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02/24/2026 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 1: necessarily reflect the views and opinions of five ADWCHS it's
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  Speaker 1: employees or WVRC Media.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Thanks for tuning in to ask the expert
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  Speaker 2: WCCHS the Voice of Charles an expert's talking a little
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  Speaker 2: bit too much often. Well I'm not an expert. Well
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  Speaker 2: maybe in radio, but talking a little bit too much
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  Speaker 2: off the air this morning, welcome in the too into
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  Speaker 2: the insanity. This is as the expert on five ADWCCHS
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  Speaker 2: the Voice of Charleston for the first time this year.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's twenty twenty six. I haven't seen him
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  Speaker 2: since last year. GREEB Dental Group is in office with
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  Speaker 2: me this morning, doctor A. Carson Henley from the Knas
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  Speaker 2: City location that's in studio, as well as the doctor
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  Speaker 2: Stephen Greeb from the South Charleston location of GREEB Dental
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  Speaker 2: Group online Greebdentalgroup dot Com g H A R E
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  Speaker 2: E B. Greed Dentalgroup dot Com. Will get more information
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  Speaker 2: as the show goes on today, but first I have
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  Speaker 2: to ask how you guys are doing. Haven't seen you
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  Speaker 2: a little while? Everything going all right? Yeah, doing well.
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  Speaker 3: It's navigating the snow and ice like everybody else and
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  Speaker 3: enjoying enjoying winter. I think the best that we can.
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  Speaker 3: We've my family likes the this no sports type of
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  Speaker 3: things all great and snowboarding, so that's that's been really
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  Speaker 3: fun for us. And navigating illnesses and you know, work
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  Speaker 3: and road conditions. So yeah, that's pretty far for the course,
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  Speaker 3: I think. But doing all right.
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  Speaker 2: I feel really bad for my kid because neither my
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  Speaker 2: wife nor I are very good on the uh or
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  Speaker 2: the skis or the ice skates and things along those lines.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm too old to learn. I'm not even gonna
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  Speaker 2: try at this point. That's fair, that's fair. But but
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  Speaker 2: my daughter is very interested in it. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: she's like, I want to go ice skating. It's like, well, honey,
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  Speaker 2: we'll take you ice skating. Uh, I can't teach you.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be glad to to take you ice skating, but
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  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna be able to teach you how to
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  Speaker 2: do it. But uh, yeah, that's that's a good way
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  Speaker 2: to be able to to Uh you didn't have to
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  Speaker 2: ski to work any morning pretty close through.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, we started it was a thing about four
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  Speaker 3: years ago. We were up at Snowshoe for Thanksgiving and
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  Speaker 3: my wife Shane's parents had invited us up there and
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  Speaker 3: it was an early snow and I skied a lot
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  Speaker 3: growing up. SHANEA did a little bit too, and and
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  Speaker 3: I was always interested interested in it, but it was
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  Speaker 3: an early snow. So we said, you know, boys, you
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  Speaker 3: want to try something snowboarding skiing, Like, yeah, let's do it.
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  Speaker 3: And so we put them into a lesson and I
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  Speaker 3: thought I was going to be picking them up at
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  Speaker 3: lunch like, because it was an all day thing. And
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  Speaker 3: I was like, these instructors are gonna call me like
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  Speaker 3: come and get these kids. They're they're going crazy and uh.
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  Speaker 3: But by the end of the day we went picked
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  Speaker 3: on like we want to do it again tomorrow. So
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  Speaker 3: then and then kudos to my wife. She was like,
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  Speaker 3: I got to get better at this, and she got
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  Speaker 3: a private instructor, so it is not too late, as
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  Speaker 3: you're saying, and that really hound your skills. And got
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  Speaker 3: the kids and some and some lessons and now we're
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  Speaker 3: all doing it.
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  Speaker 2: So it's fun. That's great. That that's good. That's good
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  Speaker 2: that uh, I'll get I'll get see to it at
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  Speaker 2: some point in time. She she really seems a desirous
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  Speaker 2: so I can probably find some way to take care
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  Speaker 2: of that.
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  Speaker 4: So my experience is a little different ways the skiing
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  Speaker 4: because we're on the skiing subject. Apparently, Well you're from
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  Speaker 4: Texas too, right, from Texas, right, I'm a Texan. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: so we don't ski in Texas. Hey, in New Mexico
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  Speaker 4: you go to Colorado, right, Obviously you.
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  Speaker 2: Have to travel.
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  Speaker 4: But here in what West Virginia, it's only three hours away, right,
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  Speaker 4: which is really cool. So I actually learned to snowboard
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  Speaker 4: in college and I love it. But when I had
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  Speaker 4: kids and my kids started to learn, maybe a year ago,
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  Speaker 4: we took them skiing, and I said, I have to
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  Speaker 4: learn how to ski. Well, I took a lesson, and
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  Speaker 4: I'm not that great at skiing. I thought I was
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  Speaker 4: going to break both knees at once, just like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: how did people do this? Like you have to like
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  Speaker 4: coordinate effectively with a snowboard. You just kind of lean
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  Speaker 4: to me. It's easy, I don't know, but skiing is difficult.
