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10/28/2025 Ask the Expert with Ghareeb Dental Group · WCHS Network Podcasts

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Speaker 3: Twenty two minutes past the hour, that's eight o'clock for
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Speaker 3: you those. If you keeping track at home, you're listening
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Speaker 3: to ask the expert. Do you see hs the voice
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Speaker 3: for Charleston. I'm Del Cooper. Thanks for tuning in on
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Speaker 3: this Tuesday morning. A little overcast this morning as you're
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Speaker 3: coming into work, but otherwise thanks are holding off pretty well,
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Speaker 3: whether it's not too bad. Might see you a little
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Speaker 3: bit of scattered showers throughout this afternoon. Things will go
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Speaker 3: clear up a little later on in the afternoon, and
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Speaker 3: then this evening it's supposed to be nice, a little
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Speaker 3: bit chilly outside, but we of course have the nineteenth
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Speaker 3: annual trick or beat over at the Ballpark tonight where
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Speaker 3: we're gonna be giving away copious amounts of Halloween candy,
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Speaker 3: I mean so much Halloween candy.
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Speaker 4: And that's relatively.
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Speaker 3: Relevant to what we're gonna be talking about today in
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Speaker 3: studio with me today we have a doctor Carson Henland,
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Speaker 3: doctor Stephen Garib from a REB dental group where it's
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Speaker 3: the Halloween Candy special at least a little bit is
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Speaker 3: that time of year to talk about what happens this
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Speaker 3: time of year to your teeth. And we know from
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Speaker 3: a copious amount of data going back years and decades
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Speaker 3: and decades that sugar and teeth don't match as far
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Speaker 3: as from a health food standpoint goes. So we're gonna
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Speaker 3: talk about those things this morning, and you can control
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Speaker 3: the conversation as well if you have if you have
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Speaker 3: a question about your dental hygiene, or maybe if that
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Speaker 3: a loved one, an issue that's come up that maybe
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Speaker 3: you want a second opinion on, or maybe you're just
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Speaker 3: not sure about modern technology on things like on things
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Speaker 3: like endplants, or maybe your root canal, anything like that
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Speaker 3: you have questions on, you're welcome to give us a
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Speaker 3: call this morning. Three zero four three four five fifty
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Speaker 3: fifty eight three zero four three four five fifty to
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Speaker 3: fifty eight.
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Speaker 4: Gentlemen, how you doing this morning?
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Speaker 5: I'm doing great. How about yourself?
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Speaker 4: Doing well?
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Speaker 3: Doctor Stephen, thanks for coming in this morning. Always look
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Speaker 3: forward to our Halloween episodes.
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Speaker 5: It is that time of year, and uh, I don't.
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Speaker 5: I'd forgotten about it until we walked in this morning, like,
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Speaker 5: oh you know what, it's it's Halloween time.
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Speaker 6: It is.
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Speaker 3: Talk about whatever you want to talk about. Yeah, we
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Speaker 3: don't have to do that. I don't want to force
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Speaker 3: you into the Halloween. It's our duty.
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Speaker 5: It is our duty is dentists to address this at
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Speaker 5: this time of year. So yeah, well we're happy to
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Speaker 5: be very happy to get into that. The overarching theme
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Speaker 5: is we want kids to have fun and enjoy the
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Speaker 5: holiday of Halloween, but do it responsible.
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Speaker 3: And I think we also have before we get into
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Speaker 3: the sugary bits, to take us one throughout today. You
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Speaker 3: have a an acknowledgement or an announcement for our esteem, doctor,
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Speaker 3: doctor Hanmer.
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Speaker 5: We have a very lustrous guest with us today, being
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Speaker 5: that of doctor Carson Henley. He is I believe it's
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Speaker 5: considered a fellow of the Pierre fran Hello. Hello, Academy.
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Speaker 5: It's very prestigious academy really in dentistry. It's it's really
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Speaker 5: cool if you look it up. They they nominate individuals
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Speaker 5: that have really contributed not only to the profession of dentistry,
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Speaker 5: but humanity as a whole. And we're very proud to
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Speaker 5: have doctor Henley in the ranks of that academy. So
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Speaker 5: I've turned over to him to tell us a little
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Speaker 5: more about that in the time that he had congratulations.
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Speaker 3: I looked this up last night after doctor Steveh has
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Speaker 3: sent it to me and and a massive congratulations, really
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Speaker 3: very very good stuff.
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Speaker 4: And I can and I definitely can see it. Oh boy, well,
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Speaker 4: thank you very much.
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Speaker 6: From from here on out, I'm going to be speaking
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Speaker 6: with a French accent.
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Speaker 4: No I am from France. No, I can't pull that off,
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Speaker 4: very little gray sales door exactly.
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Speaker 6: But but Pierre Fauchard is actually known as the modern
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Speaker 6: father of modern dentistry going back to the seventeen hundred.
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Speaker 6: So a guy in Minnesota nineteen thirty six created an
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Speaker 6: international dental organization just for just high ethics high uh,
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Speaker 6: giving back kind of a way to make make sure
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Speaker 6: people kind of are in a brotherhood or sisterhood of
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Speaker 6: of of dentists that want to always give back, and
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Speaker 6: so he created the Pierre Fauchard And what was awesome
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Speaker 6: at this event.
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Speaker 4: It was a black tie event in d C.
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Speaker 6: Which was like, this is a first for me, you know,
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Speaker 6: being on a black tie in Washington, DC or Nation's capital.
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Speaker 6: But there was a French guy who won an award
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Speaker 6: and he said the name of the organization, and it
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Speaker 6: was awesome.
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Speaker 4: I've never actually heard it being like the French word.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, and so all of us Americans like Pierre Fauchard,
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Speaker 6: you know, like we don't know how to say it
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Speaker 6: correctly by the like, it was like so cool.
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Speaker 3: Anyway, the first station in high school used to get
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Speaker 3: on us for our boone County French is what you would.
