What are you doing right now?

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

eating

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Staring at projected numbers needed to fund my offices retirement account for 2008. Almost at the target number for the year, not bad with 3 months to go.

Does your practice do much marketing?

 

[drjeff]

Does your practice do much marketing?

Nope, just a single line entry in the "Dentist" section of the yellow pages for both myself and my partner.

Fortunate enough to have a large, solid patient base who seem to love to tell all their friends about how great our practice is

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Tonight is my last night of chillin until I have to get serious with my move. I sort of wish I could start moving things in today..I'm gonna be a baller with two residences on Sunday..what what..but then by Wednesday I won't have two cribs..

I'm gonna hit the bar later on with my homey Frank..and I'm gonna put some Naughty by Nature on the jukebox..maybe some Poison as well..JEA!!!! Tomorrow at this time, I'll be sitting in the waiting room of the auto-service place..reading 3 year old issues of Readers Digest and Modern Parent magazine..hitting up the gumball machine for some Mike and Ike's with a Canadian quarter..doh

 

[severine]

Nope, just a single line entry in the "Dentist" section of the yellow pages for both myself and my partner.

Fortunate enough to have a large, solid patient base who seem to love to tell all their friends about how great our practice is

Word of mouth, so to speak.

Right now... trying to wrestle the TV from the kids. Bad, I know, but at least they're watching PBS. I also have to decide what I'm throwing together for dinner for us. Nothing complicated or messy tonight... I slacked all day on housework.

But I did get another 60 pgs of my book read. Fell short of finishing it today, though it's likely I'll read another 20 pgs before bed.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Nope, just a single line entry in the "Dentist" section of the yellow pages for both myself and my partner.

Fortunate enough to have a large, solid patient base who seem to love to tell all their friends about how great our practice is

As long as you keep handing out free floss, mouthwash, toothpaste and toothbrushes..dental swag,..you get plenty of mad steezy patients..I'd go to you if you weren't a 4 hour drive..It took me 3 trys to find a dentist I like..I'm so glad I don't go to my childhood dentist..who is a great guy if he is reading this..

 

[Moe Ghoul]

Gonna go take a power snooze.

 

[drjeff]

Word of mouth, so to speak.

One of the top 5 dental puns of all times there Sev!

Right now I'm about to finalize what I'll being doing to one of my patient's mouths over the likely next 6 or so months to put them back together

 

[drjeff]

As long as you keep handing out free floss, mouthwash, toothpaste and toothbrushes..dental swag,..you get plenty of mad steezy patients..I'd go to you if you weren't a 4 hour drive..

GSS, you could even do some made steezy AZ post whoring from the dental chair with the wireless keyboards we have in each operatory

It took me 3 trys to find a dentist I like..I'm so glad I don't go to my childhood dentist..who is a great guy if he is reading this..

Yup, we're the ones that everyone hates, but at the same point everyone loves! And inspite of that fact that we like to stab people with needles and occasionally wear some fashion questionable outfits most of us in the profession tend to be rather decent folks (atleast most of the time )

 

[dmc]

Sitting by the pool in Florida - doing some work.... drinking a beer...

 

[drjeff]

Sitting by the pool in Florida - doing some work.... drinking a beer...

In 48 hours I could be doing 2 of those 3 things, sitting by a pool in Florida, and drinking a beer 2 out of 3 ain't bad

Right now I'm about to go and actually finish working on someone's mouth.

 

[Beetlenut]

As long as you keep handing out free floss, mouthwash, toothpaste and toothbrushes..dental swag,..you get plenty of mad steezy patients...

Don't forget the free Nitrous!!! LoL!

 

[drjeff]

Don't forget the free Nitrous!!! LoL!

We don't actually have nitrous in my office (long story involving both higher malpractice insurance rates and efficacy rates in adults). So if patients of the practice ask either myself or my partner if they can have gas, our standard reply is "only if I've had mexican food for lunch that day"

 

[Beetlenut]

We don't actually have nitrous in my office (long story involving both higher malpractice insurance rates and efficacy rates in adults). So if patients of the practice ask either myself or my partner if they can have gas, our standard reply is "only if I've had mexican food for lunch that day"

Kill-joy :sad:. I'll just bring my own tube, or maybe save em up in a jar like Grassi!

