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04/22/2025 Ask the Expert with Ghareeb Dental Group · WCHS Network Podcasts

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  Speaker 3: And replus to Good morning to you. You're listening too,
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  Speaker 3: ask the expert WCHS the Voice of Charleston. It's Tuesday morning,
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  Speaker 3: and I was assured about the weatherman or at the
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  Speaker 3: weather forecast coming in that today is going to be
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  Speaker 3: a stunner. I have to admit, yesterday morning, what's better
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  Speaker 3: than this morning. It was a gorgeous morning yesterday, and
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  Speaker 3: then we've got some clouds and some rain and things
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  Speaker 3: like that later on in the afternoon. Today's starting off
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  Speaker 3: a little sunny, so hopefully that means that will burn
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  Speaker 3: off and we're going to get some like mid seventies
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  Speaker 3: temperature and it's going to be really nice. What a
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  Speaker 3: great day to talk about teeth is what.
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  Speaker 4: I have to say. There always is.
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  Speaker 3: When when I hear there's going to be a great
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  Speaker 3: when I hear that there's a lot of great weather
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  Speaker 3: coming about, I'm like, we got to talk to we
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  Speaker 3: got to talk about some dental hygiene this morning, and
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  Speaker 3: that's what we're going to do. Joining us in studio
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  Speaker 3: this morning, of course from Greed Dental Group. We have
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  Speaker 3: doctor Stephen here and doctor Carson Henley, both from Greed
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  Speaker 3: Dental Group, taking your calls in text this morning and
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  Speaker 3: call us if you have any questions about your dental situation,
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  Speaker 3: dental hygiene, anything else going on three zero four three
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  Speaker 3: four two eight one three one. You can text three
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  Speaker 3: zero four non three five five zero zero eight. We
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  Speaker 3: want to talk about a lot of different things this morning.
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  Speaker 3: The last time that that doctor's Carson and UH and
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  Speaker 3: Stephen were on the program, we started talking about implants
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  Speaker 3: and I think we got a couple of calls and
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  Speaker 3: we didn't quite finish up our conversation. We're going to
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  Speaker 3: talk a little bit more about implants beyond the I
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  Speaker 3: think we got to like the anchor points with like
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  Speaker 3: dentures and things like that. So we're going to talk
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  Speaker 3: about implants a little bit more in depth and go
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  Speaker 3: into fluoride in the news now, yea.
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  Speaker 4: And we were up for it.
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  Speaker 3: We were kind of warning people about this what's going
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  Speaker 3: on with night here.
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  Speaker 4: We got a little reverb. What do we call that?
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  Speaker 3: There we go, that's sound.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, don't check.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know the thing. It's you. Let me see
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  Speaker 3: what I can figure out here. Give me a second course.
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  Speaker 3: But we have uh uh, we're going to talk about
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  Speaker 3: those things and all kinds of other stuff. So if
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  Speaker 3: you want to give just call this morning. You can
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  Speaker 3: or you can text three z are four nine three
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  Speaker 3: five five zero zero eight. And we appreciate that. So
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  Speaker 3: picking up, of course, gree Dental Group. You can find online.
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  Speaker 3: It's a Grievedentalgroup dot com, gh A R E B.
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  Speaker 3: Grieve Dentalgroup dot com and their phone number one one
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  Speaker 3: hundred Great Care onne hundred. Great Care will take you
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  Speaker 3: to the closest location to you, which is playing of
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  Speaker 3: them round here. We'll get the information out there a
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  Speaker 3: little bit later on. So implants. We were talking about
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  Speaker 3: that a little bit on the previous show, and we've
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  Speaker 3: talked about implants before, but we always do tend to
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  Speaker 3: get caught up on the uh uh no pun intended
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  Speaker 3: on the on the dentrists and how we can anchor
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  Speaker 3: on the dentriesants and things like that. So we need
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  Speaker 3: to make sure everybody knows exactly all the different tools
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  Speaker 3: that are available when it comes to implants.
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  Speaker 4: For sure. And that's what's uh, what's kind of difficult
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  Speaker 4: is people you talk about dental implants have a different
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  Speaker 4: idea or an idea in their head of what that means,
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  Speaker 4: and that can mean to some people, I need implants
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  Speaker 4: to hold my dentures, which is kind of like the
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  Speaker 4: one of the first iterations of implant dentistry and what
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  Speaker 4: it was used for. And that's what we discussed last
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  Speaker 4: time about getting in at least two anchor points with
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  Speaker 4: the implants to allow that to have your denture snap
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  Speaker 4: into and hold in better. But then beyond that, once
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  Speaker 4: you get into two or four implants that provide those
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  Speaker 4: snaps for your dentures, then we can start transitioning if
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  Speaker 4: we kind of upgrade from there using those four implants,
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  Speaker 4: maybe up to six implants per arch, meaning on the
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  Speaker 4: top or on the bottom. You put four to six
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  Speaker 4: implants in and that's enough to hold what we call
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  Speaker 4: an implant supported bridge now dental bridges. People kind of
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  Speaker 4: aren't quite sure what that is sometimes, but it's effectively
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  Speaker 4: linking teeth together all the way around, and so you
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  Speaker 4: have one piece that glues and screws into these implants
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  Speaker 4: into your mouth and then they do not come out
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  Speaker 4: and you clean around them. We make you passages for
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  Speaker 4: you to floss underneath them. But that's kind of the
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  Speaker 4: Cadillac version of someone that comes in saying, you know what,
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  Speaker 4: my teeth have broken down for one reason or another.
