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Dr Ben Javid- Root Canals: The Debate Your Dentist Won’t Have With You| DSH #1775
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Most people treat dentistry like it’s separate from health. This episode flips that. Dr. Ben Javid from Smile Body breaks down what biological dentistry actually means — looking at the mouth as part of the whole body, reducing “toxic load,” and why chronic issues like inflammation, brain fog, and autoimmune symptoms can sometimes trace back to what’s happening in your teeth and gums. We also talk about the foods that wreck oral health (and why Dr. Ben believes seed oils are a major driver), how ozone is used in biological dentistry, the controversy around root canals, and why he says you should ask questions, challenge your doctors, and research everything — because no one is coming to save your health for you. Plus: why dental insurance feels like a scam, why his clinic operates more like a collaborative health facility, and how sedation dentistry can make treatment way more manageable. What You’ll Learn 🧠 What “biological dentistry” means (functional medicine for your mout...
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You have to ask questions. I feel like our society is going to be a lot better if everyone starts getting the habit of thinking and not just following. You know, you have to think yourself. Does this make sense? You know, is this something that I want to do for myself? Does it resonate with me? Do some research, put some time and effort into it. No one is going to come save you. You know, no one's going to come just tell you what to do. I remember I spoke at our conference one time and it was right before the election. I said, you know, either way, whoever wins, no one's going to save you. You know, at the end of the day, the only person that's going to save you in your life is you. You have to decide what you want for yourself and it, whether it's your health, well being, longevity or career, whatever it is, it's what you do with that life and what you. Opportunities you're given that's going to make the biggest difference.
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B
All right, guys, we got Dr. Ben here from Smile Body. Thanks for hopping on today, man.
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A
I'm happy to be here, Sean. Thanks for having me.
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B
Yeah. Biological dentistry upcoming space. Right.
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A
Well, you know what, it's getting more and more recognized for the importance as far as overall health, longevity and vitality. It's been around for a while. It's, it's not brand new, but it's again, like you said, up and coming because it's more recognized now in the health and wellness world.
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B
I remember when I went to dentist growing up, I never even considered this an option. I never even knew about biological dentistry.
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A
Most people don't. It's pretty rare. If I meet someone and they know what that means.
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B
Yeah, we should start there. Could you explain what actually biological dentistry is?
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A
Yeah, yeah. You know, it's, you know, if you think of functional medicine, you know, like you go to the doctors, you know, there's naturopaths and functional medicine, you know, it's like an alternative route. It's very much like that on the dental side. So that's the first way I would describe it. There's some, some pillars of, you know, that as far as how we think as biological dentists and how what lens we look at when we actually see a patient, that's different. For one, we look at the body as a whole. Like, in other words, you know, current medicine is diagnosing patients in silos. Like you have a heart specialist and they just look at the heart, you know, and the skin specialists just look at the skin, you know, so for Us as biological dentists, we look at the whole body. So, and we look at the connection between the mouth and the teeth and how they affect each other. For example, you can't have a healthy mouth with a toxic body. And if you have a health, if you're trying to be a, have a healthy body and you have a toxic mouth, there's a problem there too, because then it doesn't work that way. So we're very focused on that. And also materials that we use and restorations and all the other treatments that we do. Like you talked about, root canals or metals or any source of infection that's coming in the body. So there's a constant source of toxicity that comes in the body from every angle that we look at, you know, you know, look at Dr. Papa's post. You know, he's so many toxicities coming from every angle. So it's. So for us, our role as biological dentists is reducing that toxic load. And a lot of times, that toxic burden that people are living with every day, that's affecting every aspect of their health. Vitality, longevity, throughout their whole day, their energy levels, their focus. You know, my brain fog to autoimmune disorders and cancers, a lot of times that's related to your oral health.
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B
I know when Pompa came on, he said he didn't see a single patient that had a massive health issue without a tooth issue as well.
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A
Oh, absolutely.
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B
Isn't that crazy?
