What happened to Brian Sell?

Woof.

tooth be told wrote:

Fang Bandit wrote:

Plus, you spend your life with your hands in other people's mouths and looking at their rotten teeth.

could be a lot worse, he could live in England.

Hahaha. The old "English have bad teeth" line. That's one of those jokes that everybody knows isn't funny any more (if it ever was), but for some reason, whenever teeth are mentioned, somebody is required to chime in with some mention of British people having bad teeth.

Best of all, it's not even true. Not anymore anyway. In at least one measure (oral health), English people take better care of their teeth than Americans:

Statistics suggest that, taken on pure oral health rather than appearance, the UK does better than the US.

According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) figures, the average number of missing or filled teeth for a 12-year-old in the UK in 2008 (the latest figures available) was 0.7. This was the joint best rating that year.

Based on how many times I heard Brian Sell referred to as "blue-collar", I figured he'd be working as, like, a machinist, or an AC repairman, or a plumber maybe.

He does that on the side, along with yer mom.

Again, I am coming from the perspective of a healthcare consultant; I am also a practice broker--i.e. I help MDs and DDS/DMD buy and sell their practices. I see the real-life numbers all day. Believe what you want. Again, $500k is not easy to achieve, but it is not uncommon. These are business owners, not employees.

The idea of a googled "dental salary" is moot because the most common career path in dentistry--to this day--is to be self-employed. As others have noted, many dentists with a little business savvy can get a few associate docs going, and reach 3-4-500k with relative ease.

IN CONTRAST, most MDs are now employees. As I stated earlier, 70% (and daily increasing) MDs are now employees, not business owners. They are employees of big regional institutions like Kaisers or other hospital groups. The ROI of MD is falling every day, which is another reason (among many) that the MAJORITY of MDs would not choose medicine again, and would not recommend it to their own children. Job dissatisfaction and burnout are at all time highs. The insurance companies--NOT the government (unless you count regulatory capture, which you should)--have ruined everything. Sucks for me, because I will have less business owner clients with every passing day.

Dentistry has done the best at avoiding the beast of insurance.

I don't know for sure but I thought Sell didn't get into dental school which would explain him working as a lab tech.

Dental school is harder to get into than medical school, they make better money, no call, close at 5:00 PM, no weekends. At my school they are the happiest bunch I have ever seen. Us med students and post docs are miserable, back stabbing, type A freaks. Some of us must hate ourselves to act the way we do.

Dentists are like plastics surgeons you pay in cash or don't go.

Is this serious? I've been saying forever that dentist is the best job. No one believes me. 4 day work week! Is it too late to go to dental school?

I can honestly say, I never appreciated Ryan Hall enough. That video of him running is just crazy. He makes it look so easy. He'll be missed.

Lighten up Francis. But kudos to a great act of thread hijacking.

You mean 9PM to 5AM

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