The “little things” that are just part of the job are making me hate dentistry
I’ve been incredibly frustrated with dentistry lately due to feeling the stress of a bunch of little job-related issues starting to add up. For example:
Can’t get the patient numb, so I have 5 minutes to start and complete a filling by the time I actually start working
People. Not. Freaking. Opening. more than literally 1 inch. Whatever you do, don’t make my job any easier.
Class 2s in general. All week long I’ve been fighting with open contacts and having to drill out the filling I just placed in order to re-do it. I can burnish till I’m blue in the face, but it does no good.
Can’t see anything and can’t keep anything dry. It’s gotten to the point where I just slap flowable into the entire prep and overbulk the restoration to later carve it down because I can isolate anything and just want to get the resin cured as quickly as possible.
I just don’t like talking to people. I’m incredibly introverted and the daily small talk just wears me out so much socially by the end of the day.
I should be thankful to be part of such a great career field. But man, half the time even while working I’m wondering if I should’ve went into finance or something where no interaction with the public is required and I’m not fighting with a wet, dark hole all day, every day.
Anyways…rant over!