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  Speaker 4: And so my kids only saw me ski and they
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  Speaker 4: were like, he doesn't know what he's doing. But we're going.
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  Speaker 4: We're actually going skiing this weekend, and I told the kids,
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  Speaker 4: I'm snowboarding to show you all up this time. And
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  Speaker 4: they're like, oh no, Dad, Dad's gonna like, oh, I
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  Speaker 4: can't wait. You know, like, exactly, what's that one Disney
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  Speaker 4: Channel original movie Johnny's Tsunami, Right, he got forced to ski,
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  Speaker 4: but he's like a snow he's a surfer, but he
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  Speaker 4: became a snowboarder. I'm like trying to show up my kids,
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  Speaker 4: you know. So I'm excited about that. That's sort of
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  Speaker 4: like happy Gilmore or something. Yeah, good stuff. That sounds
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  Speaker 4: like a good time. Last thing about that. I saw
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  Speaker 4: this great video the other day. I had nothing to
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  Speaker 4: do with the Olympics, but a guy was at a
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  Speaker 4: on a ski hill and he was just, I think,
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  Speaker 4: was just walking along. I don't know, he's trying to
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  Speaker 4: get from one side of the other, but he was
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  Speaker 4: walking along the pitch where it goes down and he
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  Speaker 4: lost his footing and then just fell down the hill
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  Speaker 4: and ended up going down this huge slope like just
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  Speaker 4: on his butt.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, and eventually he just had a good time
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  Speaker 2: with you. So he had his thumbs up and was
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  Speaker 2: just like kicking and he's like, well, what am I
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  Speaker 2: gonna do? Just gonna slide at this one? It was
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  Speaker 2: a long way.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, you can't do anything about it.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes I guess that would be the way I would
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  Speaker 2: get down the hill anymore. I would just My problem
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  Speaker 2: is the height, actually, but we won't get into that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't like I don't like the ski lift very well,
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  Speaker 2: give us all this morning. If you've maybe fallen out
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  Speaker 2: of a ski lift and busted a tooth or something
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  Speaker 2: or anything along those lines, you give us a call
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  Speaker 2: this morning. Three zero four three four five fifty eight
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  Speaker 2: fifty eight three or four three four five fifty eight?
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  Speaker 2: What's did you see our posts on Facebook? That was? No?
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  Speaker 2: What was it?
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  Speaker 5: You?
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  Speaker 2: Actually?
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  Speaker 3: I got to give actually my physical therapist credit. He
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  Speaker 3: sent me a picture. Is Jack Hughes, right, he's the
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  Speaker 3: player out yeah, and he sent me this picture. He's like,
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  Speaker 3: this is some good marketing material for you guys. It's like,
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  Speaker 3: you're right, So we put it up on Facebook. Said,
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  Speaker 3: you know, congratulations for the gold medal. But you noticed
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  Speaker 3: his broken tooth first, right, Like when you see him,
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  Speaker 3: that's all you see?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 3: It come come to us, we can fix it.
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  Speaker 2: Was it was fun? You should have offered to take
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  Speaker 2: care of for it. Offer stands man. Yeah, right, that's
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  Speaker 2: uh hee. Then that ties in nicely to what we were
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  Speaker 2: talking about cold weather and teeth and ice, and hey,
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  Speaker 2: it works out pretty well. You give us a call
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  Speaker 2: this WRN if you have questions. Good discussion we're going
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  Speaker 2: to have this morning. We're going to talk a little
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  Speaker 2: bit about about choosing your dentists, getting to the dentist
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  Speaker 2: red flags at a dental office. And that's a really
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  Speaker 2: good point because just a couple of weeks ago, and
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  Speaker 2: I was thinking about our conversations we have all the time.
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  Speaker 2: Actually is last weekend, I was listening to a podcast.
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  Speaker 2: I listened to a Bunch of a Lot, which has
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of sciencey types on it and things like that,
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  Speaker 2: and they were just talking and one of the one
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  Speaker 2: of the cast members, one of the hosts of the show,
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  Speaker 2: was talking about how she had never had a root
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  Speaker 2: canal and so she was going for her for and
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  Speaker 2: she was like, and this is somebody that's like like
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  Speaker 2: like a scientist, you know, they're they're like they're a
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  Speaker 2: practicing researcher and things like that. Scared of the dentist,
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  Speaker 2: like like was asking for advice, like what do I expect?
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  Speaker 2: Should I be scared of that one? And I'm thinking
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  Speaker 2: to us, so I was like, man, this is something
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  Speaker 2: that we should have a conversation about, you know. And
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  Speaker 2: and but we've been there. The interesting thing that she
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  Speaker 2: was talking about is she did kind of like what
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  Speaker 2: we're what the information you guys sent me this one.
