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06/24/2025 Ask the Expert with Ghareeb Dental Group · WCHS Network Podcasts

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  Speaker 3: And re Plus. Good morning to you.
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  Speaker 4: You're listening to as the expert WCHS the Voice of Charleston.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Del Cooper. Thanks so much for tuning in. It
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  Speaker 4: is a Wednesday morning here in or a Tuesday morning.
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  Speaker 4: Tuesday morning here in the capital city of West Virginia.
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  Speaker 4: You are listening to as the expert, and I'd like
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  Speaker 4: to welcome into the studios.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome back to the studios.
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  Speaker 4: Today we have doctor Stephen and doctor Carson from GREEB
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  Speaker 4: Dental Group. Doctor Stephen, good morning, how you doing this morning.
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing great. How about yourself, Dale, I'm doing very well.
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  Speaker 4: And doctor Carson Henley is here as well from the
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  Speaker 4: Kanall City location. How are you doing this morning, Doctor Carson.
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  Speaker 5: Good morning.
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  Speaker 4: We're having everybody who listens to the stations, of course,
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  Speaker 4: have heard the hosts and the guests and everybody talk
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  Speaker 4: about our new studios.
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  Speaker 3: The temporary new studio.
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  Speaker 4: That we're in for the Expert Show unfortunately only has
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  Speaker 4: one mic for the guests to share, and I'm making
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  Speaker 4: Doctor Stephen and doctor Carson do that.
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  Speaker 5: It's fine. We're very close. We're just like best friends,
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  Speaker 5: so this is just making us closer.
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  Speaker 4: We've done it before in the worst studio, so I
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  Speaker 4: guess it's okay to do it in the nice way.
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  Speaker 6: I kind of feel like a like what's.
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  Speaker 5: A I don't know, like.
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  Speaker 3: A singing duete or something?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, right, like you like you're back and forth on
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  Speaker 4: the on the mic, like John and Paul on the
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  Speaker 4: mic doing toys.
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  Speaker 3: Who's the Osmin's there? You go? That's a pool.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, if you have questions about your dental hygiene this morning,
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  Speaker 4: about any problem you might have with your mouth, your teeth,
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  Speaker 4: or maybe that of a lowd wing and give us
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  Speaker 4: a call three zero four three four five fifteen fifty
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  Speaker 4: eight three four five fifty eight fifty. You can also
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  Speaker 4: text us over any questions. If you would like three
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  Speaker 4: or four three five five zero zero eight. You can
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  Speaker 4: find out more about the greed Dental Group one line
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  Speaker 4: g h A R E B GREEB Dentalgroup dot com.
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  Speaker 4: Their phone number is one eight hundred Great Care one
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  Speaker 4: eight hundred Great Care. We'll get that information out to
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  Speaker 4: you a little bit more as the show goes along. Today.
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  Speaker 4: I have a lot of things that we can talk
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  Speaker 4: about today. You can control the conversation, Like I said,
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  Speaker 4: you can call three zero four three four five fifty
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  Speaker 4: eight fifty or you can text three zero four non
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  Speaker 4: three five five zero zero eight. But we're going to
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  Speaker 4: talk a little bit, and I love these shows to
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  Speaker 4: be honest with you, We're going to talk a little
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  Speaker 4: bit about technology this morning. When it comes to the
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  Speaker 4: dentistry industry, dental industry, whatever you would like to call it,
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  Speaker 4: the profession, the medical profession, and technology is always one
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  Speaker 4: of the fun things to talk about. So we're going
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  Speaker 4: to talk about some of those things this morning and
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  Speaker 4: how those things are helping out your practice. And just
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  Speaker 4: to remind folks, that's one of the nice things about
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  Speaker 4: GREEB Dental Group and the coalition of all of your practices.
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  Speaker 4: You're always have your head up for continuing education and
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  Speaker 4: for cutting edge technologies and things like that, which really
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  Speaker 4: helps you give at least from a perspective standpoint, really
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  Speaker 4: gives you a heads up on what's coming and what
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  Speaker 4: you be able to use to help patients.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, for sure, And that's something that dentistry has always
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  Speaker 6: been an ever changing field. You know, we think, how
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  Speaker 6: much different can it be working on teeth, you know,
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  Speaker 6: but man, it changes so fast, so quickly, and we
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  Speaker 6: have some of us in the industry that are like
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  Speaker 6: the techies that are always trying out the new things,
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  Speaker 6: and we try to stay on that leading edge to
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  Speaker 6: be able to use technology to the best ability that
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  Speaker 6: we can for our patients. For sure, when it makes sense.
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  Speaker 6: Then there are some technologies that it takes a while,
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  Speaker 6: like you can see the potential of them in dentistry
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  Speaker 6: and say, well, you know, it's not quite there yet.
