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Dr. Becky Coates
Patient that she came in with blurry vision and she had headaches. She was tired of doing like Botox for her headaches and she had poor sleep. Also when we did her imaging, not only did she have like a small airway and a jaw issue, of course she also had an extra thing going on where she had this tumor behind her eye. So if we hadn't had that.
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Narrator/Host Introduction
Dr. Becky Coates is a dentist, entrepreneur and the founder of TMJ Wellness Center. She helps patients breathe better, sleep better, and live with less pain through a holistic approach that addresses the root causes of jaw, airway and sleep disorders.
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Dr. Becky Coates
Most people that are silently suffering with issues that we treat in our wellness center, such as my jaw hurts, I have neck pain, they rub right here in their jaw, they can't open wide or they have poor sleep. Our team is really well prepared to help people with like those issues.
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Interviewer/Co-host
What is Dr. Becky Coates number one key tip for success?
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Dr. Becky Coates
Be open minded to learning more and I think that
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Dr. Becky Coates
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Jason Tyler
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen to another episode of the Living youg Legacy podcast. I'm your host for today, Jason Tyler,
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Interviewer/Co-host
and I AM joined by Dr. Becky
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Jason Tyler
Coates of Dallas, Texas. Dr. Becky, welcome to the show. Pleasure to have you on.
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Dr. Becky Coates
Thank you.
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Jason Tyler
Now we just finished recording your episode of America's Best Doctors. And I'll tell you, I have like
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Interviewer/Co-host
we mentioned this a little bit in the episode. I got like a weird relationship with the dentist. I think a lot of the audience
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Jason Tyler
members out there can probably relate, but
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Interviewer/Co-host
your story is one that I really
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Jason Tyler
enjoyed being able to help tell. Talk to me about.
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Interviewer/Co-host
What do you think you want like your the main lesson to be for people to learn from your story.
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Dr. Becky Coates
Most people that are silently suffering with issues that we treat in our wellness center, such as my jaw hurts, I have neck pain, they rub right here in their jaw, they can't open wide or they have poor sleep or they may have a little bit of background on how they may have like a small jaw or a tongue tie, those type of patients will come to see us. Right? But many people who already have pain just in suffering from their conditions that we mentioned also may have that Underlying, like you mentioned kind of like fear phobia of dentistry, but not necessarily that they remember a bad experience or anything like that, but it could be inherited. Like, their parents didn't. Like, dentists are going, so maybe they didn't go. So there's not necessarily anything bad experience.
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Interviewer/Co-host
It's like a generational trauma that gets.
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Dr. Becky Coates
Generational trauma. And it's just kind of like an unknown thing. So you kind of like, shy away from going to the dentist. But the good news is that our team is really well prepared to help people with, like, those issues. Not just like trauma or physical jaw issues, but just that underlying kind of uneasy sense about going to the dentist. So there's really some really comfort measures we have in our office. It's very friendly. Like, we have a massage chair, which I've had this chair for, like, so long, for, like, probably 15 years. And it's like one of those sort of like floating chairs. So people, when they first arrive, they're just kind of at ease and they just kind of in this massage chair. Then as they come into our practice, they may be more sensory oriented. So they may have something like, you know, certain noises bother them.
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Interviewer/Co-host
I'm one of those.
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Dr. Becky Coates
Yeah.
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Interviewer/Co-host
So anytime they're doing. Doing. When they're doing a cleaning and they have like a little. The little polisher, the noise that that makes when it's on your two drives me up.
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Jason Tyler
So that's actually. It drives me crazy. But it goes back to what we
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Interviewer/Co-host
were talking about in your episode. Like, you guys utilize so many different things to put people at ease in your wellness center. Like the noise canceling headphones so that I don't have to hear the sound of the dremel on my teeth like that.
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Jason Tyler
To me, I heard that and I
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Interviewer/Co-host
was like, oh, if my dentist offered that, I. I'd go twice a week.
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Jason Tyler
Yeah, well, maybe twice a week is a little bit much, but.
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Interviewer/Co-host
But it goes back to what we were talking about in your episode, which is root cause.
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Jason Tyler
Right.
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Interviewer/Co-host
Because when you have people come in and they have these issues. I'm experiencing jaw pain. I'm having trouble sleeping. I have a brain fog. I had never really thought of brain fog being able to be tied back all the way to the structure of this system that is the jaw. Talk to me a little bit about the importance of, like, being able to trace things back to root cause.
