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04/28/2026 Ask the Expert with Ghareeb Dental Group · WCHS Network Podcasts

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Speaker 1: The views and opinions expressed on this program do not
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Speaker 2: And it is twenty two minutes past eight, and fuck
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Speaker 2: you're listening to ask the expert WCHS the Voice of Charleston.
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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for tuning in on this Tuesday morning.
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Speaker 2: I was out yesterday, so thanks so much for tuning
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Speaker 2: back in today. By the way, John Bredet from Fourth
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Speaker 2: Fault because I had to take a day off yesterday.
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Speaker 2: in here for a Wednesday joining us in studio right now,
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Speaker 2: though we welcome back into the studio for I don't
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Speaker 2: even know how many times, one hundredth, three hundredth and
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Speaker 2: forty seventh time, I don't know picking applaque or for that.
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Speaker 3: You guys need a plot. There's no doubt about this.
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Speaker 4: The most shows or something on these expert programs, we're
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Speaker 4: getting close to being the most outside.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no doubt about that. And the Voice you
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Speaker 2: hear there. That is doctor Steve mcgreeve Agreed Dental Group.
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Speaker 2: He is here this morning as well as doctor Carson
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Speaker 2: Henley is here too.
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Speaker 3: How you doing this morning, doctor Henley?
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Speaker 5: Well, I've only been here like what five dozen?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you're like two two hundred and ninety two times.
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Speaker 2: I think you're just a little I don't know what.
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Speaker 2: It's a lot, it's a lot. It's it's well, you
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Speaker 2: have to figure that at least twelve a year, and
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Speaker 2: you've been doing uh, E've been well maybe eleven because
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Speaker 2: there's usually that one holiday you.
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Speaker 3: Know that we usually skip right.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but uh, anyway, there's been a lot of shows.
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Speaker 2: GREEB Dental Group is here more information online Grebdentalgroup dot com.
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Speaker 3: G H A R e e B.
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Speaker 2: GREEB Dentalgroup dot com is probably the easiest place that
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Speaker 2: you can find out more information about about GREEB Dental Group.
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Speaker 2: With all the different locations. We'll give you some more
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Speaker 2: information as we go along here today, all kinds of
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Speaker 2: things that we have to talk about. If you have
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Speaker 2: any questions, you're welcome to give us a call threes
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Speaker 2: or a four three four five fifty eight fifty eight
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Speaker 2: three four five fifty eight fifty eight. If you have
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Speaker 2: any questions about your dental hygiene, dental health, maybe your
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Speaker 2: problem you're looking to get through and or not and
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Speaker 2: you need a secon An opinion for it. You need
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Speaker 2: you need an mdplant, you need some new teeth, whatever
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Speaker 2: it might be. The doctors can help you with that
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Speaker 2: this morning and give us a call. Three zer a
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Speaker 2: four three four five fifteen fifty eight. Three zero four
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Speaker 2: three four five fifty fifty eight is our number that
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Speaker 2: you can give us a call this morning. Plenty of
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Speaker 2: things that we want to talk about today, but I
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Speaker 2: think the first thing, Doctor stephen that you mentioned to
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Speaker 2: me in information that you sent me overnight is we
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Speaker 2: wanted to talk a little bit about some new insurance
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Speaker 2: that you have on board.
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Speaker 3: Is it new insurance? Is that right?
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Speaker 4: It's new insurance and it's really for for many listeners.
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Speaker 4: That is not specific to our office, But doctor Henley
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Speaker 4: is more of the expert on that. So I'm going
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Speaker 4: to throw it to him on that because he's been
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Speaker 4: very involved in trying to help out our local citizens
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Speaker 4: with with the dental insurance.
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Speaker 5: Oh why thank you for that throw. So not all
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Speaker 5: insurance has created the same. There are some that are
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Speaker 5: I'll just say better and worse. That's all I'll say.
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Speaker 5: Gotcham sure, and I do believe the insurance that it
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Speaker 5: has now been picked up by our local Kannawk County
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Speaker 5: Schools for all employees is called Bento and it is
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Speaker 5: one that is very excellent in my humble opinion, it
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Speaker 5: is actually going to increase the ability for dentists to
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Speaker 5: provide better care. Also, a lot more dentists will take it.