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  Speaker 6: Let's see where this really goes, and we might kind
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  Speaker 6: of dip a toe in the water one way or
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  Speaker 6: the other. And the technologies are going to talk about today,
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  Speaker 6: it's definitely taken that path. Initially they were used in
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  Speaker 6: other industries, but now we're able to take the and
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  Speaker 6: hone them better for dentistry, and it's turned out to
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  Speaker 6: be really quite quite an improvement for a patient care.
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  Speaker 6: Now that now the technology is kind of caught up
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  Speaker 6: with where we want it to be, and what we're
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  Speaker 6: talking about specifically are the what do we call that,
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  Speaker 6: the the advent of three dimensional three D printing as
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  Speaker 6: well as milling within the within the office. And it's
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  Speaker 6: also coupled with what we've talked about in the past
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  Speaker 6: with scanning, taking new scans, digital scans of patient's mouths,
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  Speaker 6: so we get away from all this impression material and
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  Speaker 6: and kind of the old way of doing things. So
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  Speaker 6: now we're moving on to kind of the the digital
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  Speaker 6: form of dentistry, which is really really quite fascinating.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's really it is fascinating. I think it's
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  Speaker 4: really interesting and I love I've always been somebody that's
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  Speaker 4: sort of followed, like to follow technology and and breaking
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  Speaker 4: news and science and things along those lines. And it's
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  Speaker 4: always interesting to see when things are put together three
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  Speaker 4: D printing, for example, what or it might be. People
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  Speaker 4: they start talking about it and they start huge like
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  Speaker 4: what do we we can print houses, we can do cars,
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  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, all these different things we can do,
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  Speaker 4: but the real practical use for these things actually comes
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  Speaker 4: down to exactly what you're doing with your profession. Are
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  Speaker 4: the things that help individuals on an individual level. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: once you dove down the technology and you use it
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  Speaker 4: enough for these huge things, the technology gets refined, it
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  Speaker 4: gets cheaper to do and more cost effective to do,
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  Speaker 4: and then suddenly that that point where it becomes accessible,
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  Speaker 4: there's no barriers and it makes sense for patients, and
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  Speaker 4: then the technology is more mature and it really can
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  Speaker 4: help out quite a bit these things. We've seen this
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  Speaker 4: happen with all kinds of technology and mental interesting things.
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  Speaker 4: I mean from Velcrow to any number of things that
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  Speaker 4: NASA had invented that gets used in everyday life. This
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  Speaker 4: is how things work. I mean, that's how science works
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  Speaker 4: and how medicine works.
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  Speaker 5: As Dale speaks, I'm looking at his screen that has
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  Speaker 5: AI up.
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  Speaker 4: So it is blak, it is plain, but yeah, he's yeah,
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  Speaker 4: definitely on the cutting edge of that.
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  Speaker 5: I actually just saw a news article about I think
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  Speaker 5: it was a some researchers of MIT that are three
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  Speaker 5: D printing.
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  Speaker 3: Pieces of bridge.
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  Speaker 5: If a bridge starts to fail and there's a piece
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  Speaker 5: of that bridge that's not doing well and it's about
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  Speaker 5: to fall apart. Well, they'll three D print that metal,
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  Speaker 5: which is really neat beyond of what we do with
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  Speaker 5: three D printing, but just that they three D print
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  Speaker 5: the metal and actually insert it into that bridge to
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  Speaker 5: actually repair replace or they repair instead of having to
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  Speaker 5: replace the entire bridge. Very neat application. But I think, yes,
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  Speaker 5: what you did say about three D printing homes, three
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  Speaker 5: D printing cars, all the stuff. I think that's the
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  Speaker 5: bigger goal. But what we do with it is really
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  Speaker 5: neat because we apply things that we could not do
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  Speaker 5: in a day or could not do within an hour,
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  Speaker 5: that now we can. We can actually I can scan
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  Speaker 5: a patient and we can fabricate dentuers. Now this is
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  Speaker 5: everything goes right because I think doctor step and I knows,
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  Speaker 5: nothing's ever perfect in the mouth. There's things that go wrong,
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  Speaker 5: you know, the scan might be corrupted, all sorts of
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  Speaker 5: things can go wrong. But if things go well, we
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  Speaker 5: can have a denture fabricated within an hour hour and
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  Speaker 5: a half. We can have a crown milled or fabricated
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  Speaker 5: within one of our labs within two hours. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: we have these these methodologies that are made simpler and
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  Speaker 5: easier and more cost effective, which which is better for
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  Speaker 5: the patient in the long run, in our labs, in
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  Speaker 5: our in house or in our dental offices. And so
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  Speaker 5: I think three D printing it's just one of those
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  Speaker 5: cool things that it was a buzzword a few years ago.
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  Speaker 5: Now AI is the buzzword. But we're actually applying three
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  Speaker 5: D printing and I think it's really neat what AI
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  Speaker 5: might be coming out here soon. I don't want to
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  Speaker 5: jump off base just yet, but not just three D printing.
