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Ozone Therapy: The Future of Dentistry Explained | MySmileBody DSHH #1263
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Discover how ozone therapy is revolutionizing dentistry and transforming health! 🦷✨ Join Sean Kelly and Dr. Ben from MySmileBody as they unpack the future of dentistry, the power of biological dentistry, and how your oral health impacts your...
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A
Cancers, health issues. Now, this toxic load is what causes them. So we want to, again, as a biological dentist, we want to figure out ways to remove any sorts of toxic goals. So for, again, if someone has root cows, 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.
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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. Yeah, 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, see, 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 wrap. 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 specialist just look at the skin. Right. You know, so for us as biologists, 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 you want, if you're trying to be. Have a healthy body and you have a toxic mouth, there is 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 in restorations and all the other Treatments that we do. Like you talked about root canals or metals or any sorts of infection that's coming in the body. So is a constant source of toxicity that comes in the body from every angle that we look at. You put, you know, you know, I could talk to Papa's host. You know, he's so many toxicities coming from every angle. So it's. So for us, our role as biological dentists is. Is reducing that toxic load. And a lot of times that toxic wording 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, to cancers. A lot of times that's related to our health.
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B
I know when Papa came on, he said he didn't see a single patient that had a massive belt issue without a. 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, 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. I, When I first time I heard that, I blew my mind. It was years ago, and I was at a lecture and they said, you know, you know, if you find someone that has a. Has cancer, they are very likely to have some kind of infection in the mouth. Not very likely. Like it's 50 or 60%. They were saying like 100%.
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B
She.
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A
Now you just say 100%. So they either had some kind of infection going on that's a source of that toxicity, and that's leading to that chronic disorder, chronic disease of some sort.
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B
Makes me wonder. I just found two polyps in my nasal passages and my root canals had a cavity like all the not cowgies. 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're 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 saw worth much.
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B
But.
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A
Right. You know, and sometimes now we have, you know, people that are looking for their health through b. Hacking and detoxing and having, you know, these, these systems of health and longevity and vitality. You know, you can, you know, the Gary breakers of the world and all these people, and they're standard See, okay, we have to look at the mouth, you know, because, all right, we can do all the liver detox one if we do all the heavy metal detox. But if you have a constant stream of toxicity still coming in the body, you're only going to go so far. The, 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 cows in the ground and keep telling, but it's all the water still keeps coming until you shut off that val, you're not going to get very far.
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B
Right.
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A
So if you're trying to get healthier and you constantly have a source of sa toxicity coming in your body, not going to get very far. Same as nutrition. Right. If you're eating toxic foods, you're not going to get healthy. Yeah, but the same is true for your mouth.
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B
Speaking on toxic foods, what. What are the worst foods you've seen lead to poor mental health?
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A
Well, poor dental health is the same as poor overall health. Same, same thing, same food, same every. Right. So I would say there's a few main foods that you probably heard from maybe other guests that, that you should not have that are important for overall health and for all health. Same thing. So number one, obviously, and not in order of priority of the obviously, wheat and gluten. Yeah, it's inflammatory, causes a lot of dysregulation throughout the whole body. Sugar, obviously not, not all kinds sugar, but pasta sugar. But obviously there's dairy, conventional dairy. You can get good source dairy. It's different. And of course there is seed oils. Seed oils and processed foods in general are probably the biggest one. Seed oils are biggest culprit of health issues in the country.
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B
Damn. Seed oils, huh? Oh, yeah, detrimental.
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A
I mean, in vi far if you look at the trends in as far as health issues in this country as chronic health issues, diabetes and cancer, everything that as how it's been kind of increasing over. Over time. The graph follows exactly how the increase was of seagulls. I want. Exactly, exactly. So not. Not with the fact that at one point there, you know, carbs were the worst thing. Another time it was like sugar, you know. And 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. Uh, and then it was like, sugar is bad. But none of that really matters that much. Really. Honestly, it's the 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, it's 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 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, Oral microbiome, which is bacteria in your mouth, that's like, like your gut microbiome, that's the second highest volume on good bacteria new bodies is your mouth. And so you, you, if you have that balance, you're fine. You're. Even if you have poor hygiene, you're still going to be fine.
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B
Right.
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A
Lot of times in the dental world we focus on hygiene too much.
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B
You think so? Oh, yeah.
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A
I mean, it's important. I'm not saying it's not important, but it's not number one, it's not fair.
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B
Have you ever seen someone reverse a cavity?
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A
Yeah, I mean, a lot of times if the cavities are, you know, where you show up, like today I was, you know, seeing the patient. I was at the office right before 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 and rid of ozone before ozone therapy. Right.