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  Speaker 4: I've had dentures for a number of years, and I'm
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  Speaker 4: sick of dealing with something coming in and out of
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  Speaker 4: my mouth. I want something locked in that are like
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  Speaker 4: natural teeth. And that's the best thing that we can
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  Speaker 4: give them at this time, which is a fantastic option.
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  Speaker 4: We put in bring in the patient, put in the
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  Speaker 4: implants at the time. If they have teeth that we
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  Speaker 4: remove the teeth many times, then put the implant in immediately,
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  Speaker 4: and then they can walk out that day with temporary
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  Speaker 4: teeth on those implants, which is a big game changer
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  Speaker 4: and a life changing thing for many people. Now we
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  Speaker 4: have to let those implants heal for a period of time,
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  Speaker 4: for twelve weeks before we put the final bridge on.
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  Speaker 4: That allows the gum to shoes to settle down to
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  Speaker 4: kind of shrink and move to where they're going. And
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  Speaker 4: then we make the final the final bridge a period
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  Speaker 4: of time later after the implants have healed completely into
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  Speaker 4: the bone. But the fact that we put in you know,
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  Speaker 4: four to six implants at one time and link them
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  Speaker 4: all together gives them the stability to allow us generally
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  Speaker 4: to put in temporary teeth at that time of the
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  Speaker 4: of the tooth removal. So it's it's a pretty pretty
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  Speaker 4: amazing process that's been that's uh, that's been introduced by recently.
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  Speaker 3: So there are phases that are in this that does
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  Speaker 3: there it is there will be some time that's taken
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  Speaker 3: for for this to be proper for the patient. But
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  Speaker 3: that's the that's the point of this is taking this
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  Speaker 3: in the stages and and uh and making sure it's delivered.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, this is uh, this is really pretty amazing.
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  Speaker 3: For somebody on the on the I want to say
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  Speaker 3: end to user, that seems a little it seems a
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  Speaker 3: little techy sounding, but yeah, the patient, I guess is
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  Speaker 3: a good way to put it. Right. It sounds it
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  Speaker 3: sounds very Uh, the resolution at the end of this
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  Speaker 3: sounds very good. It seems to have a very patient positive.
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  Speaker 4: Experience, absolutely, And that's that's what really patients are very
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  Speaker 4: excited about and interested in, is getting the that that
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  Speaker 4: product that you can kind of walk out with at
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  Speaker 4: that time and there is some period of healing. But
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  Speaker 4: with this this other procedure, with the fixed bridge option,
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  Speaker 4: you're not going a period of time without teeth, you know.
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  Speaker 4: So that's what everyone's concerned about. Oh well, I'm going
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  Speaker 4: to be, you know, walking around toothless. No, that's kind
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  Speaker 4: of our policy. We don't want to send people out
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  Speaker 4: without teeth, out of our office without any teeth. So
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to find a temporary solution. And in that scenario,
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  Speaker 4: that temporary solution is still a fixed option, something that
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  Speaker 4: does not come in and out of your mouth, unless
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  Speaker 4: there's an issue with the bone and we have to
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  Speaker 4: kind of slow walk it a little bit more. But
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  Speaker 4: in that case, then we'll provide you with a temporary
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  Speaker 4: venture of some sort, some type of tooth replacement option.
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  Speaker 3: The choices that that someone has. Of course, you you
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  Speaker 3: lay out the plants for him when when a patient
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  Speaker 3: would come in. So there's there when you get to
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  Speaker 3: the point that someone is a good candidate for this
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  Speaker 3: type of implant and being able to take that that
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  Speaker 3: next step with them. That's something that that helps out
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  Speaker 3: with the patients quite a bit. Is there is there
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  Speaker 3: any particular, like almost a perfect patient scenario that you're
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  Speaker 3: looking for that that would match up with with having
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  Speaker 3: this type of implant?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? Sure, yeah. Do you have anything comes to mind
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  Speaker 4: doctor Hendler Rut's.
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  Speaker 3: Test, like almost a perfect patient scenario that you're looking
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  Speaker 3: for that that would match up with with having this
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  Speaker 3: type of implant?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? Sure, yeah, do you have anything that comes to
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  Speaker 4: mind doctor Hendler.
