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10/02/24 • 18 min
Dental offices are made up of a lot of different team members. We dove into some of the roles in a couple previous episodes, but today we are talking all things dental hygienist. What do dental hygienists do and how do they operate within a dental practice? Let’s dive in.
SIDE NOTED: We are not only rounding off this segment of “who’s who in the dental office”, but we are also rounding off season 1! We have enjoyed having you all on this journey and can’t wait to see you in season 2! We will still be active on all our socials so drop us a line. Don’t be a stranger!
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Well, well, welcome back to another episode. I’m Dr. Mike. – And I’m Dr. Rusty. – And we’re two general dentists practicing in Portland, Oregon. – Welcome back to our podcast, DM a dentist. – In today’s episode, we’re talking about our final team member in the who’s who in the dental office. This is part three, and we’re talking about the dental hygienist. – The hygienist? You mean the cornerstone of the dental office? – You mean the boss? – Yeah, basically the boss. – They’re kind of in charge, it seems like. – The boss, sometimes, you know. – My boss, day to day. – We love our hygienists, but you know. – Yeah, but they run the place. – They do. – Yeah, in a lot of ways, they do keep the office running. And keep a lot of things. – Absolutely. – Systems running, recall patients coming through. I mean, hygienist is important. – I mean, does your hygienist or does your hygienist? Does your patients say, “Hey, I wanna see you” or they wanna see the hygienist? – Oh, for sure. They request a hygienist. They build a relationship with them. You know, the hygienist is like the bread and butter of the practice. It’s bringing people through to get exams. And I mean, they’re coming back to see the hygienist though. They build a relationship with them. They’re not coming to see me. – No, they wanna see Vonda, or Sam, or Angela. Any of you all that are amazing. – Yeah. – But when they’re in their chair, they’re happy. They’re getting their teeth clean, things are good. When they’re in my chair, it’s ’cause they need something more. So typically, patients are just happier, I think, when they’re coming for a hygiene visit. ‘Cause they’re– – Yeah, it’s like a real spa day. – Yeah, it’s basically– – Yeah, it’s a treatment. Yeah. – Something crazy. – But what is a role of a hygienist? I mean, you know, we talked a little bit about some of the roles. What are they called? – Dental nurses. – Dental nurse. – Yeah, so are dental nurses? – As you all know, they’re not dental nurses. – Yeah, if you listened to our early episodes, no one in the dental office is called a nurse. So y’all better know that if not go back in with then I think it was the assistant– – Listen to a different one. – Yeah. – These are what we’re talking today about dental hygienist, not dental nurses. So yeah, what are they? – The hygienists, they’re really involved. So they’re providers of the office too, right? They’re licensed in a similar way to the dentist or license. By the state, they have to go to a lot of school, a lot of training. So they’re super involved in oral health, in treating oral disease, and a lot more ways than just cleaning your mouth. They have a few kind of main functions I would say. As a dental hygienist, your number one is they’re gonna be providing hygiene, aka cleaning your teeth. The other thing they’re gonna be doing a big part is education, you know, oral hygiene instructions, education, types of toothbrush, water picks, different, you know, maltherinces and things that are gonna be really helpful. So aka teaching you how to clean your teeth. And then the other thing they’re gonna do, we kind of lump this one together is providing, you know, more information or applying medications, you know, things like different toothpaste, maltherinces, you know, they’re seeing, you know, maybe fungal or viral infections that they can spot and have us, have us, you know, prescribed medication for. So that’s another kind of big role for them. – Yeah, no, I love that you described it that w...
06/12/24 • 22 min
Last week we talked about the various positions that make up a dental office. There were quite a few followup questions asking us to expand on some of the job descriptions. So, we decided to start a series of “who’s who in the dental office”. This will be a 3 part series and we are starting off strong with the business team. This week Bonnie Kost is joining us and talking about all things related to dental insurance. She explains the difference between medical insurance and dental insurance, dives into some insurance nuances to look out for when choosing a dental plan, and gives you some tips to help you maximize your benefits. You don’t want to miss this episode!
As always, feel free to reach out through our instagram @YourDailyDoseOfDental or through our website http://www.DoseOfDental.com. We would love to hear from you and hope your questions can be featured on our show!
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Ashley 00:00:02 Welcome to DM, a dentist, your friendly neighborhood podcast, where doctor Rusty and doctor Mike are here to make dental care approachable for everyone because everyone deserves a healthy smile without the fear.
Dr. Mike 00:00:24 Alrighty, so I have Bonnie with us today. Say hello, Bonnie.
