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Dental Implant Options and Common Misconceptions with Ghareeb Dental Group · WCHS Network Podcasts

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Speaker 4: Doing great? How about yourself, Coop.
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Speaker 3: I'm doing very well. Thanks for coming in this morning.
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Speaker 3: Appreciate your time as always. And doctor Carson Henley is
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Speaker 3: But we appreciate uh uh, the doctor Greeb and doctor
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Speaker 3: Henley being in this morning. If you have any questions
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Speaker 3: five zeros or eight. Just to let you know, we're
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Speaker 3: gonna talking about implants a lot today. Yeah, thank you
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Speaker 3: for that clarification. Didn't want them to think it was
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Speaker 3: any other kind of implants. So we're gonna be talking
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Speaker 3: about dental implants this morning, and there's a uh, doctor Greeb,
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Speaker 3: you said that there were You're gonna get a lot
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Speaker 3: of questions about this, and this is one of those technologies.
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Speaker 3: We've covered it a few times on this show. This
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Speaker 3: is one of those things that if you're somebody who
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Speaker 3: was an implant curious at some point in the past,
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Speaker 3: it might be worth your while to take a look.
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Speaker 3: There's more options, there's more tools than ever in the
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Speaker 3: dentist toolbox.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, that's something that we've talked about, you know,
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Speaker 5: pretty regularly on the show. But however, we have almost
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Speaker 5: daily patients coming in and because of asking questions because
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Speaker 5: there's so much I don't know, if you want to say,
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Speaker 5: there's so much confusion around what a dental implant is,
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Speaker 5: how they can be used in your mouth to help
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Speaker 5: you out in what are you a candidate for them?
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Speaker 4: Are you not?
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Speaker 5: And then what do dental implants mean? Is it singular thing?
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Speaker 5: Is it ltiple teeth? What if you're using implants to
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Speaker 5: fix one tooth? What if you're using implants to fix
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Speaker 5: missing all of your teeth? So there are so many
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Speaker 5: different ways to to use those appropriately in the mouth,
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Speaker 5: and that's why I thought it would be a good
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Speaker 5: time to kind of go down the options because everyone
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Speaker 5: seems to come in with with a lot of questions.
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Speaker 5: They say, you know, I hear about implants, Is that
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Speaker 5: something I need to do now? Or they generally just
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Speaker 5: have a lot of dental problems, and maybe their mind
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Speaker 5: goes there because there's so much messaging and advertisement towards
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Speaker 5: that right now online and on television, and some some
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Speaker 5: people come in thinking that, you know, I'm I've been
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Speaker 5: away for the dentists for a couple of years. It
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Speaker 5: must be time for my dental implants, you know, So
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Speaker 5: we've got to talk about implants.
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Speaker 6: Well, let's talk about it.
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Speaker 4: Yeah exactly, So let's let's have that discussion.
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Speaker 3: So you get sometimes people that are a little overly
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Speaker 3: aggressive and seeking out the implants. It's like just get
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Speaker 3: a rind of all, just just pump something new in there.
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Speaker 3: Let's just let's go robot teeth.
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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, absolutely, yesterday.
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Speaker 3: It happens all the time.
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Speaker 4: Indeed.
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Speaker 5: So what you have getting right into that is patients
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Speaker 5: like I say that, notice that they're say they're getting
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Speaker 5: to be, you know, middle aged, and a few teeth.
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Speaker 4: Are starting to break down.
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Speaker 3: Guilty, there you go.
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Speaker 5: So you know, it happens to the best of us,
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Speaker 5: and they get discouraged and they say, you know, I've
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Speaker 5: had two or three teeth break on me the last year.
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Speaker 5: I haven't been to the dentist for a while, you know,
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Speaker 5: and I never really liked the color for my teeth.
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Speaker 5: I think it's just time to go to dental implants
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Speaker 5: like what I mean, this is what happens, and people
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Speaker 5: come in and say it, and it's and I don't
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Speaker 5: want to discredit what they're saying. It's just that they're
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Speaker 5: they're not they're they're not understanding the whole process and
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Speaker 5: what options there are for them.
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Speaker 4: So that's where I'm excited.
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Speaker 5: When they come in, we have the opportunity to have
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Speaker 5: a great discussion about it and to say, you know
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Speaker 5: what I'm looking at your teeth and they're not that bad,
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Speaker 5: and they're very relie.
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Speaker 3: Of your own teeth as a matter of fact.
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Speaker 4: So it's great news.
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Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 5: It's just because a lot of individuals, I think, just
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Speaker 5: kind of get down on themselves and they think there's
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Speaker 5: no other option for them at this time. But that's
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Speaker 5: what's great is that we love to sit down and
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Speaker 5: speak with our patients, do a work up of their
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Speaker 5: oral health, and to tell them many times, you know, hey, what,
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Speaker 5: guess what we can save what you got and it's
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Speaker 5: gonna be a lot less involved, a lot less expensive,
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Speaker 5: and you're gonna be in great shape. And that's a
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Speaker 5: wonderful discussion to have.
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Speaker 6: Now.
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Speaker 5: At the same time, there are some that have been
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Speaker 5: away from the dentists, maybe longer, maybe they have some
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Speaker 5: underlying conditions, they have long standing gum disease or something
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Speaker 5: of that nature. They come in and they say, I
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Speaker 5: think it's about time to get rid of these teeth,
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Speaker 5: and sometimes you say, you know what, You're correct, We're
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Speaker 5: gonna have to do that. So that's kind of the
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Speaker 5: point of that initial consultation and conversation that we have
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Speaker 5: with our patients, which we're very happy to do.