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  Speaker 3: Rut's test, Baby, I'll just speak over here, all right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: sorry about that.
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  Speaker 4: DoD Steve and I are very close.
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  Speaker 2: For sure.
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  Speaker 5: For sure. The perfect patient is the patient that what
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  Speaker 5: that that that really desires something that does not come
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  Speaker 5: in and out, because a top denture can provide a
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  Speaker 5: very comprehensive way to chew and bite, although it does
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  Speaker 5: come in and out. And so if you want that
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  Speaker 5: permanent replacement, that fixed bridge that attaches to the implants.
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  Speaker 5: You have to know that you will not be too
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  Speaker 5: happy with dentures. So that's the first thing. Second thing
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  Speaker 5: is the cost. It's gonna be a little more or
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  Speaker 5: considerably more expensive to go with a fixed bridge as
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  Speaker 5: opposed to a denture, and so we need to, I
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  Speaker 5: don't know, just kind of have those discussions and make
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  Speaker 5: sure that the patient understands that before we kind of
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  Speaker 5: proceed with the treatment. Because once you kind of start
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  Speaker 5: there are some caveats you can kind of change a
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  Speaker 5: little bit the path, but once you kind of start
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  Speaker 5: down one of these pathways, it's hard to go back.
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  Speaker 5: And so there's a lot of informed consent. There's a
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  Speaker 5: lot of discussion that goes with and that's I think
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  Speaker 5: what makes us so I guess we're special. I'll say
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  Speaker 5: we're special special. We talk a lot, and we listen,
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  Speaker 5: and we want to make sure that the patient understands
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  Speaker 5: those options and understands that maybe the option that they
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  Speaker 5: want when they walked in, it's not the option that
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  Speaker 5: they need whenever they walked out.
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  Speaker 4: And so there's a lot of that involved.
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  Speaker 3: That sounds good, that's uh, And that's what we always
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  Speaker 3: love about when we do this program and we talk
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  Speaker 3: about these types of things. That's what we always like
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  Speaker 3: is the patient experience. You guys are are very patient experience.
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  Speaker 3: Forward want to make sure they have a great experience
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  Speaker 3: starting from your very starting from the from the office
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  Speaker 3: experience that you have that that's actually at your individual offices,
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  Speaker 3: all the way up until the choices that you're giving
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  Speaker 3: on things like this, I mean having that been on
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  Speaker 3: to be customized and taking uh and given the person
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  Speaker 3: the results that they're looking for. Is exactly what you're looking.
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  Speaker 4: For there, that's right. Yeah, we want to make sure
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  Speaker 4: the patients are happy with what they're what they're getting
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  Speaker 4: for and the expectations are fulfilled for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Does that work? Now, let's try it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's good.
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  Speaker 3: It still doesn't work. I don't know what. So this
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  Speaker 3: is something that's not uh, that's not Mike mic problem.
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  Speaker 3: This is something else. Okay, Well we'll figure it out.
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  Speaker 3: We'll figure out in a misus.
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  Speaker 4: That's right, we can we can alternate on.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess that might be something we have to do.
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  Speaker 3: That's a good point. Let's do this. Let's uh, let's reset,
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  Speaker 3: Let's take a break, and then when we come back
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  Speaker 3: we will have more things we're gonna talk about. We're
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  Speaker 3: four three four two eight one three one. We'll be
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  Speaker 3: back after this. You're listening to ask the expert and
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  Speaker 3: from from GREEB Dental Group, we have doctor Stephen here
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  Speaker 3: and doctor Carson. You can give us a call this
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  Speaker 3: the Voice of Charles, and I'm Del Cooper in studio
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  Speaker 3: with me this morning. Doctor Steven is here and doctor
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  Speaker 3: Carson is here from GREEB Dental Group. We have a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of a mic issue this morning, so we're
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  Speaker 3: having to share a mic between doctor Stephen and doctor Carson.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry about that, that is uh yeah, yeah, well we've
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  Speaker 3: which is you all saw it.
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  Speaker 4: It's so close for us to know in there, it's like, okay, guys,
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  Speaker 4: the studio is broken, we need the other one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, right ready, but don't worry about it, just fix
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  Speaker 3: the other exactly. That's what I'm thinking.
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  Speaker 4: Moves up to the top of the.
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  Speaker 3: List, right right, it's like, don't worry about fixing the
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  Speaker 3: But anyway, I appreciate you guys working along with us,
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  Speaker 5: Before we go to Floride, I have a question for
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  Speaker 5: doctor Stephen because I was actually on Reddit last night
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  Speaker 5: and there was a question posed among It was a
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  Speaker 5: dental thing, and so some dentists asking other dentists if
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  Speaker 5: they're seeing a lot of other dentists maybe providing all
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  Speaker 5: on four, all on X, whatever that procedure you want
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  Speaker 5: to call it, because all on in four is the
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  Speaker 5: brand whenever you place four to six implants and then
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  Speaker 5: go to a full fixed bridge. Is that maybe happening
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  Speaker 5: too often with patients? And is that maybe a maybe
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  Speaker 5: it's being guaranteed as a lifetime solution to problems as
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  Speaker 5: opposed to trying to save the teeth that you have.