Bonnie 00:00:28 Hello. Well, hello, everyone.
Dr. Mike 00:00:29 This is Bonnie. She’s been working in dental for how long now?
Bonnie 00:00:33 About ten years now. I started in the back.
Dr. Mike 00:00:36 Start in the back.
Bonnie 00:00:37 We talked about that last week.
Dr. Mike 00:00:38 So what is back?
Bonnie 00:00:40 Back office is being a dental assistant, being a hygienist, being a dentist. So front office does everything up front. So we push the paper and do all of the insurance and scheduling, and back does everything else for us.
Dr. Mike 00:00:58 So, yeah. Like clinical versus business team.
Bonnie 00:01:01 Yes, absolutely.
Dr. Mike 00:01:02 So, yeah, Bonnie’s been doing this for a while, so we had her on the show. I know we talked about last week, what are the different roles in the dental office? And this week we decided, why not talk to someone who does it for a living?
Bonnie 00:01:13 I do do it for a living. I am technically a finance coordinator, which is a fancy way of saying, I tell you how much everything’s gonna cost.
Dr. Mike 00:01:22 So you would say you are well versed in the insurances, eh?
Bonnie 00:01:27 I have so much knowledge of insurance that sometimes it hurts. There are thousands of different plans out there, and our goal is always to know as much as we possibly can in order for our patients to get the most out of their benefits.
Dr. Mike 00:01:43 And it’s hard. Cause it’s always. You were saying earlier, it’s always a moving scale, right?
Bonnie 00:01:47 Yes. Sometimes it does feel like we’re on a little bit of quicksand. Like, say anything is an absolute, and it changes every January. So every January, we have a big push to rediscover every dental plan that we have coming into our offices.
Dr. Mike 00:02:09 That’s wild. So they change a lot.
Bonnie 00:02:10 They change quite a bit, actually. And I will call it frustrating, but it’s also, you know, that is just how our country is ran with dental insurance currently.
Dr. Mike 00:02:23 And the bad thing is I will do things in the back and, like, treatment plan all these things and get all excited, and then I’m like, oh, it’s probably covered. Who knows?
Bonnie 00:02:32 And it’s not.
Dr. Mike 00:02:34 So I’m the one that gets Bonnie in trouble, but he does quite a bit. Hey, we’re very good friends, so I’m allowed to do that.
Bonnie 00:02:39 Yes, absolutely.
Dr. Mike 00:02:41 Okay, Bonnie, let’s dive in. So the one thing that gets me into hot water as the dentist is I don’t know much about dental insurance. That’s why Bonnie’s here.
Bonnie 00:02:48 Yep.
Dr. Mike 00:02:49 And I think it’s good. I don’t like, I’m here to give the clinical side of things not necessarily be dictated by corporate America.
Bonnie 00:02:56 Thank you. Yep. And I do, I do actually prefer it that way. When I am looking for an office to work at, I, while it’s nice for the doctor to acknowledge costs of things, I think their job is to plan the best smile for you and whatever that looks like. And we can always come up with alternatives, but the dentist should not be even considering cost because it changes how they do things. And we want what’s best for eac...
08/14/24 • 14 min
The Olympic Games have dominated TV screens for the past few weeks and sadly have come to an end. The US pulled off the win with medal count, but tied China for number of gold medals. Gold is so coveted, but did you know dentists have been using gold to restore teeth longer than the Olympic Games have been using gold to signify victory? Yep. You heard that right. In this episode Dr. Mike and Dr. Rusty chat about gold in dentistry and other common materials used to restore teeth!
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As always, feel free to reach out through our instagram @YourDailyDoseOfDental or through our website http://www.DoseOfDental.com. We would love to hear from you and hope your questions can be featured on our show!