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Speaker 3: That's really it's really a wonderful thing to be able
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Speaker 3: to give the options for something like that, and also
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Speaker 3: to talk people back a little bit from, like you said,
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Speaker 3: maybe being down on themselves a little bit, or you know,
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Speaker 3: people will hear stuff through whisper networks all the time,
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Speaker 3: you know, and so you you somebody will start planning
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Speaker 3: seas in your head, the best thing you're going to
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Speaker 3: have to do is get implants, you know, or a
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Speaker 3: cousin got implants or something like and suddenly you think
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Speaker 3: that that's something that you have to do. So having
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Speaker 3: that conversation with someone and also doing it in in
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Speaker 3: an ethical manner to make sure the persons make the
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Speaker 3: right decisions with full uh decisions in front of them,
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Speaker 3: they know what they can and can't do, what the
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Speaker 3: results are going to be. All those things are really
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Speaker 3: necessary when it comes to having the discussion about implants.
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Speaker 3: And there's different types of implants and different types of
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Speaker 3: situations too. So having a doctor like doctor Garib or uh,
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Speaker 3: doctor Henley, that really is going to help for the
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Speaker 3: patient to isolate, Okay, here's what my situation is, here's
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Speaker 3: the type of implant that I can do, and what
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Speaker 3: it's going to mean for me in the long term.
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Speaker 5: And also, I think what drives a lot of that
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Speaker 5: thought process is the idea that implants last forever. That's
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Speaker 5: like you get those in, you know, and you're and
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Speaker 5: you're done, you know. And so you have patients that
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Speaker 5: come in that are thirty years old, forty years old,
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Speaker 5: and they say, you know what, I'm just done with
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Speaker 5: dealing with these teeth. I want something that's going to
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Speaker 5: last me forever. And I mean this is like really what.
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Speaker 3: People say, you never want to save again, just get
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Speaker 3: rid of all of my phone.
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Speaker 5: I mean, it's kind of kind of like that, right,
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Speaker 5: And that's a good analogy. And I and I have
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Speaker 5: that conversation, and there are some individuals that that may
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Speaker 5: be the best route, you know, I have that discussion. Say,
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Speaker 5: you know what, we can invest in what you have,
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Speaker 5: save a lot of your teeth, restore them otherwise, but
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Speaker 5: you're going to have to have maintenance. You know, you
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Speaker 5: have to come into your dentist for cleanings regularly. But
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Speaker 5: if you just know you for cleanings regularly, but if
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Speaker 5: you just know you're not going to do that, you
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Speaker 5: know you're not going to brush your teeth at home.
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Speaker 5: You're not going to floss. You know, maybe going to
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Speaker 5: implants is an option for is a better option for you.
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Speaker 5: And sometimes patients say, yeah, you know, that's what I'm
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Speaker 5: That's what I need because I know I'm not going
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Speaker 5: to maintain them now.
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Speaker 4: That is.
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Speaker 5: That that's the reality of the situation. That is not
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Speaker 5: recommended by any means, because truthfully, as we're doing more
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Speaker 5: and more implants in the industry in dentistry, we're seeing
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Speaker 5: that implants may not be forever and things that you
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Speaker 5: put on top of implants are definitely not forever. So
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Speaker 5: the younger you are going to a full implant option
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Speaker 5: in your mouth, the more I'm almost assuredly you will
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Speaker 5: have to do some significant maintenance on that down the line,
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Speaker 5: which is not inexpensive as well. So that's patients are
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Speaker 5: a lot of time thinking, you know, I invest heavily
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Speaker 5: right now into dental implants and I'm set for life. Well,
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Speaker 5: that may not be the case. So that's another part
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Speaker 5: of the conversation that we can have with patients, and
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Speaker 5: a lot of that depends upon which dental implant option
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Speaker 5: they go with. WHI which there are many.
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Speaker 3: One question that I just thought of that I don't
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Speaker 3: think I've asked before as far as the implants go,
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Speaker 3: if you're someone who's very active of that takes a
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Speaker 3: lot of like physical punishment some way, Like if you're
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Speaker 3: an athlete, maybe you play football or something like that,
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Speaker 3: or even a boxer or something. Right, is that something
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Speaker 3: that you should wait to your careers over before you
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Speaker 3: get an implant or is that something that you can
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Speaker 3: get and then monitor? I mean, like if what would
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Speaker 3: be the best circumstance for somebody like that, like, well,
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Speaker 3: you wanted to get it done.
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Speaker 5: It depends on your goals for sure, because as I
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Speaker 5: think I've mentioned before, there there is there's certain sports
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Speaker 5: where you lose a lot of teeth. Yeah, right, hockey, hockey, rugby,
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Speaker 5: And I know of a South American rugby team that
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Speaker 5: they've lost so many teeth that they had their their
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Speaker 5: team dentists start putting dental implants into the missing teeth
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Speaker 5: and creating a custom crown on top of it with
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Speaker 5: a bottle opener in it.
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Speaker 3: I believe it so.
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Speaker 5: Useful, Yeah, very useful, because he's like, they're going to
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Speaker 5: try to open bottles with their beer bottles with their.
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Speaker 4: Teeth anyway, So let's make them, give them a titanium.
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Speaker 3: I mean, that's right close to biohacking, right, like the
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Speaker 3: whole or you do things to your body for utility
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Speaker 3: or whatever, that's very close to biohacking.
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Speaker 5: So in that situation, those those guys uh in the
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Speaker 5: rug on the road on the rugby team, definitely are
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Speaker 5: okay with having implants while they're while they're still practicing
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Speaker 5: their sport, you know. But yeah, depends on the sport.