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  Speaker 5: And so there's that ven diagram of what's gonna work
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  Speaker 5: for every patient or for each patient, and so I
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  Speaker 5: think that's just a good question to kind of hit
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  Speaker 5: on before we move on to Florida.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a great question. It's something very valid that
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  Speaker 4: I've been seeing as well from kind of the industry
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  Speaker 4: at large. This was even even whenever we in dentistry
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  Speaker 4: started implementing this procedure and using dental implants more and more.
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: The statistics are true that dental implants have a very
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: high success rate. They are ninety plus percent successful. Now,
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: in the medical field, ninety plus percent is tough to gain,
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: tough to get. So whatever implant you put in, it's
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: making you know, it's performing very very well. But you
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: have to remember that all of these percentages and success
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: rates are based upon kind of the overall medical model
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: which you start Then you start thinking, okay, what about
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: like hip replacements, joint replacements, their success rate is based
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: on a five year forecast. So that's I think a
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: lot of the miscommunication that when you look at dental
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: implants after you put them in at five year mark, Yeah,
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: ninety plus percent, ninety four percent or more are successful
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: in the fact that they are still in the bone
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: and still working. But now if you start telling patients
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: and patients start thinking, oh, well, this is going to
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: be you know, once it's in my head's in there forever,
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: you know, and I don't have to worry about it
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: ever again, which was kind of the message that was
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: broadcast early on, then it's it's going to be great
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: for the rest of my life. Well, if you start
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: looking at these things not at the five year mark. Now,
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: let's look at them at ten year mark. Now they've
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: been in people's heads long enough that we can look
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: at them for thirty year marks. Then those success rates
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: go down a little bit because we're still putting something
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: in a mouth that has bacteria that has effects on
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: bones and on gums. So all that to say that
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: if you have lost your teeth due to very bad
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: periodonal disease and you're prone to this type of periodon
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: titis we call it, that's the kind of infection of
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: the gums around the tooth you put in dental implants.
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: Now we're finding that there's something called implant titis that
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: you can still succumb to some of these dangers, to
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: some of these bacteria that come in and can destroy
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: the bone around your implants. All that to say that
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: many times patients have these procedures done and they think
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: they're bulletproof, but you still have to have regular maintenance.
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: And that's why we harp on that all the time
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: on the show. Come in for your regular cleanings. Let's
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: take a look. Even if you have a mouthful of implants,
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: we still have to clean them. We have to monitor
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: them to make sure that nothing is kind of getting
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: out of control and we can address it before it
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: goes south. Now, the other question that doctor Henley was
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: asking is about are too many of these things maybe
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: being done When patients have natural teeth, you know that
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: maybe we can do something with And that's part of
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: that commerce station that we have with the patients. And
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: I've had that conversation probably in the past two months.
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: I feel like I've had it fifteen times, to say,
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: you know, your teeth aren't in great shape. We can
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: invest in your teeth and rehabilitate them, but then are
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: you going to maintain them? And we have to have
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: that honest conversation to say some patients come in saying,
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: you know what, I haven't maintained them my whole life.
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: I know I'm not going to maintain them, so I
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: need something different that isn't as as susceptible to decay.
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: But they're like we just discussed, they're still susceptible to
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: gum disease, but it's titanium and porcelain we're putting in there.
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: So yes, they won't decay and have cavities in them,
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: but they still need maintenance. So some patients make the choice, Yeah,
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: I know I can. I could invest in these teeth
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: and get a few more years out of them, but
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: then I'm going to be back here again in three
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: or four years, so they make the choice to go
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: to the implant option. Others say, and I've had this
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: multiple times, and this is probably more often than not.
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: They say, wow, I can save these teeth. I don't.
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: I don't have to get rid of them. You know
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: that's great. Let's do that, and then we train them,
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: educate them on what to do, and we just do
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: a couple on One patient had a bad tooth in
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: the front that he thought he's going to have all
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: his teeth out and said, no, you do have gum disease.
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: We need to treat that. Let's get teeth cleaned really well,
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: we'll do a crown and you're in great shape. And unfortunately,
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: had he gone elsewhere, I do believe that they some
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: places would say, no, we need to take them all out.
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: So you got to you gotta really have that conversation,
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: get second opinions if you need to. And uh, and
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: that's that's important.
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah, And I think that goes to who we are
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: as general dentists, as comprehensive dentists. Uh, if you go
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: to a hammer shop, you're going to be sold a hammer.