 

[drjeff]

Kill-joy :sad:. I'll just bring my own tube, or maybe save em up in a jar like Grassi!

The other real big misconception with Nitrous is that it will give you this big, long lasting buzz. Just not the case.

Yup, for an adult when administered in a sufficient quantity it can rather quickly give you the feeling of a good 'ol buzz. But, the way that Nitrous works in your lungs/blood stream and brain, is when the Nitrous source is turned off, almost instaneously the Nitrous that is in your lungs begins to be rapidly displaced by the normal mixture of oxygen and carbon dioxide that we get via regular breathing.

The nitrous that the oxygen carrying capacity of your red blood cells has (basically Nitrous displaces oxygen in your red blood cells and is then transported through your body and effects certain areas of your brain giving you that buzz sensation, and any modern nitrous administering machine won't let you dispense a mixture of Nitrous and Oxygen greater than 68% Nitrous/ 32% Oxygen since with less than 32% Oxygen for an extended period of time, well you'll feel really buzzed and then your DEAD ) is removed wth a pass of that red blood cell from your lungs, through your heart, out to your body, back to your heart and then to your lungs which for most adults that trips will take atmost a couple of minutes.


So basically if ever you see someone that hijacked a blue "oxygen" tank (Blue is the standard color that all medical gas supplies use for Nitrous), and they're claiming to still feel buzzed 10+ minutes after their last hit from it, well pharmacologically speaking their feeding you a line of B.S.

Right now I'm feeling rather dorky after that explanation, so I'm done with it

 

[hardline]

just crack a beer waiting for the guest to arive for the mabaline event.

 

[severine]

Feeding the kids dinner, waiting for them to go to bed so I can put in Sex and the City. Got the extended version and I can't wait to see the difference in it.

 

[Beetlenut]

The other real big misconception with Nitrous is that it will give you this big, long lasting buzz. Just not the case.

Yup, for an adult when administered in a sufficient quantity it can rather quickly give you the feeling of a good 'ol buzz. But, the way that Nitrous works in your lungs/blood stream and brain, is when the Nitrous source is turned off, almost instaneously the Nitrous that is in your lungs begins to be rapidly displaced by the normal mixture of oxygen and carbon dioxide that we get via regular breathing.

The nitrous that the oxygen carrying capacity of your red blood cells has (basically Nitrous displaces oxygen in your red blood cells and is then transported through your body and effects certain areas of your brain giving you that buzz sensation, and any modern nitrous administering machine won't let you dispense a mixture of Nitrous and Oxygen greater than 68% Nitrous/ 32% Oxygen since with less than 32% Oxygen for an extended period of time, well you'll feel really buzzed and then your DEAD ) is removed wth a pass of that red blood cell from your lungs, through your heart, out to your body, back to your heart and then to your lungs which for most adults that trips will take atmost a couple of minutes.


So basically if ever you see someone that hijacked a blue "oxygen" tank (Blue is the standard color that all medical gas supplies use for Nitrous), and they're claiming to still feel buzzed 10+ minutes after their last hit from it, well pharmacologically speaking their feeding you a line of B.S.

Right now I'm feeling rather dorky after that explanation, so I'm done with it

Yea, I knew all that anyway! Had all four of my wisdom teeth out using Nitrous, Great buzz, until he turned off the nitrous side. He kept asking me, "feeling any pain?" and I kept telling him "a maybe a Little!.." and he kept turning up the Nitrous. I though that little game we were playing was hilarous,... until he was done and went full Oxygen on me!

 

[WJenness]

Just sitting relaxing after dinner (Chicken Alfredo and garlic bread if you're curious)... watching my girlfriend and my roommate play rock band 2.

I went and saw my dentist earlier today (cleaning / check up time). I love my dentist, she had me in and out of there in just over 20 minutes. I don't think any of the times I've been in the office for longer than 45 minutes, and she's done root canals, extracted a wisdom tooth, and all kinds of other fun stuff. She just got a steezy new chair in the office too (at least since the last time I was there), It's like a really luxurious leather lounge... almost looks like something you'd see on the bridge of the enterprise in Star Trek.

-w

 

[Moe Ghoul]

Heating up some soup for dinner and drinking some vino. Reading some news online.