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Speaker 5: But that is back to that conversation about longevity and maintenance.
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Speaker 5: That is the benefit of dental implants is once you
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Speaker 5: go to those, it is titanium. They don't give like teeth,
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Speaker 5: dew and flex and move their rock solid and if
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Speaker 5: they heal well enough into your jawbone, they can take
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Speaker 5: a beating. So typically with athletes, it's it's pretty advisable
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Speaker 5: to go onto that if the situation lends itself to it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I just thought that was a I just popped
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Speaker 3: in my head. I saw Carl Lee in here yesterday.
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Speaker 3: I was like, I wonder what happened to like a
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Speaker 3: football player? You know, you get somebody like Jack Lambert,
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Speaker 3: you know, he he famously didn't have any teeth. What
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Speaker 3: if he wanted to have like all his pearly whites
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Speaker 3: in there, and what if he wanted to pop him
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Speaker 3: out before games? So he looked intimidating. But now talk
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Speaker 3: about bridges or something there. Well, let's start talking about
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Speaker 3: these things, because that's the important thing that we're talking
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Speaker 3: about this morning. Again, if you have questions for your
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Speaker 3: zero eight. And and that's the thing about when it
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Speaker 3: comes to implants and situations is you do and you
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Speaker 3: and doctor Henley would know this obviously better than anyone.
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Speaker 3: There's certain circumstances you must see more commonly than others.
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Speaker 3: What are some of the things that match up pretty
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Speaker 3: well as far as situations that a patient may be
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Speaker 3: in and implants that are perfect for Yeah.
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Speaker 5: So I think think we should start with kind of
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Speaker 5: the simplest thing. You know, what happens with you have
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Speaker 5: one single tooth implants, we're basically replacing teeth. This is
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Speaker 5: the best thing we can do right now in our
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Speaker 5: current world situation and technology that we have to give
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Speaker 5: you back A tooth is with a dental implant, Doctor Henley,
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Speaker 5: want to go through the parts of a dental implant,
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Speaker 5: like a single.
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Speaker 6: Oh you want me to go deep dive and be
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Speaker 6: it nerd Oh, I'm gaining.
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Speaker 5: I mean, you know you love doing that thing. So
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Speaker 5: let's let's let's go with what a single tooth implant?
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Speaker 5: What components there are?
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Speaker 3: For sure? For sure?
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Speaker 6: And the reason I did correct you Dale. When it
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Speaker 6: comes to implant versus dental implant, we have a very
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Speaker 6: close friend called doctor Tim Kazinski in Detroit. He's placed
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Speaker 6: something like eighteen thousand implants and it's kind of an
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Speaker 6: inside joke now every time I say so or ask
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Speaker 6: him a question about implants, he goes dental implants.
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Speaker 3: He just corrects me.
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Speaker 6: You just make sure I know he places dental implants, Like,
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Speaker 6: I don't think he's an orthpeedic surgeon or anything, but
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Speaker 6: he just always says that.
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Speaker 3: So I'm always just likely.
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Speaker 4: Talk about implants.
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Speaker 5: I've gotten calls that the patients think that I am
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Speaker 5: a different type of an implant placement surgeon of some sort.
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Speaker 6: And we are not. We are dental implant dentist.
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Speaker 3: Yes, So moving on.
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Speaker 6: So when it comes to implants, if we're going to
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Speaker 6: replace a single tooth. There are three main parts of
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Speaker 6: a dental implant. There's the implant itself, which pretty much
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Speaker 6: when you think about the parts of a tooth, you
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Speaker 6: have the part that you see called the crown of
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Speaker 6: the tooth, and the part you don't see that's in
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Speaker 6: the bone, called the root. What the dental implant replaces
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Speaker 6: pretty much is the root, and so from that you
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Speaker 6: have something that sticks out called the abutment, and then
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Speaker 6: the crown sits on top of that, and a lot
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Speaker 6: of times you can put the abutment in the crown
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Speaker 6: together called screwtained. Anyway, I'm getting into the weeds here,
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Speaker 6: but pretty much the dental implant itself is not something
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Speaker 6: that you should see. If you see it, there's probably
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Speaker 6: a problem, and we kind of fix those problems in
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Speaker 6: our offices all the time. But the dental implant itself,
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Speaker 6: pretty much when you think about what part of the
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Speaker 6: tooth it is, it's the root. And then from there
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Speaker 6: we restore on top of it by putting a screw
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Speaker 6: and screwing a screw into the dental implant, which is
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Speaker 6: itself a screw into the bone. Anyway, it's Brent just
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Speaker 6: a mechanism of screwage to screw things together to create
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Speaker 6: something that looks like a tooth. But in a sense,
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Speaker 6: the single implant, there's three parts, the dental implant, the abutment,
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Speaker 6: and then the crown.
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Speaker 4: That's right.
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Speaker 5: And that's where that is a source of big confusion
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Speaker 5: because patients come in and say, you know, I'm ready
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Speaker 5: for my implant.
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Speaker 4: Well, the way you look at it like, well, we already.
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Speaker 5: Have implants in your head. What do you mean you're
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Speaker 5: ready for your implant? It's already there. Well, no, I
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Speaker 5: haven't gotten an implant yet. Well there they're talking about
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Speaker 5: the crown, the tooth part that you use, and you
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Speaker 5: see that doctor Henley was saying that part right there.
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Speaker 5: It's the crown that goes on top of the implant.
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Speaker 5: Didentially implants, I say to a lot of people, you
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Speaker 5: got to you can think of them as kind of.
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Speaker 4: A trailer hitch receiver. You know.