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  Speaker 2: She actually shopped around a little bit for somebody that
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  Speaker 2: she felt comfortable with before she went ahead for her procedure,
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  Speaker 2: and she like sort of relayed that is this is
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  Speaker 2: how you have to advocate for yourself and health, and
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  Speaker 2: like this and the reason we have to do And
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  Speaker 2: she had a couple of things that was weird about
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  Speaker 2: some kind of the pockets in her teeth or something
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  Speaker 2: that she was concerned about and wanted somebody that she
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  Speaker 2: trusted with it. But regardless, I felt that it was
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  Speaker 2: funny when I got this morning because it's really similar
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  Speaker 2: to that situation because when you're going to go it's
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  Speaker 2: and I think it's interesting the way that you put
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  Speaker 2: it in here. You're not going like to a car dealership.
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  Speaker 2: You're not looking for the newest and the best necessarily
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  Speaker 2: unless less what you want. You want that relationship. You
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  Speaker 2: want to be able to talk to your doctor.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it all comes down to comfort. I tell patients
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  Speaker 3: new patients this all the time, whether it's in our
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  Speaker 3: office or somebody else's, we want you to find a
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  Speaker 3: dental home. We call it a place where you go
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  Speaker 3: for your regular dental treatment where you're comfortable, you know.
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  Speaker 3: And that's whether it's in our office or somewhere else,
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  Speaker 3: that's fine, But we want patients to have that relationship
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  Speaker 3: with their provider.
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  Speaker 2: I noticed and for example, in somebody the information that
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  Speaker 2: you sent me, you know, like a place that starts
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  Speaker 2: offering you advanced not un necessarily cosmetic, but things like
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  Speaker 2: veneers and things along those lines, before even addressing like
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  Speaker 2: the root problems that might be going on in your mouth.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, what's the point of getting veneers or making
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  Speaker 2: that sort of investment if you have other problems that
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  Speaker 2: are already going on in your mouth and you're sort
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  Speaker 2: of sort of skipping the line a little bit on
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  Speaker 2: these things, and you want to make sure that you
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  Speaker 2: take your and I've been to your office enough to
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  Speaker 2: know you have to start sort of at the beginning.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you have to build up your mouth health first.
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  Speaker 3: And that's where we're trained. Even back from dental school,
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  Speaker 3: as you start with what we call disease control, you
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  Speaker 3: come in and say, here are the big problems we've
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  Speaker 3: got to address before we can move on to anything
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  Speaker 3: cosmetic or elective and get your mouth in a healthy state,
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  Speaker 3: and then we can build upon that if you so
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  Speaker 3: desire so. Yes, it's you can't get the cart before
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  Speaker 3: the horse in that situation.
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  Speaker 4: And how often do patients walk in saying I just
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  Speaker 4: want my teeth cleaned and I want them wider, and
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  Speaker 4: you go, well, let's talk about that cleaning, right, because
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  Speaker 4: you have rampant disease when it comes to the amount
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  Speaker 4: of inflammation in your gums, et cetera, et cetera. We
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  Speaker 4: will talk about whitening. But right now, let's not talk
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  Speaker 4: about whitening.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 4: We can talk about veneers, but not yet. There's so
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  Speaker 4: much that we have to do before we get to
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  Speaker 4: that point. Or even if someone just goes, I just
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  Speaker 4: want wider teeth, you're like, wait, wait, you didn't even
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  Speaker 4: mention the cleaning part, right, So we do have to
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  Speaker 4: educate our patients. They come in not always understanding fully
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  Speaker 4: what should happen that they just have it in there,
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  Speaker 4: they saw TikTok, and so they just want something that
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  Speaker 4: that a TikTok to a TikTok doctor told them, right.
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  Speaker 2: So I know that that's something that you guys are
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  Speaker 2: are tackling all the time now as like influencer, and
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  Speaker 2: we've that's not the discussion today, but I know that
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  Speaker 2: that has to be something that that over time has
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  Speaker 2: become an issue because I've gotten off of most of
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  Speaker 2: that stuff now because the information was just too idiotic.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, honestly, I can't I can't walk crazy. I've
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  Speaker 2: got to tell this story. This is it was very
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  Speaker 2: cogent to our time. It was very interesting. I had
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  Speaker 2: this patient that came in and he and I had
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  Speaker 2: gone through a discussion about this item I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: talk about, thankfully, about two months ago. So he came
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  Speaker 2: in it was just yesterday and he was showing me
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  Speaker 2: this video. He's like, check out this, uh, this TikTok
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  Speaker 2: or this is a little real or whatever. And it
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  Speaker 2: was this guy saying dentistry is a big scam. And
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  Speaker 2: he started talking about doctor shopping going around and one
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  Speaker 2: dentist told him he had three cavities, another one told
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  Speaker 2: him he had six cavities.
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  Speaker 3: Another one told him he had no cavities. And he's like,
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  Speaker 3: these guys must be out to scam people if they
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  Speaker 3: come in trying to tell you too many, too many
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  Speaker 3: cavities that you have too many that you don't have.