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Speaker 5: It just seems like overall going to be a better situation. However,
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Speaker 5: the reason I wanted to bring it up is that
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Speaker 5: I've been informed by many in the Kannak County Schools
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Speaker 5: administration that you must go to their website the Bento
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Speaker 5: dot net, I believe is the website and sign up
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Speaker 5: as a Kannawk County school employee. If you do not
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Speaker 5: sign up, you will not have that insurance. It's literally
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Speaker 5: like you must use it or lose it type of
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Speaker 5: situation for a whole year. So not to be a
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Speaker 5: payer of bad news, but I want to get out
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Speaker 5: the word that you must go sign up on the
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Speaker 5: online portal and then in there you can actually find
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Speaker 5: out which dentists are in network, or which a dentist
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Speaker 5: will take it. My my office will take is will
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Speaker 5: take it. Doctor Steve's office will take it. We're not
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Speaker 5: in network, but we will take it. And the reversant
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Speaker 5: rates are very comparable to our full fees and that's
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Speaker 5: why we're so excited about this, because the the old
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Speaker 5: one was not as comparable, and so that's that's kind
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Speaker 5: of how I'll frame it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm looking through some I was doing some uh
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Speaker 2: looking up on what Bento is, and it looks like
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Speaker 2: it's a very we might be seeing more of these.
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Speaker 2: It looks like it's the way that the funding takes
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Speaker 2: is a little bit different. And none of that matters
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Speaker 2: to you guys. You guys just take the insurance. This
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Speaker 2: is through the Cane school employees is where this benefits at.
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Speaker 2: But it looks like there's an app very easy to
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Speaker 2: use and they're supposed to be what they market as anyway,
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Speaker 2: is that it really demystifies your your bill. You can
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Speaker 2: if you if you go in your app, you can
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Speaker 2: see what you're going to pay and there's much less questions.
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Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's pretty nice.
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Speaker 4: I mean, honestly, trying to make it a lot more
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Speaker 4: user friendly, a lot more understandable, and change that I
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Speaker 4: think kind of the enigma that insurance can be with
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Speaker 4: with many people and be a bit of a sea
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Speaker 4: change with how insurance is provided to their customers really,
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Speaker 4: and that's again to review the insurance idea with everyone listening.
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Speaker 4: With dental insurance, it is a benefit of that employee
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Speaker 4: that they that they have through their employer typically and
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Speaker 4: that it's no there's no agreement, no negotiations on their
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Speaker 4: behalf from the dental office. Really, the dental office acts
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Speaker 4: a bit as the middleman to take from the insurance
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Speaker 4: that you have through your employer or that you have
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Speaker 4: purchased and submit to that insurance what has been done.
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Speaker 4: And then that insurance either pays the office back based
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Speaker 4: upon the policies that they have agreed to with the
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Speaker 4: employer or employee, or they send the patient the reimbursement
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Speaker 4: check for what has been done. So a lot of
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Speaker 4: patients come in thinking that we are the ones that
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Speaker 4: manage that.
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Speaker 3: Insurance and we do not.
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Speaker 4: We don't really, we don't have anything, we cannot have
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Speaker 4: anything to do with that. But to reiterate what doctor
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Speaker 4: Henley said, there is a deadline for this enrollment June
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Speaker 4: the thirtieth. So, as an employee of Conall County Schools,
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Speaker 4: if you do not select to enroll by June the thirtieth,
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Speaker 4: then for an entire year, you would not be able
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Speaker 4: to use any dental benefits at all, which is a
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Speaker 4: change from how it has been done before. So we
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Speaker 4: want to get the word out to let everyone know
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Speaker 4: so they don't come into the office saying, why is
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Speaker 4: my insurance not active? And again, we don't have anything
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Speaker 4: to do with that, but sometimes that's not the perception.
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Speaker 3: Consider this like a PSA.
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Speaker 2: The Green Dental Group doesn't doesn't administer your insurance for you. However,
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Speaker 2: they do want to take it and they do want
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Speaker 2: you to be able to use those funds for it.
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Speaker 2: And so June thirtieth is your sign up for that.
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Speaker 2: And I don't know. I don't work for CACS, so
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Speaker 2: I can't say this for sure. I'm pulling all this
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Speaker 2: from the Bento website. But according to them, sign up
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Speaker 2: could be done through the app. It's very easy to
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Speaker 2: go in there and register and to claim your funds.
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Speaker 2: And then it is kind of neat because all the
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Speaker 2: things that you were talking about, apparently they handle a
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Speaker 2: lot of those things for the dentist a lot, but
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Speaker 2: you get paid via an EFT. You don't have to
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Speaker 2: wait on reimbursements for checks. All that stuff is pre negotiated.