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Transcript:
Welcome to DM A Dentist, your friendly neighborhood podcast where Dr. Rusty and Dr. Mike are here to make dental care approachable for everyone because everyone deserves a healthy smile without the fear. Welcome back! We are back! It’s been a little while since we put out an episode, but we’re really excited to be back. I know Rusty, it’s been like a busy summer, man. Yeah, we’ve been out hiking and camping, backpacking, I think you’ve been to a couple weddings. Concerts. Yeah, all the summer things. Yeah, now mention our exciting news coming up too. We have a new podcast studio. So we’ve been in the process of moving studios, sorry, we’ve been a little behind on the content, but yeah, we’re excited. We’re almost moved into our new place. No promises. I don’t know when we’ll be done getting it ready. Yeah, new place. Yeah, so we’re still in our original studio as you can see, but I’m super excited to show you the new space as we get moving into the air and as we get set up in the new space, so can’t wait to show you all what happens. Yeah, super excited about that. It’ll be awesome, but I’m also super excited about the Olympics. It’s been great. We just finished up this past week. Yeah, and USA with the overall win. Yeah. I saw you know we... Hey. You said... You said... Yeah, we had a tight China with 40 gold medals, but we got the overall medal count because we got more silver and bronze than they did. Yeah, I think USA ended up with a total of 126 medals. Yep. China had 91, so we got them there. So beat them by a size of a amount. Overall medal count is nice, but we know it’s gold that matters, and we tied them there 40-40, but got the overall count. True. Yeah, and funny, funny you say that. The gold was first given out at the Olympics in 1904 in St. Louis, so that was like the first gold medal, which is... Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so it’s been around a long time, yeah, the common thing. Yeah. And the Olympics have obviously been around a lot longer than that, but gold, yeah, just surpassed 100 and so years, 100 and a little over that. But gold has also been used in dentistry actually for a lot longer than it’s been used in the Olympics. Gold was used, you know, at least 2,500 years ago, maybe a little bit further back than that too. Wow. Yeah, cool, very cool. Yeah, so it’s very old, isn’t it? It is. It’s been around thousands of years, and I would say the most common use was like to replace missing teeth and to help, you know, like reattach or form of a false tooth with gold, or, you know, various other things gold was used for, like, you know, thousands years ago. Gold used in jewelry, even back in the days, using like cosmetic things for a while, kind of like tooth gems today. Right. Tuth gems are a BC jewelry for your teeth. Yeah, they are. They are, seriously. They’ve got a little line in the enamel and then pops some gold in there, set it up and have a little bit of bling in the gold. Some people are still doing that today with tooth gems or various things like you mentioned. So, yeah. It’s definitely still commonly used today as well, gold. I would say most of the tooth gem type stuff are going to be like, you know, gems, diamonds, sapphire, things of that nature, but gold is definitely still common commonly used. I would say it’s more and more common within the last 100 years in dentistry. Yeah. But still definitely commonly used today. Yeah, definitely very commonly used in mouths and jewelry, things like that. I mean, I still do gold crowns and gold crowns. I do at least four to five a month. Right. And so would you say that’s what if you’re using gold in your practice today or using it mostly for gold crowns? Yeah. I would say mostly ...
What is DM a Dentist?
DM A Dentist
05/08/24 • 1 min
This is a brief introduction to DM a Dentist, where Dr. Mike and Dr. Rusty are working hard to change the stigma surrounding dentistry. Give this trailer a quick listen to see if this podcast is a good fit for you, and submit all your questions at the links below to be featured on future episodes.
#2 Options for the Anxious Dental Patient
DM A Dentist
05/08/24 • 20 min
Do you love this sh**? Are you high right now? Do you ever get nervous? Are you single? I heard you..Okay, that's enough of that. But these are really questions that Dr. Rusty and Dr. Mike ask their dental patients if they are nervous about their dental visits and are considering sedation. This episode breaks down the different types of sedation Dr. Rusty and Dr. Mike do in their practice. Listen to learn about options you could discuss with your dentist to overcome dental anxiety. As always, submit questions to the links below to be featured on future episodes: https://www.instagram.com/yourdailydoseofdental/
05/29/24 • 23 min
Women did not earn the right to vote until 1920. Let that sink in and listen to Dr. Rusty and Dr. Mike discuss a recent speech given by Harrison Butker AND interview their first podcast guest!!!! Dr. Liu talks about her experiences being a woman in a male-dominated field and a little bit about her educational background. So, if you like football, but also care about women's rights, this episode is for you.
As always, feel free to reach out through our instagram @YourDailyDoseOfDental or through our website http://www.DoseOfDental.com. We would love to hear from you and hope your questions can be featured on our show!
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Ashley 00:00:02Welcome to DM a dentist, your friendly neighborhood podcast, where Doctor Rusty and Doctor Mike are here to make dental care approachable for everyone because everyone deserves a healthy smile without the fear.
Dr. Mike 00:00:24Well, well, welcome back.
Dr. Rusty 00:00:26Welcome to another episode of DM a dentist.
Dr. Mike 00:00:28I'm Mike. I'm Rusty, and we're here to chit chat about teeth.
Dr. Rusty 00:00:32We are sorta, sorta. Today is definitely about teeth. It's always about teeth. But on today's segment of what? The filling.
