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TIFU by letting other dentist educate me

i hate it when another dentist is trying to educate me when i’m working on a patient.

today, i had a patient that told me they haven’t been to the dentist in a while, and that the first dentist they went to wanted to do multiple root canals on his teeth, so he is looking for a second opinion. before i started probing, i briefly looked at their teeth. there is obviously either very bad staining on a buccal pit or it’s a cavity. i just told the patient “i cant say a lot before an xray but by the size of it, it looks like a cavity to me”.

this other dentist walks through my room to go to the storage (we have sliding glass doors from room to room so you can walk through them without having to walk through the patient lobby). he comes to look at my patient briefly, points at what i’m talking about and says “that’s not a cavity”. i couldn’t say anything because he is my senior, so i just waited for him to leave.

in my opinion, these people don’t tell you what’s wrong early, so you can pay them more money in the long run to get your tooth a root canal. and whether it’s a cavity or not, why are you talking to my patient.

the patient told me he will get the xrays done externally to get it for cheaper. i have a feeling in me that im never going to receive those xrays.

tldr : i told my patient that a suspicious buccal pit looked like a cavity but that I couldn’t say for sure without an xray. then a senior dentist walked in, pointed at it, and said, “that’s not a cavity”. i couldn’t say anything because he’s my senior. i have a feeling i will never receive the xrays, because he probably got scared off.

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