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A
You know what, it's, it's crazy when you, when you hear it for the first time. But we see it every day and you can talk to people at oncologists that are really looking at the body as a whole, and they'll say that about root canals or infections. When I first time I heard that, that blew my mind. It was years ago, and I was at a lecture and they said, you know, you know, if you find some, someone that has a, has cancer, they are very likely to have some kind of infection in their mouth. Not very likely. Like it's 50 or 60. They were saying, like 100%, 90%, 100%. So they either have some kind of infection going on that's a source of that toxicity, that's leading to that chronic disorder, chronic disease of some sort.
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B
Makes me wonder because I just found two polyps in my nasal passages and my root canals had a cavity. Like, like all of them have cavities. So it makes me wonder, like, damn, I should really get these out.
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A
Well, you know, against, you know, it depends on what your goals are, you know, at the end of the day, we are all busy, we're all working hard, we're all doing something we're working on. And without our health, you know, what is, what's. It's not worth much. Right, right. You know, and sometimes now we have, you know, people that are looking for their health through by hacking and detoxing and having, you know, these, these systems of health and longevity and vitality, you know, again, you know, the Gary breakers of the world and all these people and they're starting to see, okay, we have to look at the mouth, you know, because you can do all the liver detox you want, you can do all the heavy metal detox, but if you have a constant stream of toxicity still coming in your body, you're only going to go so far. The analogy I give is imagine you're in a room and there's a pipe broken. Water's coming in and you want to clean it up, so you start putting towels in the ground. You keep telling, but it's toxicity. All the water still keeps coming. Until you shut off that valve, you're not going to get very far. So if you're trying to get healthier and you constantly have a source of toxicity coming into your body, you're not going to get very far. Just same as nutrition. Right. If you're eating toxic foods, you're not gonna get healthy.
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B
Yep.
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A
But the same is true for your mouth.
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B
Speaking of toxic foods, what, what are the worst foods you've seen lead to poor dental health?
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A
Well, poor dental health is the same as poor overall health. Same, same thing, same food, same everything. Right. So I would say there's a few main foods that you probably have heard from maybe other guests that, that you should not have that are important for overall health and for oral health. Same things. So number one, obviously, and not in order of priority would be obviously wheat and gluten. Yeah, it's inflammatory, causes a lot of dysregulation throughout the whole body. Sugar, obviously not, not all kinds of sugar, but processed sugar. But obviously there is dairy. You know, the conventional dairy, if you get good source dairy is different. And of course there is seed oils. Seed oils and processed foods in general are probably the biggest one. Seed oils are the biggest culprit of health issues in the country.
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B
Damn. Seed oils.
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A
Oh, yeah.
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B
That detrimental.
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A
I mean, by far, if you look at the trends as far as health issues in this country, as chronic health issues, diabetes and cancers, everything that as how it's been kind of increasing over, over time, the graph follows exactly how the increase was of seed oils has. Exactly, exactly. So not, not with the fact that, you know, at one point there's, you know, carbs were the worst thing. Another time it was like sugar. You know, another thing is fat. You know, that has kind of changed all this time. You know, like you got to not have fat. At one point it was like you got to not have fat at all. Fat free this, fat free that. And then it was like, sugar is bad. But none of that really matters that much, really. Honestly, it's. Their main thing is going to be the seed oils is the biggest culprit by far. And that shows up in your mouth because guess what? When you're again, systemically unhealthy, it shows up. And if you look in the mouth and someone has no inflammation, no bleeding, no cavities, even if they don't ever fly, floss or they don't brush your teeth that much, it's possible because if they're, they're actually, you know, have a healthy lifestyle and if they have a balance, what we call microbiome, right, the oral microbiome, which is the bacteria in your mouth, that's like, like your gut microbiome, that's the second highest volume of good bacteria in your body is your mouth. And so, you know, you, if you have that balance, you're fine. You know, even if you have poor hygiene, you're still going to be fine. Right. A lot of times in the dental world, they really focus on hygiene too much.