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  Speaker 3: And so the back to this patient, his son had
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  Speaker 3: had that experience elsewhere. He went to one dentist and
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  Speaker 3: one told him one thing and another told him another.
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  Speaker 3: And I explained to him, like, you know, this is
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  Speaker 3: like a treatment decision on the provider to interpret if
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  Speaker 3: this cavity is fillable at this point. Everybody has a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of a different opinion on that, And that's
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  Speaker 3: the challenge with him, is that sometimes cavities can can
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  Speaker 3: sit there without causing any symptoms, without causing any pain,
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  Speaker 3: for a period of time until suddenly it starts hurting.
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  Speaker 3: Once it starts hurting, then we're talking about potentially a
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  Speaker 3: roote now in many many cases. So we want to
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  Speaker 3: get it on the front end of that ourselves, but
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  Speaker 3: there are others that choose to wait a bit longer
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  Speaker 3: for that, And it's it's just kind of your flavor
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  Speaker 3: of your practice and the training that you've had and
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  Speaker 3: the experience that you've had. So Unfortunately, when you're going
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  Speaker 3: as a new patient, a cavity isn't a cavity isn't
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  Speaker 3: a cavity to every provider, very explicitly.
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  Speaker 2: So there's a spectrum based on your personal interpretation and expertise.
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  Speaker 2: There's a spectrum of what could be to that office
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  Speaker 2: considered a cavity.
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  Speaker 3: Right, And so it's as if you're going to the
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  Speaker 3: doctor and they say, okay, you're you know, you're LDL
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  Speaker 3: levels and HDL. You know, blood blood works are a
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  Speaker 3: little bit higher than I want. Let's go ahead and
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  Speaker 3: get you on a medication. Other doctors will say it's
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  Speaker 3: a little bit higher than supposed to be. I don't
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  Speaker 3: think we need to do that medication quite yet, you know.
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  Speaker 3: So it's it's very similar to it's a medical field,
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  Speaker 3: you know, so they're not every patient is exactly the same,
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  Speaker 3: but it was it was kind of ironic and re
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  Speaker 3: ward warding for that patient to be like, check this out.
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  Speaker 3: This is exactly what we talked about. Now understand it.
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  Speaker 3: And had he seen that a month prior, he would
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  Speaker 3: have been colored definitely to say then to sir, scams scammers,
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  Speaker 3: you know, So that that was an interesting social media
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  Speaker 3: experience too.
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  Speaker 2: That that really is and and man, I really have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of I guess it's respect and concern just
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  Speaker 2: for the medical field in general, because I see all
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  Speaker 2: the crazy stuff that's out there and how people and
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  Speaker 2: how unfortunately you don't even have to be educated in
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  Speaker 2: the field that you're discussing everything else. You just have
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  Speaker 2: to have people that believe you for whatever reason and
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  Speaker 2: then suddenly you yeah and yeah, and.
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  Speaker 3: The thing that's what we're talking about be where you're comfortable,
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  Speaker 3: be where you find someone trustworthy and that you feel confident.
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  Speaker 2: So my personal suggestion would be to go to somebody
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  Speaker 2: who's actually a doctor first, so that that would be
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  Speaker 2: that would be my that would be my starting That was.
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  Speaker 3: Someone arrested for not being one long ago, just in
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  Speaker 3: the Carolinas or something.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And I've seen people that use like the the
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  Speaker 2: social media, you know, teeth tips and things along those lines,
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  Speaker 2: that that's basically their their their dental hygiene. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they'll they'll just find the near uh the next video
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  Speaker 2: and be like, Oh, I can get my at home
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  Speaker 2: cleaning kit, and I can get all these chemicals and
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  Speaker 2: I can do all this. This's like just go to
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  Speaker 2: the dentist. Man, I don't know why you want to
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  Speaker 2: go through all that. Who wants to spend all day
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  Speaker 2: with their own hands and their own mouth, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know. That's uh, that stuff is crazy,
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  Speaker 2: But it is a good point, and it's very good
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  Speaker 2: that your patient actually asked you that question first, and
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  Speaker 2: that's and having that relationship with trust. That's a great
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  Speaker 2: way to start with because you could be like, hey, doc,
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  Speaker 2: I ran across this thing the other day and it
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  Speaker 2: sort of fits my profile, and I'm wondering, is this
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  Speaker 2: something that we should be concerned about. If you have
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  Speaker 2: that trust with your doctor, you can have that conversation.
