Semidey Dental Podcast
Welcome to "Semidey Dental," 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.
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EP #4: Why Dental Implants Might Be the Best Decision You'll Ever Make
Step into a world where dental health meets transformative technology in this engaging podcast episode! We explore the tremendous advancements in dental implants, a revolutionary option that can profoundly impact one's life. Join hosts Alex Semidey and Jeremy Wolf as they unveil the journey of dental implants from ancient practices, such as those using seashells, to modern breakthroughs in technology that make procedures simpler and more effective than ever before.
Listeners will be captivated as they discover the process of osseointegration, which allows implants to bond seamlessly to the jawbone, restoring not only functionality but also aesthetics. Real-life patient stories featured in the episode reveal how dental implants have transformed lives, instilling new confidence and revitalizing self-esteem. The conversation navigates the connection between oral health and overall well-being, shedding light on how maintaining a complete smile can enhance one's quality of life and even prevent premature aging.
Additionally, the hosts emphasize that investing in dental implants is not merely about replacing missing teeth; it's about investing in long-term health and comfort. This episode goes beyond just dental procedures, providing insights into the mental and emotional benefits linked with a restored smile. As dental technology keeps evolving, there's much to be excited about, with promising innovations on the horizon, including bioengineered teeth.
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Welcome to the Semide Dental Podcast. We're here to provide you expert insights on how dentistry can improve your quality of life and extend your health span. I'm Alex Semide and I'm a practicing dentist, and I'll be your host, along with Jeremy Wolf. Enjoy the show.
Speaker 2:Hello, hello everyone, and welcome back to the Semide Dental Podcast, dr. Alex, always a pleasure to see you, my brother, good to see you, man. Yes, yes, thanks everyone for tuning in. We're excited to get on this topic. This is actually a topic that I have personal firsthand experience, intimate knowledge of, because I am the recipient, or was the recipient, of dental implants. But this is going back, alex, probably 15 years, so obviously there's been a lot of advances in technology and I really haven't been in the know, if you will. So let's start here. Explain to someone out there that is unfamiliar with dental implants why they've come to be considered the gold standard for tooth replacement.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no, absolutely so. Implants have a fascinating history. They've been around in dentistry for over a hundred years now and over the last, yeah. Yeah, there's actually super cool archeological records of like Aztecs doing implants with seashells and actually taking broken pits, bits of seashells, implanting them after taking a tooth out and they they stuck like. There's fossil records of this, which is fascinating. Yeah, um, we've come a long way though, thankfully, and uh, yeah implants.
Speaker 3:implants are a topic that are near and dear to my heart. It's it's one of my favorite things to to do for patients. Uh know, giving someone the ability to smile and chew again after they've lost their teeth is incredible, and with modern day technology, I mean, we have a super streamlined process that makes it a very safe and predictable procedure that really changes people's lives. So a little bit about how implants, you know work. Um, an implant is essentially.
Speaker 3:I always tell patients that you know, implants the best one we got is the one that man upstairs gave us right, and implants is the best that I can do as a replacement. So I always say it's not really a replacement for your tooth, it's a replacement for your missing tooth right, cause nothing's as good as the, as the original parts that we get. It's not really a replacement for your tooth, it's a replacement for your missing tooth right, because nothing's as good as the original parts that we get. But that said, implants are unbelievable. They look and function like a natural tooth does. They are virtually indistinguishable from our natural teeth when they're in place and they help us do all the things that our natural teeth help us do right Chew the foods that we love smile confidently in pictures and not worry about, you know, these missing teeth or sometimes dentures or partials that slip out of place and can be uncomfortable. So implants, really, they really do change lives. So implants really do change lives.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because it's not just a dental issue. Right, it's not. It really is tied into your well-being. It affects people, your confidence, your career opportunities, your mental health and wellness. You've been doing this quite some time now and I know you have a lot of stories from patients that you've helped. Can you maybe share a story of a particular patient whose life was truly transformed by dental implants?
Speaker 3:Oh man, yeah, absolutely. So two come to mind immediately. One maybe because I saw her last week to restore her implant. But my aunt Estrella, 83, 84 years old I love her, she's like a second mom to me and she had an issue. She had an old root canal on her canine.
