#12 What Do Dentists and the Olympic Games have in Common?

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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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 ...

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#11 DM Debrief - All Your DMs Answered

In this episode Dr. Rusty and Dr. Mike round up all the DMs you all have sent in. They hit the topics of “waterpik vs string floss” to “can I rinse my mouth with urine” (yes someone really sent that question in). And that goes to say...if you ask it...they’ll answer it. So tune in, this episode is a wild ride.

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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. Well, well, welcome back everybody to another episode of DM A dentist. It feels really good to be back in the podcast studio. We took a little two-week hiatus for, you know, Fourth of July, been doing some camping and stuff, so it feels good to be back. It’s been good. It’s also been pretty hot, so we took a little bit of break. True. But this week had some big news. It did. It did. You know, officially, I think we can call it Mike, but politicians are officially more hated than Dentists. Jesus. It’s like, it’s insane that we had an assassination attempt. Yeah. I mean, it definitely is wild. I can’t believe it happened, honestly, you know, at least, I guess the Secret Service had a quick escape route, so, you know, Trump was able to just get in the van and go’ed. Right? Right? You get it? No! Sorry, sorry, y’all. What an eerie feeling. But anyway, I mean, in all seriousness, that’s terrifying that that’s happening. I mean, we should not live in a nation that we have to deal with this, regardless of the party you’re involved in, right? Like, insane. Well, I’m living a country that we are even making light of it. Of course, it’s a very serious thing, and we’re not taking it lightly. Regardless of what side of the street you live on, you know, violence is never the answer, and doing something like this isn’t going to help our situation as a country at all. Yeah. It’s completely unacceptable, which we all know that, and honestly, our thoughts in Paris, well, to everyone involved, because it’s terrifying and scary. Even if you’re the president, it’s scary to deal with that, so. Right, so. We definitely need to come together as a country so this stops happening. And, yeah. Yeah. Anyway, let’s, I know that’s a tough subject, but let’s dive in today’s episode in. I hope you’re all ears for this one. Oh, all ears, all ears. Today’s episode is DM deBrief number one. So, debrief, debrief, debrief. So our goal with the podcast, again, you may have heard this if you’ve listened or tuned in before, but our goal with the podcast is to be too done as here answering your questions. And the best way that you can do that is to ask us questions. I mean, that’s the only way we’re going to be able to help you is if you let us know what kind of content you want to see from us, send it our way, send us questions, send us videos, you don’t know what they are if they make sense if they’re real. Help us help you because that’s really what we’re here for. Yeah. So let’s dive into our first DMD brief and get to the questions. So our first question is from LaRie. So her question was, how often should the dental hygienist or dentist check the depth pockets between the bone and the gum? Yeah. So what she’s referring to is when you get a parietal chart done. So it’s when we go three, two, three, check all the spots around the teeth. And we talk about pockets. So ideally, it should be done at least once a year. But Rusty and I typically try to do it at least every six months because something that’s caught earlier is more predictable. So if you have something that’s happening below the gums we’d like to see it earlier than later. Yep. Definitely. And if you’re just establishing care with a dentist too, they should be doing this as a comprehensive exam. And then sometimes if you need some deeper cleanings or you have a lot of build up in there, a lot of times people are going to need to have a re-evaluation essentially where after around a deep cleaning, those gums are going to be measured again to kind of monitor and make sure you’re healing up and getting healthier so that those gums are on their rhythm proving. So thanks for sending that question, LaRie. Yeah. Thanks. And we’re going on the next one. I was suppose...

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#13 Who's Who in the Dental Office - Dental Assistant Edition

There are many team members that make up a dental office. This is Part 2 of our three part series on “Who’s Who in the Dental Office”. This week we talk to two dental assistants as they share what its like being a dental assistant. They answer some of your most pressing questions and share some fun stories. Tune in as Roxy and Diego join us on the show and share some insight into the world of dental assisting.

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Welcome to DM Adentist, 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. Well, welcome back! Today we have two special guests for our next interview series, Who’s Who in the Dental Office Part 2. Today we have two of our dental assistants. We have Roxy and Diego, two of my favorites. Roxy, how long have you been a dental assistant? I’ve been a dental assistant for about 10 years now. Okay, awesome. And Diego, what about you? Been a dental assistant for about 7 years now. Okay, nice, love it, love it, okay. And you know, I know a lot of people, you know, we talked about it previously in our basic introduction to The Who’s Who about like the dental assistant roles and things, but a lot of people aren’t familiar with what a dental assistant, some people haven’t called a dental nurse to do, right? How would you describe what you all do on a day to day? You know, I feel like we’re honestly the doctors right hand. We do a lot that I feel like the patients don’t necessarily see. We welcome the patients, we triage the patients. We do a little bit of everything, honestly. So triage, what is that like if a new patient is coming in or like they have a problem, like what do you mean by triage? So we will sit the patient down and kind of figure out what’s going on with the patient and let the doctor know we, there’s a lot of communication with what we do. So just kind of communicating with what the patient tells us and then letting the doctor know what is going on. So the patient doesn’t feel like they are repeating themselves. True. Yeah, that’s important because a lot of times I feel like that’ll happen where you know, they come in and they’re like, hey, this tooth is hurting me. It happened X amount of days ago. And then I come in and I’m like, hey, what’s going on? And then like this tooth broke. It happened X amount of days ago. I just told them that I feel like patients really are eyes along when they have to repeat themselves. So if I can limit that, that’s great. But yeah, we do, we do a lot that people don’t necessarily see. For sure, a lot of behind the scene stuff too, right? Like all the like sterilization, like slipping room, setting up rooms, helping chair side, like tons of rolls that you all have in the office for sure. So, and another big role I think that the dental assistant has is to like help chair side with patients, right? A lot of patients that are coming are really anxious or nervous to be there, right? Like being in the dental chair isn’t the most fun experience. We get it. So like what are some things that you can do to help keep patients more calm and more relaxed and just kind of help them have like an overall better experience, especially for someone who may be like kind of nervous or scared. Exactly. But Diego and myself, we both have a calming demeanor about us. Right. So, I mean, he’s so soft spoken. I’m so soft spoken. So I feel like that’s a big thing. Right. We’re not really rushing the procedure or whatever it is that we’re getting done. We, I mean, just making sure patients feel comfortable and letting them know we have the time for them today and letting, asking them what maybe their fear might be of the dentist. Right. So we can reassure them that. I mean, we’re here for you. Right. So I feel like you’re pretty soft spoken. So like, Diego, what are like some common fears that people will have in the dental office? Like, what are some things that people will be afraid of and what are some ways we can kind of make that better for them? Yeah, like usually like shots, noises that are coming out of the instruments. Yeah. I f...