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Speaker 6: Always call it. I get that for sure, but yeah,
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Speaker 6: but it was very prestigious. It was a wonderful event.
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Speaker 6: Me and my wife went and we had a great
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Speaker 6: time in DC. Actually got a photo from in front
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Speaker 6: of the White House, which was kind of neat. We
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Speaker 6: kind of walked a few blocks from our hotel and back,
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Speaker 6: but overall just a really quick trip. But I'm honored
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Speaker 6: to be in this really cool organization. But I think
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Speaker 6: that's enough about me. Well, massive congratulations for real. Yeah,
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Speaker 6: that's good stuff and it's always good to follow. Uh,
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Speaker 6: but you guys are on the air all the time,
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Speaker 6: here are folks when I know about that, like the
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Speaker 6: sharings that happened like that, so that that's absolutely good stuff.
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Speaker 6: And I was cracking up out loud because I forgot
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Speaker 6: it was Halloween in like three days and we're like,
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Speaker 6: this is our Halloween thing.
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Speaker 4: We're like, oh, we should probably talk Halloween sugar.
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Speaker 3: He come on, but here I was all geared up
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Speaker 3: for it, and uh, sorry about that, guys, but it
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Speaker 3: is we've done the show in some respects for a
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Speaker 3: long time, and it is it seems like that this
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Speaker 3: is an overly simplistic thing to say, but candy's not
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Speaker 3: going anywhere. In fact, it seems like that we're finding
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Speaker 3: new and inventive ways to find ways to eat candy.
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Speaker 3: And you know, there's all kinds of misconceptions out there
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Speaker 3: in some levels because you hear all of the pushback
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Speaker 3: against the ultra processed food and processed candy, processed sugar,
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Speaker 3: do you know, different things like those lines. And that's
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Speaker 3: true from a health standpoint, sure, but sugar, no matter
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Speaker 3: how natural it is, is still bad for your teeth.
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Speaker 5: That's right, and even sugar substitutes can be so exactly right,
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Speaker 5: it is worth taking a look at. But yeah, so
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Speaker 5: to give kind of a baseline here with the sugar discussion,
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Speaker 5: just to educate everyone on how it really works, is
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Speaker 5: it's about constant exposure. And you think, of course, I'm
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Speaker 5: not going to constantly be eating sugar, but if you're
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Speaker 5: constantly sipping on a coke all day long or a
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Speaker 5: mountain dew, you know you're bathing your teeth in sugar
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Speaker 5: the entire day. What sugar does to the structure of
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Speaker 5: the tooth is it attaches to it. It starts eating
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Speaker 5: it away and breaking it down. It's like almost like
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Speaker 5: an acid onto the tooth that penetrates in there, and
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Speaker 5: it allows other bacteria to get in to the tooth
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Speaker 5: to create a cavity. And for children that aren't don't
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Speaker 5: have the dexterity to really brush and floss as well
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Speaker 5: as as an adult wood when they're eating on candy
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Speaker 5: all day long or drinking these sugary drinks all day long.
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Speaker 5: Even milk has a lot of sugar in it as well.
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Speaker 5: It it gets in between the teeth and creates some
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Speaker 5: very serious cavity issues. So that's something that it's been
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Speaker 5: acknowledged that a lot of the preventive measures that we've
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Speaker 5: made is one of the one of the greatest world
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Speaker 5: health advancements of the past century. So it's it's it's
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Speaker 5: also one of those things similar to some of the
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Speaker 5: older diseases that we're not used to having now. Uh,
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Speaker 5: tooth decay and and tooth infections used to be a
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Speaker 5: really really big, much bigger deal than it is today.
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Speaker 5: And people listening that have had a tooth infection, like man,
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Speaker 5: that is a big deal, but it happened on a
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Speaker 5: very much larger scale before dentistry intervened. So we've we
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Speaker 5: know a lot about sugar, what it does to the teeth,
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Speaker 5: and we want to limit its exposure. The good news
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Speaker 5: is that once you expose your teeth to sugar, our
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Speaker 5: saliva naturally buffers it naturally counteracts that if you give
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Speaker 5: your mouth enough of a break before it's next sugar exposure,
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Speaker 5: if that makes sense. So so that's where I say,
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Speaker 5: you know, it's it's not something that you need to
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Speaker 5: take away everybody's candy, but just use it responsibly give it.
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Speaker 5: My advice is to, you know, let children enjoy their
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Speaker 5: their trick or treating. Let them have the candy that night,
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Speaker 5: but don't keep it out on a bowl and snack
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Speaker 5: on it for the next two weeks straight, you know,
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Speaker 5: all day long. Keep it more like no, I mean
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Speaker 5: that's fine.
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Speaker 3: If you do it like it will be like Easter
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Speaker 3: and I'll be like, why is there still a bowl
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Speaker 3: of Halloween candy in here?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, oh for sure. It gets to the point where
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Speaker 5: you do have to throw it away, like get it
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Speaker 5: out of that like literally. But but no, I mean
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Speaker 5: if you even if you have like one piece three
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Speaker 5: times a day, that's all right, just not all day long.
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Speaker 4: I had to throw away.
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Speaker 3: I found a bag in our cabinet, and this is
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Speaker 3: because I confiscated it last year and hit it. And
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Speaker 3: then as I was doing some cleaning up earlier this year,
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Speaker 3: I found a giant bag that was full of what
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Speaker 3: I just call street candy. It's candy where we went
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Speaker 3: to various things last year and people threw like candy
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Speaker 3: down on the street and my daughter went out and
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Speaker 3: scooped it up.
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Speaker 4: I'm like, man, you are not eating.
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Speaker 3: This exhausting that exhaust asphalt candy.
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Speaker 4: I don't think you're going to eat that?
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Speaker 2: Right?
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Speaker 5: How is it Halloween has become there are more events
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Speaker 5: around Halloween than I think Christmas. It seems like that, right.