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Speaker 5: It's like something you can put different attachments into, you know,
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Speaker 5: So the implant itself goes into the bone, and then
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Speaker 5: you can either put that abutment that doctor Henley's talking about.
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Speaker 5: It's typically made out of titanium screwing to that implant body,
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Speaker 5: the implant itself within the bone, and then you can
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Speaker 5: use it like a regular tooth that we've prepared for
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Speaker 5: a crown.
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Speaker 4: You put a crown on top of it.
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Speaker 5: So that's the simple single tooth, you know, baseline, this
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Speaker 5: is a basic implant what it is.
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Speaker 6: And by simple, it's very complex.
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Speaker 4: But that's the simplest iteration of an implant.
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Speaker 6: It is not easy. We've been to how many hundreds
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Speaker 6: of out maybe thousands of hours of see now to
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Speaker 6: get this to do.
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Speaker 3: What we do, so that that's simply if you want
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Speaker 3: to replace one tooth, just want to So that's kind
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Speaker 3: of the basic thing. So you come in missing a tooth,
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Speaker 3: we can do with an implant instead of something that
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Speaker 3: comes in and out of your mouth, instead of a bridge.
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Speaker 3: But moving on from that, then we start talking about
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Speaker 3: you know, now I'm not just missing one, two or
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Speaker 3: three teeth scattered throughout my mouth that I want to
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Speaker 3: replace with dental implants. Now we're starting to talk about
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Speaker 3: replacing the entire arch. We call it either the top
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Speaker 3: jaw or the bottom jaw. You're missing all your teeth
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Speaker 3: or all of your teeth are in such bad shape
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Speaker 3: that we do have to remove them, and then we
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Speaker 3: start talking about how can we put teeth back into
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Speaker 3: your head? Basically now traditionally take out your teeth, we
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Speaker 3: can use dentures, right, And patients, you know, either tolerate
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Speaker 3: dentures or they hate dentures. You know, it's not much
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Speaker 3: in between. And some get along very well with them.
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Speaker 3: However many do not. So that's another great function of implants,
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Speaker 3: and another big reason that they were brought into the
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Speaker 3: dental world is to help patients that have that are
15:58
Speaker 3: struggling with dentures. So, what do you say struggle? What
16:01
Speaker 3: do you mean they have a hard time keeping them
16:03
Speaker 3: in their mouth, They're not comfortable, they can't eat right.
16:05
Speaker 3: When somebody is struggling with dentures, what are they recognizing
16:07
Speaker 3: about themselves?
16:08
Speaker 4: All of the above, the all of those things.
16:10
Speaker 5: But typically a top denture kind of suctions up against
16:13
Speaker 5: the roof of your mouth pretty well, and the top
16:15
Speaker 5: ones stay up generally decently until they don't and then
16:19
Speaker 5: if your bone changes or you just don't have the
16:21
Speaker 5: right bone shape, you can't really get it to suction
16:25
Speaker 5: up there. Maybe you gag some In those patients, they
16:28
Speaker 5: have a really tough time because they can't even keep
16:30
Speaker 5: a top denture in, which is unusual.
16:32
Speaker 3: So you hear like a wet mouth, like sucking sounds
16:34
Speaker 3: when they talk a lot, and stuff like that. Is
16:36
Speaker 3: that usually what seems to happen.
16:37
Speaker 5: Yeah, But really what happens with those patients is if
16:40
Speaker 5: they're not able to use adhesive on their the denture paste,
16:44
Speaker 5: the denture just flops down, like gravity just pulls it
16:47
Speaker 5: down and there there's nothing to grab onto. That is
16:50
Speaker 5: a little more abnormal. Normally we can make a denture
16:52
Speaker 5: on the top that suctions up there decently, but nonetheless
16:55
Speaker 5: that's the upper denture. The lower denture is the main issue,
16:58
Speaker 5: is a really big problem. I mean the number of
17:01
Speaker 5: patients out there that have full sets of dentures that
17:04
Speaker 5: only where their top denture is probably i would say
17:06
Speaker 5: probably sixty, yeah, fifty six?
17:08
Speaker 3: Wow?
17:09
Speaker 4: Really yeah, I mean so many?
17:10
Speaker 6: Is that bad?
17:11
Speaker 4: You'll notice if you notice someone that.
17:14
Speaker 5: A lot of patients walk around with no teeth on
17:17
Speaker 5: the bottom but teeth on the top to smile with,
17:19
Speaker 5: because the bottom denture just no matter what you do
17:23
Speaker 5: as a dentist, it's yeah, I mean, it's just hard.
17:26
Speaker 5: It's hard to deal with. You have your tongue in there.
17:28
Speaker 5: That's just kicking that denture around. You don't have as
17:31
Speaker 5: much surface area for the denture to hold on to,
17:34
Speaker 5: and as you talk and chew and speak, that bottom
17:37
Speaker 5: denture is just kind of floating around. And patients that
17:39
Speaker 5: get along well with them, they've learned good muscle control.
17:43
Speaker 5: It's not so much that their jaw is holding the
17:45
Speaker 5: denture in better as much as their cheeks and their
17:48
Speaker 5: tongue kind of keep it down and they've learned to
17:50
Speaker 5: deal with it. And some some patients do well enough
17:53
Speaker 5: with them to get along with it. However, the World
17:57
Speaker 5: Health Organization has labeled a regular denture as having a
18:01
Speaker 5: disability wow because of that bottom denture, because it's just
18:06
Speaker 5: almost impossible to get just right and to work well with.