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B
You think so?
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A
Oh, yeah. I mean, it's important. I'm not saying it's not important, but it's not number one on the list.
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B
I feel that. Have you ever seen someone reverse a cavity? Yeah.
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A
I mean, a lot of times if the cavities are, you know, really show up. Like today I was, you know, seeing a patient. I was at the office right before I came here. So, you know, when we're diagnosing cavities, you know, if they're, you know, shallow enough, they're not that deep. We. There's different ways of reversing it. You know, there's a hydroxy appetite now and then there's. We use actually a really cool tool called ozone. Ozone? Have you heard of ozone before?
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B
Ozone therapy? Right.
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A
Yeah.
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B
I didn't know that was for cavities.
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A
Well, you know what? It kills bacteria on contact.
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B
Oh, wow.
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A
So. So it actually is much stronger in killing bacteria than antibiotics.
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B
Damn.
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A
Much stronger. Like thousands of times stronger.
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B
I'm trying. The side effects aren't as bad as antibiotics.
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A
There is no side effects. It's just oxygen. Wow. So. So it's just something that's been around for ages actually. And integrative doctors have used it for ages. But in the world of dentistry, biological dentists use it. We can use it for a lot of things. Like we ozonate our water system the whole, throughout the whole office. So when you get a cleaning, you're getting ozone in your, in your mouth.
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B
I love that because most dentists do not do that with their water. They use probably tap water, honestly, which is even worse for you.
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A
Oh my God. Imagine, imagine you're getting cleaning. It's just tap water going everywhere. No, they don't have a filtration system on this system. But yeah, we have. We, we ozonate every inch of every little bit of water, every drop of water that goes in your mouth. And then when you're getting a cleaning now, you're not only scraping off the bad stuff, but you're going to be killing the bad bacteria. Because the bad bacteria don't forget, don't like, don't like oxygen. The good bacteria love oxygen. So bad bacteria don't like oxygen. So you want to get in there and when you use the ozone to clean, you're doing a much better job than you can with just sweeping the stuff off your teeth. But again, for surgeries, we use it when we go in and clean out an infected area. Even for fillings for area of a cavity. If it's a shallow cavity, you can ozonate the tooth structure. And when you ozonate tooth structure, it literally kills the bacteria that's causing the cavity on there. And it can, it'll just stop where it is.
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B
That's exciting, man. Because I know a lot of doctors, when they use the fill ins, it's actually microplastics and like harmful materials.
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A
Right. You know, fillings. You know, obviously everyone known now knows that the mercury fillings are horrible. Right. Heavy metal toxicity, mercury. It's more than 50 mercury still being used though.
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B
Oh, they still use that one.
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A
Still being used.
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B
Wow.
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A
In this country allows that still get started on. Yeah, I know it's, it's really sad situation with that because you're, you're in Europe and a lot of countries, Russia banned it in the 70s. You know, a lot of countries abandoned here. They're still okay with it to be placed for some reason. I don't know why. Hopefully with new leadership we'll get some change in that direction as far as health goes. But this mercury, since we're talking about mercury, a little Bit it is the most toxic non radiographic material that you can use that's on the, on earth. And it's more than 50% of it is in the fillings. Now they, we can as dentists cannot utilize or remove mercury in the mouth and let it go down the drain.
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B
Really it's that time.
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A
Legally we can't let it go down drain. You have to have something called amalgam separator. So you got to separate it before it goes down the drain because it's that toxic for the environment. Wow. But there, but it's okay to put it in the mouth and when we're drilling it, obviously all the vapors that are going through, it's okay for the patients to breathe it and doctors breathe it and, but obviously for us biological dentists, because we're cognizant and thinking about this kind of stuff and we're trained to think about the materials, we will go and get trained on proper removal techniques. So we are protected, the patient's protected. And of course, you know, we're not exposing everyone in the room and everyone in the building to mercury vapor, which is, it's just has causes so many health issues contributing to that heavy metal toxicity that causes all kinds of neurological disorders and heart cardiac disorders and neurodegenerative disorders. It's amazing. And still being used.