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Speaker 5: How many trigger treating events do my children go?
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Speaker 3: And not only that, but then Christmas has now become
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Speaker 3: a candy holiday, like the Christmas was never really a
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Speaker 3: candy holiday. When I was growing up. It was sweet, sure,
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Speaker 3: like pastries and cakes and different things. And now you
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Speaker 3: get like everything candy. It's like, I mean.
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Speaker 5: It's a corporate sponsorship.
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Speaker 3: Big Chocolate, right, Big candy. Believe me, I've never been
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Speaker 3: so scandalized as when I found out about Big Cheese.
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Speaker 3: It's a real thing, and it's amazing how much that
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Speaker 3: they control our diet in the a Big Cheese does
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Speaker 3: a couple of things that I ran across. One thing
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Speaker 3: that I thought was interesting, and I remember this from
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Speaker 3: previous years because I've read both of these. I think
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Speaker 3: I remember you talked about tooth infections. And one of
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Speaker 3: the things in like a popular writings from from older
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Speaker 3: Tom's or like fiction like if you see like somebody,
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Speaker 3: like an old movie, a western, or something like how
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Speaker 3: often is there where somebody has like a bad tooth
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Speaker 3: and they have to take a swig of whiskey before
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Speaker 3: they pull the tooth.
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Speaker 4: Out or whatever.
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Speaker 3: Also, I always found it was interesting that in both
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Speaker 3: the writings of Thomas Edison and in Benjamin Franklin, they
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Speaker 3: mentioned just a bad teeth or infected teeth or something
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Speaker 3: like that as being a problem of the day. It's
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Speaker 3: in both of their journals, and I think it's kind
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Speaker 3: of interesting that because it was such an issue, you know,
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Speaker 3: like just having an infected tooth was like a major
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Speaker 3: issue for the time.
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Speaker 5: What's one of the main things George Washington's known for.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, they're not really fault or they're not really wooden teeth.
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Speaker 3: They were something else that woulden right, But I've seen them.
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Speaker 3: I've seen the actual teeth.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, actual teeth in a dentist dentistry museum I believe
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Speaker 5: in Baltimore. But but yeah, they they're pretty child like
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Speaker 5: used to be. You have like springs in there, and
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Speaker 5: I like, you look at it, like, how could this
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Speaker 5: ever go into somebody's mouth? But yeah, things have come
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Speaker 5: a long way, for sure.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, the technology is amazing. So some of the things
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Speaker 3: I ran across when when looking into candy, and of
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Speaker 3: course we do these things all the time, but it
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Speaker 3: looks like that we that Americans consume up to six
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Speaker 3: hundred and seventy five grams that's twenty four ounces, so
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Speaker 3: a pound and a half of Halloween candy in some
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Speaker 3: cases on Halloween, a pound and a half of candy.
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Speaker 3: The average US household spends about forty dollars on candy
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Speaker 3: on the day. Major survey found that nearly thirty percent
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Speaker 3: of Americans say they're a favorite Halloween candy is Recea's.
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Speaker 3: So you know, it's candy, but at least it's not
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Speaker 3: you know, taffy or something that really gets stuck in
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Speaker 3: the teeth.
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Speaker 4: You know.
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Speaker 5: The thing about chocolate is it melts.
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Speaker 4: At least there's that right in peanut butter. Two, I guess.
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Speaker 5: Mentioning to the types of candy, the gummy sticky ones,
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Speaker 5: those hang onto the tooth a little bit longer. And
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Speaker 5: if that's something they're that your children are eating all
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Speaker 5: the time, tension there. Make sure they're they're brushing and
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Speaker 5: flossing their teeth and soon thereafter and then the the
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Speaker 5: chocolate's melt. But then the hard candies, oh break, Yeah,
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Speaker 5: they just break your teeth. Yeah, and so that's something
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Speaker 5: to watch for.
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Speaker 3: I don't know if anybody else has this, and the
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Speaker 3: visual is kind of appalling, honestly, but it seems like
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Speaker 3: that our Halloween candy bag when it gets down to
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Speaker 3: the dregs and there's not that much left. It's just
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Speaker 3: a bag full of tootsy rolls. There's nothing but tottsy
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Speaker 3: rolls in it because nobody eats them. And and part
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Speaker 3: of me thinks it's because of the teeth thing.
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Speaker 4: Man.
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Speaker 3: I remember as a kid the last time I had
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Speaker 3: a totsy roll, it was like an emergency where I
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Speaker 3: felt like I had a totty roll fused to my
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Speaker 3: tooth and I would never be able to get it out.
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Speaker 4: Of course, keep it in your mouth long enough and
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Speaker 4: warm it up and you can pull it out.
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Speaker 3: I've had that with a jolly rancher before too, where
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Speaker 3: you just take like a flat bite into it and
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Speaker 3: then suddenly it feels like you're never getting rid of
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Speaker 3: that thing out of your own.
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Speaker 5: Reports of dentists using jolly ranchers to remove crowns, so.
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Speaker 4: You know, because they have to act it.
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Speaker 5: Here bite on this and open it, you know, but
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Speaker 5: they pull a lot of dunetwork, for sure.
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Speaker 3: My kid has two like cartoon bucky teeth right now
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Speaker 3: that need to come out, because she's got her top
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Speaker 3: one here on the bottom one almost right below it
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Speaker 3: that there. I mean, they're almost you can bend them
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Speaker 3: at like a forty five degree angle. I mean, those
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Speaker 3: things are just flapping around, but I can't. They won't
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Speaker 3: like quite come all the way out yet. But I
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Speaker 3: was telling her last night because we always you know,
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Speaker 3: no candy at bedtime, No candy bedtime. She doesn't like
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Speaker 3: hard candy, but I was last night. I was like,
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Speaker 3: you want to try like some hard candy.
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Speaker 4: Can I stick this up in there and see if
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Speaker 4: we can maybe just pull that thing out?