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: But if you go to our okay that's a weird
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: and knowledge that makes sense.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: Right, But but if you go to a dental shoving
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: saddle lammer, you know.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah exactly, yeah, yeah.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: We can do the grounds, we can do the crowns,
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: we can do the Perredonald disease treatment.
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: We can do implets as well if we need to.
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: So we can do it all. We can offer that
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: and we can kind of give that nuance to the
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: conversation that maybe not all can or or or should
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: right when it comes to their to their abilities. And
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: so I think that's kind of another way that we're special,
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: is that we are able to do at all, and
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: we also know our limitations. We know that if something
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: is we call it herodontics, we will tell the patient
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: this is a hero dautics. We we will do it.
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: But I don't think we should. But just as long
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: as you understand that we advise you maybe not to
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: do this, and then usually the patient goes all right,
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: I understand I shouldn't be doing this. Maybe we should
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: take out this tooth as opposed to as opposed to
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: trying to save it. So we always give patients, you know,
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: so many different options, so many different treatment modalities, and
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: I think that's what probably sets us apart.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: One thing that that, first of all, I know for
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: a fact because we've done the show before and we've
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: talked about implants, you guys have always been on the
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: forefront of this isn't a lifetime solution where you can
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: set it and forget. You got to you got to
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: maintain the things. There's things that you have to do
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: to uh to uh keep them in your mouth and
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: to keep healthy and things like that. I mean, you
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: guys have always been on the on the leading edge
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: of that. And another thing that as you were talking
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: about that that it made me think of is you're
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: talking about ninety plus percent success rate. If more people
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: are finding ways to do the procedure, maybe without vetting
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: the patient as much when their want and the actual
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: need of the of the the implant, and that in
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: that way and the success that it could possibly be
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: if they're just you know, pushing it to push it, basically,
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: that's eventually going to affect the success rate, right. I mean,
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: people won't be as happy five years down the line
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: because maybe they didn't go through the proper vetting procedures,
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: wasn't giving all the options to begin with, so on
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: and so forth. So it's really important to have that
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: conversation with your with your dental hygiene professional, whoever it
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: might be, to make sure you're making the right decision
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: and maybe get a second opinion from someone who's not
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: like an implant specialist or something, because you know, that's
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: the tool that they favor, and maybe there's other tools
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: that are availble to you.
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and that, And that's what we're seeing is that
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: now these restorations have been in people's mouths for so
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: long that we're starting to get more data on how
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: long they're lasting. And the facts are that they there
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: are many times when they have to be remade or
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: redone throughout their lifetime, depending on how young they were
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: when they had it. And that's why. Also, what we're
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: finding is that the more we can delay the aggressive,
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: the more aggressive treatments, the better off the patient is
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: for their lifetime. You know, if we can we can
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: do There was a school of thought, oh, don't do
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: any root canals, because you're just gonna have They're gonna
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: break and we're gonna have to have implants eventually. But
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: the fact of the matter. But the fact of the
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: matter is that not all of you know, many many
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: implants root canals succeed for a very very long time.
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: But even if it has to be replaced down the line,
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: it's better to hold that bone there for as many
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: years as we can because then once we put that
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: implant in, then the options after the implant aren't great
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: if the implant ends up giving us trouble. So the
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: longer we can delay these types of more extreme treatments,
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: the better it is.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: Now that's great information. And again, this can get so
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: complicated and there are different options that you could have,
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: and uh, the greeb dental officers have tons of tools
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: available that they can help you with there's not a
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: necessarily on one size fits all, so you need to
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: give them a call one hundred Great Care, one hundred
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: Great Care to get you to the closest location near
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: you that can help you out and determine, because it
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: could be a little bit of a journey to figure
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: out what's going to be the best solution for you
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: that's going to work out for you long term, and
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: it's best to talk to someone who's going to sort
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: of give you all the different options, all the different
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: tools that are available for you to do that. So
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: again that number is one hundred Great Care, one one
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: hundred Great Care, and the web address is GREEB Dentalgroup
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: dot com. That's g h A r e B. GREEB
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: Dentalgroup dot com is where you can get that information.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: We'll be sure to get more information out there as
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: we go along the remainder of the program. If you
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: do have a question, you can give us a call
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: three zero four three four two eight one three one
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: three zero four three four two eight one three one
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: we uh. We mentioned that we would talk a little
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: bit about the fluoride situation, a little bit of background.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: Of course, I'm not sure what the official where we
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: are officially on this, but I believe that uh uh
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: uh that uh. Director of Health and Human Services from
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: a from the HS from the country, Robert Kennedy Junior,
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: has talked about removing flooriud of the initiative a florid
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: from our public waters. It's really interesting because I remember
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: I can't remember the name of the book now I
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: read it. It's probably fifteen years ago, and it was
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: a book that had to do with using science to
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: make policy in the United States, and it had like
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: fifteen different what it called cessful programs that over the
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: course I think it started maybe in the early nineteen
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: hundreds or something like that, and it went up to
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: modern day at the time, which was probably the early
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: two thousands. And chapter four, that's the one thing I
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: can remember, was chapter four. Chapter four was floride. Was
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: the floridization of our water was considered a great scientific achievement,
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: great use of science with policy, and it showed the
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: data on how much it's helped dental hygiene in the
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: United States, showed the data showing no adverse results on it. Tons.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm not talking about a couple of studies.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: There's just so many studies out there about that. So
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: it's a little surprising. It's a little surprising. What does
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: it mean? I mean is it? First of all, what
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: does Florida, Florida the water do. Ye oh bye, we
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: got doctor doctor Carson.
