Are you legally prevented from yanking a tooth? This is just a general-case question.
Wouldn’t be illegal. You just really don’t want me doing it. Have no training at all. I can drain some abscesses and paste over fractured teeth sometimes, but even then I’m doing a shit job.
The flip side of this is that if someone comes into the ER with major head trauma, a dentist could be the one to take charge and oversee anesthesia and other major treatments. Dentists are really well trained for serious shit, at least outside of your genitals and extremities.
You mean like they could theoretically do it? Or this is something that happens routinely in emergency rooms?
It’s not theoretical, although I don’t necessarily know how common it is. My brother, a pediatric dentist, did this.
OMFS trained DDS can do head/face trauma and are super useful, but they won’t be the ones ‘take charge’ and ‘oversee anesthesia’ or other major treatments. They’re a specialty service to call in, and I’ve never seen them in an acute trauma resuscitation in the 7 trauma centers I’ve worked in. They take over after patients have been initially stabilized and confirmed that the trauma is isolated to the face/jaw instead of an intracranial or cervical injury, which takes precedent.
They’ll rotate with the trauma docs, anesthesia and lots of other stuff when they train, but these jobs are firmly in the realm of trauma surgery, anesthesia and emergency medicine. OMFS services are basically only found in trauma centers, and in order to maintain accreditation the final call on those jobs are some mix of trauma surgery, anesthesia, or EM depending on how they’re setup.
Once? All the time?
Well, maybe where my brother worked was an exception, but he wasn’t unclear in how he described his role.
I don’t know exactly how many times, but more than one.
Well, I don’t disbelieve him. It just sounds quite atypical as you suggest it might be.
He didn’t describe it as being atypical.
For him? Or for the specialty of pediatric dentistry in general? Latter seems hard to believe for the reasons that ikes posted.
Also, it sounded like you were suggesting it was atypical when you said,
if it was exceptional, he didn’t realize it, but maybe it was without him knowing it.
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@ChrisV - what in the fuck is on that sausage? Does Straya not have buns?
It’s a sausage sizzle.
Yeah maybe.
How the hell is there an icon for a hot dog on a piece of bread? 
You have to click the tweet to see it.
Those types of sausages aren’t hot dog sausages. Hot dog sausages go on hot dog buns, with mustard or whatever. Those are BBQ sausages. They are cooked on a hotplate and go on bread, usually with fried onions and ketchup or sometimes BBQ sauce.
As the Wiki article notes, “democracy sausage” as a phrase has only been around for a decade or so, but it is now common parlance. The free sausages themselves have been around far longer. Some polling booths are more active than others and only the ones with a good throughput of people tend to have democracy sausages. Due to this there is this handy crowd-sourced website with a map showing where there are sausages (and cake):
Because I had covid exposure I made arrangements to do a postal vote, so sadly I will not be eating a democracy sausage this year.
These “sausage sizzles” as they’re usually called are an Australian staple. For example, Bunnings (like Lowe’s) let community groups set up fundraising sausage sizzles out the front every Saturday.
Do any Australians also put beets on hot dogs?
I’m not going to dignify that with a response.
I see Twitter are adding the little democracy sausage icon to the Australian election hashtags (#ausvotes is the main one).