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Speaker 3: We got it. Tonight's Halloween. Man, you couldn't lose these
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Speaker 3: teeth back before Halloween night. It'd be an awful nice
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Speaker 3: if you could have got rid of both of those
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Speaker 3: things before Halloween night. But I guess that's not the
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Speaker 3: way that's going to be. You mentioned about chocolate a
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Speaker 3: minute ago. I did find it was interesting that more
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Speaker 3: and more states are identifying as Skittles as being their
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Speaker 3: favorite candy now, so that the chewy gummy candy is
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Speaker 3: becoming all the more popular, and it is the grow
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Speaker 3: the fastest growing area of candy cells. It has grown
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Speaker 3: about five percent over the last year. That's a non
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Speaker 3: chocolate candy. So we're starting to see the enemy, uh,
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Speaker 3: the non chocolate candy starting to be a little bit
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Speaker 3: more prevalent. As far as things like that goes as
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Speaker 3: far as general tips for like parents on Halloween night
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Speaker 3: and things like that, I mean, you're not gonna stop
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Speaker 3: your kids from eating candy. I mean, I mean, I
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Speaker 3: guess if that's your household, that's up to you. But
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Speaker 3: assuming that your kids are going to eat some of
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Speaker 3: that candy, it's not like you should carry around a
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Speaker 3: toothbrush and in between every house brush their teeth. There's
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Speaker 3: actually some timing you should give them and some good
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Speaker 3: practices that they could put in there.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, no, no, it's you don't have to go crazy
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Speaker 5: about it. You know, if you have the evening of
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Speaker 5: trick or treating, let the let the children get their candy,
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Speaker 5: eat it. And and then there is some validity to
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Speaker 5: actually waiting for a little bit of time after having
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Speaker 5: candy to allow your your saliva to again buffer that
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Speaker 5: that sugar in the and and and the damage is
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Speaker 5: done to the teeth, because if you go in street
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Speaker 5: after having candy and scrub the teeth, it can drive
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Speaker 5: that sugar kind of deeper in in a sense. But
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Speaker 5: but yeah, just take it easy, let them have their fun,
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Speaker 5: give them a little break, and before they go to bed,
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Speaker 5: make sure the last thing they're eating isn't candy, and
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Speaker 5: then brush their teeth.
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Speaker 3: Also alarming for Dennis and Nevada perhaps is that in
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Speaker 3: looking at the popular candy map, this map is kind
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Speaker 3: of a mess. Not to get too into the weeds here,
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Speaker 3: but it has like the up of Michigan as a
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Speaker 3: separate state for some reason. But there's no Hawaii or
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Speaker 3: Alaska in it anyway. But anyway, Starburst is the only
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Speaker 3: state where Starburst is the top candy is in Nevada,
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Speaker 3: and I just have to imagine that sounds like a
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Speaker 3: tooth nightmare.
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Speaker 5: I wonder what's the deal there, But yeah, Starburst, so
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Speaker 5: it likes to stick around. It gets in between there
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Speaker 5: for sure. But that's an interesting map. Yeah, I have
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Speaker 5: never seen the US colored in candy.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, For those of you interested, the swath of Ohio,
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Speaker 3: West Virginia, and Virginia are all eminem ardents apparently where
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Speaker 3: we're surrounded by KitKat.
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Speaker 4: The other states are all Kitcats.
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Speaker 6: I am staring at this map, and I just think
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Speaker 6: candy can bring us together as a nation.
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Speaker 3: It is true. Well, you're textan the tech Skittles. Does
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Speaker 3: that make sense to you?
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Speaker 4: Sure? Yeah, Skittles are great.
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Speaker 6: I mean not not for the teeth, but they're delicious.
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Speaker 6: I mean, we got textas in Illinois that love Skittles.
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Speaker 4: Right, so you can bridge that gap there. You know,
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Speaker 4: we have West Virginia and California. We like him and
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Speaker 4: m or eminem people know. Hey, you know, candy.
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Speaker 3: edition of Talking about your Teeth. We can talk about
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Speaker 3: any number of things this morning, but of course Halloween.
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Speaker 4: Well.
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Speaker 3: Tricker beat Us Tonight Tricker Treat in Kanall County is
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Speaker 3: Two thousand? I think one thousand each session or something
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Speaker 3: be a little chilly, but it's going to be clear.
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Speaker 3: The the week, we're going to see some rain, including
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Speaker 3: on Thursday night. Unfortunately, so uh uh I'm kind of
20:05
Speaker 3: uh my kid is going to get her full uh
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Speaker 3: full treat of of of treat, tricks to night, tricks
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Speaker 3: of treat whatever. Anyway, she's going to get full tonight
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Speaker 3: and hopefully not be so disappointed on Thursday night when
20:15
Speaker 3: maybe we don't go out so much because uh, you know,
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Speaker 3: she's seven. She just got over being sick. She doesn't
20:20
Speaker 3: need to be out in the uh in the rain, yeah,
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Speaker 3: not so much, not so much. Yeah, well yeah, and
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Speaker 3: her costume is a uh, it's really cute.
20:27
Speaker 4: It's Perry the.
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Speaker 3: Penguin from uh what cartoon is that from uh Phineas
20:32
Speaker 3: and for one of them, I can't remember anyway, but
20:34
Speaker 3: it's furry, so if it gets wet, it's going to
20:36
Speaker 3: be really bad. So it's not going to be that great.
20:38
Speaker 3: She wanted to be a K Pop demon Hunter, but
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Speaker 3: those things sold out many.
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Speaker 6: Dude, Well, so Winnie is going as roomy. My wife
20:49
Speaker 6: bought it like three months again. Yeah good good good
20:51
Speaker 6: uh good looking out there? Yeah yeah, good looking out there.
20:54
Speaker 6: We had him.
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Speaker 3: My daughter was a little bit hedging because we looked
20:58
Speaker 3: at him at first, because we we thought about it.