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: The nerd, all right, So pretty much the importance of
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: fluoride is basically for our children. Whenever our teeth are
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: being formulated, what we want to do is have fluoride
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: in the body at a low level that is scientifically acceptable. Uh,
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: And that amount of florid in the body will actually
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: get soaked up into the development of your teeth and
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: actually make your teeth stronger and more susceptib or less
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: susceptible to acid decay and acid erosion, about ten times
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: stronger than if it were just made of the normal
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: tooth structure. And so by putting florid into the drinking water,
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: by having our children drink it, my children drink water
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: from the from the tap, they are developing their adult
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: teeth to be stronger and less susceptible to acid. So
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: basically it just creates stronger teeth. Now, how did we
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: find out that fluoride was something Florida is naturally produced?
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: It is a natural byproduct. It's a naturally produced, earthly product.
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: The reason we found out that floride was helpful or
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: can be helpful, is that there was a dentist that
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: moved out to Denver, Colorado. If I'm not getting this
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: perfectly correct, please help me, doctor Stephen. He moved out
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: to Denver, Colorado, and he found out he was looking
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: at these children because where he came from there was
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: a lot there are a lot of cavities with young children.
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: But when he moved out to Denver, there were no cavities,
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: and he's like, what the heck is going on? It
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: might have been Colorado springs if my memory starts me correct.
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: He's like, why are these children have no cavities? What's
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: going on? And they also have some something that their
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: teeth are a little discolored a little bit as well.
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: So he did some digging. He kind of did some
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: research and found out that there's a lot of fluoride
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: naturally in their drinking water in the wells that were
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: being dug to to to provide nourishment to the valley
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: in that area. And so he discovered that fluoride can
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: actually produce stronger teeth. Now, what he was seeing is
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: called fluorosis. Some of that discoloration of the teeth, and
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: that's at higher levels of fluoride. We don't want, We
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: don't really push that level of fluoride. The actual level
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: that we adhere to that scientifically, I would say proven
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: is zero point seven to one part per million. That
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: keeps it at a low enough level that we don't
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: have fluorosis, but high enough to where it actually helps
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: produce stronger teeth. And so, after years and years of
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: that scientific discovery, it has been kind of the consensus
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: of the dental community and the health communities at large
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: that fluoridation community fluoridation at a zero point seven part
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: per million to one part per million is a good
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: way to prevent young children from having cavities and actually
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: produce healthy teeth.
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: Into their adulthood.
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: And so it kind of came out of a natural
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: source of natural drinking water, and then we kind of
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: took that across the nation and said, well, how about
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: we produce this at a lower level and introduced it
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: to our community drinking level.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: Honestly, and the explanation sounds like a brilliant achievement of
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: happenstance research and deployment of what was a pretty good policy,
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: it seemed like to me. So what does that mean?
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: As far as I mean downstream, it seems like it's
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: going to mean more tooth deca in ten to fifteen years,
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: whatever it might be. I mean that you want to
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: see more tooth kae of children that are born. But
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: as far as a parent looking out for this sort
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: of thing, what should you do? How can you incorporate
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: more floord in your life? Then if this becomes a
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: thing where you need to start looking at and I
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: guess the same argument would go for parents that don't
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: use any public water in their mixes and stuff too.
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so this is where it kind of gets interesting.
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: First of all, I have a floor white crystal in
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: my office. I think many of our offices gifted to
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: a bunch of the doctors before.
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: I don't have one.
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: Where's my gift? Well, you left me, so you're I
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: had it in our office.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: To iterate here, Floorhead's not a chemical, Well, let me
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: take it back. Everything's a chemical. Everything everything's a chemic
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: water is a chemical. So so yes, but floorhead's naturally occurring.
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: It's not something that's not something that they're manufacturing in
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: a lab somewhere and inserting into the water. It's naturally so.
