Word of Mouth with Dr. Alex Semidey
Welcome to "Word of Mouth," the podcast that delves deep into the fascinating world of oral health and its profound impact on your healthspan. Join us on an enlightening journey as we explore the intricate web of connections between your oral health and the health of your entire body.
In each episode, we'll unravel the latest research, expert insights, and personal stories to shed light on the link between your mouth and your body. You'll discover how your smile can lead to a healthier, fuller life.
Your hosts, Dr. Alex Semidey and Jeremy Wolf, will sit down with leading dental professionals, healthcare experts, and individuals who have experienced firsthand the transformative power of optimal oral care. Together, we'll bridge the gap between dentistry and holistic health, unveiling the role that your teeth and gums play in maintaining total body wellness.
For more information, visit: www.semideydental.com or call (954) 581-0120
Word of Mouth with Dr. Alex Semidey
EP #1: Let's chat! Get to know your hosts Dr. Alex and Jeremy!
Ever wonder how your oral health connects to your overall well-being? Get ready to amplify your understanding with us, your hosts Dr. Alex Semidey and Jeremy Wolf, in our inaugural episode of Word of Mouth. We candidly share our backgrounds, discuss the importance of patient education, and even touch on the beauty of family life. Dr. Alex, a South Florida native and dentist, opens up about his unique upbringing, his immigrant parents, and his passion for educating patients about their oral health.
As we unwrap this episode, like a holiday gift, we dive into the power of informed decisions in healthcare. We believe that patients should never be left in the dark, not understanding their condition or treatment options. Our warm banter and shared experiences illuminate the challenges faced in the medical field and offer a fresh, patient-focused perspective. We also share personal anecdotes about our family lives and children, reminding us all to savor every precious moment. So, join us on this enlightening journey where we'll be discussing everything from dentistry to family life.
Welcome to Word of Mouth, where we explore the fascinating connection between your oral health and your overall well-being. Here's your host, dr Alex Semide. Hello, hello and welcome everyone to the inaugural episode of Word of Mouth. I'm your co-host, jeremy Wolf, and I'm here joined by your host, dr Alex Semide. How you doing, brother?
Dr. Alex:How's it going?
Jeremy Wolf:Jeremy, it is going really, really well, getting ready for the holiday season. I'm in that mood, in that holiday spirit, looking forward to some time off for the family, some vacation time, absolutely.
Dr. Alex:How far through the list are you with holiday shopping?
Jeremy Wolf:Wait, there's a list I'm supposed to be using for holiday shopping. All I know is my daughter gave me a list of like 30 to 40 items, so we'll see where that goes. That's helpful. I thought we'd start off by kind of talking a little bit about our backgrounds right, what we do and I'd like you to start if you could tell everybody a little bit about what you do. I know you're a dentist by trade and you do a lot of stuff and you're all about educating the community. You are the proud owner and purveyor of Semide Dental, so please tell us a little bit about Semide Dental.
Dr. Alex:Yeah, no, absolutely. First of all, I'm super excited to be here today and to be doing this podcast. Man, I'm very much looking forward to having some really interesting conversations about just the intersection between dentistry and overall health. It's a really interesting field that we're learning a lot about and the evolution of the science of it all is really fast. It's something that I'm very passionate about and I hope to have a lot of really interesting conversations about that. Like you said, I am a dentist. I'm a local South Florida kid, only son to two Cuban immigrant parents, so grew up with that immigrant mentality where my parents didn't tell me, hey, you need to be a dentist or a doctor or a lawyer, but they maybe insinuated it strongly at times.
Dr. Alex:Yeah, right now I am a proud father of two little kids, five and one, my son and my daughter, which are my absolute favorite people in this world.
Jeremy Wolf:I miss those times, brother. It's so cliche when you say value the time because it goes by so quickly, but minor nine or 11, and it feels like a lifetime ago when they were little and it's just a blur.
Dr. Alex:It really is, man. Really I appreciate it a lot more now with Isabel, with my second one. Just how quickly that all passed with my son. With her it's almost like being more focused on being mindful to enjoy every single little stage of the journey, because it's an incredible process to be a part of.
Jeremy Wolf:Life is a beautiful thing.
Dr. Alex:It really is. It really is.
Jeremy Wolf:I've been married to my wife.
Dr. Alex:Kate for 12 years roughly 12 amazing years.
Dr. Alex:She is absolutely my best friend. I am the luckiest guy in the world to have met her and to have convinced her to start a life with me. Yeah, when I'm on the clock, so to speak. I'm a practicing dentist in Davy Florida and, like you said, really my passion in dentistry is to educate From my patients. We have an education-centered practice where we want to empower people to make decisions regarding their health.