18:10
Speaker 5: So what is done as a result of that is
18:14
Speaker 5: placing some dental implants on the bottom to hold that
18:18
Speaker 5: bottom denture in place. So back to the World Health Organization,
18:21
Speaker 5: they say regular dentures disability. If you put two implants
18:25
Speaker 5: on a lower jaw and attach a denture to it,
18:28
Speaker 5: that gets them out of that disability category. That's that's
18:31
Speaker 5: the best way. That's the minimum amount of work to
18:34
Speaker 5: restore a patient to full function in a sense. So
18:38
Speaker 5: that brings us to how we can use dental implants
18:41
Speaker 5: with your dentures.
18:42
Speaker 3: And why this tool is so great because everything you
18:44
Speaker 3: just describe for some people, some people maybe are okay
18:46
Speaker 3: with it. You know, maybe they live a little bit
18:48
Speaker 3: more reclusive lifestyle and they're not out and about. I mean,
18:51
Speaker 3: that's fine. I mean some people have lifestyles that are
18:53
Speaker 3: fine with stuff like that, but other people that would
18:56
Speaker 3: be a big impediment. You know, if with having problems
18:58
Speaker 3: with the lower denter and stuff like that. How we
19:00
Speaker 3: have other implants that can help with this exactly.
19:02
Speaker 5: So now we're going to go kind of basically from
19:04
Speaker 5: the run up of what options we have in implants
19:08
Speaker 5: with dentures. Let's say so you come in, you don't
19:10
Speaker 5: have any teeth. Maybe you have a set of dentures
19:13
Speaker 5: that are as we described. You like how they look,
19:16
Speaker 5: they don't fit great. You like how they look and
19:20
Speaker 5: fit in general, but you can't keep that bottom denture
19:22
Speaker 5: in place. So in our offices, we have the option
19:26
Speaker 5: of taking those dentures that you have ad placing surgically,
19:31
Speaker 5: placing a few implants, and then using those same dentures
19:36
Speaker 5: to reattach if we deem those dentures good enough to
19:39
Speaker 5: do so. Now we reserve the right to say, you
19:41
Speaker 5: know what, especially if we didn't make the dentry, you know,
19:43
Speaker 5: we're not gonna put something on top of that that,
19:46
Speaker 5: you know, we don't really know much about and we
19:47
Speaker 5: don't think is going to be structurally sound enough for
19:50
Speaker 5: you and give you a good, good result.
19:51
Speaker 4: So that's up to the discretion of the doctor.
19:53
Speaker 5: But sometimes with our own patients, we've made them dentures
19:56
Speaker 5: and we say, you know, hey, we're going to make
19:58
Speaker 5: these the best we can if but if it's not
20:00
Speaker 5: working for you, we can upgrade you to the implants
20:03
Speaker 5: at that time, and some patients take that option on.
20:06
Speaker 5: So how to do that? You have a few different
20:09
Speaker 5: ways to do it. There are there's one the kind
20:12
Speaker 5: of most baseline option. They are called mini implants. Now
20:17
Speaker 5: I talked about before how implants can be like a
20:21
Speaker 5: hitch receiver. You can change the tops on them. With
20:24
Speaker 5: many implants. You cannot many implants. They are very small,
20:28
Speaker 5: they're thin. They're designed for patients that don't either financially
20:33
Speaker 5: can't afford the larger implants or they don't have enough
20:38
Speaker 5: bone for the larger, thicker implants, and you can only
20:41
Speaker 5: use these very thin implants, but you have to put
20:44
Speaker 5: in multiple ones. You have to put in at least
20:46
Speaker 5: four of these many implants spaced out across the front jaw,
20:52
Speaker 5: and they have a little ball that kind of sticks
20:55
Speaker 5: up through the gums once the implants are inserted, and
20:58
Speaker 5: then that little ball attaches to a small gasket inside
21:02
Speaker 5: of the denture, which is something that we do in
21:06
Speaker 5: the office after we place them, and that gives the
21:09
Speaker 5: patient some very good stability to ventures that previously we're
21:13
Speaker 5: floating around like like, uh, like boots on a rooster
21:17
Speaker 5: what we call them?
21:18
Speaker 4: You know that just there in that Texas?
21:22
Speaker 6: Is that not a Texas?
21:23
Speaker 3: I never heard that. I like it.
21:25
Speaker 4: What do you think about a rooster wearing boots?
21:26
Speaker 2: Right?
21:26
Speaker 4: It doesn't fit.
21:28
Speaker 6: Like it's high heels.
21:31
Speaker 4: Yeah, there you go, you know, flopping around.
21:34
Speaker 5: So if you got a denture flopping around, we can
21:37
Speaker 5: put put those implants in and and get those connected.
21:40
Speaker 3: Now. I can't get farn leg horn wearing boots out
21:43
Speaker 3: of my mind.
21:45
Speaker 4: You got the you got the vision.
21:46
Speaker 5: Now, However, now that we have as many implants in place,
21:51
Speaker 5: and those attachments are like little o ring gaskets that
21:54
Speaker 5: we use to go down over that little ball joint,
21:56
Speaker 5: that little ball attachment, so as you could imagine, there's
21:59
Speaker 5: certain movement and flex to that, and that's these implant options,
22:03
Speaker 5: the kind of entry level implant options are designed for
22:06
Speaker 5: those bottom dentures in particularly, put two of the major
22:10
Speaker 5: bigger implants in or four of those mini implants in place,
22:13
Speaker 5: and that keeps those dentures from kind of popping out
22:15
Speaker 5: and giving you more security, but it's not gonna lock
22:19
Speaker 5: them in like rock solid.
22:21
Speaker 6: It keeps some men, doesn't keep them stable.
22:23
Speaker 5: Right, they're not, so that's definitely better than not having them.