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Speaker 2: So hopefully that helps you guys out as well. That
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Speaker 2: is such a great point Dale. So typical for typical insurances,
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Speaker 2: whenever you make a claim, US dentists get paid thirty
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Speaker 2: to sixty days later usually, which is not terrible because
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Speaker 2: that's just kind of how things have been done. However,
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Speaker 2: when something new comes along where you get paid the
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Speaker 2: next day, such as a lot of times Bento claims
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Speaker 2: that they will pay you the next day, that is
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Speaker 2: like a revelation, and so it's a lot easier for
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Speaker 2: us to instantly tell the patient what they will be,
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Speaker 2: what they will owe us, and also the next day
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Speaker 2: if there's a difference, which they're shouldn't because Binto has
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Speaker 2: been very transparent with what they'll pay. I do believe
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Speaker 2: it'll be a lot easier for us to say, oh,
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Speaker 2: well here's what they paid and here here's what you owe,
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Speaker 2: and it's going to be so quicker, so easier. It
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Speaker 2: just takes the mystification out of it. Because if if
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Speaker 2: the insurance company pays two months later and you call
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Speaker 2: your your patient. Oh yeah, now you os money. They're like,
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Speaker 2: that was two months ago. I don't remember what I
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Speaker 2: had for breakfice this morning. Why would I even remember anyway,
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Speaker 2: So it's a little they demystified the operation. It's a
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Speaker 2: lot more simpler and easier.
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Speaker 3: So that's why I've.
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Speaker 5: Been to Bendo's just so cool.
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 5: I just keep saying like, it's just not like typical insurance.
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Speaker 5: It's like they looked at insurance and went, let's do
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Speaker 5: something differently. Let's actually make the make the employees happy,
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Speaker 5: Let's make the dentists happy, Let's just make everyone happy.
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Speaker 3: What an idea? All right? Who knew would be great?
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Speaker 3: What an idea?
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Speaker 2: What an idea that you could use like some of
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Speaker 2: the things that we've learned in the past and things
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Speaker 2: that don't work, and say, hey, how could we re
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Speaker 2: envision these things into maybe methods that do work and
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Speaker 2: not have to change rules, laws and guidelines to do it.
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Speaker 3: I mean, hi, that's right.
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Speaker 5: And I think the best point about this insurance is
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Speaker 5: that the Kannak County Schools, the employees do not pay
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Speaker 5: a dime towards it. This is all paid for through
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Speaker 5: the Kannawk County Levy and so that with levy is
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Speaker 5: only that specific levee was made to provide only benefits
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Speaker 5: for the Kannak County schools and so it cannot be
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Speaker 5: for raising their their their pay, which obviously we want
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Speaker 5: to increase their pay, everyone does, but it's only for benefits.
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Speaker 5: So they found the best way to maximize their benefits
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Speaker 5: and they don't have to pay a dime.
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Speaker 3: That's great information.
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Speaker 2: You are listening this morning, gree Dental Group is here,
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Speaker 2: and ask the expert on five E d W c HS,
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Speaker 2: the voice of Charlesy and give us a call through
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Speaker 2: or four three four five fifty fifty if you have
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Speaker 2: any questions limited answers about the Bento situation that the
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Speaker 2: doctors take the insurance and can maybe answer some questions
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Speaker 2: for you, but don't call us with like your policy
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Speaker 2: questions or anything like that. If you have questions, seek
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Speaker 2: out your your administrator at your work for that. If
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Speaker 2: if you have any questions as far as that goes.
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Speaker 2: But I just wanted to give employees there that reminder
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Speaker 2: sounds like something that by June thirtieth you should probably
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Speaker 2: do so you can be sure to have access to
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Speaker 2: those funds if you have any questions this morning about
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Speaker 2: your dental health, your dental hygiene of yourself, or maybe
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Speaker 2: a love wing and gives a call this morning. Three
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Speaker 2: zero four three four five fifty eight fifty eight. Three
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Speaker 2: zero four three four five fifty eight fifty eight. I
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Speaker 2: know the tope were going to talk about this morning,
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Speaker 2: and we've talked about this a few times before because
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Speaker 2: the doctors at Greeb Dental Group are such are into
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Speaker 2: continuing education and of course about bringing folks along you
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Speaker 2: know about in their industry and so forth. So we
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Speaker 2: can talk a little bit this morning about young people
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Speaker 2: getting into dental care, dental hygiene, being a dentist, and
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Speaker 2: things along those lines. And it seems like with a
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Speaker 2: lot of like with a lot of things in today's society,
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Speaker 2: we have a shortage of dentists now, which is really
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Speaker 2: something else. Let's talk about that a little bit well.
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Speaker 4: And at our offices, for instance, we are wrapping up
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Speaker 4: this week having two dental students from WVU School of
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Speaker 4: Dentistry rotating through our offices. We have many dental hygiene
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Speaker 4: students that come and rotate through to shadow and to
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Speaker 4: train as well that come that go to various programs.
