Do Army dentists work weekends?

[hertwigs]

Do Army (or other branches) dentists work weekends or have on-call? If so, does it vary with a hospital setting vs. a clinic setting vs. deployment?

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[vellnueve]

When you're based in a shore clinic, usually not (most clinics will have a dentist on call). When you're deployed or at sea, certainly.

 

[krmower]

Do Army (or other branches) dentists work weekends or have on-call? If so, does it vary with a hospital setting vs. a clinic setting vs. deployment?

In the Army - Excluding when you are on call (rotated among all the dentists where you are located), I can count on 1 hand the number of times I've had to come into the clinic on the weekend in 10.5 yrs.

 

[AFDDS]

In the AF.... Only when you are on call (rotation shared with all the other dentists at a given location).

I have worked very few weekends due to being on call.

 

[ShakaZulu]

In the Army - Excluding when you are on call (rotated among all the dentists where you are located), I can count on 1 hand the number of times I've had to come into the clinic on the weekend in 10.5 yrs.

Ditto.

 

[teeth63a]

I've got called in once in 3 years, for an uncooperative, drunk CIVILIAN who chipped her tooth #8 or #9, with no pulpal involvment. There was no way in hell I was sticking my fingers in her mouth. The ER doc was adamant in playing dentist, showing me a textbook and insisting we have to cover the dentinal tubules. I gave her some vitrebond, and let her have at it, and went home.