20:59
Speaker 3: Then she changed her mind. Then she went back and
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Speaker 3: forth and back and forth. But she she loves I
21:03
Speaker 3: think we break out into random dance parties everywhere with
21:06
Speaker 3: one of the various K PopEd even Hunter songs.
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Speaker 4: She loves it.
21:10
Speaker 3: No candy there though, so that's good and not so
21:12
Speaker 3: bad for your teeth, I guess as far as those
21:15
Speaker 3: things go. We were talking about some different things that
21:18
Speaker 3: maybe you could look into to help on this sugary
21:21
Speaker 3: candy night. Then there are some things that we talked
21:23
Speaker 3: about in the past, but of course there are some
21:26
Speaker 3: like non sugar free gums and things like that that
21:28
Speaker 3: you can maybe chew on and those can help a
21:30
Speaker 3: little bit and moving the sugar off and creating salov
21:33
Speaker 3: and things like that.
21:33
Speaker 5: And they look for things with xylotol, it's kind of
21:36
Speaker 5: hard to find. It was hot for a little while
21:40
Speaker 5: and it went away, but we in the dental field
21:42
Speaker 5: really like it. It's a good sugar substitute that actually
21:46
Speaker 5: helps combat cavities. So you find that in some gums
21:50
Speaker 5: and different toothpastes and mouth rinses, so xylotol is a
21:55
Speaker 5: is a good alternative as well. And then there and
22:00
Speaker 5: as far as stickiness goes, if we're talking about gum,
22:03
Speaker 5: the one that we've always recommended traditionally is Freedent, which
22:06
Speaker 5: is another one's kind of hard to find because it's
22:08
Speaker 5: known and it's made not to pull off pull out
22:11
Speaker 5: dental work, you know, not to not to stick so much.
22:15
Speaker 5: So that's another alternative as well.
22:17
Speaker 4: A theory that I've had. I don't know if this
22:20
Speaker 4: is true or not.
22:20
Speaker 3: You can answer this if you if like, if I'm
22:22
Speaker 3: chewing gum and I noticed that there's like a particular
22:25
Speaker 3: tooth that the gum seems to adhere to, does that
22:27
Speaker 3: mean I have enamel problems on that tooth.
22:29
Speaker 5: Well, it's not necessarily it's probably has to do with
22:32
Speaker 5: either the shape of the tooth or maybe it's some
22:33
Speaker 5: dental work that has like a filling that has a
22:37
Speaker 5: different surface texture that might might grab something a little
22:40
Speaker 5: bit more. But yeah, you can have some you have
22:41
Speaker 5: some sticky teeth.
22:42
Speaker 3: Sometimes it drives me nuts because if I have like
22:45
Speaker 3: some of the like I'll have usually I prefer like
22:47
Speaker 3: a like a mint instead of a gum, but sometimes
22:49
Speaker 3: I'll get a gum and if I chew it, there's
22:51
Speaker 3: like a particular tooth that it seems like it always
22:53
Speaker 3: gets stuck on and I have to find a way
22:54
Speaker 3: to like pull it off my tooth.
22:56
Speaker 4: Like it's just a little strand.
22:57
Speaker 5: It just everybody has a little thing now, and that's
22:59
Speaker 5: worth mentioning, especially if you don't have a regular dental care.
23:02
Speaker 5: If things like that are happening, it could be a
23:05
Speaker 5: way to warn you, hey, when you get this thing
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Speaker 5: checked out, So make sure nothing's going on there.
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Speaker 3: By the way, it looks like most of the tridents
23:12
Speaker 3: and Take five and orbits, most of those gums still
23:14
Speaker 3: has aylatol in them. So if you're looking for something
23:16
Speaker 3: like that, you can grab you some and take it
23:18
Speaker 3: with you. I thought it was interesting. I was reading
23:20
Speaker 3: a fiction book. Actually doesn't really matter what it was about,
23:24
Speaker 3: but there was a transaction between where somebody was in
23:29
Speaker 3: an accident and they got and they got hurt and
23:30
Speaker 3: a paramedic had to save them, and when they got
23:33
Speaker 3: to the hospital, the person that was in the accident
23:37
Speaker 3: was told that they were missing their tooth from the
23:39
Speaker 3: person the doctor that was checking them in and the
23:41
Speaker 3: paramedic that brought him and said, oh, I have it here,
23:43
Speaker 3: and they spit it out of their mouth.
23:44
Speaker 5: Oh.
23:45
Speaker 4: And I was thinking, oh, this.
23:46
Speaker 3: Is exactly like something that that doctor Garb would talk
23:49
Speaker 3: about this paramedic. This is seemed to me kind of
23:52
Speaker 3: authentic that this paramedic thought about something like that, that
23:54
Speaker 3: they found their tooth on the ground and popped it
23:56
Speaker 3: in his mouth to take it to the hospital to
23:58
Speaker 3: preserve it. I guess that was a little gross. I
24:01
Speaker 3: guess that's a very brave pic but also place to
24:04
Speaker 3: put But also that would be the thing that would
24:06
Speaker 3: save the tooth right right. Maybe he knew the guy
24:08
Speaker 3: it was in Australia too, so maybe it was something
24:10
Speaker 3: that you know, Australians do you know, you know, I
24:12
Speaker 3: mean they have giant spiders and things there, so maybe
24:14
Speaker 3: the a little bacteria on the tooth didn't really bother
24:16
Speaker 3: them all that much in the mouth. But I have
24:18
Speaker 3: to me, when I was reading that, I felt a
24:20
Speaker 3: sense of authenticity from that moment because I was like,
24:23
Speaker 3: you know what, that seems like something that actually seems
24:25
Speaker 3: like I mean, I know that it's true, so it
24:27
Speaker 3: seems like, you know, it kind of built the character
24:29
Speaker 3: for that map.