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Speaker 4: We also have a lot of dental assistants that are
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Speaker 4: training to become assistants that come in shadow and rotate
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Speaker 4: through as well. So we're very committed to helping the
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Speaker 4: next generation become educated, get real world experience in the
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Speaker 4: field of dentistry. And it's uh, it's a dentistry is
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Speaker 4: interesting because if you've rewind a couple hundred years, uh,
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Speaker 4: it used to be more of an apprentice type of
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Speaker 4: a profession where you would learn from someone under there
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Speaker 4: under their care and they would they train you how
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Speaker 4: to do it. It obviously became much more medically based
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Speaker 4: and and train and needed required much more training, and
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Speaker 4: I believe it it actually is described as the first
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Speaker 4: medical specialty that was kind of an offshoot of medicine
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Speaker 4: in training after seeing how complex dental care can be,
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Speaker 4: finding that it needs to be housed within its own
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Speaker 4: kind of educational educational format, so to kind of give
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Speaker 4: a rundown of what options there are in dentistry and
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Speaker 4: then dental education the least amount from the least amount
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Speaker 4: of education required to the most. The first of all
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Speaker 4: I did and my father and others in our group
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Speaker 4: used to teach at Putnam County Career and Technical Center.
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Speaker 4: So that was an example of how a high school
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Speaker 4: student could graduate high school with their dental assistance certification.
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Speaker 4: Like many other trades, you can go to a two
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Speaker 4: year program while in high school, receive that training, and
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Speaker 4: once you graduate high school, you're ready to go and
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Speaker 4: work into the go into the work force as a
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Speaker 4: dental assistant. So that would be the least amount of
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Speaker 4: training as far as clinical dentistry goes the now. Truthfully,
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Speaker 4: to be employed in a dental office, you really do
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Speaker 4: not have to go to any training after high school
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Speaker 4: or within high school to work receptionist as well as
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Speaker 4: dental assisting. Technically, you don't have to have that training.
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Speaker 4: There are many of the best assistants out there that
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Speaker 4: have just done on the job training, which is a
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Speaker 4: great way to do that as well. So as we
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Speaker 4: found in dentistry, it's all about your attitude that that
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Speaker 4: really determines your altitude.
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Speaker 3: To use that.
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Speaker 2: So that sounds like something is said at conferences a lot.
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Speaker 4: I think that's the same egerivism though nice drilled into
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Speaker 4: my into my head.
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna have to put that in my pocket, that's right.
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Speaker 4: So the so after dental assisting, then some choose to
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Speaker 4: go to dental hygiene and that's near and near to
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Speaker 4: my heart. My wife is a dental hygienist one of
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Speaker 4: my as well. But we have a lot of great
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Speaker 4: programs around the state. Bridge Valley is one here that's
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Speaker 4: near to us that we see a lot of their graduates.
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Speaker 4: That is an associate's degree program that is two years.
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Speaker 4: Typically Now you do have to have prerequisite so many
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Speaker 4: times to enter into that program, so sometimes it takes
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Speaker 4: a bit of getting some undergraduate courses under your belt
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Speaker 4: before you can be accepted into that program. Then there
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Speaker 4: are four year dental hygiene degrees that WVU provides that
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Speaker 4: and that is a true bachelor's degree that you finish
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Speaker 4: after four years in undergrad There. Then after dental hygiene
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Speaker 4: you can go on to dental school. Now you do
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Speaker 4: not have to do dental hygiene before dental school. For instance,
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Speaker 4: I did undergraduate and then went to dental school for
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Speaker 4: four years. And some aren't sure how long dental school asked,
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Speaker 4: that's one of most common questions people are thinking about it.
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Speaker 4: How long does it take? And you typically get an
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Speaker 4: undergraduate degree and then your doctorate degree in dentistry after
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Speaker 4: four years of dental school. Then there are dental specialties
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Speaker 4: after that that you can do fellowships and specialization and
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Speaker 4: residencies in and those can be anywhere from one to
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Speaker 4: six years, depending on which specialty you go into. But
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Speaker 4: that's kind of the rundown of what it takes to
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Speaker 4: get into dentistry. But we at Garib Dental Group always
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Speaker 4: want to encourage students furthering their education within dentistry itself.
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Speaker 2: That's that's a lot of information and there's a lot
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Speaker 2: of different pathways you can go there. I'm assuming I
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Speaker 2: shouldn't assume, I'll ask the question, are there It sounds
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Speaker 2: like that there would be a path there for maybe
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Speaker 2: somebody that started in a program for being in a
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Speaker 2: hygiene hygienis program that if you decided to take it
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Speaker 2: the next step further, that you could then.
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Speaker 3: Go to to become a dentist as well.
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Speaker 2: So you can kind of take a path where you
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Speaker 2: could be either and then if you decided to go further,
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Speaker 2: you could be a dentist. If not, you could stop
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Speaker 2: it being a hygienist. That is it that path work
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Speaker 2: or well not really, but yes.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, the reason I asked questions, So, if you're in
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Speaker 5: hygiene school, you can't just say, all right, now I'm
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Speaker 5: gonna switch over to the dental side. There's there's no
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Speaker 5: real like flip on that, however, because being a hygienist,
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Speaker 5: or at least the four year program is a bachelor's program.