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B
I can't believe that, man. I mean when you look at these firefighters, they don't have the longest life expectancy because they're breathing in all these harmful toxins.
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A
Right. It's a sad situation there. Of course. And you know, even though they will, if they're in the fires, you know, they're going to be wearing some kind of masks and so on and so forth. And for us, when we do the mercury removal, we have a special mask. We don't use the regular mask.
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B
Wow.
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A
You know, there's a special mask that looks like these big like, like the.
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B
Movies, like the gas mask.
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A
Like literally like hazmat.
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B
Holy crap.
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A
Because it's, it's super toxic. Super toxic. And dentists are being exposed every day, Every single day. And patients, I always tell patients, don't go remove your mercury fillings. I did a post on this topic in our social media said do not go and remove mercury fillings. Why? Because if you just go to the local dentist and just get them out, guess what happens? You're going to get usually more sick. You know, you have to get it done correctly.
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B
Yeah.
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A
So it's super important.
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B
And a lot of dentists, I'm now Finding out they do root canals incorrectly too. Right.
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A
Well, you know, the root canals is a, you know, controversial topic. You know, I, I'm, I'm personally not a huge fan. I used to do a lot of root canals. I used to do, got extra training in doing root canals.
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B
That's how you were trained? Yeah.
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A
You know, after dental school I went and got more training.
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B
Oh, wow.
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A
Root canals. Even better. Because I'm the kind of guy, I want to, if I'm going to do something, I want to do it right.
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B
Yeah.
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A
I don't want to be just doing it, you know, get the, get, get paid for it, you know, and move on with my life. For me, I want to do it at a high level, at a specialist level. You know, I don't know. I'm, I'm not a fan of root canals anymore at all because of the, what I see and what current research shows. And so, you know, if, if a patient really wants to do a root canal, I'll, I'll refer them out just because it goes against my belief system now at this point to a specialist to get it done and, but overall I think there's better solutions.
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B
Thanks. You're that against them?
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A
Oh, yeah. Wow.
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B
Because mine are like sideways and they've penetrated my gum and they're like, they've been telling me to get them out for 10 years.
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A
So I mean, you know what I would say if someone has a root canal, the most important thing you do is get it checked and get it checked by a biological dentist with a cone beam CT scan, which I don't know if you ever had experience. When you come to the office, we're going to do one for you. You, It's a scan that is a 3D imaging, like a, like, you know what a CT scan. You go to the, it's, it's, you see 3D, you can see the slices, you know, you can see detail. It's so important to get that done because there's such a high rate of infection and patients have no pain. We do these scans consistently on any patient that has had a root canal, for example, or, you know, it's part of our new patient protocol, this kind of scan that we do. And so every new patient, you know, we pretty much want to check and see how everything is doing because there's other infections that you can find on this kind of scan, something called cavitations and that otherwise it's pretty impossible to find. So we, that really convinced me that I don't want to do it anymore. When I started scanning everyone that you.
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B
See the results, right?
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A
Oh, man, the volume of infections.
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B
I heard it's almost everyone that's gotten a root canal.
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A
You know, if you watch this documentary called the Root Cause. Have you seen that?
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B
No.
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A
It's a really good one to watch. You should watch talks about a study that was done where I think 1800, don't quote me on that, but I think 1800 teeth were extracted and they checked to see actually how much bacteria is leaking from these teeth. And every single one was, holy crap. So for me, if I, if I scan a tooth and I don't see any visible sign of infection, I don't tell them they have to take it out. I just, you know, tell them, you know, these are the pros and cons. It's up to you. If it has visible signs of infection, then it's priority, which, it's one of our number one priorities, in fact, to get this out, because this is a source of toxicity that's leaking in your body every day, contributing to your toxic load with other toxic burdens in your body now, leading to autoimmune disorders, cancers, health issues. Now, this toxic load is what causes that. So we want to, again, as a biological dentist, we want to figure out ways to remove any sorts of toxic load. So for, again, if someone has root canals, you shouldn't freak out. You should just get it checked out. Yeah, that's my, that's what I would say. Just get checked out, see what's going on, and then go from there. You know, don't. Don't rush to, like, oh, I, I have.
