#7 Who's Who in the Dental Office? Part 1 - The Business Team Talks Dental Insurance

Did you know that your dentist checks for oral cancer during your exam? Do you know if Zyn, chewing tobacco, or cigarettes can contribute to your risk of developing oral cancer? Today’s guest episode welcomes Jack, whose great questions prompt a discussion on the risks of various forms of nicotine consumption, which have the potential to cause oral cancer, gum recession, tooth staining, and a whole host of problems with oral health. We discuss the importance of making informed choices for maintaining a healthy smile as it relates to the use of these various nicotine-containing substances.

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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, welcome back to another episode of a DM A dentist.

My name is Dr. Mike and we have someone else in the chair today. Hey, my name is Jack. I’m literally in the chair. I’m solely a patient. Oh, so we have someone that’s familiar with the dental chair, not that he is bad teeth, but he just, you know, the other side, I don’t sit in the dental chair much, but he does. So we’re going to get his perspective today. Thanks for having me. I know nothing about dentistry except from the patient’s perspective. So I’m just going to kind of ask questions and, you know, hopefully represent the audience at large. Representing the crowd. There you go. So today, we’re actually going to tackle something that’s been on the market recently, nicotine, especially with the use. That’s good stuff. So yeah, we’re going to dive into that. So welcome back and let’s get rolling. Cool. So one thing I wanted to talk about was Zyns in particular. I feel like in the last couple of years, there’s been a rise of different nicotine products and, you know, admittedly, I’ve used Zyns. Yeah. I know people who use Zyns daily all day. And they think that it’s safer because there’s no tobacco in it. You know, it’s easy. There’s no smoke. And so they think it’s a safer alternative, but I kind of get the feeling that maybe that that’s not true. Well, from a cancer perspective, Zyns have a lower risk of cancer incidents, which is good. So that’s something that it’s better in terms of to get your nicotine from a Zin than it is from a cigarette because the propensity for cancerous from a cigarette is much higher than that of a Zin. Right. Because cigarettes have so many additives and from aldehyde and a bunch of other products that are not products. But, you know, content that are harmful to the human body at large. But like, so why, I guess my question is, would be like, why is Zyn so bad? For me, my first thought is just not knowing anything about teeth, right? It’s just you’re putting it directly against your gum. It burns. Yeah. That can’t be good. Yeah. So what, like, so the thing that the problem with Zyns is it’s not necessarily like a cancer thing, even though you can probably get cancer from a Zin in dental school, we learned about smokeless tobacco and the incidence of cancers very low from smokeless tobacco. You might say like Zyns are the new age of like, uh, dipping. Stuff. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. So, but the problem with Zyns is if you put it in the location and continually put it in that location, you start to get what’s called tobacco keratosis and keratosis is a pathology. Like it is an abnormal tissue development that when you have cells that are changing, that’s a problem, right? So you have something that’s going from normal to abnormal, even if abnormal is not cancerous, you still have something that’s problematic. So you don’t want to continually have those cells change over, then you have more of a possibility of cancer. Okay. So same more about that because you say is the word keratosis? Yeah. Because you say pathology, pathology makes me think of cancer. So what exactly does that mean? Like, why do I care if the cells are, are, are not changing over in my gums? Fair. Yeah. I mean, fair. Why would you care if it’s not going to cause cancer? So what you’ll, so what we notice, so like, okay, say you don’t go to dentist, right? You want to look in the mirror and be like, do I have a problem with my yn pouch? Sure. If I look in the mirror and I look at the spot that I put...