This Is What Cheap Dentistry Is Like.

Dentistry, Fauna March 25th, 2008

For those of you who think that the practice of dentistry is merely a technical skill (like putting tires on a car), think again. Here’s a quote from a foreign-trained dentist who got in trouble for practising without a license here in Canada:

“I used to pull teeth, extractions, fillings, root canals, bridges, dentures. When you work like this, you gain the experience and you gain the ability.”

But Mr. Bytyqi said he and his wife, who is also a dentist, struggled to find their feet in the profession after they arrived in Canada as refugees in 1999. They have two children, aged nine and 11.

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He also failed a Canadian eligibility exam four times despite taking courses to upgrade, he said. A letter from the Association of Canadian Faculties of Dentistry, dated November 2004 — after the last test Mr. Bytyqi said he took — states his score was 31 per cent.

Mr. Bytyqi said the exams relied too much on theory, which he had studied decades earlier.1

Yeah, screw theory, let’s get down and dirty and just rip those teeth out of your head.


Footnotes:
  1. Story on Canada.com. [↩]

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  • http://www.dentalaggregate.com Lin aka “D.A.”

    Geez, I probably shouldn’t be surprised when I hear stories like this one, but it amazes me that people think they won’t be found out. OR that people think that Dentistry is something just anyone can do, like “on the job training” to become a dentist. Crazy.

    Lin aka “D.A.”‘s last blog post..Identifying Domestic Violence Within The Dental Office

  • http://www.endodontics.ca Periapex

    Hi Lin, hope you’re doing a little better these days…

    Any profession has some degree of apprenticeship involved and because the practice of dentistry started in barber shops, there’s still that old mentality in many — including some dentists.

    I don’t know if I should feel sorry for the patient who reported this guy. If you know you’re going to someone who isn’t licensed (which he did) and you’re paying so much less, wouldn’t you be a little worried?

    I guess some patients feel that our fees are arbitrarily created to gouge patients of their well-earned money.

  • http://whatsuphighup.blogspot.com Laney

    i’m sorry to stray from the seriousness of this blog entry but, is it just me or is the above picture …. uhm …. a little suggestive?!

    Laney’s last blog post..Renovations

  • http://www.tellinitlikeitis.net Lin

    Yes, I’m doing better, thanks.

    You’re so right, so many patients have the opinion that fees are set with the idea the money is to pay for boats, fancy cars, trips, etc.

    Patients don’t see the huge overhead dentists have, all the products and equipment they have to have in order to care for the patients in their office.

    Of course, I’ve seen many dental offices where the reception room is so decked out with high-dollar decor, I can see how some patients would get the idea that when they pay for their treatment that it goes for luxuries.

    Overhead costs are astronomical, to say the least.

    Lin’s last blog post..Taking Care of Aging Parents as a Family

  • http://www.endodontics.ca Periapex

    Laney: It is suggestive, that’s why I used it. But you should still take your mind out of the gutter.

    Lin: You’re exactly right. But of course, doing what you do, you know this better than anyone.

  • http://www.tellinitlikeitis.net Lin

    Gosh, either my mind doesn’t go in the gutter much or I’m totally dense. It took me a couple of minutes to figure out how that picture would be ‘suggestive’. Oh….Okay, I get it now. Being in dental myself, I guess my mind doesn’t quite see what other people see in these images.

    Dang, after seeing that, where is my hubby when I need him again? ;)

    Lin’s last blog post..Taking Care of Aging Parents as a Family

  • http://www.endodontics.ca Periapex

    No, it’s because your thoughts are purer than Laney’s. She’s in dental too — a hygienist.

  • http://www.tellinitlikeitis.net Lin

    Laney is a naughty, naughty girl. :) Keeps life interesting!

    Lin’s last blog post..Taking Care of Aging Parents as a Family

  • http://www.fragileheart.com/journal/ fragileheart

    Bah humbug to Theory. I had thinking myself… I’m all about doing things with instinct. lol and with regards to your comment in response to laney’s comment – but one’s mind has so much more fun in the gutter! :P

    fragileheart’s last blog post..It’s like a trainwreck, you want to away but you just can’t!

  • http://www.fragileheart.com/journal/ fragileheart

    Um.. that line is meant to read: I hate thinking… not I had thinking. Need more proof?

    fragileheart’s last blog post..It?s like a trainwreck, you want to away but you just can?t!

  • http://whatsuphighup.blogspot.com Laney

    hey Lin, you’ve got a pure mind and that’s great! we need more people like you and less like me. being in dental myself, it can get bit on the boring side sometimes so i try to look on the “suggestive” side lol.

    peri: you’re mind is right in there with mine and you know it!

    Laney’s last blog post..Gambling On TV

  • http://www.endodontics.ca Periapex

    I’ve got the purest mind out of any of you people. Don’t know what you’re all talking about.

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