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Speaker 5: I appreciated it very very fascinating. But yeah, to review
24:33
Speaker 5: trauma tooth trauma. If a tooth comes out, your own
24:36
Speaker 5: tooth comes out, and you need to get to the dentist,
24:38
Speaker 5: put it right back into your mouth. You just don't
24:39
Speaker 5: swallow it and or you know, if you have a
24:42
Speaker 5: family member that that happens to, you know that could happen.
24:45
Speaker 5: That's that's better than putting it into milk or water.
24:48
Speaker 5: But those are those are options. Well, you want to
24:50
Speaker 5: keep the tooth moist and then try and get it back.
24:52
Speaker 3: In drinking water on Candy Night's not a bad idea either, right.
24:55
Speaker 3: It helps lube up the teeth and maybe knock some
24:58
Speaker 3: of the stuff off.
24:59
Speaker 5: Yeah, so water, Uh definitely helps clean things off. The
25:02
Speaker 5: other thing, talking about gum, a lot of people think, oh,
25:05
Speaker 5: you know, they come in, Oh, sorry, I was chewing gum.
25:07
Speaker 5: I shouldn't be chewing gum. That's not necessarily true. If
25:10
Speaker 5: you have tmd tm J jaw muscle joint problems, it
25:18
Speaker 5: can be harder on your joints, of your of your
25:21
Speaker 5: jaws to be chewing gum. That repetitive use. But what
25:26
Speaker 5: does gum do to the oral environment? Any any losses?
25:32
Speaker 5: What does it make you do?
25:34
Speaker 4: Salivate? Salavate?
25:35
Speaker 5: Ok, hey makes you get more saliva, more saliva, which
25:39
Speaker 5: is your natural defense against cavities. So if you're that's
25:43
Speaker 5: a that's another benefit of a sugar free gum. If
25:45
Speaker 5: you get a sugar free gum chewing it, it's gonna
25:47
Speaker 5: create more SALIVEA it's going to combat those sugars and
25:49
Speaker 5: en counteract them as well. So, uh, you know, use
25:52
Speaker 5: gum responsibly. But I'm a fan.
25:54
Speaker 3: Yeah, that seems like that seems like it makes sense.
25:56
Speaker 3: And uh, it's always weird to me when things like like,
26:00
Speaker 3: I think gum is a pretty good strategy, right, but
26:02
Speaker 3: not all gum or is good. Gum obviously there's like
26:04
Speaker 3: bubble gums, is there even an I guess it still exists, right,
26:07
Speaker 3: It seems like almost it seems like almost all the
26:09
Speaker 3: gums are these gums. But I guess there's still the
26:10
Speaker 3: sugary gums out there.
26:11
Speaker 5: Thankfully, the sugar freeze have really taken off and gotten
26:14
Speaker 5: a lot better than they used to be, so they're
26:17
Speaker 5: they're much more prevalent popular, But there's plenty of sugar.
26:20
Speaker 3: I can imagine that that a low key problem for
26:22
Speaker 3: dental hygiene for years was like juicy fruit or something,
26:25
Speaker 3: you know, like in that just straight sugar gums, right,
26:27
Speaker 3: juicy fruit? Yeah right, yeah, right, yeah for sure, And
26:32
Speaker 3: I guess I guess they are still around that it's uh,
26:35
Speaker 3: but you can you can it is you can explore
26:39
Speaker 3: different options with with candies and different things like that too.
26:42
Speaker 3: There are things out there that you can not only
26:44
Speaker 3: sugar free things, but you can. I think even dark
26:46
Speaker 3: chocolates I think are a little better than what the
26:49
Speaker 3: uh the different shark. But the but the bottom line
26:51
Speaker 3: is is you want to be responsible with any of
26:52
Speaker 3: this stuff, and you want to You don't have to
26:54
Speaker 3: brush your teeth right away, but you do want to
26:56
Speaker 3: make sure that you brush your teeth. Don't go to
26:57
Speaker 3: bed with a with a mouthful of sugar, does alving
27:00
Speaker 3: in your mouth, because that seems like that it would
27:01
Speaker 3: be very bad.
27:03
Speaker 5: The other tip for parents, you know, it's all about
27:05
Speaker 5: you know, how do I get these kids to brush
27:07
Speaker 5: their teeth and to take care of them?
27:09
Speaker 3: Well.
27:09
Speaker 5: The other thing a lot of parents overlook are the
27:11
Speaker 5: floor eyed rinses like act has been the classic one
27:15
Speaker 5: for years that has fluoride in it. That's topical. You
27:18
Speaker 5: nse it, spit it out, but it coats the teeth
27:20
Speaker 5: and it helps counteract that cavity activity. So around Halloween
27:26
Speaker 5: time it's not a bad idea to pick up some
27:27
Speaker 5: of these floor eyde rinses and after the children have
27:31
Speaker 5: engorged themselves with candy, let them brush their teeth and
27:34
Speaker 5: then top it off with the floor eyed rents. That'd
27:36
Speaker 5: be really nice too.
27:37
Speaker 3: For whatever reason, my daughter really picked up one some rinses.
27:42
Speaker 3: That's one thing that she uses all the time. Now
27:44
Speaker 3: sometimes I swish, I know she does a great job.
27:48
Speaker 3: She can swish, she can gargle, she could do the
27:49
Speaker 3: whole thing. In fact, I try to tell it, Okay,
27:50
Speaker 3: you don't need to goggle with this stuff. Let's just
27:52
Speaker 3: get it out of your mouth. You don't have to.
27:54
Speaker 3: I don't want you to swallow it, but she could do. Yeah,
27:56
Speaker 3: it's idly. She likes to create the bubbles and it's
27:58
Speaker 3: all good. But she does a very good job with it.
28:00
Speaker 3: And that's really and I think it has helped her
28:01
Speaker 3: tooth health quite a bit because I think it makes
28:05
Speaker 3: her paid more attention. I think when she's brushing her
28:07
Speaker 3: teeth because she's anticipating that coming next.
