How To Poorly Manage a Dental Office: Reuse.
Office February 8th, 2008
Action: You know the excess pieces of composite resin that you remove while grossly shaping the filling prior to curing it? Well why not save those pieces under a dark dappen dish to use on your next patient that needs a filling.
This will actually be your next patient because all of your patients these days seem to need pit and fissure fillings for some reason. Could that reason have anything to do with the fact that you’re planning on putting your practice up for sale soon and want to show prospective purchasers high production numbers?
February 8th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
blech!
February 8th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
I think I might have told you about that one before…
February 9th, 2008 at 6:03 am
but, but, isn’t that like gross? i mean this composite material has been in one patient’s mouth and then goes in the next? yikes!
February 9th, 2008 at 10:24 am
Yup, it sure is. But that’s actually one of the lesser problems with the whole situation.
February 12th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
wait, but what if you wiped it with alcohol before using it…
February 12th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Hey good idea. Is that what you do?
March 1st, 2010 at 6:12 pm
Well said, good information!
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