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B
That makes sense.
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A
I have to take them out.
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B
What are the most common issues you're seeing right now in your patients? Is it cavities?
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A
Well, I haven't, have. I don't have an average patient pool. Our patient pool is not the typical patient population. It's more of a patient population that is very health conscious on health and longevity and vitality. And, and they, they. We're. We're usually sought out by them. So they, they come to us from. Not our local geographic location. Most of our patients are coming from us, from far away. So they either drive a lot of times driving for hours to get there, or flying. We have a lot of patients that fly in because we have a set protocol for traveling patients, because we can do things that other dentists generally are not doing right now. And because they've researched for this and they found someone that does this, they find us and they come to us. So our average patient is not the average patient in the United States. So what do we see? We see patients that are looking to detox their body. They're looking for. They have health issues or, or, or they're looking for to achieve a better health, to go to the next level as from wherever they are. And now they're realizing that, like, for example, biohackers, you know, like they're healthy, you know, they just want to go in a better place now. So they'll go in and they'll come. A lot of times we'll go in and assess them and see what's going on. And they might not have a lot of cavities, but they might have other sources of infection that they didn't know about, or a source of toxicity coming from different kind of metals that are used in dental restorations that, you know, you don't need in your body. Any metal in your body. Your body, forget about mercury, any metal in your body is causing inflammation, is block in the natural meridians in the body, the electrical systems that are naturally going through the body of metal blocks that another one that a lot of times people don't know. Metals are blocking or actually not blocking, but actually attracting emf. Damn electromagnetic. You know, it's like an antenna. Imagine you're an antenna. You have all this metal in your mouth. You're an antenna for emf. So, you know, so we are looking at everything from that lens when we see patients. So we're looking for source of toxicity. When I, when I see a patient, I'm looking, okay, what are your health goals? What's happening? Our new patient protocol is like, you know, we see or we talk about a lot of things beyond, beyond teeth or I spend a lot of time on nutrition and what's going on and what. Like, we just talked about nutrition, but really I start talking about what's going on with their health, you know, and what their goals are and where they want to be. And we created a facility that we can encompass and do a lot more. I know we haven't gone to the facility yet. We had. When you come in, you'll see we do a lot more than just dentistry in our facility.
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B
Yeah, I saw the website. You guys have a lot of stuff. I was really impressed because I've never seen a dentist office have all these arrays of things.
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A
Well, you probably won't. There isn't really much, much of that out there. We're kind of come up with a new concept. When we built this facility, we felt like since we were doing bilateral dentistry for A long time we realized that we have to not only complain about the current system, but we got to come up with a better solution. So our solution was, you know, we have to collaborate with more like minded professionals. Doctors, naturopaths, nurses, pediatric dentists. We have, you know, other dental specialists that are, that think like us and work all together to achieve better health for patients all around. Not just because again, it's not just about your teeth, it's not just about your systemic health, it's about collaborating and that collaboration results in a much better outcomes for patients.
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B
Right, so you take their blood work too and everything.
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A
Oh yeah. Or we have an MD on the team that's an integrative doctor that's, you know, thinks like same, same as us and you know, he's, he'll do his own consultations with patients and obviously part of that consultation is diagnostics like blood work, there's different kinds of diagnostics that you can do and at that point, and then it's how do we move the needle and get the patient to a better place? Whether it's, you know, where you know, their health, significant health issues or just weight loss or you know, anything that can move the needle for them to get them to a better place. And we, it's, but it's a team effort. It's not just a specialist here. Go to that office now. Go to this office. For us it was like, you know what, let's create something that's actually more collaborative and we can, we can get much better results for patients.