Speaker 3:Now she is an 83 old little Cuban lady, um, that doesn't really care about whole lot but really cares about keeping herself well, put together, right and not having missing teeth and dealing with all of those issues. So her losing that front tooth was a really, really big deal to her and she didn't want to deal with something, you know, a flipper or something that was in and out when it comes to her front teeth. She wanted something permanent and fixed. So we had the talk that the root canal had gone bad and we needed to remove the tooth and thankfully the conditions were just right. We were able to place an implant that same day, place a temporary crown on the implant that same day and for all intents and purposes, as far as she was concerned, not a whole lot had changed from that morning to that afternoon when she, when she, left the office.
Speaker 2:So we just saw her a couple of weeks, so like she walks in with no tooth and leaves with it. Cause I remember when I got this done, this was a huge process. I had to go in they. I had to go see an oral surgeon. They implanted the rods. I had to wait get the molds made implants, not rods. Thank you very much well, I mean, that's maybe 15 years ago was a wrong layman's terms rods stuck those screws in my jawbone.
Speaker 3:no, but yeah. So, yes, the answer is yes, both ways. Um, there are certain conditions and actually her case was even more interesting because she walked in that day with her natural tooth. We removed that, placed the implant and placed a provisional crown on that implant all in the same day. Yeah, it's really cool. Head blown day yeah, it's really cool. Head blown yeah, it's super cool. And now we can't do that for every case every time. Right, like the conditions need to be right. Like we have to have enough healthy bone we have to. We have to have a patient that's very compliant. Right, we have to have, ideally, certain areas of the mouth that don't take as much load as other areas. Right, like that's not a good idea to do on a back tooth and you go and you chew you know jawbreakers on it. That's not going to be a good idea for that implant long-term. But in certain instances, yeah, we can remove the tooth, place the implant and you walk out with a temporary like nothing ever happened.
Speaker 2:Very cool. So I want you to. I want you to put on your science hat. Semi-dental art meets science. Get your science hat on. In reading the blog that you wrote about this topic, there was a term that came up. It was osseointegration, which kind of sounds like a sci-fi term, but it's actually what makes implants so successful, according to what you wrote. I mean, I'm curious. I want you to break down in a way that makes sense to the average person what osseointegration is, and then I want to kind of take a look back at what I did 15 years ago with my mouth, with my implants, and see if I have the benefit of osseointegration, because I don't know that I do so osseointegration is the term for the bone healing into the implant and locking it into place.
Speaker 3:I'm very excited to geek out on the science on this. So you have two basic types of cells in your bone. They're called osteoclasts and osteoblasts. And osteoclasts are responsible for breaking down bone and osteoblasts are responsible for building bone behind them. Right, and this turnover of bone is constantly happening in the body and, interesting factoid, in the mouth. That process happens at a rate four times greater than anywhere else in the body.
Speaker 3:So the mouth is a very, very dynamic place, right, and what happens is when we prepare the jawbone, ie drill the hole, right, we call it an osteotomy that's the fancy term for you know hole that we drilled in your jawbone we prepare the site, we place our implant and then those cells rush to that site through the inflammation and blood flow and all that, and they start doing their thing, right, and they start remodeling all of that bone that's around the implant and ultimately, over a period of months you know two to four months that bone locks that implant in place and now it is perfectly attached to the jawbone. You can attach a crown, you can attach a denture, you can do what's called what we call loading the implant right, because now it's been fused into the jawbone and it's a permanent fixture.
Speaker 2:Interesting. So for some reason I had thought that maybe the materials being used for the actual implants had a plan. That sounds like that's not necessarily the case the bone kind of graphs around the material I was thinking like-.
Speaker 3:Yes, yes, yes. So some materials are far more Susceptible to taking the bone. Stimulate that osteointegration more than others.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because I can imagine a situation where the material they use for the implant is like 3D grafted and it's very similar in a way to the bone in structure and it kind of merges and morphs together. And the more we advance in technology, the more likely it'll be to get to a point where you really do have an implant that does become more and more like an actual, like the root or whatever is anchoring the tooth in the first place. No, yeah.
Speaker 3:So absolutely Right. But the process of osteointegration also applied to the seashells, right. So it's the body's normal process of like fusing into this foreign structure that we call osteointegration, right. But depending on how, on what it is, on what materials are used, how those materials are treated, right, it's going to promote more or less of that osteointegration right.
Speaker 2:So, like most people, they don't realize that missing teeth can make you look older necessarily. Can you explain a little bit about why bone loss happens and how implants actually keep people looking younger?