28:09
Speaker 4: And then we do.
28:11
Speaker 3: A thing where we tom ourselves with the with the
28:14
Speaker 3: mouth rents, so she might she always wants to make
28:16
Speaker 3: sure she gets it right in the recommended amount of time,
28:18
Speaker 3: so we always have to set a time or and
28:19
Speaker 3: do it right in the recommended amount of time.
28:21
Speaker 4: But it works out and it's helped her. Yeah. The other.
28:25
Speaker 5: Product that would work pretty similarly and or well would
28:29
Speaker 5: be the rinses that help detect plaque. So there are
28:34
Speaker 5: some that actually when you can rinse the mouth stain
28:37
Speaker 5: where you've missed brushing, and for children, it is fascinating
28:41
Speaker 5: to see after they've brushed their teeth. Okay, rinse with
28:43
Speaker 5: this stuff. Let's see what's left. It does looks like
28:46
Speaker 5: they haven't touched their teeth. Yeah sometimes but but yeah,
28:49
Speaker 5: so that's another adjunct you can use around this time
28:53
Speaker 5: of year, especially to help your children identify where the
28:57
Speaker 5: sugars are in their mouth and then once once they
29:00
Speaker 5: see them, they can easily brush it off and uh
29:03
Speaker 5: and it helps out a lot.
29:04
Speaker 3: I think back in the late seventies when I when
29:06
Speaker 3: I did this, they sent it home with me in
29:08
Speaker 3: like a dental kit, and it was like a little
29:11
Speaker 3: it wasn't paced. It was like a little purple pill
29:13
Speaker 3: that you you popped into the into like a little
29:15
Speaker 3: bit of water almost like alca sels or something, and
29:17
Speaker 3: then you like drank it or switched it. I can't
29:19
Speaker 3: remember what you did, but yeah, like your mouth was
29:21
Speaker 3: just like just turned purple. It was like, here's all
29:23
Speaker 3: the all the junkie your mouth. Yeah, it's crazy, it's
29:27
Speaker 3: all startling. Disclosing tablets we have them. You can pop
29:31
Speaker 3: them in, chew them up and it stains.
29:32
Speaker 4: That's what, okay, right, and rinse it out.
29:34
Speaker 5: And in dental school, in order to pass the class,
29:38
Speaker 5: every student had to pass that score with a ninety
29:41
Speaker 5: nine percent or more of plaque removal. Wow, and it
29:45
Speaker 5: was a hard thing to do. I could imagine it
29:46
Speaker 5: really is. So we'd use those disclosing tablets. You're like,
29:49
Speaker 5: are you kidding me? I still have this stuff? And
29:51
Speaker 5: then you're getting your floss in there and get the
29:53
Speaker 5: right type of floss to really scrub it off. So
29:55
Speaker 5: so yeah, it's uh, it's enlightening when you use this.
29:58
Speaker 4: Can the observant parent, I'm sorry, Putrick Carson.
30:01
Speaker 6: No, no, I'm saying that is fascinating that in dental school
30:04
Speaker 6: that's a requirement and even as an expert, it's still
30:08
Speaker 6: difficult sometimes. And so if you're out there having trouble,
30:12
Speaker 6: we also have trouble.
30:13
Speaker 4: Yeah that makes sense, right, Yeah, that makes sense.
30:15
Speaker 6: Proper brushing is not I mean, it's it's something that
30:18
Speaker 6: you have to work at.
30:19
Speaker 3: Yeah, and and yeah, I mean there's a method to
30:23
Speaker 3: get I mean my kid when she first started brushing,
30:25
Speaker 3: she would stick the thing in her mouth and half
30:26
Speaker 3: the time that the brush head would be turned around
30:28
Speaker 3: the other way, you know, right, So I mean it
30:30
Speaker 3: takes a little time to to to kind of put
30:32
Speaker 3: those things together. I was thinking, can can observant parents
30:35
Speaker 3: use a candy holiday to maybe like diagnose problems with
30:40
Speaker 3: her kids. Like if your kid complains about like or
30:43
Speaker 3: if or even as an adult you're complaining about a
30:46
Speaker 3: twinge and a tooth or something like that after eating candy.
30:48
Speaker 3: I mean that could give you are an idea that
30:52
Speaker 3: you have a cavity or something already in development.
30:54
Speaker 5: Right, exactly right. That is a great point, because when
30:58
Speaker 5: you have a tooth that's per sensitive to sugar, that's
31:02
Speaker 5: that's a warning sign, you know, that's an indication that
31:05
Speaker 5: something's wrong with that tooth. When patients come in and
31:07
Speaker 5: they say, you know, yeah, I want to eat sweets,
31:09
Speaker 5: this tooth is bothering me. I'm almost for sure there's
31:12
Speaker 5: a cavity in it, right, if it's if, maybe it
31:14
Speaker 5: needs a root can out at that point. So yes, absolutely,
31:16
Speaker 5: if you're noticing sensitivity, you should you should should bring
31:19
Speaker 5: that up with your dentist.
31:20
Speaker 3: And I imagine that that we might be summoning across
31:23
Speaker 3: a lot of those over the next couple of days.
31:25
Speaker 4: But don't ignore it.
31:26
Speaker 3: If you have that problem, make sure to get it
31:27
Speaker 3: taken care of, because it's better to do it sooner
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Speaker 3: rather than later.
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Speaker 6: That is true, And I don't want to steal the
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Speaker 6: show here, but I do want to pivot before we
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Speaker 6: are done here because we talked about my award earlier
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Speaker 6: in the show. But I also want to point out
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Speaker 6: that the gazet Mail has a survey that goes out
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Speaker 6: every year, right about the best dry cleaner, is the
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Speaker 6: best restaurant, YadA YadA. Well, they also have a category
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Speaker 6: called the best Cosmetic Dentist in the Valley. Oh and
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Speaker 6: I don't know if you know this, Dale, but we
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Speaker 6: are in the presence of said best cosmetic dentist in
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Speaker 6: the Valley, doctor Stephen Greeb here, So I don't I
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Speaker 6: want doctor Stephen to say a little bit about how
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Speaker 6: what he does to make sure that he is at
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Speaker 6: the top of his game, to make sure he is
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Speaker 6: the best quote unquote uh cosmetic dentist in the valley.
