A Tale of Two Hygienists Podcast

Episode begins around minute 9:00

In this episode we catch up with Claire Jeong, RDH, BS, MS to talk about some very important things - students! We discuss curriculum tactics and ways to engage the students. Claire is an expert on using techniques to remember facts that are helpful for tests and exams. We play another round of trivia with Claire and the results may not surprise you one bit...

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133 Amanda Gallie - President of the British Association of Dental Therapists (Pt 2)

Interview starts around 5:15

In this part 2 we continue our conversation with Amanda. We learn more about the construct of the therapists and their associations. Again, amazing information and we are so excited that she was able to be on with us!

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Meet Amanda

Amanda is the President of the British Association of Dental Therapists. She qualified as a Dental Hygienist in 1996, and as a Therapist in 2012 from King’s.

Amanda works in education, teaching DCP’s and Industry partners; and clinically as a Dental Therapist for Bupa Stamford, she sits on the Bupa Advisory Board, and is a Swiss Dental Academy trainer.

Amanda has a passion for Prevention, and MID for all ages, and is presently studying for an MSc in Advanced Minimally Invasive Dentistry at King’s College.

She has been working on the Calcivis beta test as a tester and advisor since August 2017.

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With May being Women’s Health Month, Michelle and today’s co-host Machell Hudson, RDH, from the ‘Reflection Health’ podcast, welcome a guest with an abundance of experience in the field. Dr. Barbara Steinberg, DDS, is a clinical professor of surgery at Drexel University College of Medicine, as well as an adjunct associate professor of oral medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine. She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Oral Medicine, and an internationally invited lecturer in the areas of dental treatment of the medically compromised patient and women’s health. She has also authored numerous articles and contributed to major textbooks on these subjects, and Dentistry Today has recognized her as one of its Leaders in Continuing Education since 2002.

In today’s episode, Dr. Steinberg discusses the importance of, and the impact of the pandemic upon, many crucial areas affecting women’s health, specifically: nutrition, exercise, stress, support systems, attitudes, routine screenings, eating disorders, intimate partner violence, and heart disease. She concludes by offering her very best advice for all listeners based upon her many years of experience and extensive knowledge and insight.

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:

Interview starts: 2:44

• Dr. Steinberg’s professional history
• The impact of the pandemic on women’s health
• Nutrition
• Exercise
• Sleep and practicing good sleep hygiene
• Stress
• Support systems
• Positive attitudes and sense of humor
• Routine screenings
• Eating disorders and the role hygienists can play in helping to diagnose it
• Intimate partner violence (IPV)
• Heart disease
• Dr. Steinberg’s very best advice

QUOTES:

“The average weight gain during the lockdown was about two pounds per month.”

“One of the very best forms of exercise is walking.”

“If you don't make time for exercise, you'll probably have to make time for illness.”

“Sleep deprivation can be one of the risk factors for coronary artery disease, anxiety, depression, migraines, decreased function of our immune system, increased sensitivity to pain, insulin resistance.”

“Stress just really affects our eating pattern, our sleeping pattern, our ability to concentrate. Stress is also now a risk factor for heart disease.”

“Even a minute a day of meditation will carry you through the day.”

“They say that people that have sex regularly, at least once every two weeks, responded better to stressful situations, and their blood pressure elevated less than those who didn't.”

“Encourage your patients to please keep up with not only their dental appointments, but also all their medical screenings that are germane for their particular age group.”

“People with eating disorders did absolutely terrible during this pandemic.”

“In this time of great uncertainty and disturbance, we face the added danger that isolation brings to those that are struggling with an eating disorder.”

“You'll have a lot of telltale signs in the...orofacial head-neck region that may be a telltale sign that they have an eating disorder that they don't want you to know about.”

“The bottom line is you need to get these people help.”

“If their health is in real jeopardy, I'm going to get the parents involved and the pediatrician.”

“Of the victims of intimate partner violence with physical abuse, 75% will have head and neck orofacial findings.”

“Make sure that before we dismiss them, they feel safe in going home. And if not, you have a responsibility to call up whatever resources you have in your area where you practice...you need to get them there safely.”

“But women also do not believe that some of the symptoms they're having could be cardiac in origin.”

“There are two signs that could be cardiac in origin that most women tend to say, “Oh, it's stress” - insomnia, and extreme, extreme fatigue.”

“Too many women are just not making it because they don't act on symptoms that they've had because they don't believe it...could be their heart.”

“If any of you are pregnant or, contemplating pregnancy or breastfeeding, it is safe to get the vaccine.”

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Our patients present with different symptoms. Sometimes we catch them during a particularly acute episode of dry mouth and sometimes we don't... but what about all the times in between? Should we tailor our care based on the severity of xerostomia? Tom Viola chimes in with his opinion!

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What can the tongue tell us? Chinese medicine has been using the tongue for centuries to help determine the health of different parts of our bodies. They use shape, texture, color, consistency, dryness, fissures, and so much more on different parts of the tongue that correlates with different organs and areas in our bodies. Lani McBeth is our guest to give us a crash course into this fascinating world!

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