Speaker 3:Yeah, so really it comes down to the lower half of your face. Your teeth provide support to this entire area, from your nose to your chin, to this entire area, from, like, your nose to your chin. So when we, like, stereotypically, think of old people, we kind of, you know, start envisioning, whether we realize it or not, someone whose lower half of the face has started to collapse right. They start getting sunken in lips as they lose front teeth. Everything just kind of like shrinks down and the closer the tip of your nose gets to the tip of your chin, right, the older we tend to look. So implants preserve, right, that height in the lower half of our face.
Speaker 3:So, hypothetical, let's do a molar here on the left. And now all of a sudden your mouth can close a little bit more and you have fewer teeth supporting all of your chewing forces, right. What happens then? Now we start stressing out the teeth that are left more, because now they're they're working overtime right, like they're chewing and grinding, not only for themselves but for their buddy that's missing. So we wear those teeth out faster. Those teeth are more prone to cracks and fractures and things like that that could lead us to have to have those teeth removed right and now we start compounding that effect of decreasing the height of the lower half of the face and the more that happens, the older we tend to look and we end up aging prematurely as we lose teeth, especially our posterior, our back teeth that lend that support to the job.
Speaker 2:Makes sense. I mean, I know we talked about when my daughter was getting some work done with her mouth. She had to have some teeth removed. We had a conversation about this. It wasn't about implants per se, but I remember talking about how, by removing teeth, you always like to try to maintain as many of the teeth as you possibly can, because it has effects on what you just said in terms of, like, development, moving forward and aging. Really fascinating stuff For me because I've had experiences. You know, I have a checkered dental history and I've had a lot of trauma associated with this. There's a lot of pain that comes up and I think a lot of people hear implant surgery and they immediately go to like, oh, is this going to be painful? But I mean, you've you've said to many patients that nowadays it's in many cases it could be easier than an actual extraction, right, oh?
Speaker 3:100%. I'll take it a step further. I I had a young man of mid to late 60s have an implant done on his lower left first molar, um, you know tooth with a lot of dentistry had gone South. We decided, all right, we'll, we'll extract the tooth. We took a more delayed approach with his treatment, so we extracted the tooth. Then a couple months later we went in and placed the implant and uh, I called him, uh, you know, the day after his his procedure to check in on him and see how he was doing. And he goes, alex, like that was less than a cleaning and that like just kind of stopped me in my tracks, cause obviously this is a procedure that we do a lot and I know that patients have a fairly easy recovery when it's when it's straightforward implants, but no one had ever put it quite that way right when it just really sort of hit me and it's a story that I share with my patients. And, yeah, compared to an extraction, I was telling the extractions the hard part right, with an extraction, even when you're super numb, you feel a lot of pressure Post-operatively there's, you know, no matter how good your surgeon is, there's always discomfort, right, you had a piece of you removed and there's just like a few days where things are kind of achy and sore and with implants like that's frequently not the case at all.
Speaker 3:You feel some vibration during the procedure. Feel some vibration during the procedure and then afterwards maybe some gum irritation because the gums the gums do feel what we do, but the bone doesn't. Bone isn't innervated, so that osteotomy, that hole that we drill in the bone, causes no pain. Then the implant goes in, it's healing as soon as you walk out of the office. Patients just go on about their business while that implant heals for a few months and then they come back and get their implant crowned and it's generally a very smooth, predictable, easy process.
Speaker 2:I got these 15 years ago Are implant, do they typically last for your lifespan? Is there a point where I may have to go in Like I guess at some point maybe you got to replace the crown on top but the actual anchor, the implant into the bone, is that something that should hopefully last for my whole life, or am I going to have to get that potentially replaced at some point?
Speaker 3:Potentially right, but there's so many factors that go on when we're dealing with an environment like the mouth, right, and it's biology, and things change and we are requiring the body to stay at a certain healthy level in order for things to stay healthy right. And when those things change well, stay healthy right. And when those things change well, it can be a little bit unpredictable. I'll say this, though Generally if an implant isn't going to take right osteointegrate, that's generally going to happen earlier on in the process, right, If you've had an implant that's been in function for 10, 15 years, unless something dramatic happens, right, Trauma obviously can, can knock an implant out, right.
