EP #13: Dental Myths And Daily Mistakes

You can do a lot “right” with dental care and still slowly damage your teeth, and one of the biggest examples is brushing at the wrong time. We get honest and practical with an Ask Me Anything format, starting with Alex’s path into dentistry and the mindset that guides everything he does: fix small problems before they become big ones. That theme shows up in every question, from daily routines to the expensive repairs people wish they avoided.

We break down the dental myths that won’t die, including why brushing immediately after eating can wear down enamel in an acidic mouth and why waiting about 30 minutes can make your routine safer and more effective. We also talk about gum bleeding, the “pink in the sink” warning, and why it’s not something you should normalize. If you care about preventive dentistry, gum health, and protecting your health span, this part matters. Then we get into the financial side: why ignoring a missing tooth can trigger drifting, bite collapse, fractures, and a chain reaction that turns one problem into several.

You’ll also hear our takes on teeth whitening, from store-bought whitening strips to professional whitening, plus why charcoal toothpaste can be overly abrasive and even leave teeth looking gray. We compare sugar to acidic drinks, explain why constant sipping is brutal for enamel, and call out the social media veneer culture that pushes unrealistic smile expectations. We end with a rapid-fire round of toothbrush, floss, mouthwash, tongue scraping, and everyday habit truth.

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Transcript

Welcome And AMA Setup

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Welcome to the Semeday 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 Demiday and I'm a practicing dentist, and I'll be your host, along with Jeremy Wolf. Enjoy the show.

SPEAKER_00 0:18

Hello, hello, everyone, and welcome back to another episode of the STEM Day Dental Podcast. Jeremy Wolf here alongside Dr. Alex Demiday. Thanks everyone for joining us. Thanks, everybody. Doc. Good to see you as always, my friend.

SPEAKER_01 0:30

It's good to see you, Jeremy. I'm excited for the show, man. I think this is gonna be uh a really fun one.

SPEAKER_00 0:37

Yeah, we're gonna mix things up. We're gonna do things a little bit differently. We know everyone out there has questions. Public would like to know. We're gonna do a little AMA. Ask me anything. We're gonna go down. I got a bunch of good questions for you. So I just have one question for you, Doc. All right. Are you ready?

SPEAKER_01 0:54

Oh, I'm ready.

unknown 0:55

It's more than ready. Let's go.

SPEAKER_00 0:56

Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Okay.

Why Dentistry Won

SPEAKER_00 0:58

So, number one, why don't we set the stage? Why did you become a dentist? Start there.

SPEAKER_01 1:04

Oh. All right. You just threw me back to like dental school interview. So my my origin in dentistry happened through a conversation with my mom. I was uh I was a business and finance major and undergrad. I thought I wanted to be a stockbroker.

SPEAKER_00 1:21

Nice.

SPEAKER_01 1:22

And the more I learned about it, the more I realized I was not really built for that world. So I had my quarter life crisis. I talked to my mom, she consoled me. She threw out dentistry because we had some like third cousin twice removed sort of deal who was a dentist. And uh, you know, mom being mom and knowing me, she she threw it out there, and that's my first reaction was like totally dismissive. Um no way, like working in people's mouths, like nothing could have been further from my idea, right? Of being a stockbroker in New York City. Um I shadowed this this person and and kind of got to see what she did and found it interesting. I've always loved working with my hands, which was a prime uh reason my mom like even threw out dentistry in the first place. And um, like the more I learned about it, the more interesting I found it. And fast forward now, many, many, many, many years. I've been a dentist for 16 years and loving every minute of it.

SPEAKER_00 2:30

And the rest, as they say, is history. So if you weren't a dentist, what would you be doing? And I know the answer is not a stockbroker, not a stockbroker.

SPEAKER_01 2:41

Um I don't know. Carpentry, I'd be a carpenter.

SPEAKER_00 2:48

That's right. You do like to you do like to build and fix things. Yes. As you said, you are very you've taught me a quite quite a few things about leaning in and fixing things and building things. So I I I thank you for that.

SPEAKER_01 2:59

Yeah, no, no problem. I think we're all we're all we're all meant to fix things, right? And carpentry in particular is just it's awesome. I love building furniture. I love uh making things that provide use to people for a long time.