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  Speaker 5: I just bought a mill as well. You do you
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  Speaker 5: have a mill?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: So this, yeah you've had. I used to work in
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  Speaker 5: your office. Of course you have a mill. I don't
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  Speaker 5: know why I said that, but we just bought a mill.
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  Speaker 5: I'm behind the times, doctor Steven' sorry. But then as
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  Speaker 5: you finally catch enough. But this mill can can actually
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  Speaker 5: create from a block of zirconia. If you know that
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  Speaker 5: that material from the fake diamonds. Yeah, same thing.
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  Speaker 3: I love it.
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  Speaker 5: And so that's a good portion of the crowns. Now
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  Speaker 5: we're made from that called zirconia, which is actually metal,
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  Speaker 5: but we pump in some yutria, which is another element
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  Speaker 5: that makes it white, so it's a tooth colored crown,
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  Speaker 5: but it is very hard, very metal like in its
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  Speaker 5: stiffness and hardness, which is great for the mouth. I
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  Speaker 5: can fabricate that within twenty five to thirty minutes, so
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  Speaker 5: instead of having to bring a patient back for a
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  Speaker 5: second day to place that crown, we can do that
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  Speaker 5: same day and it's gonna blow people's socks off. I
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  Speaker 5: cannot wait to get this implemented. Because we just installed
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  Speaker 5: the mill. We have to go through literally an eight
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  Speaker 5: hour day of training to get us up to speed,
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  Speaker 5: and so we're not there yet when it comes to
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  Speaker 5: actually an action, but I can't wait to show off
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  Speaker 5: my new toys.
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  Speaker 3: Is this going to be then?
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  Speaker 4: Is this going to wholly replace the system that you
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  Speaker 4: previously had? So is this going forward? Is this how
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  Speaker 4: you're going to do like anything that you need molded
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  Speaker 4: or anything like that. Is it gonna be three D
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  Speaker 4: printed or are you going to have multiple options open
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  Speaker 4: to you? Or how are you how are you addressing
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  Speaker 4: that as far as the transition to the technology goes well?
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  Speaker 6: To give you I answer that by giving you an example. Ye,
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  Speaker 6: what we've found to work kind of the best is
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  Speaker 6: to use this this new tool as a as another
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  Speaker 6: tool in the tool belt. And for instance, I had
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  Speaker 6: a patient yesterday and she we were telling her, you know,
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  Speaker 6: the traditionally what we'll do is we'll prepare this tooth
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  Speaker 6: for a crown. We'll come back and bring you back
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  Speaker 6: in a couple of weeks maybe and put that crown
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  Speaker 6: in place. And then she said, oh, you know what,
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  Speaker 6: I'm actually leaving town, you know, pretty soon. And I said, well,
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  Speaker 6: no problem, how about we just put it in in
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  Speaker 6: two hours. And she's like, oh, okay, well that sounds
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  Speaker 6: really good. So it it creates a little more of
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  Speaker 6: a workflow issue, and sometimes it's not that advantageous to
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  Speaker 6: do it, but it's great to have it there when
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  Speaker 6: you say, you know, we can make this happen if
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  Speaker 6: we need to.
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  Speaker 3: In a sense.
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  Speaker 6: And now what doctor Henley's talking about his it's again
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  Speaker 6: an increase and improvement in technology that's making it a
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  Speaker 6: little bit quicker, a little more efficient. That's where I'm
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  Speaker 6: really excited to see if this new piece of equipment
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  Speaker 6: that he's purchased is going to cut down that turnaround
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  Speaker 6: time a little bit more so you can actually implement
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  Speaker 6: on a more regular basis. In the office, and that's
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  Speaker 6: where we're you know, we're staying on the edge to
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  Speaker 6: see how far we can implement these things as best
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  Speaker 6: as possible for our patient. So it's not an always
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  Speaker 6: or anever type of thing.
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  Speaker 5: But there are limitations the crowns that we have from
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  Speaker 5: certain labs. They have a million dollar machine. Our machine
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  Speaker 5: is not a million dollars, and so there are limitations.
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  Speaker 5: I think our micron level is thirty five microns, which
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  Speaker 5: is tiny. It's thirty five thousandth of a millimeter, so
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  Speaker 5: you can't even it's like less than a width of
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  Speaker 5: a hair, so that the tolranches are tiny. But the
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  Speaker 5: million dollar machine is even smaller. And so if there's
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  Speaker 5: any issues when it comes to prepping a crown that's
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  Speaker 5: underneath the gum level. I'm getting into the weeds, I know,
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  Speaker 5: but I always do. There are certain limitations to this
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  Speaker 5: technology that we still need to have labs, so there's
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  Speaker 5: there's that time and place for the new technology, but
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  Speaker 5: we still have the old technology. I love how we
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  Speaker 5: were calling the old technology sitting off to a lab
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  Speaker 5: instead of doing it, which is crazy to me that
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  Speaker 5: new technology is doing everything in house. But I think
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  Speaker 5: it comes to our expertise and our level of knowledge
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  Speaker 5: in those ce hours that we do in the in
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  Speaker 5: the in the commitment to providing the best patient care
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  Speaker 5: we can has has just created this this place, this
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  Speaker 5: this drive in our offices just to do what's right
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  Speaker 5: for the patient. So I think that's really neat.