Speaker 3:The same way it can knock a tooth out, Um, sometimes periodontal disease, right, Gum disease, if that's not well controlled. The same way that process can erode the bone around our teeth. It'll erode the bone around implants. But if those implants are properly placed and properly restored, even when those things happen, we can frequently salvage the implant and the restoration by intervening early enough. So the answer to your question is a complicated yes and yes, they can last a lifetime.
Speaker 2:Restoration. I'm not knock on wood here. I want it to last my life. I don't want to have to go back in there, absolutely.
Speaker 3:You know that's the goal for all of our patients, right, like ideally, I want to do the last dentistry that you ever need. How realistic is that? In every case, it's not right, but we try to determine the factors that could get in the way of that being a reality right and address those so that we increase our odds.
Speaker 2:So, from where I sit, it seems like if you're missing teeth, implants are a no-brainer. But, that said, there are other options out there. Right? Everybody's heard of a bridge and dentures and things like that which, although I haven't heard about it much lately, it's usually for the older generations. But if somebody is debating, let's say, you're missing teeth, like, how do you help someone make the best choice for them? Like, is there ever a circumstance nowadays where it makes more sense to do a bridge or or dent as opposed to an implant? Because it seems like, again, finances aside, it sounds to me like doing an implant would be the best course of action, would it not Like?
Speaker 3:98% of the time, 98%. So there's like rare circumstances, right. I don't believe in absolutes in life and one thing that I take a great deal of pride in is is kind of tailoring treatment and and taking into account factors that maybe go outside of just the immediate local mouth factors. Right Of what's best for a patient. You know there are certain things that that could increase potential complications with a procedure. Right, and yes, you said finances aside. Right, finances are a consideration of the ways that we have available to us to replace teeth.
Speaker 3:Implants are the gold standard and, of course, the most, the most, the biggest investment right, the most expensive. You get the most in return for your investment, but it is a consideration. You get the most in return for your investment, but it is a consideration. No-transcript, you know there's a reason for that. Right, they are, they're serviceable, they can be uncomfortable, maybe not the most aesthetic sometimes, but it's better than not having teeth right. It does improve our function, it does improve the appearance and, like you said, we also have bridges right which have also been used for a long time and are a very good replacement for missing teeth, although they do require us to do a lot of dentistry to the surrounding areas of that missing tooth, which oftentimes is something that we want to avoid. We definitely don't want to have to drill a tooth that doesn't absolutely need it in order to replace a tooth if we have an implant as an option.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I want to talk a little bit more about the financial considerations because I think I want to start trying to change people's perspective around this right. Like, when you're presented with an option for something like implants and there's a hefty price tag associated with it, a lot of folks don't want to outlay that money, so they go for a less expensive option. Can you talk a little bit more about how patients will actually save not only money but their dental health, like in the long run, how it's a good investment for them, uh, to proceed with implants?
Speaker 3:yeah, no, absolutely. Um, that's something that we take. You know I personally take very seriously, right, that any sort of treatment that patients decide to go with is a commitment of you know, their time, their effort, sometimes significant amounts of money, right, and that matters. But to address your question, yes, an implant can be, upfront, maybe the most expensive option to replace a missing tooth or missing teeth, right, but what happens? So the implant can be, you know, five to six $7,000, start to finish. Right, you have a tooth that goes bad, it needs to be extracted. You need some surgery to build up the bone, place the implant, then get your beautiful porcelain crown, right, that's a process and it carries a significant price tag, you know, comparing it to, perhaps, maybe, something like a bridge, which may be maybe a couple thousand dollars cheaper, and maybe a partial, which could be, you know, maybe $3,000 cheaper, right.
Speaker 3:But what happens downstream, right, if we go with the implant? Now, that implant, first of all, does it require you to cut down the teeth next door, right, which opens the door to complications for those teeth down the line? Right, because the more we're fiddling with stuff, the more procedures we're doing, the more we open the door for complications and to have to redo procedures down the line, right. So the more we preserve the intact nature of our teeth, the better. Right, the implant is also going to help preserve the bone in that area where we're missing a tooth.