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Dr. Becky Coates
Well, many people are tired of the band aid approach. So if they had brain fog, maybe they've already been someone who takes something to sleep, a pill or melatonin melatonin, or they may take like a trazodone, like a. Like a. More like serious medication. Or someone might have had like a sleeping apparatus. Like, they might have had like a just soft mouth guard, or they may have had like a CPAP to breathe. And most people haven't really, like you mentioned attuned to. If you have a narrow jaw, you don't have as much room for your tongue, right? So if you don't have room for your tongue, your tongue is going to go back in your throat and like, cause basically a traffic jam to breathe at night. So basically we assess our patients very simple, to see how wide is your jaw, does your tongue fit, can you breathe through your nose? And maybe other alternatives than melatonin or a cpap. There's many things you can do in dentistry to help someone open their airway up. Something as minor as a guard for sleep apnea alternative. Or sometimes for people, they need to do something very simple orthodontically, so they basically have enough room to breathe.
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Interviewer/Co-host
Then just like even just going to that, like, I would never think like, oh, my jaw is too small for my tongue, and that's why I snore when I sleep. Like, the average person doesn't maybe think of. I talked about it a little bit when we were doing your interview. I was like, you kind of almost have like this engineering approach to viewing the way that this whole system functions, right? And it's like, hey, we can take. We can diagnose that your jaw, the actual hinge that it sits on, is not wide enough, and that's what's causing this problem with your tongue, and that's how it's causing you to snore. I never, I would never think about it that way. But that's why we trust the professionals. What would you say to, you know, the average person out there who is dealing with trouble sleeping, they're dealing with jaw pain, they're dealing with all of these different little things, and they're applying these band aid solutions and nothing's working. What would you say to that person to get them to come into TMJ and really do, like, a more comprehensive approach?
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Dr. Becky Coates
Usually for people, they are sick and tired, being sick and tired, and they've reached their limit, their threshold, whatever that would be, whether that would be X, Y and Z solution isn't working, or my spouse is tired of me complaining of the same pain, or they can't sleep, or that spouse can't sleep because I'm too noisy. And then you sleep in different bedrooms, so sort of relationship type of conflict. And I think for people that want a more long lasting solution, there are different altern alternatives. Right. You don't have to just wear a cpap. Most people know that for sleep apnea because their medical doctor would have prescribed it. But the statistics on that show that most 75% of patients are not compliant wearing a CPAP. Why? Because it's claustrophobic or they've got to travel with it and it's too cumbersome. So maybe something is a guard to help bring their jaw forward. Is something attainable and easy for that person. Or maybe someone's already tried that and they say I don't want to have to wear some plastic thingy on my teeth all the time. And they may just be someone who wants to be ultimately fixed like the system. So the engineer aspect you referred to, maybe that's someone who'll be open minded to creating some expansion and someone who wants to do that, they probably will say, oh, I probably got some jaw clicking jaw stuff too. So they have more than one reason that they are seeking care.
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Interviewer/Co-host
Gotcha, gotcha. And then like over time there those reasons kind of pile up and pile up and then eventually now you're, now you're starting to look at like full on system failure.
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Dr. Becky Coates
Yes.
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Interviewer/Co-host
Yeah. And we talked about one thing that I thought was very, very interesting was the ability for you within your practice. You do this really comprehensive approach to finding out the exact functioning and the exact level to which somebody's jaw is functioning. Right. You have different systems within the wellness center to really map out what's going on in there. And within those systems you were able to find out that a client that had come in and they were coming in with blurry vision and it ended up being that there was a tumor like the size of your fist in there. Talk to me a little bit about that story because that story was insane.
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Dr. Becky Coates
Yes. That seems crazy. Right? So people who would say when they first make an appointment, why do I have to do this sort of over an hour assessment or exam or certain type of X ray? Well, the importance of that is so we can get the right diagnosis. And many times there might be another issue that you don't think that is related to your pain. So for instance, you referred to this patient that she came in with blurry vision and she had headaches. She was tired of doing like Botox for her headaches and she had poor sleep also. So she didn't want to have to be taking some kind of pill to Help her get to sleep and stay asleep. But when we did her imaging, not only did she have like a small airway and a jaw issue, of course, she also had an extra thing going on where she had this tumor behind her eye. So if we hadn't had that extensive exam or diagnosis or 3D image, we wouldn't have been able to help with this other medical problem that a physician hadn't seen yet because of this X ray. So the good news about that is we were able to get her the care that she need, referred to neurosurgeon and basically save her vision and she.
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Interviewer/Co-host
And you save the eye.
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Dr. Becky Coates
Save the eye, yeah.
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Jason Tyler
I mean, that is. When I heard that story during the
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Interviewer/Co-host
interview, I was like, I couldn't imagine the going to the dentist and then going through this whole scenario to find out that, you know, the. My life was saved because I went to a dentist that did the right thing and really gave me like a proper diagnostic. So, like, that by itself. First of all, I want to just like credit to you for providing such a service where you were able to save this person's life.
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Jason Tyler
But for the audience member out there,
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Interviewer/Co-host
that's just kind of like they're just being introduced to you for the first time. And I want to take a second here to kind of talk about the, the wellness center aspect of it because we kind of hinted at it earlier with, you know, you guys do the jade masks, you do the noise canceling headphones, the massage chair that you mentioned. Like, talk to me a little bit about like just the wellness approach that most dentists, most dental offices don't offer.