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Speaker 5: If you complete that four years of being a bachelor's
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Speaker 5: in science in a dental hygiene I don't know if
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Speaker 5: it's science or or whatever, then you can say, oh, well,
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Speaker 5: I don't I don't want to stop. I'm gonna keep going.
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Speaker 5: Then you can then enter apply and enter into dental school.
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Speaker 5: And so dental school is its own thing beyond having
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Speaker 5: an undergraduate bachelor's degree. And so the answer is yes,
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Speaker 5: but there's no like switch if that makes sense.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, that makes that makes complete sense.
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Speaker 2: And and much like just just just dentists, hygienis are
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Speaker 2: also in demand now, the defined quality hygienis is also
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Speaker 2: in demand, very.
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Speaker 3: High demand at the moment. That's true.
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Speaker 4: Everything kind of waxes and wanes a bit, but ebbs
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Speaker 4: and flows. But nonetheless.
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Speaker 3: The whichever.
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Speaker 4: I think you know what I mean, though, So and
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Speaker 4: to further answer your question about dental hygiene, dental school
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Speaker 4: is very competitive. For instance, WVU receives I believe around
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Speaker 4: two thousand, close to two thousand applicants per year, and
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Speaker 4: our class every year is about forty to forty five.
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Speaker 4: I forget the exact number right now, but so it's
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Speaker 4: a very low percentage of the applicants that are accepted. Now,
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Speaker 4: if an applicant has very good grades and they are
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Speaker 4: also a dental hygienist and have all their prerequisites, that
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Speaker 4: would give them definitely a leg up, I would say
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Speaker 4: on in getting accepted. So again to address your question,
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Speaker 4: it's not an automatic now I'm just going to decide
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Speaker 4: to roll into dentistry. But you do have a good
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Speaker 4: benefit an advantage applying to dental school at that point,
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Speaker 4: and some people choose that path and right after dental
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Speaker 4: hygiene they'll go right into applying for dental school. Yes,
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Speaker 4: and again, dental hygiene you said is in demand, and
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Speaker 4: it truly is. We have quite a shortage of dental
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Speaker 4: hygienis in West Virginia in general, and a lot of
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Speaker 4: that has to do with outside forces pulling people away
18:32
Speaker 4: from the state. But we're we try to keep them
18:36
Speaker 4: here and keep them happy. So that is true.
18:39
Speaker 3: That's great information.
18:40
Speaker 2: I was wondering, like, if you're in high school and
18:42
Speaker 2: you're a sophomore or junior right now, and maybe you're
18:45
Speaker 2: interested in getting to this field one way or the other,
18:47
Speaker 2: is certain thing you could do to sort of prep
18:48
Speaker 2: yourself for emissions to get ready to go to higher education.
18:52
Speaker 2: If you're really interested in getting into dental school one
18:55
Speaker 2: way or the.
18:55
Speaker 4: Other, for sure, and if it's something that you are
18:58
Speaker 4: really set on as a high school student or even
19:01
Speaker 4: a middle school student. I remember applying to dental school
19:05
Speaker 4: eons ago. That's now it's been as different, I'm sure now,
19:09
Speaker 4: and it's more competitive. As as I've said before, they
19:13
Speaker 4: probably went let me in at this point. But when
19:17
Speaker 4: I was interviewing, they were going back and looking at
19:20
Speaker 4: my high school transcripts. It's like, guys, that's a long
19:23
Speaker 4: time ago. You know, what's the deal. I thought I
19:25
Speaker 4: thought that was behind me, you know, But no, it's
19:28
Speaker 4: the bottom line is get good grades. You get your
19:31
Speaker 4: grades up as competitively as possible, and a lot of
19:36
Speaker 4: a lot of dentistry is about time investment. Shadowing at
19:42
Speaker 4: dental offices is a really important thing, and it truly is.
19:46
Speaker 4: I don't know if it's a written down requirement, but
19:48
Speaker 4: at least it's unspoken now, if not written down, that
19:51
Speaker 4: you need to have about one hundred and fifty shadowing
19:54
Speaker 4: hours prior to applying to dental school. So it's yeah,
19:58
Speaker 4: it can be demanding, but you have to be motivated
20:02
Speaker 4: to do it, and it's it's not unattainable by any means.
20:06
Speaker 4: And there are certain prerequisites even if you if you
20:09
Speaker 4: are if you do have that bachelor's of Science and
20:11
Speaker 4: dental hygiene, for instance, there are still some prerequisite courses
20:16
Speaker 4: that need to be taken. And for someone wanting to
20:19
Speaker 4: go as quickly as they came into dental school, really
20:23
Speaker 4: it probably is a little quicker to do. A bachelor's
20:27
Speaker 4: of science focused on biology or chemistry is traditionally the
20:30
Speaker 4: way it's done. However, people do it many different ways.