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B
Yeah. 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 thousand times. Right.
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B
Prime. The side effects aren't as bad as it is.
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A
There is no side effects. It's just oxygen.
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B
Wow.
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A
So. So it's just something that's been around for ages. Actually, the 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 mouth.
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B
I love that because most dentists do not do that with their water. They use probably tap water on tap water is even worse for you.
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A
Oh my God. Imagine you're getting cleaning. It's just tap water there everywhere. No, they don't have a filtration system on your system. But yeah we have.
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B
We.
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A
We originate every inch of every little bit of water. We drop water that goes your mouth. And then when you're getting cleaning now you're not only scraping off 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. And you. When you use ozone to clean, you're doing a much better job than you can with just scraping the stuff off your teeth. But again for surgeries we use it when we go in and clean out in a collected area or even for fillings where in area of a cavity. If it's a shallow cavity you can ozonate the two structure and you ozone a two structure. It literally kills the bacteria that's causing the cavity on there. And it can and 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 fillet it's actually microplastics and like harmful materials. Right.
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A
You know, fillings. You know. Obviously everyone know now knows that the mercury filter hardware. All right. Heavy metal toxicity. Mercury. It's more than people say mercury still being used though. Oh they're still used. Still being used.
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B
Wow.
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A
In this country. So I guess. Sorry. No I know it's. It's really sad situation with that because you're. You're in Europe a lot of countries Russia banned it in the 70s. You know a lot of countries abandoned here. They're so okay with it to have to be placed for some reason. I don't know why. Hopefully with new leadership we're get some change in that direction. As far as health goes by this mercury since we're talking about mercury a little bit is the most toxic non radiographic material you can use that's on the. On earth and it's more than 50% of it is in the fillings. Now the we. We can as dentists cannot utilize or remove mercury in the mouth and let it go down the drain really stopped easily. We can't let it go down the drain drop. You have to have something does an adult separator. So you got to separate it before it goes down the drain because it's that topic for the environment.
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B
Wow.
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A
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, and what. Obviously for us biological dentists, because we're cognizant and thinking about this kind of stuff, when we're trained to think about the materials, we will go and get trained on the proper removal techniques. So we are protected. The patient's protected. Right. And of course, you know, we're not exposing everyone in the room and everyone in the building to work pre vapor, which is, it's just has, has causes so many health issues contributing to that heavy metal toxicity that, that, you know, it causes all kinds of neurological disorders, heart, cardiac disorders and neurodegenerative disorders. It's amazing.
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B
Yeah.
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A
And so they use.
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B
I can't believe. I. I mean, when you look at these firefighters, they don't, they don't have the longest life expectancy because they're breathing in all these harmful toxins. Right.
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A
It's 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, and so on and so forth. And for us, when we do the mercury removal, we have a special mask. We don't use a regular mask. Well, you know, there's a special mask that looks like it's big. Like, like the movie. Yeah. Has gas mask. No, it literally like has metal 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 worker filings. I did a post on this topic in our social media said do not go and remove work refillings. Why? Because if you just go to the local dentist to just get them out, guess what happens? You're going to get usually more sick. You know, you have to get it done correctly. Yeah. So it's super important.
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B
And a lot of dentists, I'm just now finding out, they do root pronouns incorrectly too. Right.
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A
Well, you know, the root canals is a, you know, controversial topic. You know, I'm personally not a huge fan. I used to do a lot of root canals. I used to do kayaks training, dudes. You know, I. After dental school, I went and got more training to do reconnects. Even better. Because I'm the kind of guy, I want. If I'm going to do something, I want to do it right. I don't want to be just doing it, you know, to get, to get, get paid for it. You know, and move on with my life. For me, I want to do it at a high level. I will do it 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, the what I see and what current research shows. And so if, if the patient really wants to do a root canal, I'll refer them just because it goes against my belief system now at this point to a specialist to get it done. But overall, I think there's better solutions.
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B
Thanks. You're that again, so.
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A
Oh yeah.
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B
Wow. Because mine are like sideways and they 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 convenient CT scan, which I don't know if you ever had experience. When you come to the office, we're going to do it for you. It's a scan that is a 3D imaging. You know what, a CT scan?
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B
Yeah.
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A
Go to the C3D. You can see the slices, you can see detail. It's so important to get that done because it's such a high rate of infection. Patients have no pain. We do these scans consistently on any patient that has had a recal, for example, or you know, as part of our new patient protocol with 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 could find on this kind of scan, something called cavitations and that otherwise it's pretty impossible. It's fine. So we. That really convinced me that I, I don't want to do it anymore. When I started scanning everyone, then I.