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  Speaker 4: I think that I that I maybe got the card
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  Speaker 4: ahead of the horse just a little bit. Let's let's
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  Speaker 4: make sure that our listeners are savvy on exactly what
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  Speaker 4: procedures we're talking about here, what what can what what
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  Speaker 4: options where we can use these here? Because I wanted
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  Speaker 4: to jump right into how cool it is, let's talk
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  Speaker 4: about what it is that it's helping, replacing or making
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  Speaker 4: better in some way, shape or form. And are there
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  Speaker 4: people that have had experiences in the recent past where
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  Speaker 4: this technology wasn't available that maybe they could look into
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  Speaker 4: either having it redone or now maybe it's an the
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  Speaker 4: opportunity where they can have something done that wasn't available
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  Speaker 4: to them before, whatever it might be.
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  Speaker 6: So let's keep it quite simple in the sense that
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  Speaker 6: we're talking about treating. Let's say you have one tooth
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  Speaker 6: that has a very large filling in it that's broken
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  Speaker 6: on you or a large crack in a tooth or
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  Speaker 6: a chip in a tooth. Well, traditionally, then what we
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  Speaker 6: need to do is strengthen it by putting a dental
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  Speaker 6: crown on the tooth. And what that means is we
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  Speaker 6: are reshaping the tooth and making an impression of some sort,
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  Speaker 6: making a model of that smaller tooth to have the laboratory,
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  Speaker 6: than make a crown that goes over top of it.
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  Speaker 6: Some people call them caps. They cover the whole tooth
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  Speaker 6: three hundred and sixty degrees and we glue that to
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  Speaker 6: the tooth and then it it does restore the total
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  Speaker 6: form of the tooth, where everything that was missing is
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  Speaker 6: now replaced and it's all one piece of material that's
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  Speaker 6: stronger and glued to the tooth. Basically, so that process
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  Speaker 6: in and of itself is quite common in dentistry, and
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  Speaker 6: traditionally what we've had to do is take a and
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  Speaker 6: many offices still do this and there's nothing wrong with it,
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  Speaker 6: but it's been now a number of years where in
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  Speaker 6: our offices we would have to take an impression with
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  Speaker 6: some of the gup basically impressure material, right, yeah, and
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  Speaker 6: so and and still, as doctor Henley said, I used
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  Speaker 6: some of that yesterday. You know, at the right situation
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  Speaker 6: you had to Yeah, I got to do it sometimes.
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  Speaker 6: But generally now what we can do instead of using
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  Speaker 6: that impression material is use our scanning, our our intra
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  Speaker 6: oral scanner. It's a it's a small camera that goes
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  Speaker 6: in the mouth, takes thousands of pictures per second around
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  Speaker 6: that tooth that we have now prepared for a crown,
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  Speaker 6: and then that digital file, that digital information goes to
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  Speaker 6: a laboratory that then has one of these larger milling
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  Speaker 6: units that doctor Henley was talking about, or they can
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  Speaker 6: three dimensionally print the model and make a crown on
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  Speaker 6: that printed model one way or the other. And so
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  Speaker 6: what we're talking about doing is taking all of those
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  Speaker 6: laboratory steps and moving them into our office and not
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  Speaker 6: having to send them back and forth quite as much.
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  Speaker 6: And especially for a simple one twoth situation where we're
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  Speaker 6: putting making a crown. That's something that now has come
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  Speaker 6: to fruition that we can do more predictably in the
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  Speaker 6: office with the materials that we like, and make it
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  Speaker 6: more efficient for the patient.
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  Speaker 4: That has to be I imagine from the patient standpoint,
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  Speaker 4: and I know the education pieces that you do for
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  Speaker 4: a patient. When you are talking to a patient and
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  Speaker 4: you're going over options and stuff with them. Since I've
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  Speaker 4: been a patient, I know that. I just know from
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  Speaker 4: experience having options that are ahead of you and having
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  Speaker 4: that level of detail relates to you. I mean it's
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  Speaker 4: a confidence factor. I mean it allows you to, for
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  Speaker 4: one thing, if you have choices, it's nice to have them,
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  Speaker 4: but also to know the technology behind things and to
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  Speaker 4: have sort of that case built for you as you're
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  Speaker 4: being told about whatever the procedure might be. It just
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  Speaker 4: helps as a patient to know exactly what's going into
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  Speaker 4: it and at what level you're at as far as
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  Speaker 4: the technological accomplishment, I guess.
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  Speaker 3: Is yeah, sure.