20:34
Speaker 4: Now you don't have to specially to select those as
20:37
Speaker 4: your majors in undergraduate, but those get you all the
20:41
Speaker 4: required courses to then apply to dental school.
20:45
Speaker 3: Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
20:47
Speaker 5: And so the reason we're bringing this up is we
20:50
Speaker 5: want West Virginians to stay in West Virginia and we
20:53
Speaker 5: want the West Virginia kids, the West Virginia young adults,
20:56
Speaker 5: the young future leaders of our state in our name,
21:00
Speaker 5: to stay here. And so we want to encourage them
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Speaker 5: to reach for their dreams and reach their goals and
21:07
Speaker 5: go into these dental careers and then go, Wow, I
21:11
Speaker 5: just love the state so much. I want to come
21:12
Speaker 5: back and invest my time here as well. For example,
21:16
Speaker 5: I actually had a meeting this past week in Morgantown
21:18
Speaker 5: where it's these the admission numbers are actually discussed, which
21:23
Speaker 5: is really neat, and it is forty eight per year
21:27
Speaker 5: are accepted into dental school.
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Speaker 3: Wow. Wow, that's it just competitive. Wow yeah yeah.
21:32
Speaker 5: And I think there were like fifteen hundred or something
21:34
Speaker 5: two thousand, let's just say two thousand, because it doesn't matter,
21:38
Speaker 5: like I don't know now, when you're that high, it's
21:40
Speaker 5: like who gets in, you know, right? And then of
21:42
Speaker 5: those like fifteen hundred to two thousand, I think sixty
21:47
Speaker 5: were applying from in state. For the for the year
21:50
Speaker 5: twenty twenty nine, sixty people applied from the state of
21:53
Speaker 5: West Virginia. And of those sixty, I believe it was
21:56
Speaker 5: about thirty that got in from West Virginia. So there's
21:59
Speaker 5: a very big chance that if you were from West
22:01
Speaker 5: Virginia and you have the grades, and you have the
22:04
Speaker 5: community service hours in the commitment to shadow a dentists,
22:08
Speaker 5: et cetera, et cetera, that the chance of you getting
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Speaker 5: in is a lot higher than if you're out of state.
22:14
Speaker 5: Being in state, it was about fifty percent chance of
22:17
Speaker 5: getting in as long as you have those grades because
22:19
Speaker 5: the average grade point average, I think was a three
22:21
Speaker 5: point seventy three, which again, looking back, I'm like, I
22:25
Speaker 5: couldn't have gotten it, which is hilarious because not Steve
22:34
Speaker 5: and I are very smart people, but we're looking at
22:36
Speaker 5: these grade point averages for like how do they have
22:38
Speaker 5: time to do that and have the community service hours
22:41
Speaker 5: and the shadowing, and like they're all in all these
22:44
Speaker 5: leadership things are like presidents of the universities, Like.
22:46
Speaker 1: What what do they do?
22:48
Speaker 5: Do they sleep?
22:48
Speaker 3: Are these humans? I don't know?
22:51
Speaker 5: And so it is really neat to see our future
22:54
Speaker 5: West Virginians hopefully see that there is potential here because
22:58
Speaker 5: as we advance in life, the baby boomers are starting
23:02
Speaker 5: to retire more and more and more, and so we're
23:04
Speaker 5: finding that we need these yarned nests to step up
23:06
Speaker 5: and start kind of investing their time and growing and
23:10
Speaker 5: maybe buying a practice or becoming an associate with us,
23:14
Speaker 5: you know, So we've we're trying to grow our practices
23:16
Speaker 5: so that we can have those opportunities for them. So
23:18
Speaker 5: it's it's not just us, but it's the young people
23:20
Speaker 5: that need to come back as well.
23:21
Speaker 3: We'll follow up on that a little bit when we
23:22
Speaker 3: come back.
23:23
Speaker 2: We want to talk it a little bit about the
23:24
Speaker 2: personality types maybe that would marry themselves well to be
23:28
Speaker 2: in in dentistry and things along those lines. With you,
23:31
Speaker 2: doctor Stephen, it was literally a family thing since what
23:34
Speaker 2: nineteen seventy five, right with your dad. So we want
23:37
Speaker 2: to talk a little bit about if maybe you weren't
23:39
Speaker 2: born into it, what how you know, maybe you're inspired
23:42
Speaker 2: to get into the field. So we're going to talk
23:44
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23:45
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27:29
Speaker 2: We've been talking. We opened up the show talking a
27:31
Speaker 2: little bit about the new Bento insurance with Connel School employees,
27:35
Speaker 2: so you might want to check that out. That's something
27:38
Speaker 2: we opened up talking about talking about career paths now
27:41
Speaker 2: in the various career paths and dentistry. And one of
27:43
Speaker 2: the things I wanted to ask you about is famously
27:46
Speaker 2: doctor Stephen Year from the Greeb family and so I
27:50
Speaker 2: think since nineteen seventy five and Poka that.