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B
Just see that results right.
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A
Oh man, the volume of efficiencies.
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B
I heard it's almost everyone that's gotten a boot and all.
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A
You know, the. If you watch this documentary called the Root Cause. Have you seen that one? 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, you know, actually how much factor is leakage 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 a bit invisible sign or infection, I don't tell Them they have to take it out. I, I, I just, you know, tell them, you know, these are the cons is up to you. If it's has, has visible signs of infection, then it's priority which, that's one of our number one priorities of that 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, but 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 source of toxic cold. So for you again, if someone has root cause, 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, Bruce cows. Yeah, 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 don't have, I don't have an average patient tool. Our patient pool is not typical patient population. It's more of the patient population that is very health conscious on health and longevity and vitality and, and they, they were usually sought out by them. So they, they come to us from not our local geographic location. You know, most of our patients are coming from us from far away.
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B
Wow.
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A
So they either drive a lot of times driving for hours to get there or, or flying that we have a lot of patients that fly in and we have, because we have a set part offer for traveling patients because we can do things that other dentists generally do are not doing right now. And because they've researched for this and they found someone that does this, they find us and they've 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 or bite. 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 bill comes a lot of time. We'll, we'll go in and assess them and see what's going on. And they might not Have a lot of calories, 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 nano restorations that you know, you don't need in your body. Any metal in your body, forget about mercury, any metal in your body is causing inflammation. Is, is a block in the natural meridians in the body, the electrical systems that are naturally going through the body. The 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, electromagnetic, you know, it's like an antenna. Imagine your antenna, you have all this metal in your mouth. You're an antenna for emf. So you know, the, the we, so we are looking at everything from that lens when we see patients. So we're looking for source toxic. When I, when I see a patient, I'm looking, okay, what are your health pool and what's happening? You know, our new patient protocol is like, you know, we see, we talk about a lot of things beyond, beyond teeth where I spend a lot of time on nutrition and what's going on. Like we just talked about by nutrition, but really I do 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. We haven't gone to the facility yet. When you come in, you'll see we do a lot more than just demonstrating our facility. So that's it.
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B
Yeah, I saw the website. You guys have a lot of stuff. 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 kind of come up with a new concept when we built this facility. We felt like since we were doing bio labs with 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 fake like us and work all together to achieve better health for patients all around. Not just or 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 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 integrated Dr. That's, you know, things like same, same as us. And you know, he's, he'll do his own consultation to patients and obviously part of that concentration is diagnostics like blood work and there's different kinds of diagnostics that you can do and at that point and then it's, 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 are 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 of effort. It's not just a specialist here. Go to that office now. Go to this office. Pricer was like, you know what, let's create something that's actually more collaborative and we can, we can get much better results. Patient. I love that.
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B
Like a one stop shop almost.
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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 keeping on stuff or just doing some kind of peel or something like that. Bryce. It's again, if you come from the right angle, you're getting healthier from within. And then you get, you get better skin and better teeth and better hair and better everything. Yeah, like 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 even far, but really you're not healthy.
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B
I wish I knew that when I was kid struggling with acne, I tried so many washes and creams and they never worked. No, no one ever told me to go with Impella.
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A
That's, I mean, that's the future. I mean right now we're heading 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. No 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 my biggest message, my patients is that you're the driver of your health journey and I'm, you're 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
When you were in med school, do you have questions like were you questioning the system at the time or did.
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A
They see years afterwards, whether it's in 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. We go to all these things all together always, and we're the ones that are always asking questions and our hands are always out. Okay. You know, it's like, it's like, 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 a habit of thinking and not just following. You know, you have to thank yourself and see does this make sense? You know, is this, you know, is this something that I want to do for myself? Is 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 that 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, well being longevity or career or whatever, whatever it is. Yeah, 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. 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 dentist. So we deal with that mostly. And it, I think it's a fry. It's, it's totally scam. The dental insurance people is brittle, think they should rely on it. Oh, I didn't go see this because I had 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. But if filling a couple fillings, you're going to be past that. It, it doesn't make sense because insurance should be for you Know, catastrophic loss, you know, let's say medical insurance, like if you God for you get cancer, get in a big accident, you know, you're not, you don't need insurance for little things. Right. If for doctors is it, you can pay for that you own pocket, you know. But if you have cat served blogs, you want to be covered in an emergency situation with dental insurance is the opposite. It only covers little stuff, but it doesn't cover big stuff. Yeah. So it doesn't make sense at all actually.