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  Speaker 6: And you say, does this open doors for some patients
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  Speaker 6: that maybe have been waiting for something? And it does
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  Speaker 6: because I've had patients in the past say, you know,
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  Speaker 6: if if we can't do this quickly, then it's just
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  Speaker 6: not going to work for my schedule.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 6: We know people are busy and it's hard to get
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  Speaker 6: too from work and then to come back two weeks
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  Speaker 6: later sometimes isn't that convenient? So this does you open
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  Speaker 6: up new doors for some patients? And then also as
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  Speaker 6: doctor Henley was saying there are limitations we're talking about
• 15:56
  Speaker 6: in this situation. A simple single tooth crown issue is
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  Speaker 6: generally something that we can do this this fashion.
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: But if we're working on multiple.
• 16:04
  Speaker 6: Teeth, if we're doing very highly cosmetic work, you know,
• 16:07
  Speaker 6: things that we need to really work with our laboratory
• 16:10
  Speaker 6: technician on, we need to take our time doing to
• 16:13
  Speaker 6: get just right as far as maybe aesthetics go, or
• 16:17
  Speaker 6: multiple you know, multiple pieces to the puzzle, then that's
• 16:21
  Speaker 6: something we need a little more skilled help with and
• 16:24
  Speaker 6: maybe not be a candidate for this type of a treatment,
• 16:26
  Speaker 6: but regularly what we call kind of bread and butter
• 16:29
  Speaker 6: work that happens all the time, this can really help
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  Speaker 6: us out with.
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  Speaker 4: I can really see how that could be. I mean,
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: for anybody that needs maybe a little quicker turnaround. They
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: don't have that super special situation, you know, like you say,
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: as a relatively standard situation. And I'm thinking we talk
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: all the time about you know, your your weddings and
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: your senior pictures and different things like that, but seriously,
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: along those lines, if you have a summer wedding that's
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: coming up, and it's like some destination wedding or something
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: like that, and you have a very narrow amount of
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: time to get something done, and you have something in
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: your mouth you need to have repaired that might be
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: the best option for you that wasn't available to you
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: even last year.
• 17:05
  Speaker 6: And that happens so often in the summer in particular,
• 17:07
  Speaker 6: and that's where we're starting to feel that patient's coming, like, oh,
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: I'm leaving Saturday, you know, Okay, Well, let's see if
• 17:13
  Speaker 6: we can make something happen. And many times we can.
• 17:15
  Speaker 6: Sometimes we try to do it, and it may may
• 17:18
  Speaker 6: not work out exactly, but we try to accommodate them
• 17:21
  Speaker 6: when we can.
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: For sure.
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: We were talking before the show, how this I'm kind
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: of in my run of birthdays between family and all
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: of my daughter's friends and different things along those lines.
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: I can imagine somebody being so behind trying to keep
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: up with all of these things. Suddenly their own personal schedule,
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: they're like, oh man, I needed to have you know, whatever,
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: this is done, and suddenly there's just no time to
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: do anything. I mean, things like that. Well, and that's
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: how I mean. It's really what it means to have
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: so many tools in the toolbox. You can really find
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: the situation and the tool that matches up to someone,
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: So if you have to meet them at their schedule,
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: to some degree, you have that option at least for them.
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.
• 17:54
  Speaker 6: And that's that's what we love, that flexibility that this
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: gives us in our offices. And what's also on, Doctor
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: Henlin and I were talking about how each office kind
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: of pushes the other, you know, to say, hey, I'm
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: trying this out, you know, but it's also good to say,
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: you know what, you you bitea test that for see
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: how God, if it's gonna work really well, then we'll
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: then we'll make the switch. But you know, so it
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: goes back reminds me of our CT scanner we've talked
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: about before, our three three dimensional scanner. Mine is now
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: like fourteen years old.
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: It is so old, get a new one, but.
• 18:28
  Speaker 7: It still works and does what it does everything I.
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: Need and like yours just looks fancier and like I
• 18:32
  Speaker 6: get the same information, but I had it first, and
• 18:35
  Speaker 6: everybody's like, okay, let's see how that goes. And now
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: we have those in almost all of the offices, which
• 18:39
  Speaker 6: is great and it's and it's fun to be able
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: to jab at each other a little bit with that.
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: In a real truth and a real, truthfully revelation of
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: that having so many different offices and sort of having
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: labs in each office. I mean, you really can you know, uh,
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: Mitry is testing something in cross Lanes that the rest
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: of us aren't using. Hey it works really well, maybe
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: we can adapted or you know, it wasn't exactly what
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: I thought, so we don't.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: Have as wide application of it.
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: I mean, it really gives you the opportunity to hone
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: in on the tools that's going to work in your
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: tool belt. And each each dentist might be individual as
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: far as that goes, too, so it really gives you
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: that opportunity to to make your practice exactly what's going
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: to be best served for your for your patients.