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: It's a natural crystal that was in in that that
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: water in natural source, and that the water interacts with
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: the fluorite and creating fluoride in the water you ingested
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: and it and it strengthens your teeth. So with that
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: in the past, it was lauded as the number one
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: public health initiative of the twentieth century, if I'm not
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: if I'm not mistaken, so it was. It created a
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: lot of improvement for public health across the nation, across
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: the world wherever it's been implemented. Because childhood carries childhood
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: cavities can create very poor outcomes. That something that's very preventable,
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: and it's yes, the number one, as doctor Henley's point out,
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: it is the number one, Like childhood disease is our cavities,
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: you know, so we have one decrease that because it
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: is really a bacterial type of a situation. There and
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: then as doctor Henley is saying, once that is in
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: your body and helps you build your stronger adult teeth,
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: than they're less susceptible to that decay. So that is
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: kind of the basis. Now, this was when it was implemented.
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: It worked out very well, and you say, well, what
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: do we do now. Let's say that somehow we get
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: water fluoridation taken away completely, Like let's say that we
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: have some type of a water crisis in our Kanau
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: Valley which has happened and no one is drinking public water. Well,
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: the good news is that we do live in a
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: different time and that we have a lot of different
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: adjunctive materials so in the past, and that truly I'm
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: speaking from experience through that water crisis, because I was
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: very concerned that you know, we'd see a big uptick
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: in cavities. But what's happened and what I've seen to
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: happen is that if someone is not drinking from the
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: tap and getting that water fluoridation, what we do have
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: are very good, predictable fluoridated toothpastes, to mouth rinses and
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: treatments at the office that we can help. And then
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: also for some patients that maybe live way out and
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: don't have access to the water fluoridation and they aren't
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: using you know, maybe the Florida toothpaste as much, we
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: can also prescribe fluoridated tablets that you can give to
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: your children that do provide that mineral to them to
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  Speaker 4: help their adult teeth grow stronger. And you need to
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  Speaker 4: give it just as they're younger than their adult teeth
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  Speaker 4: are developing. That's the biggest issue there is trying to
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  Speaker 4: get those adult teeth strengthened. So we do have kind
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  Speaker 4: of adjunctive measures if we do have the scenario in
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  Speaker 4: which we don't have that public water fluoridation anymore. And
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  Speaker 4: now also personally i'm seeing that for patients that come
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  Speaker 4: in that really I know that that family is trying
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  Speaker 4: to stay very natural and stay away from any type
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  Speaker 4: of additives, and that can also mean and it's a
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  Speaker 4: big it's a big product, a big initiative now for
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  Speaker 4: a lot of people to go to all natural toothpastes too,
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  Speaker 4: you know. And so that is not only they're not
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  Speaker 4: getting their their water fluoridation, but they're not getting the
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  Speaker 4: topical aspect of the toothpaste either. And their kids are
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  Speaker 4: coming in with more cavities and so fortunately for them,
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  Speaker 4: they're being regular to their dentist and we can still
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  Speaker 4: catch those cavities when they're small. But then we're doing
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  Speaker 4: fillings on patients you know, maybe that could have avoided it. However,
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  Speaker 4: we're staying on top of it, the concern of our
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  Speaker 4: patients that aren't being regular to their dentists, and then
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  Speaker 4: if that gets out of control, the decay can accelerate
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  Speaker 4: very quickly, and then we have absessed those hospital stays,
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  Speaker 4: things that could definitely be avoided.
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  Speaker 3: One of the things. Only a couple of minutes left here.
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  Speaker 3: But the first thing I think about when I think,
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  Speaker 3: when I'm thinking about something like this is dental hygiene
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  Speaker 3: is a process in this country that we've struggled with
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  Speaker 3: for a long time. I mean, I think our dental
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  Speaker 3: hygiene is better than what most countries are in this state,
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  Speaker 3: maybe not quite as much, but I remember when I
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  Speaker 3: was a kid and maybe you guys, well let me
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  Speaker 3: just ask you, do you know of or are you
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  Speaker 3: guys asked to like elementary schools to give presentations and
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  Speaker 3: how to brush and stuff like that. Is that something
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  Speaker 3: that still happens.
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  Speaker 4: Not as frequently because now we do have the public
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  Speaker 4: health element that wasn't there when we were younger, and
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  Speaker 4: we have a dentist and hygienis that work within the
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  Speaker 4: public school systems to help provide those services, but they
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  Speaker 4: are many times giving that education to patients. And we
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  Speaker 4: still have some of our staff go into some schools,
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  Speaker 4: but there are some schools that say, you know, we've
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  Speaker 4: got that covered.
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  Speaker 3: I fear with less kids going to school and with
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  Speaker 3: less resources available to staff these types of positions that
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  Speaker 3: like I remember, like being taught how to brush my teeth,
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: sent home with like that doe that you put in
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  Speaker 3: your mouth so you could see where you miss brushing
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  Speaker 3: your teeth, so you could taught yourself to brush your
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  Speaker 3: teeth better. It wasn't just one time. It was like
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: a couple times. When I was in elementary school, we
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: had like the teeth Day, you know, the tooth day
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  Speaker 3: where we would have to learn the stuff. Come home
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  Speaker 3: with your little package. You'd have like a little workbook
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  Speaker 3: you'd have to do as you were brushing your teeth.