22:27
Speaker 5: But if patients are coming in think I'm gonna get
22:29
Speaker 5: that mini implant option and I'm gonna you know, never
22:32
Speaker 5: have to use any denture paste again, or these teeth
22:34
Speaker 5: are going to be just locked in there, really tight tightly,
22:37
Speaker 5: it's not gonna happen that way because if you can
22:40
Speaker 5: imagine the very back teeth not having anything to lock
22:43
Speaker 5: those in to hold on to, they're gonna move and
22:46
Speaker 5: your gums are designed to kind of the dentures are
22:49
Speaker 5: designed for your gums to take some of the pressure,
22:52
Speaker 5: so you're gonna have some movement in there. But a
22:54
Speaker 5: lot of patients have done this on get along super
22:57
Speaker 5: well with the mini implants and it's a great introductory
23:00
Speaker 5: option as far as implants go. So we got the
23:04
Speaker 5: minis and then we can move on to the larger ones.
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23:08
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Speaker 3: Before we went to the break, we're talking about dental
27:05
Speaker 3: implants this morning. We did give a text line question
27:08
Speaker 3: before we went to the break. This is from the
27:10
Speaker 3: three zero four four to one zero? What's the pain
27:12
Speaker 3: scale for an endplant? So I guess that just means
27:14
Speaker 3: does it hurt?
27:16
Speaker 4: Not at all?
27:17
Speaker 3: Let me turn on your mind.
27:17
Speaker 6: The pain scale for an implant, I would say is
27:22
Speaker 6: zero to one. I mean maybe one, wow. Really yeah,
27:25
Speaker 6: most often it's a zero, And I don't know why.
27:28
Speaker 6: Necessarily why there's no response, usually no inflammation afterwards. I
27:32
Speaker 6: don't have to give pain medicine, which I don't really
27:34
Speaker 6: give serious pain medicine, but not even addvil and talent all.
27:38
Speaker 6: Maybe I do give an antibodic after I placed implants,
27:40
Speaker 6: just because of some research I've read. But really there's
27:43
Speaker 6: no pain. The only pain you might have is if
27:46
Speaker 6: you have to remove the tooth and then immediately place
27:48
Speaker 6: the implant, because removal of teeth tends to be the
27:51
Speaker 6: more inflammatory, a little more painful. But no, there's usually
27:55
Speaker 6: no pain response.
27:56
Speaker 2: Wow.
27:57
Speaker 3: And so if that was a barrier, that certainly shouldn't
27:59
Speaker 3: be something if you have.
28:00
Speaker 5: An existing kind of missing tooth, there's enough bone there
28:03
Speaker 5: to do to put the implant in. All we have
28:06
Speaker 5: to do is make a small opening in the gum tissue,
28:08
Speaker 5: and that is what hurts. It's like a pizza burn,
28:11
Speaker 5: you know, like an injury to your gums that takes
28:14
Speaker 5: a week or two to completely heal. But isn't that
28:17
Speaker 5: painful for people? But you know, to doctor Henley's point
28:20
Speaker 5: that the bone, when you put the implant into the bone,
28:22
Speaker 5: there are less nerve endings within that bone itself, and
28:27
Speaker 5: you don't sensation, don't have much of that pain sensation
28:30
Speaker 5: or response. Now once in a while, if there's another
28:35
Speaker 5: issue with thinness of bone or previous infection, there can
28:40
Speaker 5: be times that there can be a pain response from
28:44
Speaker 5: kind of something else other than the implant itself. So
28:48
Speaker 5: there are times when implants can be tough. Or you know,
28:51
Speaker 5: the other day placed eight implants on one patient at
28:55
Speaker 5: one time. That's a lot of a lot of significant
28:59
Speaker 5: surgery going on, so there's some discomfort associated with that afterwards,
29:03
Speaker 5: just from kind of the like he's like doctor Henley saying,
29:06
Speaker 5: the inflammation inflammatory response of the surgery itself, not so
29:10
Speaker 5: much the implants in the bone though, So it is
29:11
Speaker 5: fascinating when things go very well. There's very little pain
29:16
Speaker 5: pain result.
29:16
Speaker 3: And this is all done right in the office and
29:18
Speaker 3: just local anesthet right.
29:19
Speaker 4: Yeah, so sure, yeah.
29:20
Speaker 5: And that's the other thing is that it's not so
29:22
Speaker 5: painless that we can do it without oh.
29:25
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, obviously got it a little bit
29:27
Speaker 3: right aftermath, isn't isn't the yeah right, uncomfortable, but we yeah,
29:31
Speaker 3: we numb you very well.
29:33
Speaker 5: Some patients opt for sedation, which you do, both of
29:35
Speaker 5: us do in our offices, and and that works really
29:38
Speaker 5: well kind of the more significant procedures. But most times
29:41
Speaker 5: we just numb up the area, take out a tooth,
29:43
Speaker 5: if we need to put the implant in, suture it
29:46
Speaker 5: all together and graft it and on good shape.
29:48
Speaker 3: That and for a patient out there, that might be
29:50
Speaker 3: perspective to get something like that. Something like that has
29:52
Speaker 3: to give you some peace of mind, you know, you
29:53
Speaker 3: don't have to worry about Sometimes when I approach things,
29:56
Speaker 3: I had some cis removed from my head a few
29:58
Speaker 3: years ago. It was fairly significant amount. There's like eleven
30:01
Speaker 3: of them, and some of them were kind of big,
30:03
Speaker 3: but they were benign. There was nothing wrong with them.