Speaker 3:So something that we haven't talked about that's super interesting is when we take a tooth out, if we don't put something into the jawbone, the bone, the body starts breaking down that bone because now it serves no purpose, right. So the body is very smart and very efficient and it says, okay, this bone isn't doing anything, there's no root, there's no implant here, let's break it down so that we don't have to waste resources and maintenance there. Okay. So what happens downstream? There, we start losing bone, right, it starts affecting the teeth next to the empty space. Now, they will loosen prematurely. We may lose those teeth prematurely, right, and it puts us on this hamster wheel of dental treatment for life, right. So getting back to the long-term savings right, that's it. Yes, it's a bigger investment upfront, but the amount of problems that you avoid downstream right, financially, time-wise, you avoid downstream, right, financially time-wise pain, discomfort right, comfortability.
Speaker 2:yeah, it's a no-brainer.
Speaker 3:It really is.
Speaker 2:It's a no-brainer, it really is. So you mentioned in the blog and you've not just in the blog, we've talked about this at length this connection between overall health, oral health and overall health and things like heart disease, diabetes, even osteoporosis. What role do implants play in overall health beyond just restoring a smile?
Speaker 3:Yeah, absolutely so. With rehabilitating someone's mouth their ability to function and chew, I would say that than dentures and partials and things like that will, which is going to have a downstream effect on our nutrition status, right. Our ability to digest our foods, the better we're able to chew them, things like that. It's also going to help us feel a lot better when we replace teeth and look and feel better and when we have that confidence and security that our teeth are are going to be there when we need the most, right, and it's going to help preserve that facial structure, right, it's going to help preserve bone levels in both jaws. It's going to help preserve the height of the lower half of the face, like we were discussing, right, so it's going to help stave off that, that premature aging too. And, yeah, I'm a big believer in the psychological impact that dentistry has on us, right, it's one of the most rewarding facets of my career and we learn more and more about the impact that our emotional well-being has on our physical health, our physical well-being, right. Like when we feel good, things go better, right, and that is one of the really one of the most beautiful things that implants provide us Really one of the most beautiful things that implants provide us, especially for the folks who, you know, have what we call terminal dentition.
Speaker 3:Right, maybe they had a ton of dentistry when they were younger and that dentistry has failed and now they have to have all of their teeth removed, you know, or a large portion of their teeth removed, and this is psychologically a huge burden. Right Like this is not a trivial matter. For people, right, and to go from, it's huge. And for a lot of people to go from, because it's one thing right, you have a missing tooth down here and you get the implant and now you're more comfortable. That's great. Right, is that going to significantly impact your life? Probably not. But for the patient who's dealing with a denture that's floppy and they can't chew and they can't eat and it's uncomfortable and it's rubbing their gums and they're miserable, right Like a denture is a miserable experience, especially a lower one. Putting in a couple of implants for that patient and stabilizing that denture is revolutionary.
Speaker 2:Right like now they're able to chew and talk and sneeze, right without without an issue, without worrying about the dentures popping out, literally, literally, and laughing right and enjoying their lives the way dentistry enables us, sometimes right.
Speaker 3:So that is really the patients who see the biggest impact on their overall health right. The more we are replacing with implants right, the bigger the impact on their overall health right the more we are replacing with implants right, the bigger the impact on the overall health.
Speaker 2:So many, so many positive aspects of implants and just just from the aesthetic aspect of it, like there's having a bright, beautiful smile, like I remember many, many years back I had my teeth whitened. I've only done it once and I remember after I had the procedure done I pulled up. I was at a parking place and I pulled up and I saw the lady. I gave her my ticket and I gave her a little smile and she's like oh, what a beautiful smile you have. It just radiates out. It's just something about like, of all things right, like when you have a beautiful, bright smile and you meet somebody, you tend to get a lot of compliments on that, like, oh well, I mean, I know it's something I noticed for sure.
Speaker 3:So it's interesting you mentioned that we actually have a slide on the office that goes around. There was a study done a few years ago and it was in the American Journal of Psychology, I think it was, and the study was what is the most memorable feature when first meeting someone? And smile was number one. Like 50% of people who responded responded the smile. It's the number one feature that sticks out in your mind the most when you first meet someone and that was followed by you know how they dress, how they talk, how they smell. You know their eyes, right, people always think the eyes is the first thing that you make contact with and sticks in your mind. No, it's the smile, right, it is your business card for life, the gateway to the soul. There you go, oh I like that.
Speaker 2:So we talked a little earlier about where implants are at today and I mentioned how I got them 15 years ago. What's on the horizon, like? What are we looking at in the future? Are we moving towards a place where we're going to have fully bioengineered teeth that regenerate just like the real thing? Am I going to get to a point where I'm missing a tooth and I can actually stimulate the body to grow it back? I'm missing a tooth and I can actually stimulate the body to grow it back? Like is this like way, way off thinking?