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Speaker 5: Thank you, Thank you, doctor Henley. It's worth mentioning Gharib
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Speaker 5: Dental Group one for the best dentist in as we
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Speaker 5: were able to pick that up. So it's great that
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Speaker 5: that the that the public is recognizing that. So we
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Speaker 5: enjoy that, uh and really appreciate the votes that people
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Speaker 5: put in for them. But with cosmetic dentistry in particular,
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Speaker 5: it's it's is a and it's not necessarily a specialty
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Speaker 5: in dentistry. So it is something that most any dentists
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Speaker 5: can claim that they are a cosmetic dentist, but then
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Speaker 5: you have to really prove it as far as to
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Speaker 5: your patients and to yourself and and in order to
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Speaker 5: keep at the top of my game, Doctor Henley was
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Speaker 5: inducted into into an academy. But I'm a member, and
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Speaker 5: many of us are members of the Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry,
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Speaker 5: And there's a track there where you're pursuing accreditation and
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Speaker 5: you're presenting cases and being judged upon those and it
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Speaker 5: ensures that you're at the top of your game. And
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Speaker 5: and it's it's a tough thing to do and something
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Speaker 5: I've I've been pursuing for for many years and participating in.
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Speaker 5: So it's there are classes that I go to UH
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Speaker 5: yearly and UH and regularly to to hone those skills
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Speaker 5: and to learn about new techniques and provide the best
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Speaker 5: cosmetic outcomes for our patients. And it's not just pretty
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Speaker 5: fillings and veneers. It comes down to even doing a
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Speaker 5: a tooth in the back of your mouth, making it
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Speaker 5: look as natural as we possibly can and and proud
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Speaker 5: to proud to have that recognition for sure.
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Speaker 3: So when you talk about cosmetic dnistry, you mentioned of
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Speaker 3: veneers and things like that. What eld is that encompass?
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Speaker 3: What is it considered cosmetic ministry?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, so that's cosmetic dentistry classically. People think of anything
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Speaker 5: that you do to your smile to make it look
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Speaker 5: better of what people can see basically, and many people
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Speaker 5: think that means your front tooth, but in many of
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Speaker 5: much of the training that we go through, it shows
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Speaker 5: that it encompasses many more than just the front couple
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Speaker 5: of teeth. I call the front six teeth from canine
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Speaker 5: to canine your smiling teeth. We call that the esthetic zone,
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Speaker 5: and then really we expand that to the two teeth
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Speaker 5: behind it, because when you smile, it's not just those
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Speaker 5: front six teeth that show from the side. You're seeing
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Speaker 5: those teeth on the side as well, So we want
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Speaker 5: to round out the smile. There's an entire mentality and
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Speaker 5: technique called smile design where we are really designing the
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Speaker 5: position of all of those teeth in the smile, taking
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Speaker 5: photos to be able to see the light reflection of
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Speaker 5: those So any any aspect of dentistry can be wrapped
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Speaker 5: into cosmetic dentistry. In fact, with the accreditation that I'm pursuing,
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Speaker 5: one case, we had to replace a tooth in the
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Speaker 5: front of the mouth, which had to be one of
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Speaker 5: the front six teeth, one of your smiling teeth, and
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Speaker 5: to make it look as natural as possible, to make
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Speaker 5: it seem that no one could notice that anyone was
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Speaker 5: that that person was missing a tooth. You could use
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Speaker 5: a dental implant for that, you could use a dental
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Speaker 5: bridge for that. So there are many ways to do it.
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Speaker 5: But the cosmetic dentistry really is almost more of a
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Speaker 5: mindset of your entire scope of practice.
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Speaker 3: That's a very insightful answer, and I think it clarifies
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Speaker 3: a lot of things because, like you said, a lot
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Speaker 3: of things could be or most things could be cosmetic.
35:36
Speaker 3: I mean, if you need a root canal, you can
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Speaker 3: just get a root canal done and there may not
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Speaker 3: be anything else that the patient needs to have done.
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Speaker 3: But if it's depending on where it is and the
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Speaker 3: type of replacement you're having and things like that, you
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Speaker 3: may need to make sure that that's cosmetically pleasing to
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Speaker 3: the person.
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Speaker 5: Absolutely, Yeah, you can have a root canal done on
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Speaker 5: one of your front teeth, right, just the root canal
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Speaker 5: and a little filling there. But then that tooth starts
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Speaker 5: turning dark and suddenly we've got some cosmetic concerns.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that makes it.
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Speaker 3: That makes it, And so that's hugely important for folks,
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Speaker 3: especially when it comes to quality of life and being
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Speaker 3: happy with themselves and things along those lines.
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Speaker 4: I mean, that's hugely important.
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Speaker 5: And the big difference is when you see when you
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Speaker 5: have a patient or a friend of yours that comes
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Speaker 5: in and you can tell a Wow, something's been done,
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Speaker 5: you know, to their teeth. They're they're whiter, but maybe
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Speaker 5: they're too white, maybe they're too big, too broad, you know,
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Speaker 5: and then the teeth kind of entered before the room,
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Speaker 5: in the room before the patient does. That's not what
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Speaker 5: we're trying to avoid.
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Speaker 8: We do.
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Speaker 5: That's not considered cosmetic dmistry. That's that's maybe cosmetic dynistry
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Speaker 5: not done so well.
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Speaker 3: That's great stuff. As ausher, Doctor Stephen, thank you so
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Speaker 3: much for your time appreciated this week. Yes, sir, thank you,
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Speaker 3: doctor doctor Carson you as well, thank you so much.
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