Blogpost: Be a Student of the Socket Be a student of the socket.Become an expert at reading the post-extraction site, the post-op radiograph, and any other “after-action” metrics you can gather. If you want to improve quickly and consistently, there are few habits more powerful than learning to examine your work with calm honesty—right after…
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Not My Tooth! The Game of Clinical Hot Potato
By Grant Stucki DDS, MS Recently, I came across a patient case that I think is worth recounting—not just because of how it ended, but because of all the lessons hiding in the chaos. Here’s the run-down: A 76-year-old man developed pericoronitis on a partially impacted wisdom tooth (#32). He saw an oral surgeon,…