27:53
Speaker 4: The pocus started, Yeah, where dad started it all.
27:55
Speaker 2: So you've been the Greeb Dental Group or Greeb's as
28:00
Speaker 2: family of dentists have been in the in the Canall
28:02
Speaker 2: Valley forever. I mean as far as uh, I mean
28:05
Speaker 2: we're talking generations now, as far as that goes. So
28:07
Speaker 2: you were literally born into it, and I mean I'm
28:09
Speaker 2: I'm assuming maybe not everybody and your family gets into
28:12
Speaker 2: dentistry one way or the other, but it's one step away.
28:14
Speaker 3: It's very it's very close.
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Speaker 4: It's funny because I always tell the story. I'm I
28:18
Speaker 4: was the only one. We have five children in my family.
28:20
Speaker 4: I was the only one from kindergarten all the way through.
28:23
Speaker 4: It's I was going to be a dentist and step
28:25
Speaker 4: kept with it all the way, and then others took
28:28
Speaker 4: other paths, but then they all came back. It's the
28:33
Speaker 4: black hole.
28:34
Speaker 3: I don't know.
28:35
Speaker 4: It sucks, sucks everybody in what this worked out quite well.
28:39
Speaker 2: You've seen all kinds and of course uh uh doctor Carson, Uh,
28:43
Speaker 2: I guess famously as is like an adopted greed but
28:46
Speaker 2: right and brought.
28:48
Speaker 3: Him in infamously but or infamously. Yeah, that's right.
28:51
Speaker 2: But what do you see obviously, Singer family, you've seen
28:54
Speaker 2: a lot of people, that's that's uh, that's been through
28:56
Speaker 2: this industry. You've met a lot of folks. What what
28:57
Speaker 2: do you think is the calling that you find common
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Speaker 2: and folks that that that enjoy this, this is their passion.
29:04
Speaker 2: What is it that you find common in those?
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Speaker 4: So what's really a common thread amongst all dentists that
29:09
Speaker 4: I know is that we want to help people. We
29:11
Speaker 4: got into this profession to use our skills and develop
29:15
Speaker 4: skills that can help our fellow man. So that's that's
29:18
Speaker 4: really I think the bottom line with that. But what's
29:21
Speaker 4: very interesting in dentistry is you kind of ask about
29:24
Speaker 4: personality types and that's what I also love about our
29:27
Speaker 4: industry is that any personality can find a place in dentistry.
29:32
Speaker 4: And that's where it's it's quite interesting to watch dental
29:37
Speaker 4: students as they mature and as they approach graduation. What
29:40
Speaker 4: their choices are after graduation has many times a lot
29:43
Speaker 4: to do with their personality. If they like interacting with people,
29:47
Speaker 4: If they like talking with people, they may lean more
29:50
Speaker 4: toward a general dentistry slant where you have a traditional
29:55
Speaker 4: practice where you interact with a lot of patients and
29:57
Speaker 4: then you can build that practice around your personality as well.
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Speaker 4: Or maybe they like kids, so they're going to lean
30:04
Speaker 4: toward pedodontic pediatric dentistry that where you're dealing with children,
30:10
Speaker 4: maybe you don't like talking to people at all, so
30:12
Speaker 4: you'll become an indodnist surgeon where your patients asleep, you know,
30:17
Speaker 4: you don't have to talk to them. So I mean,
30:18
Speaker 4: that's that's also a little bit into the personality. Of course,
30:21
Speaker 4: it's not a carte blanche with the it's it's not
30:23
Speaker 4: a blanket statement for everything. But but that is that
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Speaker 4: is interesting to see how within dentistry, I believe any
30:30
Speaker 4: personality can really can really thrive.
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Speaker 2: And and if you are if it is a career
30:36
Speaker 2: path that you're that you're into and you are I
30:38
Speaker 2: mentioned a moment ago somebody maybe that's rising in high
30:41
Speaker 2: school and coming out through those that area, what is
30:45
Speaker 2: there any should you reach out to grieve dental group
30:48
Speaker 2: or just your career counselor I mean, what's the like
30:50
Speaker 2: what steps should you take? Is like, okay, well let
30:51
Speaker 2: me at least get the information and let me start
30:53
Speaker 2: looking at what I need to do to get to
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Speaker 2: that level when I start getting to college.
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Speaker 5: So number one, first ask your dentist you have a
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Speaker 5: dental home, and so if not, get a dnists, if
31:03
Speaker 5: you don't have a getting a dentist is very important
31:08
Speaker 5: and just experience it, see how they do things. Try
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Speaker 5: to spend a little extra time noticing how the how
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Speaker 5: the hygienis interacts with the front desk and the front
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Speaker 5: us interacts with the dentists, and see, like, could I
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Speaker 5: find myself working in an environment like this? Not everyone can.