30:04
Speaker 3: They weren't going to cause any problems. They were just
30:06
Speaker 3: in my way, you know, and they messed with my
30:07
Speaker 3: hair and stuff like that. So I went in for
30:09
Speaker 3: the short and I kind of practiced ignorance. I was like,
30:12
Speaker 3: I don't really know. I'll figure out after the surgery
30:14
Speaker 3: is over, you know, I'll do what my doctor tells me.
30:15
Speaker 3: Otherwise I don't really care. Well, I found out that
30:18
Speaker 3: this was considerably more wound management than what I expected
30:21
Speaker 3: on the other end of things, and I looked terrible.
30:23
Speaker 3: I wasn't real sure exactly how bad it would be,
30:26
Speaker 3: but I looked like I'd been through something very bad
30:29
Speaker 3: and the wound recovery from that, and I got this
30:32
Speaker 3: big package on how to take care of the wounds
30:34
Speaker 3: and all this stuff. You know, I just wasn't expecting that. So,
30:37
Speaker 3: although there was a benefit to it that I had
30:39
Speaker 3: zero anxiety leading up to the surgery, because I didn't
30:42
Speaker 3: do any research, it probably wasn't the smartest I did.
30:45
Speaker 3: To be honest with you should probably educate yourself a
30:47
Speaker 3: little bit more on that. However, that being said, the
30:49
Speaker 3: peace of mind on something like this, there is no
30:51
Speaker 3: wound care necessarily afterwards. It's going to be a pretty clean,
30:53
Speaker 3: neat and tidy operation typically is.
30:56
Speaker 5: And for instance, I remember years ago a patient came
31:01
Speaker 5: in and we had to do two implants on which
31:03
Speaker 5: is significant enough, I think in a similar area of
31:07
Speaker 5: the mouth. And she had been through an implant procedure
31:12
Speaker 5: years prior where she went to the surgeon and I
31:15
Speaker 5: think they may have even had her hospitalized or inpatient
31:18
Speaker 5: out patient type of thing, and that was under a
31:22
Speaker 5: different protocol. And she came in to my office, I
31:26
Speaker 5: mean in and out in an hour, maybe two hours,
31:29
Speaker 5: all said and done, and she was like, Wow, this
31:32
Speaker 5: was so easy, Like how I cannot believe that when
31:36
Speaker 5: I had this done before, it was kind of made
31:38
Speaker 5: such a big deal. You made such a big to
31:40
Speaker 5: do about So yeah, we've we've learned a lot, We've
31:43
Speaker 5: been able to make things a lot more kind of
31:45
Speaker 5: use her friendly for patients.
31:46
Speaker 6: Now and doing well in my office. I'm kind of
31:51
Speaker 6: the I love to do guided surgery because I like
31:54
Speaker 6: to do the surgery at home in my office on
31:57
Speaker 6: a computer screen where I can actually place the implant
31:59
Speaker 6: on a computer screen, send it off to our lab
32:02
Speaker 6: that can fabricate a guided a surgical guide that allows
32:06
Speaker 6: me to place the endplant. It takes fifteen to twenty
32:09
Speaker 6: minutes per implant. It's just so quick. And because of that,
32:12
Speaker 6: I have to make a little small incision and you
32:14
Speaker 6: do this all the time as well, just making a
32:16
Speaker 6: smaller incision into the gum, which feels like a pizza
32:19
Speaker 6: burn as opposed to cutting the gums open and I
32:21
Speaker 6: hate to use that term and creating a flap. It
32:24
Speaker 6: just tends, to my opinion, heal quicker and be less painful.
32:28
Speaker 4: So yeah, for sure.
32:29
Speaker 6: Yeah, So the smaller amount of gum tissue you have
32:31
Speaker 6: to remove as long as you know where you're placing it.
32:33
Speaker 6: You can't always do that. Sometimes you do have the flap,
32:36
Speaker 6: but it tends to make the procedure go quicker and
32:39
Speaker 6: the healing go quicker as well.
32:40
Speaker 3: Briefly, before we move on, I think that you addressed
32:43
Speaker 3: at a moment ago. I want to make sure our
32:44
Speaker 3: caller got the information though from the four one or
32:46
Speaker 3: a three zero four to four to one zero. I
32:48
Speaker 3: need a tooth in the back left pulled and an
32:50
Speaker 3: endplant placed. Can I be sedated for that? I have
32:52
Speaker 3: severe dental anxiety, Yeah.
32:53
Speaker 5: For sure, and that's why we offer that in our offices.
32:56
Speaker 5: Best things to come in, have the discussion with one
32:59
Speaker 5: of our offices and and you know, make the selection
33:04
Speaker 5: to have sedation performed. And that works very well to
33:08
Speaker 5: have sedation done. Get a tooth out. Now, if you
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Speaker 5: have the tooth out, many times we can put the
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Speaker 5: implant in immediately that time. Sometimes we cannot. You also,
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Speaker 5: not to get too detailed, but a dental implant is,
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Speaker 5: like doctor Henley said, well, yeah, it's it's kind of
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Speaker 5: like a screw, a kind of big fat screw in
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Speaker 5: a sense, and it's cylindrical. Whereas when we take out teeth,
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Speaker 5: especially back tooth, as a caller saying, it actually has
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Speaker 5: two roots on it, maybe three roots, and the shape
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Speaker 5: of the void that it came out of is a
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Speaker 5: bit different than what the implant needs to go into.
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Speaker 4: So we have to reshape that area, that socket.
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Speaker 5: And a lot of times we can get enough bone,
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Speaker 5: have enough bone to grip our implant at the time
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Speaker 5: that we take the tooth out. Other times we have to,
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Speaker 5: you know, take the tooth out. There's just not enough
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Speaker 5: bone there to hold the implant, so we have to
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Speaker 5: put grafting material in and come back a few weeks later.