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B
I love that. Like a one stop shop almost.
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A
Yeah. I mean you can think of it that way. We even have a holistic esthetician on the team because, you know, skin health a lot of times is, is based on just caving on stuff or just doing some kind of peel or something like that. For us it's again, if you come from the right angle, you're getting healthier from within and then get, you get better skin and better teeth and better hair and better everything. Yeah, you know, everything improves if you actually get healthy from within. But if you do something superficial and you might look healthy on camera or look healthy from far, but really you're not healthy.
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B
No. I wish I knew that. When I was a kid struggling with acne, I tried so many washes and creams and they never worked. No, no one ever told me to go within for that.
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A
That's, I mean that's the future. I mean right now.
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A
Too. We're headed in a really great direction as far as healthcare, health and wellness in this country. The pendulum is swinging in the right direction. People are really starting to ask questions about their health and not just following the direction of a doctor. I always tell patients, don't follow my directions. Ask questions, challenge me. In fact, whatever I say, don't just go do it. Go research what I'm saying, you know, go and get you informed. Because at the end of the day, what's my biggest message to my patients is that you're the driver of your health journey and I'm here to support you. I'm not here to tell you what to do. I'm here to help inform you and help you in the right direction.
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B
Yeah. When you were in med school, did you have questions like, were you questioning the system at the time or did.
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A
It take some years afterwards, whether it's dental school or med school or now? Because education never ends. You know, we go to constantly go to courses and there's always something else we want to learn. You know, my brother is my partner and we go to these, all these things all together always. And we're the ones that are always asking questions, man. Our hands are always.
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B
You're that annoying kid in class.
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A
But what about this? But what about that? But what about this? You know, but it's so, it's so you have to ask questions. You know, I feel like, you know, our, our society is going to be a lot better if everyone starts getting the habit of thinking and not just following. You know, you have to think yourself and see, does this make sense? You know, does this, you know, is this something that I want to do for myself? Does it resonate with me? Do my, do some research, put some time and effort into it and no one is going to come save you. You know, no one's going to come just tell you what to do. I remember I spoke at our conference one time and it was right before the election. I said, you know, either way, whoever wins, no one's going to save you. You know, at the end of the day, the only person that's going to save you in your life is you. You have to decide what you want for yourself and, and go after it. Whether it's your health and well being longevity or career or whatever it is. It's what you do with that life and what you opportunities you're given that's going to make the biggest difference.
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B
Yeah, I agree. Because insurance won't cover this, so you can't rely on the government to cover your health.
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A
I did a post on insurance.
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B
Oh yeah.
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A
Dental insurance in particular because I'm a dentist. So we deal with that mostly and I think it's a fraud. It's totally a scam. Dental insurance people think they should rely on it. Oh, I didn't go see the dentist because I don't have insurance or something like that. You only get a thousand to $2,000 a year and that's it, right? So if you want to get like, let's say a crown done, that's. You're already pretty much past that, right? Filling, you know, a couple of fillings, you're going to be past that. It doesn't make sense because insurance should be for, you know, catastrophic loss. You know, let's say medical insurance, like if you got, for you get cancer, getting a big accident, you know, you're not, you don't need insurance for little things, right? If you're for a doctor's visit, you can pay for that of your own pocket, you know, you. But if you have catastrophic loss, you want to be covered in an emergency situation. But dental insurance is the opposite. It only covers little stuff, but it doesn't cover big stuff. So it doesn't make sense at all. Actually.
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B
That's why I didn't get it, to be honest.
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A
You shouldn't get it. You shouldn't get it. What we do in our office, besides having systems for like payment plans and financing and all that kind of stuff, we're launching a membership plan.
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B
Oh, nice.
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A
We're getting membership plans because it's A much better answer than an insurance that covers just a little bit for us, then we can, it's very clear for patients that they can actually be supported and make things more affordable.