31:25
Speaker 5: It is very close quarters. I hear everything that happens
31:29
Speaker 5: in my office, which is great. I love doing it. Also,
31:32
Speaker 5: it gets loud sometimes and it's just kind of a
31:35
Speaker 5: fun environment.
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Speaker 3: Right now.
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Speaker 5: Everyone likes that if you want to be in a
31:39
Speaker 5: in a closet with the door shut, become a radiologist,
31:41
Speaker 5: right And so there are different pathways to where you
31:45
Speaker 5: can kind of use your personality to shine or shine
31:49
Speaker 5: in different ways. Because there's not one modality to become
31:52
Speaker 5: a dentist. There's not one modality become a specialist. You
31:56
Speaker 5: can kind of make it your own. And so one
31:58
Speaker 5: one of my favorite qutes that Doutters even told me
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Speaker 5: was how patients or dentists attract like patients. And so
32:05
Speaker 5: if you're kind of a fun guy and you're kind
32:08
Speaker 5: of happy and happy, go lucky, then you're going to
32:10
Speaker 5: attract patients that are kind of happy, go lucky. If
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Speaker 5: if you're a curmudgeon, you might attract curmudge and patients
32:14
Speaker 5: right anyway. And so I kind of took that with
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Speaker 5: me and said, I'm gonna no matter what, when I'm
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Speaker 5: walking into a room, I'm going to say, hey, how
32:21
Speaker 5: are we doing today? I'm going to build kind of
32:23
Speaker 5: create that energy to where I kind of want to
32:26
Speaker 5: have the patient reflect that back to me and go, oh,
32:28
Speaker 5: this is a place where not only we're going to
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Speaker 5: be treated well and be treated right, but we're going
32:33
Speaker 5: to have a good time while we do it, at
32:35
Speaker 5: least as best a good time as we can. As
32:37
Speaker 5: you know, our mouth is open with you know, high
32:39
Speaker 5: speed instruments flying around, but we do our best to
32:42
Speaker 5: make it comfortable and fun. And so that's kind of
32:44
Speaker 5: what my goal is as a dentist a.
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Speaker 2: Grieve Dental Group. That was doctor Carson Henley from GREEV
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Speaker 2: Dental Group. More information online Grievedentalgroup dot com, g H
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Speaker 2: A R E B. Grieve Dentalgroup dot com.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: So, to further answer the question about what can a
32:58
Speaker 4: student do now, as dot org Henley was alluding to,
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Speaker 4: is to get into an office and shadow do we
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Speaker 4: talked about shadowing earlier.
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Speaker 3: We accept.
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Speaker 4: Potential dentights all the time. People interested in various aspects
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Speaker 4: of dentistry. They call us and say, hey, can we
33:17
Speaker 4: come in and shadow sometime? And we're very happy to
33:19
Speaker 4: do that in our office. Your dentist may be happy
33:21
Speaker 4: to do that. You might not be happy to do that.
33:23
Speaker 4: So find an office that would accept students that shadow
33:27
Speaker 4: and get a feel for it. You may come in
33:29
Speaker 4: as as doctor Anley said, and find Okay, after a day,
33:33
Speaker 4: I don't like this, you know, we'll let's find another path.
33:36
Speaker 4: Or you may may really enjoy it, and then we
33:39
Speaker 4: might give you a job. Who knows.
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Speaker 2: That's a great information as always give. Let me make
33:43
Speaker 2: sure we get the information out to you. We just
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Speaker 2: have a couple of minutes left here this morning. Doctor
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Speaker 2: Stephen Grieve and doctor Carson Henley has been our guest
33:49
Speaker 2: this morning. More information online is Grievedentalgroup dot com, g
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Speaker 2: H A R E B Grievdentalgroup dot com. Their number
33:54
Speaker 2: is one hundred Great Care any hundred great care that
33:56
Speaker 2: will take you to the closest location to you. Poke
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Speaker 2: us how Charles and cross Lane, Saint Auban tays Valley,
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Speaker 2: Kanaal City is all the different locations. Greb Dental Group
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Speaker 2: found in nineteen seventy five by doctor Sammy Greeb in PoCA,
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Speaker 2: West Virginia, twelve doctors across six locations.
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Speaker 3: Is that right? I think that's right. Oh, good, gra.
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Speaker 2: It's the ballpark fifteen, it's the ballpark somewhere a round
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Speaker 2: there there, it's the ballpark right in through there.
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Speaker 3: That's right.
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34:40
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34:45
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34:47
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34:51
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Speaker 4: Yeah, we've gladly welcome consultations. We offer complimentary consultations. So
34:59
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35:03
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35:07
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35:10
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35:14
Speaker 4: whether they be severe or not. We've we've seen all
35:17
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35:20
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35:23
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35:26
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35:43
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