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B
That's why I 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, all that kind of stuff. We're launching a membership, membership pads because it's a much better answer than 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 for you.
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B
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 is kind of going more in that direction. And so it just because it makes sense. This system, this insurance, it just, it.
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B
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. I don't the age, age brackets and how many people in those age brackets are 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. Crazy. 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, you having this system of going and investigating these systems in the government that, because we all know government is overspending on everything.
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B
Yeah.
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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
Yeah.
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A
Right. Cali out here. Oh, my son. 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 the money is being spent. So why not have someone audit, you know, we, we have the IRS to, to, to come and audit us at times. Right. So why not audit the government. So anyway. Well, everybody started there.
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B
They're starting to audit and they're failing. I had to go on top of that.
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A
We already knew that was going to happen.
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B
Yeah. No, it's just us though, seeing the, the money, it's infuriating because you and I pay billing to taxes. So it's like, wow, that's how it's being spent.
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A
Well, yeah, we knew, 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 a bathroom. You heard stories like that. It's, it's. There's so much corruption of people being, you know, pocket money and where is this money going? It's not for baffled.
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B
The pandemic was nuts because I was selling TPE during the pandemic and just seeing what the government was paying for, like masks and plugs, it was crazy. I'm sure you heard some stories. Oh yeah.
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A
Oh yeah.
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B
Could 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, you know, that some of the money, money that was sold out to people, it's like there was no organization. So much money being wasted.
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B
Yeah. Anyway, my boy, meanwhile, companies like you could use that money.
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A
I mean, listen, we're, we're fine. We're excited for the next chapter. Again, I'm not a doom glue. 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 Candy. And you know, he's, he, 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 healthy services and in some of his agencies. And hopefully Doge is going to do some good things out there too. And it seems like Ari got an optic shirt.
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B
Yeah.
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A
Either way, we have to do our part again. I'm a big believer that, you know, or we can't wait for anyone to save you. Right. So, so for me it's like, okay, what am I doing every day for myself, for my family, for my community? And you know, that's how you're going to make change. You know, 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.
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B
Right.
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A
So is that. It's really not broken.
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B
It's working for them.
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A
Oh, we spend more money, as you know, on health care than any other country. Way, way more. And you have. We provide more prescriptions to people to, 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? A day? A day. So that means if you're 18 years or older.
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B
Wow.
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A
You average adults 45 prescriptions a day. Just so.
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B
Yeah.
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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 week and what we can do is try to make a difference. And that's why we created smiling to come in and go, okay, well how can we get patients healthier from within without prescriptions, without doing invasive procedures or surgeries? You know, in general, I'm talking about the medical side and the downside. Collaborating together and you get better results. Same time surgery is necessary, like yeah, in various situations.
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B
But they, they're so quick to jump to it these days. I see it with my Ifley friends are like, oh, you surgery, you know.
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A
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 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. Absolutely.
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B
Can't wait to check out the facility. We'll do a part two there. Walk through all the perceivers and stuff.
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A
Yeah, you're going to 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 by and. And also our website is My Smile by. So all of our social media is actually My smile Mike. So you look, look for us there. And yeah, I put a lot of content out to try to get people informed about this kind of topics that we're talking about today and more and a lot more than that. And because again, if people, people don't know, they can't make changes. So our, My goal is to get know 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, and how other healthcare professionals working together as a collaborative. So I'm excited for this next chapter.
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B
Man, I'm excited to see you change the narrative because a lot of people are scared dentists. But I think you made the process a lot more fun and manicable.
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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 how painful experience are going to be at the dentist getting shot. Oh God, horrible. Yeah. Getting a filling, drilling in your mouth. Yeah. Fully nice of experience or 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 to, you know, just listening. Start out just listening to the patient. You know, it's, it's. You would think that's a given, but you know how many times patients tell me, I, I've never had any doctor listen to me. This shuffle you in. We sit with the patients and just, 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 fright 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 dash. 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 the anesthesiologist we do that. But most common it's sedation with something called oral conscious sedation. It's a pill form sedation. And you let's say, are getting a dental incline and we do ceramic dental inclines because we want to get 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 oil constitution, 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 maybe realized we started.
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B
Wow.
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A
But the whole time we can actually talk like, how you doing, Sean? Are you comfortable? Second or you're listening to music and you're just kind of in a happy place, but you're not really experiencing it all of the time. It's all done. So for us, you know, the whole. Each step of the way, we want to make sure you have a good experience.
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B
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.
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A
Stay on the lookout for that.
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B
See you next time.