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  Speaker 2: There's not really much mystery to dispel. You can just
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  Speaker 2: have the conversation and be like, look, this may have
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  Speaker 2: worked for this one instance, or hey, this is actually
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  Speaker 2: legitimate but not in your case, or whatever it might be.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, Yeah, I have that kind of have
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  Speaker 3: those discussions, and that's what we We love, sitting and
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  Speaker 3: talking with our patients to make sure everybody's on the
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  Speaker 3: same page and comfortable treatment.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. There's a lot of health misinformation out there these days, though,
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  Speaker 2: so please check with your physician first.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that brings us to another quote unquote
• 14:03
  Speaker 4: red flag. I think if the doctor comes in and
• 14:05
  Speaker 4: spends a minute with you, and then the person trying
• 14:08
  Speaker 4: to sell the treatment comes in and spends fifteen minutes
• 14:11
  Speaker 4: with you, I think there's maybe a difference there, right,
• 14:14
  Speaker 4: And so I think I pride myself. Doctor Stephen definitely
• 14:17
  Speaker 4: prides himself because I spent many years watching him do this,
• 14:20
  Speaker 4: explain treatment and make sure the patients understand the process,
• 14:25
  Speaker 4: and not just the process, but why they're there, so
• 14:27
  Speaker 4: we can prevent it from getting worse, so that we
• 14:29
  Speaker 4: can change the trajectory of someone's oral health and make
• 14:32
  Speaker 4: them just a healthier person in general. So we pride
• 14:35
  Speaker 4: ourselves that we ust doctors. We spend sometimes too much
• 14:38
  Speaker 4: time because our assistants are like, doctor, hurry up, come
• 14:41
  Speaker 4: on now.
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: Well, well I will and interject my own personal experience
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: here because one of the things when I look for
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: doctors and that I want a relationship with I want
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: somebody who gives me too much information. I want to
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: be bored with all the details. I like it, you know,
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: I like I like I like when people tell me
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: things and they explain how it works. You're very good
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: at that. And what I really like about coming to
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: your office, Doctor Stephen, is exactly what doctor Carson was
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: just talking about. You explain if there's options, whether all
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: of those options are in detail, what it means, timing,
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: and things like that, and I don't talk to the
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: person about like how much it's going to cost until
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: towards the end. And then each of the past that
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: we talked about, here's sort of the easier path, here's
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: what I would recommend, here's if you really want to
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: go out, whatever it might be. And then and then
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: I kind of have the idea, and then that person
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: will explain to me, this is what we can do,
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: this is how the process works, and things like that.
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: I'm never left questioning how it's going to work, or
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: what it's going to cost, or what should I do.
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: You know, I'm given the information to take agency upon
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: myself and to understand what's happening. And that's the kind
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: of relationship I like, because you can't tell me what
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: to do. Ultimately, you know, you can make all of
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: your recommendations and what's going to happen, but I have
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: to be the one that says, okay, let's do that,
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: and if the patient is comfortable with that decision. There's
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: really I mean, that's really where you want to be, right,
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: I mean, I mean that's a lot better than trying
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: to fight your patient or fight your doctor or Yeah, that.
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: Never never works out well for either party.
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: It's not good for anybody.
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: And yeah, it's something that we want to arm our
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: patients with all the information and I tell them it's
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: your mouth, you know, it's this is your decision as
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: far as which course you want to take, what's which
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: course of treatment you'd like to take. But also as dentists,
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: I have to say we have to be a little
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: bit of kind of therapists sometimes too and read our
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: patients because I know, Dale, you like to know all
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: the information, so I give you all the information. There
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: are other people coming like I don't want to know anything, right, right,
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: just do it. I'm like, okay, just do it right, Okay,
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: let me hear your goals and then we'll do what
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: needs done.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: So you got to kind of balance that a little
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: bit too.
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. You have to
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: make sure, like you said, that you understand your patient
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: and how all of those things work. And this as
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: we start going down through the red flags and what
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: kind of alarms me. Some things that we're alarming one
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: time have now become so normalized we don't even really
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: talk about them all that much anymore. It seems like,
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: like the dental tourism thing, it's like that's such a
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: terrible thing, but it's become so commonplace, Like you can
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: hardly even be like, wholl I read this one story.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: It's everywhere. But I literally write a story just a
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: couple of week weeks ago about somebody who did a
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: dental tourist type of thing and it went okay for him,
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: I guess, but that got them into the thing. Hey,
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: all I need to do to get any medical procedure
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: done is just find a country that will do it cheaper.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: And they ended up dying. I forget what it was
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: that they were trying to do with some sort of
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: plastic surgery. It wasn't even like a necessary surgery. It's
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: an elective, cosmetic thing that they went to Tijuana or
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: Mexico wherever it was that they went to find a
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: cheap doctor to do it. They got an infection and
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: died from it. Yeah, I mean, it's not funny, but
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: it's just part of the red flags this year is
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: you want to make sure that you're that it's a
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: professional environment that's clean. I mean, you want it to
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: be a doctor's office environment. And when you're going to
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: other countries that have no regulations, you know, yeah, it's cheaper.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: Sometimes it's cheaper for a reason, and it's not necessarily
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: better to be cheaper all the time.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, it's very easy to skimp on things
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: that we take for granted. You know here as far
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: as sterilization procedures, you know, when you're going into your
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: dental office, you're going to see a lot of these
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: paper bags that have the sterial instruments in them. Says
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: that they've gone through the sterilization process. With the many
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: of these other dental touristic stories, that's that's just like
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: they pick it up from a basket of instruments that
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: who knows it's been cleaned. So yeah, yeah, so that
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: it can be it can be very very alarming many times.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: But that's another red flag is proper sterilization that you
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: can come into the office and it's obviously a clean place.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: Obviously they are.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: Cleaning everything in between patients, and that's something we take
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: a lot of pride in as well.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: It seems to me if you have standards, for example,
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: when you go to a restaurant and if you're looking
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: around and recently I was at a place that just
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: opened up and I noticed that they did sort of
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: a fresh coat of paint, but man, every corner was dirty.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: Every there was like actual cobwebs and places and the
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: windows and things like that. I'm like, man, this is
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: a new business, and they didn't clean. It's like they
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: just no, it really wasn't. And and frankly, my wife