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Speaker 5: So that's the one caveat to it.
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Speaker 3: It's a great information as well a caller. If you're
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Speaker 3: interested in this and you want to give the Greeb
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Speaker 3: help you out. Have about three and a half minutes
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Speaker 3: left here. We got to get some high impact impact
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Speaker 3: dental impact talk out there. Oh, I got it.
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Speaker 6: So I want to discuss two patients yesterday and kind
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Speaker 6: of the dichotomy of how they came in and I
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Speaker 6: kind of after just discussing with them and giving them recommendations,
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Speaker 6: they flipped what they wanted to do. And so one
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Speaker 6: patient told me, for example, I kind of mentioned this
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Speaker 6: earlier that all her lower teeth just had to come out,
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Speaker 6: and I said, well, let's take a look. I don't
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Speaker 6: know for sure, but let's just take a look. And
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Speaker 6: by the end of that appointment, after taking interal photos,
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Speaker 6: after doing a digital scan and showing her on the
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Speaker 6: computer screen, after pulling up the X rays on the
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Speaker 6: TV in front of her and just showing her everything.
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Speaker 6: She kind of was not convinced, but just saying, oh,
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Speaker 6: I have other options. I don't have to take out
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Speaker 6: the On the flip side, I had a patient where
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Speaker 6: it was a broken tooth and I removed the broken piece,
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Speaker 6: and I said, we probably should remove this tooth. It's
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Speaker 6: it's kind of deep. It's right below the gun level,
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Speaker 6: not below the bone level yet, but it's it's tricky,
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Speaker 6: and we call that not maybe a non restorable tooth
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Speaker 6: where you probably shouldn't restore it. But this patient was
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Speaker 6: adamant that she wanted to save it, and so I said, well, okay,
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Speaker 6: let's save it.
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Speaker 3: Let's do it.
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Speaker 6: If you are adamant that you want to save it,
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Speaker 6: we have to go through this whole protocol of doing
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Speaker 6: a root canal and then putting a crown on it.
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Speaker 6: But if you're adamant, as I mean, as long as
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Speaker 6: you understand that this might not be the best option,
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Speaker 6: then you know, so we always have options. I sometimes
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Speaker 6: I go in thinking we for sure have to take
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Speaker 6: this out, and then we don't. Other times the patient
35:40
Speaker 6: tells me we have to take this out, and I
35:41
Speaker 6: convince them, no, we don't have to take it out.
35:43
Speaker 6: And so to that caller out there, we need to
35:45
Speaker 6: have a full discussion. Right, we don't know your situation,
35:48
Speaker 6: and that's why we're here to listen. I think the
35:49
Speaker 6: number one thing we do as dentist is listen to
35:52
Speaker 6: make sure that we take care of you, because each
35:54
Speaker 6: individual patient has their own concerns and their own things
35:56
Speaker 6: that they need to discuss.
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Speaker 3: The one thing you guys do a great job of
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Speaker 3: it comes over on the radio, and of course I've
36:02
Speaker 3: been to doctor stevens Off as many times is you
36:05
Speaker 3: don't assume the patient has any particular amount of knowledge.
36:07
Speaker 3: And sometimes for people in a medical field, I think
36:09
Speaker 3: sometimes it's hard for you to segment your knowledge from
36:13
Speaker 3: what is common knowledge and things that's common that you
36:15
Speaker 3: were dealing every day. Sure, like the super advanced, I'm
36:17
Speaker 3: sure the regular patient isn't going to know that. But
36:19
Speaker 3: also some relatively common stuff in your field is even
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Speaker 3: very obscure to somebody that's not in your field. And
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Speaker 3: you guys do a great job with that communication and
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Speaker 3: getting over that barrier so people kind of understand the
36:31
Speaker 3: full spectrum of what they're going into there. And I
36:32
Speaker 3: think that's very beneficial at any medical office, especially because
36:36
Speaker 3: nobody likes that that gray area. And what and something
36:39
Speaker 3: that people don't like to do is ask questions. You know,
36:40
Speaker 3: they don't like they think they're questioning authority, or they
36:43
Speaker 3: don't they think they're going to look dumb or you
36:44
Speaker 3: know whatever. It is. Sure you guys do a great
36:46
Speaker 3: job of getting that information out so folks can make
36:48
Speaker 3: an educated opinion. To make that give and take of
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Speaker 3: asking questions and getting answers a very natural process and
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Speaker 3: I think that folks really appreciate it.
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Speaker 5: Oh, we appreciate hearing that for sure. Becaus something we
36:57
Speaker 5: strive to do. And that's another part of all that
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Speaker 5: technology that we have. Doctor Henley was describing, you know,
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Speaker 5: showing being able to educate the patient and uh, you know,
37:05
Speaker 5: co discovering with them what's best for their for their needs.
37:08
Speaker 5: But we we have a lot of different other implant
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Speaker 5: options we didn't get to today. Uh we talked about
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Speaker 5: the the ventures and attaching those and kind of scratching
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Speaker 5: the surface from that area, but there are more ways
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Speaker 5: we can make it so you have teeth that stay
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Speaker 5: in and don't come out. We might have to do
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Speaker 5: a part too, so we'll have to you know, delay
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Speaker 5: that maybe for our next show and put a little
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Speaker 5: bookmark in it now. But yeah, it's been it's been
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Speaker 5: a great discussion and there's there's always more to talk
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Speaker 5: about with implants.
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Speaker 3: Great information from the Greed Dental Group. As always the
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