This is our DOS DIENTES project: capturing the moment of a hard-working day, while we're in it, after all the years of education and training, having found/created a really unique & exciting way of working in our profession. "If it doesn't exist, you have to build it" and I bet we all find ourselves stuck sometimes in a job we wish we could break out from... Alexia and I were terminated, on the same day, from our last job - and this project embodies our "break out." We teamed up and became DOS DIENTES ("two teeth" in Spanish) and began our 1-day-per-week job doing Oral Surgery at our friend's dental practices 2-3 hours away in Westchester, NY. On our drive home, between 6-8pm on Thursdays, we sign onto TikTok LIVE and chat with whoever wants to join us on this journey, and give you a shoutout for it. Thanks for coming on last week, Episode 6 drops tomorrow, see you all on Thursday 8/6 :) Top 5 Topics: - Behind-the-Scenes: Life of an Oral Surgeon (Bellevue Trauma, Mentors, Missing Thumbs) - Dry Socket Anxiety & Wisdom Teeth Recovery Timeline - Insurance Companies Are Destroying Dentistry - Is a New Dental School a "Money Grab"? (Yeshiva Controversy) - Dental School vs. Trade-Off: Debt, Loans & the "Worth It" Question Top 14 Viewers on DOS DIENTES Episode 5 Q&A: 1st - @fikethebike1231 2nd – Biniyam Mirkano, @biniyam_mirkano 3rd – Kaitlyn, @kaitlynmg013 4th – Anony, @anony9220 5th – Jes, @jesiboy0 6th – Sports Talk Tv, @official_sports_talk_tv 7th – , @user3127469730193 8th – Samantha Lyn Photography, @samanthalyn_ 9th – @hilinaa16 10th - JuliaJayBird1023, @crazycatperson2021 11th - Karvakainalo30, @heli.tw 12th - bam02, @bambam_choo 13th - Ali, @ullahhhhh 14th - destiny, @destiny.cuellarr Quotes & Wisdom: [04:15] "It's surprising, but unfortunate, that some surgeons are not great leaders... You AND your team need to be excited and happy going in every day." [06:30] "Learn the business of the practice, the finance of the practice, the marketing of the practice. Learn the marketing of yourself as a dentist." [14:00] "Why did Yeshiva open? This is just a money grab. We don't need more dental students in New York — this movement of opening dental schools without the profession of dentistry expanding at the same rate; it’s oversaturating dentistry more than it already is. But the admins of dental schools don’t work in dentistry anymore - they make money off of the current business of it" [21:15] "Why is my career judged by insurance companies when they don't even have a dentist looking at the X-rays? That reimburses less than what it was in the 1990s?? You can't run a practice that way." [24:45] "I have a hunch you could make and save up for your retirement faster and better on this track than going back to school for two and a half years." [31:49] "Bellevue Hospital is a level one trauma center — we did all the worst trauma in Manhattan." Questions: [00:35] "RDH and engineer taking the DAT in September — what is your best advice, Doc?" [12:58] "Have you ever considered being the president of Russia?" [13:45] "I'm 33 applying to dental schools — what are your thoughts on Yeshiva?" [18:35] "If you could have dinner with any athlete, dead or alive, who'd it be?" [19:45] "What made you choose dentistry and medicine?" [30:30] "If you ever had to do another procedure in life ever again, what would you pick?" [31:49] "Was Bellevue residency as bad as they say?" DOS DIENTES Team: - Dr. Brendan Gallagher (Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon) - Dra. Alexia Gomez (Head Surgical Assistant; Dentist of Mexico) Now available on: - Dr. Gallagher’s Podcast & YouTube Channel - @doctorgallagher_‘s TikTok LIVE Q&A 105 Watch in this episode = Tag Heuer Aquaracer Caliber 16 Chrono - 7.2026 #podcast #dentalpodcast #doctor #dentist #dentistry #oralsurgery #dental #dentalschool #dentalstudent #oralsurgeon #doctorgallagher #doctorgallagherspodcast #DOSDIENTES