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: and I decided when we were wrapping up the meal.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: The food wasn't tear anything. It was like, I don't
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: really know if we want to come back here. I mean,
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: this place is kind of doesn't look that great. But
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: think about that. If you're in a doctor's office or
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: a dentals and you're looking around and you see cobwebs
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: over the place, dust everywhere, and things like that, I
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: mean those are the easy things. I mean what happens
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: when you actually have to sterilize equipment and things along
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: those lines. You want to make sure that you're going
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: into a professional environment, right.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: And that's worth noting also through coming through COVID as
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: we all did. That was something that the dental field
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: was we were up to the challenge for. But it
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: was a big test because we are us and respiratory
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: therapists are like the highest risk of COVID transmission, you know,
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: being close up into a patient's face or looking at
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: how they breathe, you know, and so for us we
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: were always in close proximity, and the question was are
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: are our sterilization and infection control procedures robust enough to
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: keep the providers safe and the patients safe from each other?
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: And it turns out, thankfully that it showed that we
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: were very much adequate in doing what we're doing, more
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: than enough, even without the extra personal protective equipment that
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: we had to get.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: At that time.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: There was not a rampant outbreak of COVID and dental offices,
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: you know, which was a concern at one point. But
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: it shows that what we do is good and effective.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: And as somebody that was a patient of yours during COVID,
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: he it was a great job. I mean, I never
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: there was I felt was about as secure there as
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: I did anywhere, as far as you know, if you
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: were worried about a contamination of any kind or anything
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: like that, and frankly reversing that your staff had to
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: feel the same way, because I mean, maybe not all
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: patients think about that, but I thought about it as
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: I was sitting out in the parking lot basically just
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: waiting for somebody called to tell me, Hey, come on up,
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: everything's ready.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: That's right, we have to do that. Yeah, there was
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: a parking lot waiting room.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but I was thinking of it. I was like, how,
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: you know, I feel better doing this. I don't have
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: to sit in a waiting room of people getting sick
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: along those lines or whatever might be wrong with them.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: A little different in a dental office than it is
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: in a general practition or something, but still you don't
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: know what people have going on when they're there, and
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: then your your employees the same way. They don't. I mean,
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: if you have ten people that's sitting in your in
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: your waiting room, one of them is going to be sick.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Especially during COVID, that was going to be the case.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: So it's it's a nice, it's a nice just that
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: attention to detail gives a lot of confidence downstream for
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: everything else. I think for sure, I think that's part
• 21:26
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• 21:28
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• 21:30
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• 21:42
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• 21:45
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• 21:48
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• 21:50
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• 24:27
  Speaker 2: You can find one that's closest you. We're talking this
• 24:29
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• 24:31
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• 24:33
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• 24:35
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  Speaker 2: and doctor Henley are here for you. We talked the
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: next part of the notes you said. We talked quite
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: a bit about communication already, but just wanted to revisit
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: that for just a moment, because the communication aspect is
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: all of healthcare, obviously, not just for your dentist. But
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: once you have established relationships, it really helps. And I
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: feel like I'm fifty one years old, and I feel
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: like just in the last five years and do I
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: feel like I have that relationship with different medical providers
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: that I go to, people that I've seen on a
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: regular basis that sort of know me, that I can
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: talk to, that I feel that relationship. You know that
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: if I send them, like my doctor, if I send
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: them a message on the internal patient link thing that
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: I can send and she responds to me, she knows
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: me well enough to do that, and we can have
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: a conversation along those lines. To me as a patient man,
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: that is so much different from what I had basically
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: for the other forty five years of my life or whatever,
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: where it was like I had a doctor for a
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: little while. They hardly knew who I was. When I
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: came in. They would read up on my chart and
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: ask me questions that I know we had talked about before,
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: you know, things like this. It's like, I know that
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: you can't know everybody, but can you at least pretend
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: you know? Sometimes? And now my current doctor is seen
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sure that she brushes up on our
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: conversations before I come in, but it's so natural. It
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: gives me so much confidence that I can have that
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: discussion with her, you know, And I feel the same
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: thing when I talked to When I talk to you,
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: it's just stuff we've talked about before, we've known each other.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: For a while. And that is a huge part of
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: finding that right relationship because then you can trust your doctor,
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: like your patient that came to you with the TikTok video.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: You know, if you didn't trust your doctor and you
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: showed them that video and they were and they tried
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: to explain exactly what you did, they'd be like, Oh,
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: that guy's just trying to get out from under that
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: he's caught redheaded or whatever. You have to have that trust.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: That communication is very important.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, And and that's a reason that we find
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: patients that you relocate for different reasons jobs take them elsewhere,
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: but they they say, you know what, I'm if it's okay,
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: I'm going to come back here every six months, and
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: they travel in oh wow, yeah, And and they want
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: to keep that relationship because they know how hard that
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: is to establish elsewhere. Once you find someone that you
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: trust and work well with for.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Sure, and that that and that's that's so hugely important
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: to uh find that relationship. And and I know that.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: But you've been doing this for quite a while now,
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: doctor Henley yourself, But what's been some of what's been
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: some of you? Because I know some of your patients,
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: I know some people that go over to see you
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: and everybody says the most wonderful things about you as well.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: And honestly, there's people here that go see you. My
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: wife's been over to see you. I mean, what was
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: it that? Obviously it's part of the Greed Dental Group
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: sort of mission statement, but you had to sort of
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: have that feeling before you got here. So what kind
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: of instilled that into you as far as your patient relationships?