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  Speaker 3: Take it back to work the next day, just to
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  Speaker 3: show that you were trying to learn about your dental
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  Speaker 3: hygiene and stuff along those lines. If we lose any
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  Speaker 3: part of that element and we lose fluoridation, I'm just
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  Speaker 3: thinking that we're not great as a country, and in
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  Speaker 3: this state, not great with our with our hygiene practices, anyway.
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  Speaker 3: In a lot of ways, it just seems like that
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  Speaker 3: a public health crisis at some point in the in
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  Speaker 3: the relatively near future. That's what I'm concerned about.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know's I see that as a valid concern.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, that's that puts the responsibility back on the parents, and.
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  Speaker 3: That's maybe that what's they want. Which if that's the case,
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: you know that's the case.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe, but but yeah, we have the good news is
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: that we have the options and the products available to
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: us now that weren't that weren't before, and it's something
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  Speaker 4: that we can work together to make sure it doesn't
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  Speaker 4: give us too much trouble.
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  Speaker 3: And you can consult with your dentist. Right. So, if
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  Speaker 3: if this is something that either you're concerned about or
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: you do live a natural lifestyle, or if you if
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: you look around your house, you're like, I didn't even
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: think about that. But I use nothing but bottled water
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  Speaker 3: for everything I do. You know, I use my distilled
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: water for the coffee. I have bottles of water here,
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: you know. I use mix my kids drinks or whatever
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  Speaker 3: with bottled water. They don't get any of this anyway,
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  Speaker 3: So what can I do? There? Are like you talked
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  Speaker 3: about earlier over the counterproducts that we know work now,
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  Speaker 3: So that's something you can ask your dentists about to ask, hey,
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: this is the situation that we're in. What would you
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: suggest that we use, either as an additive or whatever
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  Speaker 3: it might be for for our lifestyle.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, not people think about toothpaste, but there are
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: some great fluoried mouth rinses as well that that work
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: well for kids, that kids kids like and they're fun
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: to use. And then there are some that also detect
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: that plaque, like you've talked about those rinses that showed
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: that light up your teeth blue or red, you know,
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: like we'll show you where you're missing. So yeah, I
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: use some of those products and make sure your kids
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: are getting instilled good oral hygiene from the beginning.
• 35:49
  Speaker 5: But please warn your kids before you do it. Unlike me,
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: I had my girls do the tablets and they were like,
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: I'm bleeding right.
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: I say that was me too when I was red,
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: and like when I put it in I got home,
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: I was like, is this right? Like I was a
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: real bloodshot kid too, so I was like, oh my gosh.
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: It's just turning just turned you of red and stains
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: the plaque.
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: And you know, it's so funny because when I had
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: my when I had my root canal done and I
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: had the bleeding problem that I had where I had
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: to call Metro to get some help on the thing
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: that I remembered, Like, the thing that I remember the
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: most was the time that I brought that stuff home
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  Speaker 3: from school and I had those dyed in my mouth
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: and my mouth was just filled with what I thought
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: was blood. At the time, I was like, what happened?
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: What was this thing that my mom was like, are
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: you hurt? And I'm like no, She's like, it's probably
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: just the pilding dummy, yeah, and it was. It was
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: It was fine.
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's quite educational when you do that.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's it's all kinds of stuff that was found.
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: And man, I was not doing a good job at
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: brushing my teeth.
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: Incidental school, we had to do that and we had
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: like to pass a class. We had to like have
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  Speaker 4: a ninety eight percent or plus better you know, plaque score,
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: you know, or point to whatever removed ninety eight percent.
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: That was hard hard.
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  Speaker 3: I can see it.
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  Speaker 4: Dental students and you're a guy, got this and you
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: put those tablets in. You're like, Wow, I'm missing a lot.
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: I need to get that.
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  Speaker 3: Wrapping up the program, we make sure you have the
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  Speaker 3: information for GREEB Dentzil Group one line, GREEB Dental Group
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  Speaker 3: dot com. G H A R E E. GREEB Dentil
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  Speaker 3: Group dot Com. The phone number is one hundred Great Care,
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: one hundred Great Care. You can call that number and
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: be routed to the closest office to you, Poka, South Charleston,
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: Cross Lane, Saint Albans Tays Valley, and Kanall City. Doctor
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: Stephen is in the South Charleston location and doctor Carson
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: is in the Kanall City location. We'll see you boys
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: back here next month. Next month sounds good.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you m You can't wait.
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  Speaker 3: Hopefully in the new studio in a working microphone. Then
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  Speaker 3: we'll see what happens. This has been asked the expert
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  Speaker 3: with Garreve Denzil Group. I'm Del Cooper. Thanks so much
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