SPEAKER_00 3:17

Yeah, man. You said after our run the other day, you said something that landed with me. I told you about this. You said when you fix things, you fix things. And that really, really hit me hard. And when you really lean into like the small things, it tends to kind of fix the bigger things in your life and helps you restructure your mind and and and develop positive habits and things like that.

SPEAKER_01 3:40

So yeah, it kind of kind of develops your own narrative, right? You're a fixer. You don't see you don't see you don't see broken things as a problem, you see it as a as an opportunity to bring value.

SPEAKER_00 3:53

Absolutely, man.

The 30 Minute Brushing Rule

SPEAKER_00 3:55

All right, what's one dental myth that people still believe that's completely wrong?

SPEAKER_01 4:03

Um so this one kind of surprised me because it happened just the other day, super common still. We were at Nona's house, my mom's house, with the kids, and they had just finished lunch and she told them to go brush her teeth. And I was like, no, no, no, no, wait. You don't want to brush your teeth right after eating or drinking anything other really than water. Um yeah, so interesting reaction you just had. Yeah, so the reason why is because when we eat, the environment in the mouth gets very acidic, right? The mouth is now working to break down this food, bacteria is too reactive, right? Okay, so now you have a very acidic environment in the mouth, and if you go and you scrub that acid on the mouth. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Exactly. You're literally breaking down the enamel on the teeth when you're just really you're you're trying to help, but you're causing a whole lot more harm than than help. So the rule of thumb is wait 30 minutes, right? After eating or drinking anything other than water, just wait for 30 minutes. That's gonna let the saliva in your mouth re like buffer that acidity, and then your enamel is safe. You can go ahead, brush, floss, do everything you need to do.

SPEAKER_00 5:22

What I do is I just have my trusty, handy-dandy little dental flossing picks. So after I eat, I'm good with that, right? I just like do the little toothpick thing to get the food out of the teeth, and then I'm good.

SPEAKER_01 5:33

Um so that that that could be a podcast all on its own, right? Like depending on the technique that we're using. Uh, I would probably just rinse with some water right afterwards, wait the 30 minutes and then go through your hygiene routine.

SPEAKER_00 5:50

Okay. Good to know. I will incorporate that into my routine. Good sir.

Pink In The Sink Warning

SPEAKER_00 5:57

What's the biggest mistake people make with their teeth that cause long-term damage?

SPEAKER_01 6:06

Um I would say ignoring ignoring the pink in the sink. You know, ignoring a little bit of bleeding, um, certainly bleeding that does not just go away in a couple of days. Because let's be honest, right? Like sometimes we floss a little too aggressively, and even the healthiest of gums are gonna bleed a little bit if we floss too aggressively. But if it's something that's a persistent issue, and every time you brush or floss or even eat certain foods, like you're seeing you're seeing blood or tasting blood, that's not that's not normal. Okay, and that is the that's that's a that's a smoke alarm, right? That there is a fire going on, and we shouldn't ignore alarms, right? Frequently, the always, and certainly in dentistry, the the sooner we catch things and and you know start treatment, the easier it is to actually solve the problem.

SPEAKER_00 7:13

Mm-hmm. An ounce of prevention? Oh, yeah. It's interesting. You talked about you said pink in the sink again. I heard uh, I know we we had talked about this before on a previous podcast, and I saw one of your one of your clips floating around talking specifically about the pink in the sink, and and it landed with me in the even though I had the conversation with you, I understood it. But in that moment, I was driving and I was really focused on what you were saying, it made perfect sense about like you have blood vessels in your mouth. And if you're bleeding there, something is open there, and that's a gateway. And we talk a lot about the mouth being the gateway to the rest of the body, and like what you take in if you have open blood vessels, it gets right in your bloodstream, and that that could lead to serious problems later, disease and all sorts of things. So that really hit me hard. And uh, I've been very cognizant. And I find for me, like the the more consistent I am with flossing, the less bleeding you have. Uh, it's always those times where you haven't flossed in a couple of weeks and you start doing it and you just bleed all over the place. So 100%, everyone. Consistent daily habits. Make sure you floss.

SPEAKER_01 8:13

That's it.

SPEAKER_00 8:14

Very well said. Uh so the next the next question here, I think we kind of answered that a little bit, unless you you tell me otherwise. What's something people ignore until it turns into a very expensive dental problem? That's a kind of a different variation of the same question, right?

SPEAKER_01 8:28

Um, yeah. Yeah, I think the the the pink in the sink expense is um generally like systemic, right? It's it's it's expensive on your health to ignore that.