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: Well, I had a great mentor. I'm looking at him
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: right here. Oh, thank you, I'm looking to the leftop. Sorry, right, yeah, Adele,
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: you're also my mentor of course.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: No, it's just it's one of those things that's unspoken,
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: Like whenever you enter into a contract with Greed Dental
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: Group as an associate dentist, it's kind of unspoken that
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: you have to learn how to act like us and
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: be like us, and you have to have a philosophy
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: of holding patient care as the top priority. It's not
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: about anything else. It's about we don't care if we
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: are comfortable. We want you to be comfortable, the patient.
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: So there's a lot that goes into that, a lot
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: of our thought process of why we do things. Is
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: this going to increase or better the patient care experience
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: or is this going to not really increase it? Or
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: that's the thought process we do for everything we do,
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: such as technology. If we're going to buy something new,
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: but it's not going to better the patient care, then
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: why would we do it right? It could just cost
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: us money and then it won't really improve. Thankfully, every
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: technological improvement that we've done, such as digital radiography or
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  Speaker 4: X rays instead of doing the old chemical stuff that
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: you have to dip every single office, I agreed, Donna
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  Speaker 4: Group is all digital.
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  Speaker 2: We don't do.
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  Speaker 4: Paper charts so we don't have to sit their handwriting.
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  Speaker 4: We can actually pull up from the early two thousands
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  Speaker 4: some X rays and some charting so that we can
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  Speaker 4: actually follow along a patient's care. We can kind of
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  Speaker 4: reflect back on when certain things were done and say,
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: this crown is twenty years old, it makes sense that
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: now it might be breaking or something like that, so
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: we can call up with things like that. And then
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: the technology of advanced implant care and how we take
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  Speaker 4: three D X rays in our offices and how we're
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  Speaker 4: able to diagnose more advance that you'd expect a lot
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  Speaker 4: of specialty offices, but here in our general Dennis offices,
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  Speaker 4: we can provide that as well. And so I think
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  Speaker 4: I didn't have a choice because if the if I
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: were to run a Grieve Dental group and steer to
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  Speaker 4: the left or to the right, doctor Mittrie, doctor Sammy,
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  Speaker 4: doctor Steven would show up on my front door and
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  Speaker 4: be like Henley, we have to have a chance. Our
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: name is on the door and we need to make sure.
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  Speaker 4: So thankfully they've they've they've interrusted me in that, and
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  Speaker 4: I think it goes both ways. We definitely that there's
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  Speaker 4: a Bible verse iron Sharpen's iron like. We really work
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  Speaker 4: on that to make sure that we don't get lax
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  Speaker 4: on our skills, we don't get lax on our priorities.
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  Speaker 4: We always make sure that we are doing the highest
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  Speaker 4: patient care possible.
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  Speaker 2: You dovetails nicely into sort of the last topic of
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  Speaker 2: our discussion. We have just a couple of minutes left
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  Speaker 2: so that I'll work out perfectly. And you were talking
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  Speaker 2: about some of the advanced technology and things like that
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  Speaker 2: that you on board at the Greave Dental Group. And
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  Speaker 2: just like the notes you said that you since said
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  Speaker 2: you don't have to find. You don't have to go
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  Speaker 2: to NASA. You know, you don't have to find the
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  Speaker 2: most technologically advanced place to go there. There's perfectly serviceable
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: places beyond that. But you do have to go somewhere
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  Speaker 2: that is at least aware of some of modern dental practices.
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  Speaker 2: And there are places you can go. And I don't
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: even mean like, hey, if you go to your country doctor.
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  Speaker 2: Some country doctors are up to speed and have and
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: have equipment. It's who knows where you'll find these pockets.