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: Yep, for sure, that's something that we really, uh really
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: love being in our group with with that element. And
• 19:24
  Speaker 6: also you know, say, hey, I don't have this ability
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: right now, but you know, let's let's send them to
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: can All said you see if doctor Henley can get
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: that done for us, you know we can always share
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: share patients and and share that benefit uh to each
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: one of them that way too.
• 19:38
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  Speaker 4: You're listening to ask the expert w SHS the Voice
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  Speaker 4: of Charleston. I'm Deel Cooper. Thanks for tuning in on
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: this Tuesday morning. And I say afternoon because it's going
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: to be hot. It's already hot today and it's going
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: to be with the heat morning that we have out there,
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: It's going to be hot today. With heat indexes over
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: one hundred and so if you're going to be outside,
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: you need to get plenty of paudration, or even if
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: you're inside, because I know I was yesterday even though
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: without working outside.
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  Speaker 5: Do you know where there's some really nice ac.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, there we go.
• 24:06
  Speaker 11: I like that.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: Just let that Betty know, come on in, cool down,
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: you get your teeth, take a care of you, chill
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: out just a little bit.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: It'll be all right, you know.
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: And we actually, me and my family just flew back
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: from Texas. It's cooler in Texas right now. Everyone knows.
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: I don't know what's going on right now. It is
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: so hot. I can't handle it.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: You make all your dreams come true. You can get
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: a root canal and cool down at the same time.
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: Right Who wants to be out in this heat?
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: Who wants to be out in this heat?
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: When you can sit in a nice comfortable chair watch
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: TV above you because you have like TV's in the ceiling,
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: and get a nice little root canal when it's nice
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: and cool inside, you know you do.
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: And some water. We actually have water in fridges now.
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: Oh we used to get the members mark the Sam's
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: Club water. Now guess what water we have. We have
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: Fiji water what people call it bougie water. I'm telling
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: you we're just I mean, doctor Stephen raising the game.
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: That's not bad Bud and just as a as an assa.
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: We're talking about technology. And one of the first things
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: that doctor Steve and I talked about when we were
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: doing the show because I got a root canal from
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: Grieve Dental Group. What you might remember from from decades ago,
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: as far as like the whole root canal thing, it's
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: not that it may be is the most pleasant experience
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: in the world, but it's really not the thing that
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: it used to be. I've had two of them now
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: and they're really in and out mild discomfort of any
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: at all. Really, it's just time more than anything else.
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: It is it is, and that's.
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: Something that we tried to I mean, in the past,
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: root canals were done for the most part on emergency
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: situations and it's you're dealing with a very irritable tooth,
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: and that's where the reputation comes from root canals that
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: you know, oh, they're so painful and tough to go through,
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: but thankfully now we've found.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: Ways to ease that for the patient.
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: You know, quite a bit, and we have different medications
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: we can use to settle things down so when it
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: is time to do the root canal, it is hopefully painless.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: So that's the idea.
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: I did literally have I've told it before, but I
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: did literally have a a tooth that was so infected
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: and was causing me so much pain. I had to
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: hold water in my mouth to sleep. There was like
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: an exposed route, it was just floating around. It was terrible.
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: It was really bad. Mitri did exactly what you said.
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: He got the pain under control, first saw me the
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: next day, and then did the root canal when the
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: pain or maybe two days or whatever it was, but
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: when the pain had subsided and it wasn't that bad
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: to work with and it really wasn't that bad to
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: get taken care of it. I was shocked because that
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: was my first one. And it was like, man, I'd
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: heard all these things about like you would rather do
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: anything than have this done, and frankly, while not necessarily pleasant,
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: I've certainly done much worse and had to tolerate much worse.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: That's right, that's right.
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: And you know, you think about going back to going
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: back to frontier times when there weren't many anesthetics available
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: besides Jack Daniels.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, right, just take your liquor.
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: That's that reputation kind of has followed for years, but
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: we're getting over it.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: And frankly, when you watch old movies and stuff like
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: that and they deal with dentists at all, I'm thinking
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: of that old show Deadwood. I think there was actually
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: like a dentist in that show, and it was always
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: like something bloody, and.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: You know, it's always just terrible.
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: You're right, you're watching that grown up You're like, man,
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: I'm never having anything done to my teeth because you're
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: watching this show that was made in the Old West.
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: And I have to say, uh too that the Roucal
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: the Mitry did for me and the one that you
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: did for me. Even between then, the process got better,
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: you know, it got it got simplified and easier. I mean,
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: it's it's really amazing. If that's something that maybe you've
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: been delaying out there, or something you've been putting off,
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: or you have that little that little twins, you know
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: that you've got a problem, it's getting ready to don't
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: put it off. It's really not that big of a
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: deal anymore.
