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Do you ever get just overwhelmed at work? Or am I just really overworked? There are times when I just can not seem to get stuff done. In my office we have 3 assistant,but only 2 of us are expanded and we are depended on for everything. Besides assisting on normal everyday patients, I do all the implant and surgery cases, order the supplies, and do half of all the large reconstruction cases. It seems like there is never enough time to get all the instruments done, clean the rooms, send out lab cases, chart in the patients charts, or any of the other stuff I am suppose to do. My dentist realizes that we are over worked and has tried to cut down, but he has a hard time turning people away, and he is one of the most popular dentists in town. When patients arive the front desk puts their charts in a bin, and the other day I was right in the middle of trying to catch up on instuments when one went in the bin, and without thinking I said very loudly “SH-T!!!” Am I the only assistant stressed?

i just got an all porcelain crown put on one of my upper front tooth, needless to say it looks bad. the temp. crown i had in was so much better looking and i was assured that the crown was going to be fantastic. i told my dentist that i was very unhappy, and i have an appointment to go back tomorrow to hopefully im assumming to get a new one made. But i remember him telling me that my teeth on both sides of the crown kind of go inward so it was hard to make the crown do that as well. isnt that what labs do? fabricate the crown to match the others? not everyone in the world has perfect straight teeth. im not not saying i have horrible teeth but they do slightly go inward a little. my crown right now sticks straight out, like it belongs on someone with perfect straight teeth that go out. is there someone out there that works at a lab and can tell me a few pointers. i just really dont want to go in and get another crown made if its just going to come back looking the same.

My insurance covered my orthodontics as a teen.
They covered all routine dental work.
They covered a procedure in which I had a baby tooth pulled, because there was no adult tooth underneath.
They paid for the retainer that I had to wear in order to prepare my mouth for the eventual ‘fake tooth’ that would be installed in the ‘hole’.
They now say that they will not pay for the procedure in which the fake tooth will actually *be* installed, nor for any related lab tests and referrals, calling it a ‘cosmetic procedure’.
What the h*ll!!
If this is cosmetic, then what, exactly is orthodontics defined as?
And how about the pulling of the tooth in the first place?
Why will they not pay for the final result?
(any answer appreciated, since I now have a big hole in my mouth, and can’t afford the several-thousand dollars to fix this!)