130-Hour Weeks in Oral Surgery Residency, TikTok Shut Down Our LIVE, 11 Overnight Calls in 1 Month, Dental Insurance Benefits Expiring

Top 5 Topics:

- TikTok Shut Down Our LIVE: 4 Flags in 15 Minutes for "Dangerous Activity" (and I wasn't even driving)

- 130-Hour Work Weeks in Oral Surgery Residency

- 11 Overnight 24-Hour Calls in 1 Month on Hand & Plastic Surgery

- Why Dental Offices Slow Down in October ("Use your insurance benefits before they run out")

- How TikTok LIVE #1 Started: A First-Year Resident, a Laptop and an Apartment Balcony

Top 11 Viewers on DOS DIENTES Episode 14 Q&A:

1st – JuliaJayBird1023, @crazycatperson2021

2nd – Brittany, @codysmom0412

3rd – May, @mahasti52

4th – @emmac623

5th – @sskocsyz2jm

6th – hehehehe, @sinaomura

7th – eve 💘, @xoevelyn05

8th – 🦢, @q.14mr

9th – Logan, @loganzol

10th – @dickjones31525

11th – @kapil3112

Top Quotes & Wisdom:

[05:09] – "Hand & plastic surgery, those rotations you're on call every third day for 24 hours. I had a 24-hour overnight shift 11 times in October 2022."

[08:02] – "This is our little DOS DIENTES show at the end of a long day."

[09:55] – "Who knows when we're gonna die, so I'd rather use the time now, living rather than sleeping."

[10:03] – "You need to have one day in the week where you can sleep in."

[10:56] – "I remember the first TikTok LIVE I ever did, I set up the laptop, and I was like, you know what? I can make a podcast out of this."

[13:08] – "There were a couple times I worked over 130 hours in one week in residency."

Top Questions:

[02:28] – "Is it possible to overlap med and dental school for 2 years?"

[04:11] – "I'm a first year dental student. Do you have any advice?"

[08:34] – "Why do we brush when we wake up when we already brushed before sleeping?"

[08:49] – "What's your skincare routine?"

[13:01] – "What's the most amount of hours you worked in a week in residency?"

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 124

Watch in this episode = Tag Heuer Aquaracer Caliber 16 Chrono

10.2026

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