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I've had a dental assistant that had been in the Navy do excellent work in terms of a filling, taking an impression. Better than the dentist she worked for. She had the touch but not the money to go to dental school!
Nobody "has the money" to go to dental school. If you did, then you wouldn't need to go to dental school. This is why most take out loans to pay for it. Anyone can do it.
I recently had a dental assistant fill a cavity and the pain never went away. When I went back, the Dentist said that the filling was not adhered to the tooth properly. Makes sense why cold fluids and chewing hurt. Flossing hurt really bad (probably because it was slightly lifting/moving the filling. While I was there the Dentist "found" another "cavity" to drill and fill which just so happen to be right next to the tooth he was working on in the area he had already numbed. Funny he didn't see it when I was there a month and a half earlier. Didn't think much about it until my wife told me that the same dentist "found" two more cavities that he "missed" two months earlier when x-rays were done. Guess it's time again to hunt for an honest dentist... if they still exist!
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