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  Speaker 2: But you can go places where suddenly it's like the
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  Speaker 2: last twenty years never happened, you know, and and whereas
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: you know, in some cases, if you're just getting a
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: filling or something, maybe you'll be okay. It also may
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: not be as comfortable, may not get the follow up
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  Speaker 2: that you expect, and you may not be getting full
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: service because like what you guys do with the X
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  Speaker 2: rays and with the three D modeling and stuff like that, that
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  Speaker 2: is sure, it's neat technology, but it also is massively
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  Speaker 2: useful to both the doctor and the patient. Yeah, sos.
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  Speaker 4: On that note, I do want to kind of chime
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  Speaker 4: in on something else. Whenever you walk into an office,
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: look on the walls. See what is on the walls.
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  Speaker 4: I wanted to kind of point to doctor Stevens office.
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  Speaker 4: I remember the first time I walk in and seeing
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  Speaker 4: all these I was so jealous, all these silly posters
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  Speaker 4: that were like this credential and that fellowship and that
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  Speaker 4: mastership and there's so many things that he's done whenever
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: I was just a new graduate and he let me
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  Speaker 4: on as his associate. Well, not jealous, but like, you know,
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  Speaker 4: like something to look forward to. And so look on
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  Speaker 4: the walls, see what they have done, See what technology
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: that they have accomplished as well. So look at so,
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: look at what's new and so. And then I just
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  Speaker 4: wanted to kind of put you on a.
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  Speaker 3: Well that's very kind of you. But yeah, with imp
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: implementation of technology is a big thing, of course that
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  Speaker 3: we've always talked about here on the show. But what
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  Speaker 3: I do want to say is I recognize that there
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  Speaker 3: are some doctors that you know, are ending the getting
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  Speaker 3: towards the end of their career, and many times we
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  Speaker 3: can partner with them and say, hey, you know, let's
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  Speaker 3: help out take out your take over your patients, or
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: help out with patients patient care if need be. And
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: because these technological investments are expensive, so if you're not
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  Speaker 3: going to be practicing for five or ten more years,
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  Speaker 3: you may not want to invest in all of it.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: But that's something that's very easy to do. In dentistries.
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  Speaker 3: We call it becoming siloed. You can be on your
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  Speaker 3: own in the middle of Charleston or out in Timbuktu
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  Speaker 3: and not really change. Like you say that the last
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: twenty years didn't happen. You can do everything the same
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  Speaker 3: way you've been doing it and been doing it and
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: been doing it and not progress. But as doctor Henley
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  Speaker 3: was saying, within our group, it's it's very evident that
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  Speaker 3: if someone's slipping, we're going to bring him back up,
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  Speaker 3: you know, like if I'm if I'm not, you know,
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  Speaker 3: up to party, my my dad, brother, doctor Henley, brothers
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  Speaker 3: in law, they'll be like, you need to step it
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: up a little bit here, let's let's let's go together
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  Speaker 3: on this to this course, let's learn some more. And
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: so that's that's a great benefit that we have that
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  Speaker 3: I'm very thankful for within our group is we have
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  Speaker 3: very high, high standards and high highly achieving doctors, all
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: of them, even doctor Henley's he's caught up to me
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: now with all these accolades, for sure.
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  Speaker 2: One of the things that I've heard a lot when
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: it comes to a medical field and when it comes
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: to technology and different things like that, and some people
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: have this belief that whatever the technology that we're talking
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  Speaker 2: about was just suddenly born overnight, like this is something,
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  Speaker 2: this is all new, it's the all new procedures and
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: everything else. When the truth of the matter is number one,
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: anything that gets approval to eventually be used has gone
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: through rigorous testing to begin with. But also usually it's
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: a building one knowledge that came before it. So it's
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: not like it's all just like, hey, we created a
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: whole new way to do dentistry. It's all the stuff
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: that we've learned over the centuries of dentistry to this
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  Speaker 2: point led us to this technological advance. It's building on
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  Speaker 2: what you learned before and not something all new that like, hey,
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: we just discovered this thing.
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  Speaker 4: That is a great point. So I have a new
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: machine in my office called a mill, and doctor Stephen
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: also has a mill in his office, and so that
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: that allows me to make crowns same day and do
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: some other things with it. For example, I can kind
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: of do I can mill a filling outside the mouth
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: and then submit it in place. It helps with very
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: large fillings, helps with some really cool things. It's technically
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: called it in layer on lay. But what's funny is
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: I'm replacing inlays and onlays on patients that doctor Dixon,
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: the guy that I bought or who used to own
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: the practice for the Kano City office, he did some
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: of these inlays on at least twenty years ago, and
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: he used the same type of machine, but his machine
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: called a serac. I was actually discussing this with my assistant.
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  Speaker 4: Would take two hours to make mine takes maybe ten minutes.
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  Speaker 4: And so the progression for technology is so neat. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it's the same result, it's just so much faster. Yeah yeah,
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: and probably a little better too as it goes. That's
• 35:23
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• 35:25
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