Dr. Alex:Right, I feel like too often, not only in dentistry but medicine in general, it's this sort of like you know, mechanic approach you show up, they diagnose the problem, kind of hand you a bill, like hey, this is what it's gonna cost to fix it, and you're left like, okay, I mean, you seem trustworthy, let's start, and that just that kind of sucks right. Like we set out to do things different and this podcast was really kind of born out of that philosophy right To have conversations with people to educate about what conditions and options and possibilities look like. So when we met and you know you do what you do we thought it was a great opportunity to kind of join forces and bring the message out to the world.
Jeremy Wolf:Yeah, absolutely. And a couple of things I wanted to touch on personal to me. You know my daughter has some issues with her mouth, orthodontic issues. She actually recently had to get some surgery done and I was looking into getting these treatments and part of what she needed was outside your purview but you had us come in and, like you said, that experience was all about. I mean, you could really see the care, the passion that you had, the relation you had with the patient. You really took time out of your day and your schedule, at no cost to me, to sit down and really give me your honest feedback about, as if my daughter was your daughter, and it helped guide me to the decision that I ultimately made and we ended up getting the extractions done and we're moving forward with everything. So you really do embody that essence of building relationships with really. I mean I mean that for my heart because this is personal to me. Yeah, definitely. So then I did want to say yeah about how we kind of linked up with the idea of doing the podcast.
Jeremy Wolf:Kind of goes back to my story. I started a year and a half ago on the local publisher. As you know, I published Cooper city living magazine, I do some stuff in the digital sphere. Earlier this year in April, I started the good neighbor podcast platform here in Cooper city, which was an idea born out of a colleague of mine during COVID times. He was another publisher on the West coast of Florida and he came up with this idea of hey, why don't I grant the platform to local business owners at a time when everybody was on lockdown during pandemic, so they can come on the show and talk about their business and, I think, more importantly, their origin story, right, the background behind it, how they got there where they were Platform was so successful, he started offering it to clients, ultimately to kind of help expand their businesses.
Jeremy Wolf:And I kind of took the mantles here and I've really taken grasp on this whole podcast platform and it's really evolved. I've done quite a bit of them and we got to talking and you expressed the fact that you thought it would be nice to educate the community out there and I've always been fascinated with science myself and some of the things that you're doing, some of the stuff that you're involved with. This whole idea of how your oral health is linked to your overall wellbeing was just really fascinating to me. So we kind of decided to team up here and bring this message out to the community at large, and I'm really excited to be here with you on this journey and to share your knowledge from the medical side. And then what I have to offer is a, I guess, on the consumer side, and just the person living here, and this is gonna be really fun, brother.
Dr. Alex:Yeah, I'm stoked man. Some of the things that we're gonna be talking about are really really fascinating, and from the effects of periodontal disease on cardiovascular health, which is something that we're learning tons about, to how are like, for instance, episode two I'm super excited about Did you know that the human jawbone is shrinking Like. That is fascinating stuff, and I can't wait to talk about the reasons why, like the science behind it, and it's just going to be a really fun ride then.
Jeremy Wolf:Yeah, I had no idea to say that wasn't on my radar as an understatement, right? Some of the stuff that I was reading and researching and you have to audience, you have to excuse me, I am a layperson, so a lot of this medical jargon is going to be over my head, but that's what we have Dr Semide here to clarify for us. But I've always been a well, I shouldn't say always. Certainly, as I've gotten older I've been more of a student, right? I always say that if I, the me, now went back to college, I would get so much more out of it, because I really enjoy learning and studying right now, whereas in college all I enjoyed was kind of drinking and partying.
Dr. Alex:It's a real shame, right Like the youth is wasted on the young. It'd be nice to be able to go back and have a mandatory four-year period and you've told your life where you have to go back and learn stuff.
Jeremy Wolf:I would be the one in class every day, on time, with my laptop in front of me, with my notebook completely honed in on the professor, staying after class engaging them. Maybe I should go back to school, who knows? Oh goodness, all right, man. Well, look, I think that was a good opening set to stage and I am looking forward to get into this whole idea of the shrinking human jaw. So we'll pick that up on another segment. All right, everyone, thanks for tuning in and we shall catch you on the next episode. Keep smiling. See you soon, thank you for joining us on Word of Mouth.
Jeremy Wolf:Remember a healthy smile is a reflection of your well-being. Until next time, keep smiling and caring for your dental health. We'll be back soon with more dental insights.