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B
Yeah, I'm a fan of membership plans. My gym at Home, lifetime membership, my podcast studio is a membership plan.
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A
It makes sense. It makes more. Everything's kind of going more in that direction. And so it, just. Because it makes sense. These, this, the system, this insurance, it's.
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B
Just, it wouldn't surprise me if it was a scam because did you see what happened with Social Security yesterday?
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A
No, I didn't see that.
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B
So Elon Musk revealed the numbers on the age, age brackets and how many people in those age brackets were getting Social Security. There was millions of people above the ages of 150 years old claiming Social Security. So our tax dollars are paying for those people.
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A
Wow.
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B
It's basically people that died, but their family's still collecting it and they're reporting them still alive. There was one guy that was like 300.
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A
Wow.
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B
Crazy, right?
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A
You know, it's, it's crazy. I mean, I, I, I don't get it. I mean, without getting political, I, I don't. It seems like he having this system of going and investigating these systems in the government of government that. Because we all know government is overspending on everything. Yeah. And that's our money. We are, we, we work so hard every day to pay our bills and then taxes.
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B
Yep.
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A
Right.
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B
Especially in Cali. Out here, you're paying 50%.
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A
Yeah. I mean, it's like half your, half the year you're working for the government. Right. So you think you'd care with, you know, how that money's being spent. So why not have someone audit it? You know, we have the IRS to, to, to come audit us at times. Right. So why not audit the government? So anyway. Oh, they're starting there.
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B
They're starting to audit, and they're failing. Pentagon's on pretty bad.
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A
We already knew that was going to happen.
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B
Yeah. No, it's just nuts, though, seeing the, the money. Dude, it's infuriating because you and I pay millions of taxes, so it's like, wow, that's how it's being spent.
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A
Well, yeah, we kind of knew that. It's being over anything the government does, it's, it's messed up as far as like, oh, we're going to build a bathroom, but it's going to cost $5 million to build his bathroom. You've heard stories like that. It's, it's, there's so much corruption of people being, you know, pocketed money and, and where is this money going? It's not for the bathroom.
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B
The pandemic was nuts because I was selling PPE during the pandemic and just seeing what the government was paying for, like masks and gloves, it was crazy. I'm sure you heard some stories. Oh, yeah.
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A
Oh yeah.
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B
Couldn't believe it.
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A
Oh, yeah. It's just there's so many stories like that. Even the, the PPP monies that rolled out to people that, you know, some of the money, money that was sold out, gave it out to people. It's like there was no organization and so much money being wasted.
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B
Yeah.
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A
Anyway, mind blowing.
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B
Meanwhile, companies like you could use that money.
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A
I mean, listen, I, we're, we're fine. We're excited for the next chapter again. I'm not a doom and gloom. I'm a super positive type of guy. I'm excited for the next chapter, for what's to come. I'm really excited for Bobby Kennedy. And, you know, he's, he's. I've been a fan of his for a long time and we're excited for what he's going to be hopefully bringing to the table as far as health and human services and in some of these agencies. And hopefully DOGE is going to do some good things out there too. And it seems like already got enough to a good start. And yeah, either way, we have to do our part again. I'm a big believer that, you know, we can't wait for anyone to save you. Right. So for me, it's like, okay, what am I doing every day for myself, for my family, for my community? And that's how you're going to make change. It's what you're doing yourself every single day. If you're waiting for someone else to do it, you're not going to get too far. So for us, that's why we built this new facility and we said, okay, we got to do something different because the system is broken, we call it, but really not broken because it's actually made this way for a purpose. Right. So it's not, it's really not broken.
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B
It's working for them.
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A
No. We spend more money, as you know, on health care than any other country, way, way more. And we have, we provide more prescriptions to people, to Americans than any other country by far. You know, did you know that every adult in this country, by average, is on four to five prescriptions a day?
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B
A day?
