a while and after a while that got overwhelming and down to four days a week and in the last 15 years it was more like three days a week, demanding physically and otherwise.
Video 4 Transcript
So a typical day for a dentist is going to be spent treating patients. You'll have patients to treat usually every hour is usually how that's set up and then you'll have a hygienist who will be doing cleanings every hour or so that you'll be going to do exam checks on. So you'll be checking x-rays of patients that weren't scheduled for treatment just to make sure that there's nothing that they need done. So you have to kind of balance both of those columns in the schedule. So you do a little bit of you know you may be working on a patient and in the middle of that procedure you may have to stop or come to a breaking point and jump over to the hygienist room to do an exam. So there's a little bit of moving around so you need to be you know flexible and and able to kind of roll with the punches a bit.