Speaker 3:Or are these things that are actually topics of conversation right now in the medical community? Yeah, where we're headed is that AI is coming for all of us, and who the hell knows what things are going to look like in five to 10 years, right. But yeah, so currently gold standard for replacing a tooth or teeth is the implants like we've been talking about. Uh, there is a team out in japan actually that is working on growing new teeth, right, like basically implanting a tooth bud into your jaw because they grow the tooth in a lab and then implant the tooth right in, not not growing it from.
Speaker 3:No, no growing it from growing it from like, like in vitro fertilization of your tooth in your jaw, and it develops and you get a brand new shiny tooth. There you go, yeah, there you go. So this is still in its, you know, early stages, right, but uh, there's definitely progress being made in that front of regenerating teeth.
Speaker 2:Regenerative medicine. Man, it's the big new thing. I mean, it's where things are headed right. And as we incorporate AI, just the evolution of these things is just going to, you know, yeah, because the human body has an unbelievable capacity to heal itself right, and there's other animals that exist in the wild, that regenerate in the wild, that regenerate their limbs and things like that. Why that wouldn't be available to our species, given the right technology and being able to tap into it, you know.
Speaker 3:So we're going to be able to have a lot of uh, a lot of a lot of biology in the next uh handful of years, for sure, the next decades to come.
Speaker 2:All right, anything else you wanted to add before we wrap this one up? I think I got through.
Speaker 3:I think I got through everything, but if there's anything else on your mind, let it shine, yeah you asked me earlier about if there was a case that stood out to me with regards to implants, and I mentioned my ds3 and as we were talking here, someone else came to mind that it was just such an impactful story that I would love to share. So this guy comes to the office. You know facilities guy, blue collar dude, salt of the earth, just an amazing guy, and you know, if you were to just see him you'd be a little intimidated because he's a big dude but just an absolute teddy bear and nice guy. He was in his late 30s, was missing a front tooth and then the other front teeth had really sort of like rotated and splayed out of the way because of you know, years of neglect and, um, you know, he literally never smiled right, he would sort of like smize but like not with his lips. Yeah, yeah, always making sure, always had like his mustache real long, you know, and he was feeling really down about himself and life and just what his prospects were and out where things were headed, and he was very self-conscious about his mouth and he finally decided to do something about it and he came to see us and you know we talked about what his goals were and put together a treatment plan. And you know we talked about what his goals were and put together a treatment plan. And you know we had to remove additional front teeth that had been compromised due to periodontal disease. And then we went through an Invisalign journey where we aligned his bite and straightened things out. And then, you know, we restored the missing teeth with a few implants and got him his final crowns and, oh man, I get goosebumps talking about it.
Speaker 3:It was so transformational for him, right. He, literally a week or two after getting his crowns and feeling that confidence, got a new job, was promoted within a month, found a girlfriend, got married. And he credits all of that to the confidence, the confidence that he felt right. Not necessarily the implants, but the transfer, the confidence that he felt right. Not necessarily the implants, but the transfer, the psychological transformation of going from I don't want to be seen to I feel good, right, and the impact that that has on the rest of our lives is huge. So it's just, it's such an honor, right. It's such a gift to to be able to be a part of of experiences like that for people to to be able to be a part of of experiences like that for people. And um yeah, implants aren't necessarily the cure-all for everything and everyone, but they definitely make a big difference powerful stuff, getting getting goosebumps.
Speaker 2:Just hearing the story and I know for me, having gone through that myself, you know I could I could kind of empathize. Remember when I, when I lost my teeth and they gave it was was right before my honeymoon. I couldn't even get the. I couldn't even get the work done. They gave me some like little plastic molds to put on. I went to Italy for my honeymoon and I had to experience all the lovely food out there with this little plastic mold in my mouth. So all right, man. So if you're out there listening and you have had an experience with dental implants good, bad, indifferent, whatever that is let us know about it. Leave it in the comments below. We're always interested to hear your feedback and, of course, if you'd like this content, don't forget to like and subscribe. We thank everyone for joining us on this journey and wish you all a very happy and healthy day and remember, keep smiling out there. Have a good one. I wish you all a very happy and healthy day and remember, keep smiling out there, have a good one.
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