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A
A day. So that means if you're 18 years or older.
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B
Wow.
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A
You are average adult. Four to five prescriptions a day.
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B
That's so young.
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A
So it's like, it's, it's crazy. So this is, it's, it's. Again, there's a, it's not by accident. This is, this is a system that was set up this way. And what we can do is try to make a difference. And that's why we create a smile body to come in and go, okay, well, how can we get patients healthier from within without prescriptions, without doing invasive procedures or surgeries? And, you know, in general, I'm not talking, I'm talking about the medical side and the dental side collaborating together and get better results. Sometimes surgery is necessary, like, yeah.
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B
Embarrassing situations, but they, they're so quick to jump to it. These days I see with my athlete friends, they're like, oh, you need surgery.
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A
You know, again, it's there, there is. The future is bright. There's, there's a lot of good things happening. I'm really excited about what's to come next in the world of health and wellness. The. And again, if we all keep pushing in the right direction, I think we're going to have amazing results.
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B
Absolutely. Can't wait to check out the facility. We'll do a part two there. We'll walk through all the procedures and stuff.
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A
Yeah, you're gonna love it.
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B
Yeah, I'm excited. Where can people find you, man, in the meantime?
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A
Well, our handle on social media is My Smile Body. And, and also our website is My Smile Body. So all of our social media is actually my smile by. So you look, look for us there. And I put a lot of content out to try to get people informed about this kinds of topics that we're talking about today. Perfect. And more. And a lot more than that. And because again, if people don't know, they can't make changes. So my goal is to get people knowledgeable about all this. People knowledgeable about what this kind of new perspective on health and wellness and healthcare would be as far as biological dentists and other healthcare professionals working together as a collaborative. So I'm excited for this next chapter, man.
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B
I'm excited to see you change the narrative because a lot of people are scared of dentists, but I think you make the process a lot more fun and manageable.
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A
Well, it's, it's an understandable fear, you know, because think about it, when you're young, you go to the dentist, your first probably painful experience is going to be at the dentist getting a shot. Oh, God. Horrible. Getting a filling, drilling in your mouth. Whole invasive experience of someone in your personal space. There's nothing good about it. But I. But for us, it's a matter of, you know, making that experience a lot better. Not only through, you know, just listening to start out, just listening to the patient, you know, it's. You would think that's a given, but you know how many times patients tell me, I've never had any doctor listen to me this much.
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B
Oh, never. They just shuffle you in.
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A
We sit with the patients and we just talk about what's going on and nothing else matters at that moment. You know, I'm not in a hurry. And just by then, and then by, just by that, it makes a big difference. And then we put a plan together for them. And then when we want to do treatment, we do something called sedation dentistry. So when you don't have to be suffering and white knuckling and going through these procedures, we do different kinds of sedation. Obviously there are sedations where you can be put out. With an anesthesiologist, we do that. But most common it's sedation with something called oral conscious sedation, it's a pilliform sedation. And you, let's say you're getting a dental implant and we do ceramic dental implants because we want to be metal free and we want to do that surgery. You know, no one wants to go through that. But if we do it the right way with this oral consciousness, you're sleepy and loopy when we're getting the work done and you're not realizing what time passing. And next thing you know, I put the chair up and we're done. And the patient even realized we started. Wow. But the whole time we can actually talk. You're like, how you doing, Sean? Are you comfortable? It's like you're listening to music and you're just kind of in a happy place, but you're not really experiencing it. You have a lot of time. It's all done. So for us, you know, the whole, each step of the way, we. We want to make sure you have a good experience.
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B
I love it, man. We'll link your stuff below. I'm sure people will message with some questions. Thanks for coming on, man.
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A
I'm excited to be here again and seeing you at the office.
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B
Yeah. Next time Part two, guys. Stay on the lookout for that. See you next time.
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C
I hope you guys are enjoying the show. Please don't forget to like and subscribe.
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B
It helps the show a lot with the algorithm. Thank you.