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A doctor on our call had a patient walk in on a Monday with a broken front tooth. Not a new problem. She had bonded that lateral before. More than once. His canine was crashing into it every time he closed. So the bonding kept coming off, and this time the tooth itself fractured. He is 82. She gave him two options. She could crown the lower tooth that was doing the damage, and warned him that might turn into a root canal. Or she could move it out of the way with aligners and make room for the...
A dentist I know crowned a molar. Routine case. Nothing eventful. The patient came back a week later with her husband. She was furious. She said there was a gap between her two front teeth. She said his crown caused it. He could have argued. He could have explained why a crown on a back tooth cannot open a diastema in the front. Instead he pulled up her scan from before he touched her. The gap was right there. She looked at the screen. She said, "Oh." Her husband looked at her. He had taken...
A doctor on our call said something I think about a lot. She told us her consult is good. Her financing is good. Patients say yes. Then the ClinCheck lands in her inbox and she freezes. She scrolls through the movements. She tries to remember what to look for. It looks fine, so she approves it. And then she feels sick. Because she has no idea what she just approved. Her words: "I feel like I don't know what I don't know." That is the real bottleneck for most doctors. Not the pitch. The plan....