Dr. Mike 00:00:43Oh, we almost slipped up there.
Dr. Rusty 00:00:44I really wanted to say the other one today because today's is, you know, a little weird.
Dr. Mike 00:00:50Yeah, we had a. To say the least, there was a recent commencement speech that we had.
Dr. Rusty 00:00:55Yeah. So I'm sure if you've seen it, if you've watched social media at all, this guy's been getting ripped apart. Harrison. But Kerr, he's the Kansas City chiefs kicker, if you don't know. Regardless, who cares what he does, really? But he gave a commencement speech at, like, a catholic school. Right. And, you know, he's basically getting ripped apart on social media, I think, for good reason, based upon what he said.
Dr. Mike 00:01:21Yeah, let's read in that.
Dr. Rusty 00:01:23Yeah. Just for any of you who haven't heard, Mike, please, please read. Please read what he said.
Dr. Mike 00:01:27This is a direct quote, I think it is. You, the women who have had the most diabolical lies told to you. How many of you are sitting here now about to cross this stage and thinking about all the promotions and titles you're going to get in your career? Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world, but I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world. Now, for context, this was said at a commencement speech.
Dr. Rusty 00:01:58A commencement speech.
Dr. Mike 00:01:59So women and men are graduating because they chose to pursue education in a career. So it's just. It's odd content.
Dr. Rusty 00:02:09I hate it.
Dr. Mike 00:02:09I hate it.
Dr. Rusty 00:02:10The most diabolical lie at their graduation is that they can get promotions and titles in their career. I mean, that's what they've just spent years working for.
Dr. Mike 00:02:18Right? And we're saying that basically being a mother and having children, basically we're going back to gender roles, is what it feels like, whether he meant it or not. That's just not it. That's not.
Dr. Rusty 00:02:28It seems like you meant it. But anyways, as we said, it's not directly tooth related, but we felt it really important to talk about and highlight. Women in dentistry are becoming more and more common, thankfully. But dentistry has been predominantly a male dominated field for majority of history. Right, Mike?
Dr. Mike 00:02:46Yeah, it has. I mean, even so, looking at this, this lady named Lucy Hobbs Taylor was the first woman to get a dental degree in the US in what year, Rusty?
Dr. Rusty 00:02:571866.
Dr. Mike 00:02:59So, like, it feels like a long time ago, but it's not if you think about generations. 1866. Like, my grandmother, great grandmother, were born in the early nineties. Like, we're not that far removed.
Dr. Rusty 00:03:09Right, right.
Dr. Mike 00:03:10So, yeah. And then there's a couple more we want to highlight.
Dr. Rusty 00:03:12Yeah. Sarah Kraut was the first us navy dentist.
Dr. Mike 00:03:16What year was that?
Dr. Rusty 00:03:171944.
Dr. Mike 00:03:19So that is relatively recent. I mean, some of our parents were born.
Dr. Rusty 00:03:22Yeah, World War two.
Dr. Mike 00:03:24Yeah, that's not...
#3 Tooth Sensitivity and Taylor Swift
DM A Dentist
05/15/24 • 22 min
No one likes tooth sensitivity....we get it. In this episode, Dr. Rusty and Dr. Mike discuss why some people experience tooth sensitivity as well as ways to prevent it. They also dive into what to expect after a dental procedure as it pertains to sensitivity and when to seek help from your dentist. And yes, for some reason Taylor Swift is involved.
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05/24/24 • 24 min
In this episode Dr. Rusty and Dr. Mike discuss the growing trend of "at home healthcare"...most notably veneer techs and their infiltration into cosmetic dentistry. They also dive into the best way to take care of your teeth; from the proper way to floss, to the correct order of operations for your oral health routine. And yes, the order does matter...so tune in for some dental chat with a side of comedy.
As always, feel free to reach out through our instagram @YourDailyDoseOfDental or through our website www.DoseOfDental.com. We would love to hear from you and hope your questions can be featured on our show!
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#1 Welcome to DM a Dentist
DM A Dentist
05/02/24 • 28 min
Welcome to DM a Dentist! We're so excited you're here. In this episode, you'll meet Dr. Rusty and Dr. Mike and get to know a little of their backgrounds and goals for this podcast. They discuss where they attended dental school, how they met, and where they are now. They also discuss common reasons people avoid going to the dentist, as well as ways they help patients get the care they need in their practices.
The hope for this podcast is to help reduce your fear and anxiety surrounding dental care. Fear is a major barrier to care; Dr. Rusty and Dr. Mike just want to show you they are two normal guys (that happen to know a thing or two about teeth) and want to help you have a healthier mouth.