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Dr. Becky Coates
Right? So I think the things that I've come to appreciate over our career is that those extra special touches matter to someone. They just don't know that they exist yet. Right? So if, for instance, you are sensitive to materials and it might be someone who says they can't take certain types of vitamins and they're allergic to a lot of medicines and things like that. They have an extensive history. Well, they may not know yet that there is a type of test that you can run to look at what type of materials are right for your mouth. Who would have known that's a thing, right? So some people are reactive to different type of teeth cleaning products or crowns or fillings. It just doesn't suit their body chemistry correctly. So that person, a type of patient who's never heard of that yet, all they know so far is that I have inflammation, certain materials have failed, and they're looking for a different alternative so in that regard, that wellness center is looking at chemistry of the materials. A different way of looking at would be in the wellness center is that we have someone that has their own business that works on lymphatics. So someone who might say I'm trying to detox or I've got a thyroid issue or some gut issues that I want to help, they may not be attuned to their lymphatic system maybe built up. So what is your lymphatic system? It's kind of like your oil changing mechanism of your body to get rid of all the junk. But how that stems from your mouth is like, well, digestion is here and your gums or your periodontal disease can wreak havoc in your body. So in the wellness center, we would also have a detox specialist. So someone who is more open minded to their healthcare choices is really gonna grab to our wellness center because of that. Another way to look at that would be someone who has neck and hip and shoulder issues they may not equate to that is connected to their jaw and their bite, like the engineering or gear system that you referred to. So having a type of osteopathic physician in our office that's a part of our team helps people that have the wrong bite and the jaw muscles aren't firing correctly, which messes up their neck posture, which then in turn messes up their shoulder or their hips. So it's basically that sort of jaw to neck to body connection is another avenue in our wellness center.
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Interviewer/Co-host
One of my, you know, I asked this of all my guests here on the show. We're here at Inside Success and I want to give an opportunity here. What, what is Dr. Becky Coates number one key tip for success?
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Dr. Becky Coates
Be open minded to learning more. And I think that is not just as a professional or a doctor, but be open minded to learning from the medical community and also be open minded to sharing what you know with the medical community. So it's a give and take. Dentistry and medicine are oftentimes think of separate and actually it's a bridge or it's a connection. So like your mouth is connected to your cardiovascular system, your heart rhythms, your, your biome in your mouth. Right. The same thing as how you sleep and your breathe is connected to your energy. And I think being open minded to learning is also from a patient or a client perspective because you're seeking people that are the expert subject matter. So be open to the new information that you are receiving. And a lot of what I encourage our clients to do, our Patients is to look at a lot of the videos that we've made on YouTube. This a part of our page that really addresses key points that often are the key questions that people ask us when they're making a new patient appointment.
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Jason Tyler
Now, for the audience member out there that wants to look up, how do
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Interviewer/Co-host
they get to a TMJ plus Wellness center? Well, the TMJ plus Wellness Center, I know that it's right next to DFW airport, but where can they find you guys on social media? Where can they find you on the Internet? Where can people locate you?
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Dr. Becky Coates
So our website is tmjplus.com of course, we have all of our socials of TMJPlus underscore Dr. Becky Coates. I also have another spin off of our brand, which is Dr. Jaw Dropper, which came about when I was on Good Morning Texas and I was doing as it's a ABC affiliate in Dallas. And so when I've done some shows there, when we were talking with their crew behind the scenes and we were talking about what we were going to discuss or a patient testimonial, they're like, okay, so you're like a doctor, the jaw. But basically you're helping people with their jaw. So basically you drop the jaw forward so you get away from their earring or you're open their airway to breathe. And I'm like, yes, kind of like that. So the fun spin off on social media is also Dr. Jaw Dropper, but you can find us on Instagram, even our professional page on LinkedIn and TikTok. So everywhere.
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Jason Tyler
Perfect. And I'll make sure, you know, editors, I'm pointing in directions. You guys know to put all of the links to things on the screen somewhere.
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Interviewer/Co-host
But Dr. Becky, it has been an absolute pleasure having you here on the show.
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Jason Tyler
Guys, if you're still tuned in at this point, I want to make sure that you check out Dr. Becky's episode of America's Best Doctors coming out shortly after this podcast episode airs. So make sure you guys stay tuned for that. It'll be a much deeper dive into her story, into how she became the dentist of 26 years.
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Dr. Becky Coates
20, 26.
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Interviewer/Co-host
We're on 26.
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Jason Tyler
26 year career. So make sure you guys tune in to her episode of America's Best Doctors. But again, this has been another episode of the Living your legacy podcast. I'm your host, Jason Tyler, and I
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Interviewer/Co-host
will catch you guys in the next one.