• 27:32
  Speaker 6: That's again I've mentioned that before. The we call the uh,
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: the pain cycle in dentistry is that you delay until
• 27:39
  Speaker 6: things are so painful you can't delay any further. Then
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: to treat that is quite painful, you know, because it's
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: very irritable at that time, and then you delay anything
• 27:49
  Speaker 6: else a little bit further because of that experience. So
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: you want to get on it before it gets too unmanageable,
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: you know. And that makes things a lot easier for everybody.
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: So, UH, we're talking a little bit about some of
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: them urging technology. We've talked about three D printing when
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: it comes to helping with UH with different things that
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: could be molded for your for your mouth. Uh.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: Did we get to full dentures? Does it does three
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: D printing Uh influence that as well? Absolutely?
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: And that's something I want to have doctor Henley talk
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: about because he's he's really honed in on it and
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: UH and we're very excited about it because it does
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: open up a lot of doors for us if we
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: can really get this thing, you know, nailed down with
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: just what we're we're working hard on doing.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: What are some of the advantages of it over what's
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: what's coming.
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: So let's let's let's go through the old way of
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: making a dentu.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: I think first excellent.
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: So you you go into you'd go into a dentist,
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: you'd have an impression made, and impression is literally a
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: negative of the existing teeth. It's that goofy stuff that
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: you have to put in your mouth, and then from
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: that you have a negative of your teeth. And then
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: you pour up or you flow in some stone into
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: that negative, that scaffold that forms into a model of
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: your teeth or a model of your lack of teeth
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: rather the gum tissue. And from that, the lab fabricates
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: some materials on top of that, and then there's some
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: try in processes. So there's multiple appointments to see how
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: accurate you can get your gummy tissue to having a denture,
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: which is literally faked teeth, false teeth made of medical
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: grade plastic called acrylic, and it just takes multiple visits. Well,
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: now what we can do is we skip most of
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: that pretty much, and in my office, specifically in doctor
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: Student's office, in doctor miss Doctrmtcher's office, all our offices
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: actually do this where we do a digital scan of
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: the gummy tissue and that allows us to be in
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: my opinion, more accurate because the old goopy impressions were accurate.
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: They are very accurate. But if there's any moisture difference
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: from when you take it to whenever you pour up
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: the models, the models can actually absorb some moisture and
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: shrink or get bigger based on the amount of humidity
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: in the air. We were talking about community, right, But the
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: a digital scan it cannot change once it's in ones
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: and zeros, or it's in it's in binary right. When
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: when it's all digital, it's not going to change. And
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: so from that scan we send it to our lab
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: and our lab can fabricate using some AI technology and
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: using some other methodologies to literally on a computer screen
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: design and develop a denture. Now they don't just use
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: the medical grade acrylic, which is what the old style
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: denture has made. They actually three D print our denture.
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: And what they do is they three D print the
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: pink part that looks like the gum tissue, and then
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: they three D print three separate pieces of teeth, the
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: back right teeth, the posterior, the six front teeth called
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: these the aesthetic zone, and then the back left or
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: the so two back pieces of teeth and then one
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: front part and then they use a special glue that
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: literally seals the teeth to that new three D printed
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: acrylic and it cannot come apart. It's actually stronger than
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: the teeth themselves, and because of how strong it is,
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  Speaker 5: because of the materials that are used. I've seen the
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  Speaker 5: lab that we use up in Ohio. He has thrown
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  Speaker 5: it on the ground and driven over it with his
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  Speaker 5: truck and it did not break. The other the old
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  Speaker 5: style broke instantly. It was just shattered right. And so
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  Speaker 5: a lot of these patients that I see come in
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  Speaker 5: they say, oh, I just dropped it. My denture broke.
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  Speaker 5: I dropped it into the sink and it was only
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  Speaker 5: like a foot off the sink. Well, that can happen
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  Speaker 5: because the acrylic, it's very strong, but it can become
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  Speaker 5: brittle over time with age. This new three D printed
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  Speaker 5: the three D printed dentures rather, they are not we're
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  Speaker 5: not seeing that. We're not seeing that fracture risk. Now,
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  Speaker 5: can it break, yes, so don't take a hammer to it.
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  Speaker 5: But we're just seeing that it's ends up being a
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  Speaker 5: little bit stronger. So the old style with the goopy mess,
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  Speaker 5: we no longer have to do. I rarely have to
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  Speaker 5: do that, and it allows us to make number one
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  Speaker 5: stronger dentures, number two more acrid dentures, and number three
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  Speaker 5: happier patients. So I think in the long run, it's
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  Speaker 5: it's pretty neat what we can do with our three
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  Speaker 5: D printed technologies.
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  Speaker 4: I listened to this and it truly sounds like science fiction.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, uh that that that. I mean, it's like Pcard.
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  Speaker 11: It is.
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  Speaker 4: It's like Picard wander to the replicant and be like
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  Speaker 4: computer ventures, you know, and and and it just like
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  Speaker 4: printing out ventures. I mean it's it feels very much
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  Speaker 4: like that. And maybe it's just because I'm a nerd
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  Speaker 4: and and uh and I like the trecky stuff. But
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  Speaker 4: but uh, but it's really something else to think, you know.