So tune in, ask questions, and follow along on all of our social media channels to get the most out of the content our docs are creating for you.
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#6 Role Call - Who's Who In The Dental Office
DM A Dentist
06/05/24 • 20 min
There are many team members that make up a dental office. Dr. Mike and Dr. Rusty had quite a few DMs last week asking about the roles certain people in the dental office have (SPOILER: no, we do not call our dental assistants nurses). So, tune in as we talk about who's who in the dental office.
As always, feel free to reach out through our instagram @YourDailyDoseOfDental or through our website http://www.DoseOfDental.com. We would love to hear from you and hope your questions can be featured on our show!
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Ashley 00:00:02Welcome to DM a dentist, your friendly neighborhood podcast, where Doctor Rusty and Doctor Mike are here to make dental care approachable for everyone, because everyone deserves a healthy smile without the fear.
Dr. Mike 00:00:24Well, well, welcome back.
Dr. Rusty 00:00:26Welcome to another episode of DM a dentist.
Dr. Mike 00:00:28I'm Mike.
Dr. Rusty 00:00:28And I'm rusty, and let's talk teeth. So happy that you're here listening just again. So, today's June 2, officially. I love it. I love it. Yeah. Barely, though.
Dr. Mike 00:00:38Summer.
Dr. Rusty 00:00:39Summer. You know, June always typically feels like summer, but in Portland this year, it's a bit wet. Yeah. There's an atmospheric river coming through, which, actually, until I moved to Portland, I didn't even know that was a thing.
Dr. Mike 00:00:49Yeah, but everyone talks about it, so I'm like, okay, here it is.
Dr. Rusty 00:00:52All it is. It's a bunch of rain in June. But another great thing about June is that it's officially pride month, as well. So happy pride to everyone out there.
Dr. Mike 00:01:02Happy pride. Hope you all celebrate, and, yeah, it's great. So, speaking of pride, did you see the Adele snippet online that's going viral?
Dr. Rusty 00:01:10I don't think I've seen this.
Dr. Mike 00:01:12Someone. Dell was talking about work weeks, and someone yelled like, pride sucks. Now, there's context. People think he might have said, work sucks, but Adele heard pride sucks, and she was basically like, no, you don't come to my show and say, pride sucks. You're wrong. And so it was. It's an. It's a funny little video.
Dr. Rusty 00:01:28This was like a heckler at her concert. Okay. Okay.
Dr. Mike 00:01:30So that was kind of cool. But she was talking about her work week, I think. And I think everyone misheard the guy. I don't know. It's hard. It's hard to hear, but it was funny.
Dr. Rusty 00:01:38Well, who knows? I mean, there is definitely a lot of hate against the community that celebrates pride, for sure. So I wouldn't be surprised that we celebrate it. Yeah, definitely should be celebrated. And, you know, I wouldn't be surprised, unfortunately, if there was a heckler that said something negative. So hopefully it wasn't that. But if it was, shame on you, because Pride's definitely shame. Pride definitely should be celebrated. Something that deserves.
Dr. Mike 00:01:58Things need to be celebrated. We've come a long way, so.
Dr. Rusty 00:02:00Yeah, and just, like, you know, we talked about last week, women's rights and women coming a long way. I think, you know, the. The support for the lgbt community has definitely come a long way. Yep. And still has a long, long way to come, for sure. But June is an important time to think about it and celebrate. You know, I know that there's some things coming up in Portland. Although Portland, I found out, waits until July to do, like, their big pride. They do. Yeah. Which maybe it's because of all this rain out there.
Dr. Mike 00:02:25So apparently because of other festivals that are going on, they're like, oh, we're gonna move it. But it's kind of odds, like, the.
Dr. Rusty 00:02:30Road out of festival and stuff. I get it.
Dr. Mike 00:02:33But we'll see what we can get into. Maybe something fun will be going on. No, no, something will be going on. We'll figure out what we want to do. But. So we had a DM that came in, and I love this question because I hear this a lot, where we have a patient sit down, and then the dental assistant leaves the room, and the patient was like, I really like your nurse.
Dr. Rusty 00:02:53Yeah. Yeah.
Dr. Mike 00:02:54So I feel like this question fits the bill. And anonymous wrote, what does the dental nurse do? So that's what we're gonna talk about.
Dr. Rusty 00:03:04Yeah. We're assuming you don't probably mean dental nurse. Maybe you mean, you know, the dental a...
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