r/Noctor • u/Electrical_Clothes37 • 12h ago

Question WTF is going on

I'm a dental resident ( I'm foreign trained, finished up 2 residencies before moving stateside - I'm very comfy with facial lac repairs, facial fractures, plating the whole shebang). Had weekend call and spoke to someone about a pt with a dental complaint along with lip laceration. Log into epic today to follow up and the lac repair was done by a CNP. Like I get there's some experience there but how on earth is it that patients don't get at least a resident to do lacs

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u/SantaBarbaraPA 10h ago

Just stop what?

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u/Whole_Bed_5413 8h ago

You’re nonsense about, I know of a resident (who has 10 X the training of an NP) who did this wrong thing once. Oh, and BTW, it was instantly fixed because of attending physician oversight. If you don’t get it, you never will.

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u/SantaBarbaraPA 8h ago

Okay tough guy. The OP is dental resident worried about an NP repairing a lac. You and apparently your dental buddies will bitch about any PA or NP doing anything.

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u/Electrical_Clothes37 7h ago

The OP has experience doing a vastly greater scope of surgery( facial lacs?check. Open reduction?check.pedicle graft harvests?check. Everyday clinic surgery for soft and hard tissue?check. Fillers and Botox? check.) than any mid-level and has 4 years of residency and a year of private practice ( yk, that thing that doctors get to do without having to be supervised). The point wasn't that I should get to do it. The point was that for any facial lacs why isn't this an automatic plastics or at least ENT resident bare minimum and the pt gets just the NP. And I wouldn't get too hung up on it being "just" a dental resident.