message board What Are Some of Your Red Flags with Patients? Townies share pearls of wisdom-mostly humorous-about which signs could make for a troublesome patient. ToothDesign Member Since: 06/09/14 Posts: 1 & 3 of 151 What are some of your most recognizable red flags when seeing a patient? Not wanting to fill out a medical history? Refusing radiographs? Bad-mouthing previous dental work? Walking in with a bag of dentures and wanting you to make them a new one? Your responses might help a new dentist avoid a huge landmine in the future. For me, it's not taking responsibility for things and blaming the previous dentist(s) for everything that's wrong in their mouth, as well as expressing anger when something failed 18 years or so after the fact. ■ 6/12/2017 drrube Member Since: 08/18/02 Post: 4 of 151 "I'm allergic to Tylenol and Motrin and Ultram." Asks for Percocet because it's the only thing that works. (Face-palm.) ■ 6/12/2017 adsmith121586 Member Since: 03/17/17 Post: 5 of 151 They say their tooth broke two months ago, it hurt, but they took some of their sister's antibiotics and now it doesn't hurt so it's healed. They just need a filling now to fi x that broken part and they'll be on their way. ■ 6/12/2017 doctorwhodds Member Since: 08/27/04 Post: 6 of 151 pyoon Member Since: 03/30/14 Post: 7 of 151 The Tasteless Gentleman Member Since: 09/22/16 Post: 8 of 151 DrMentch Member Since: 09/14/09 Post: 11 of 151 Tom Mitchell Member Since: 02/16/04 Post: 12 of 151 FlyFishingDentite Member Since: 09/05/06 Post: 13 of 151 dmarshall Member Since: 02/05/06 Post: 16 of 151 The initials "RN" after their name. ■ 6/12/2017 When they come in with meth mouth and say it's bad genes. ■ 6/12/2017 They want complete dentures and say, "My friend loved theirs!" ■ 6/12/2017 "I have a very high pain tolerance." ■ 6/12/2017 If they tell me the last dentist was an idiot, I know who the next idiot is ... ■ 6/12/2017 When the last three dentists they saw caused the disaster in their mouths, and they know I can fi x it because they heard I'm so great. ■ 6/12/2017 1. Chiropractors. 2. Hearing that their previous dentist practiced "holistic" dentistry. 3. Doesn't want X-rays. ■ 6/12/2017 Continued on p. 46 44 SEPTEMBER 2017 // dentaltown.comhttp://www.dentaltown.com