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  Speaker 4: I love talking about the nerdy aspects of the of
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  Speaker 4: the technology, but exactly what it means for a patient,
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  Speaker 4: it's pretty amazing. I mean exactly the uh, the amount
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  Speaker 4: of care that you can give to someone, and you
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  Speaker 4: talk about making it more accurate and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 4: I've never had dentures, but I have to imagine that
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  Speaker 4: one of the issues with fit and different things like
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  Speaker 4: that is you talk about like you know, small little
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  Speaker 4: uh things the size of a hair in your mouth.
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  Speaker 4: You can feel those things, I'm sure you know, like
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  Speaker 4: every little edge, every little thing that doesn't really feel right.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you work at it, it becomes like I know,
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  Speaker 4: like from problems I've had in my mouth before. Sometimes
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  Speaker 4: you just keep on working at it and it becomes
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  Speaker 4: like almost like a like a tick, you know. And
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  Speaker 4: if you have dentris that don't fit right or something like,
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  Speaker 4: it becomes like a little tick you're running your tongue
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  Speaker 4: constantly over like the little edge that you feel there
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  Speaker 4: or something like that. It's not that they don't work,
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  Speaker 4: it's just like little things like that. It's not even
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  Speaker 4: can you call it quality of life maybe, but it's
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  Speaker 4: just annoyances, you know. And if you reduce enough of
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  Speaker 4: those annoyances, even if there's something along those lines, then
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  Speaker 4: it really does and increase the patient. I guess it
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  Speaker 4: is quality of life, but it increases that quite a
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  Speaker 4: bit for sure.
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  Speaker 6: And that's something worth noting is that all of no
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  Speaker 6: matter all of this technology and advancements in technology that
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  Speaker 6: we're talking about, there is still you're still dealing with
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  Speaker 6: the one of the most sensitive areas of our bodies
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  Speaker 6: is our mouth. The mucosa in there is very you know,
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  Speaker 6: very sensitive to touch, and your tongue has taste involved
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  Speaker 6: with it. Your teeth have pain involved with them, sensitivity
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  Speaker 6: to hot and cold. So it's a very sensitive area.
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  Speaker 6: And no matter what we put in there, we've got
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  Speaker 6: to adjust it to the patient's liking. And it takes
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  Speaker 6: time to get used to things with especially adventures that
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  Speaker 6: we're talking about in particular that there. And I tell
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  Speaker 6: patients just just a couple of days ago, patient came
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  Speaker 6: in and OK, hey, things are fitting pretty well, but
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  Speaker 6: this bite isn't quite right. You know all this, and
• 34:22
  Speaker 6: so you know, hey, we'll adjust the bite today. By
• 34:25
  Speaker 6: tonight it'll be different because your jaw is going to
• 34:27
  Speaker 6: adjust to that. We're going to need to bring you
• 34:29
  Speaker 6: back every couple of days for the next week or two.
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  Speaker 6: And so for some patients you just have to do
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  Speaker 6: that to get it calibrated, adjust right to the patient.
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  Speaker 6: But you don't want to go overboard, you know. So
• 34:38
  Speaker 6: it's it's like a haircut that doesn't grow back right
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  Speaker 6: to cut it away and no way for it to
• 34:43
  Speaker 6: grow back, So we got to take it, take it
• 34:45
  Speaker 6: you know, slowly, and it's step at a time, so
• 34:48
  Speaker 6: it's not Unfortunately it isn't a you know, set one
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  Speaker 6: and done type of thing many times. But that's something
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  Speaker 6: that we also pride ourselves in as getting things right
• 34:56
  Speaker 6: for the patient.
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  Speaker 4: And you don't want it to be one or done,
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: and if somebody tells you it is, it means they're
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: probably not doing right. So I mean, that's it's a
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: good thing to have somebody that's looking out for you
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  Speaker 4: and tells you, hey, we got to do this again.
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: We have to do this again. In the long run,
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  Speaker 4: it's going to pay out because we're going to get
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  Speaker 4: tuned to the point where you're going to be comfortable
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: and it's not going to cause those same those same
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: annoyances or whatever it is it's causing for you. So
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: you want somebody to take that level of care with you.
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  Speaker 5: That's what we try to do.
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  Speaker 4: It's great stuff with the Greed Dental Group. As always
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  Speaker 4: appreciate having the guys in here on the third Tuesday
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  Speaker 4: of every month. Let me get to contact information out
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  Speaker 4: to you once again as we start to wrap things up.
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  Speaker 4: Just about a minute left in the program. You can
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• 35:35
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  Speaker 4: That's gonna that's gonna do it for us today, Doctor Carson,
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  Speaker 4: thank you so much for your input today.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for teaching us a lot. I did my best.
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