I'm waning to get a new job and was offered a position in oral surgery. I've been an EFDA for 8 years in a general dentist office and wondered if oral surgery would be right for me. What are the main roles for the assistant in oral surgery? Is it alot less work than in a general office? Just suction and getting the room and patient ready? I would love to hear your experience!
So I worked my first day at the dental office. There were some things that were really good. I think the doctor is super nice and I like the other assistants personality, we saw like 7 people on restorative side, and the doctor legit smooths her own fillings and placed the really big fills on her own. Bad things are, the place is absolutely disgusting. Legit walls and equipment look nasty, they touch EVERYTHING with their dirty gloves(Including mouse and keyboard with no cover), Instead of using the trash that is 3 steps away they use a red solo cup. So they legit have bloody gaze and trash from past pts sitting right next to the instruments they are using in a patients mouth. At one point the cup fell over and the trash inside went all over the counter that had instraments being used on the patient in the chair. They have plastic on the chairs but dont change it between pts, they just wipe it down and will change it end of week. They had no hand sanitizers anywhere and the soap in the rooms look like it hasn't been touched in a while. I also watched the assistant pick something off the groud with her gloves on and keep the same gloves on to work in a patients mouth. They also dont know how to work ANYTHING. Like I had to show them how to send things through ds core and how to do proper scans on crowns. They didnt know how to properly use the pano/cbct machine. The assistant took awful xrays and cbcts which has nothing to do with me but like it was amazingly bad... I cant really understand the doctor and she is SUPER particular about things. For example she has the longest notes that you have to fill out in A LOT of detail before she walks in a room then you have to read the entire note out to her infront of the PT( im used to doing detailed notes but this was excessive), when showing xrays on a new pt exam she wants you to show them to her and the patient in a very specific order. She makes you come in 30 mins early to start notes on every pt you will see that day. No lunch at all. So I got there at 7:30 and left at 5:30 with no brake. They have no chairs anywhere so I didnt sit down for 10 hours. I know not every office is perfect but i felt like OSHA was not being met in the office at all. I wouldnt want work done there. Am I being dramatic in not going back?
So I worked my first day at the dental office. There were some things that were really good. I think the doctor is super nice and I like the other assistants personality, we saw like 7 people on restorative side, and the doctor legit smooths her own fillings and placed the really big fills on her own. Bad things are, the place is absolutely disgusting. Legit walls and equipment look nasty, they touch EVERYTHING with their dirty gloves(Including mouse and keyboard with no cover), Instead of using the trash that is 3 steps away they use a red solo cup. So they legit have bloody gaze and trash from past pts sitting right next to the instruments they are using in a patients mouth. At one point the cup fell over and the trash inside went all over the counter that had instraments being used on the patient in the chair. They have plastic on the chairs but dont change it between pts, they just wipe it down and will change it end of week. They had no hand sanitizers anywhere and the soap in the rooms look like it hasn't been touched in a while. I also watched the assistant pick something off the groud with her gloves on and keep the same gloves on to work in a patients mouth. They also dont know how to work ANYTHING. Like I had to show them how to send things through ds core and how to do proper scans on crowns. They didnt know how to properly use the pano/cbct machine. The assistant took awful xrays and cbcts which has nothing to do with me but like it was amazingly bad... I cant really understand the doctor and she is SUPER particular about things. For example she has the longest notes that you have to fill out in A LOT of detail before she walks in a room then you have to read the entire note out to her infront of the PT( im used to doing detailed notes but this was excessive), when showing xrays on a new pt exam she wants you to show them to her and the patient in a very specific order. She makes you come in 30 mins early to start notes on every pt you will see that day. No lunch at all. So I got there at 7:30 and left at 5:30 with no brake. They have no chairs anywhere so I didnt sit down for 10 hours. I know not every office is perfect but i felt like OSHA was not being met in the office at all. I wouldnt want work done there. Am I being dramatic in not going back?
I get a lot of anxiety when doing basically anything. In the past few years it has affected my job because my hands get super shaky(I'm a dental assistant). Does shaky hands happen to anyone else? What kind of medication could help?