Why Missing Teeth Snowball

SPEAKER_01 8:43

Uh, I think from a financial standpoint, it's probably ignoring like a missing tooth, like a missing back tooth generally. Um because I I get it, right? You had to have a tooth removed because you had a big cavity or a crack or something like that. And it it starts adding up real quick. The extraction, if you need to, you know, stabilize the jawbone with some bone grafting. Uh, if you start talking about replacement options too, like it becomes a an investment, right? Um, but what happens when we ignore that problem is that frequently like a one-tooth problem becomes a three or five or seven-tooth problem because teeth aren't on an island, right? They're a part of a system, and you remove a part of a system, right? Like you remove any little gear in a in a watch, like things are going to start collapsing. And you know, what I tell patients every day is that what holds teeth in place is your other teeth. You start removing those, teeth start drifting, they start absorbing forces in ways that they're not intended to, so they chip and fracture and break, uh, or wear prematurely crowns and bridges and veneers and things like that fail because the angles of forces on things are being you know applied in ways that it's not intended to. So it is much easier, much cheaper to just address a single missing tooth, right? When you still have enough bone to get a to get a good implant that's going to last you the rest of your lifetime, uh, while things haven't drifted around, right, and and collapsed your bite and you know, brought on you know premature aging and things like that because your bite is collapsing, and it's much easier, much cheaper to fix it on the front end and enjoy the results downstream.

SPEAKER_00 10:42

Makes sense.

Teeth Are Not Tools

SPEAKER_00 10:46

All right, doc. What's something that people do every day that dentists secretly cringe at?

SPEAKER_01 10:55

Without a doubt. Without a doubt, using your teeth as like a multi-tool.

SPEAKER_00 11:03

Like a package with your whipers.

SPEAKER_01 11:07

Um my wife Kate does it all the time, and I just oh here, here, here, here are the scissors, please. Um, yeah, it's just one of those things. I don't know what it is about it though, right? Because it's very rare that I see people that you know have broken teeth because they were I mean it happens, right? They were opening up a bag of chips or something, but I don't know. Maybe it's straight.

SPEAKER_00 11:35

It should be really strong. I I guess if you're if you're doing something hard enough, you could definitely cause some damage. But just like again to the general rule of thumb, don't be lazy and try to open something with your mouth because you don't want to go get a scissor or something. Just like take an extra second, and I mean I'm guilty as well. I do it sometimes too. And you know, I probably am too, right?

SPEAKER_01 11:56

Like in a moment of frustration, it's like I've got these 32 built-in multi-tools. Fishermen, they cut line with their teeth. Really? And I've seen that, I've seen that a ton. They end up with like this little pinhole, like right on the edge of their of their front teeth, uh, that is just distinctive fisherman cutting line.

SPEAKER_00 12:25

Fisherman tooth. And you could also use the fishing, the fishing line is uh it could double his floss as well, no?

SPEAKER_01 12:30

I suppose. Hey.

SPEAKER_00 12:33

Hey, when in Rome. Um, here's one of

The Wildest Office Stories

SPEAKER_00 12:37

you. What's what what's the craziest thing you've ever seen come into come into your office?

SPEAKER_01 12:49

Jeez, um from like a clinical standpoint, this one guy um epoxied in a broken tooth onto like a root stump that he had left.

SPEAKER_00 13:08

So the tooth fell out and he tried to assist it himself?

SPEAKER_01 13:11

Yeah, yeah, with epoxy. Um and he just he, you know, more is better, so he really he really got in there with it. Um you know, we've had some a couple of really interesting like sugar daddy type situations.

SPEAKER_00 13:30

Um elaborate, please.

SPEAKER_01 13:33

Where um you know, there's an obvious sort of relationship happening between uh a lady and a an older gentleman who comes in footing the bill for all of the the the makeover.

SPEAKER_00 13:52

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 13:53

Um not that crazy. Come on. Okay. I work in baby, man. We're we're you know, we're hard working blue-collar type folks.

SPEAKER_00 14:06

Uh okay. Moving on. Best dad in the galaxy. Oh, here's a

Whitening Strips Vs Professional Whitening

SPEAKER_00 14:17

good one. This is um because I I've done this before. I've gotten my teeth whitened professionally, and it really, really worked. But there's a lot of products in store. So do store-bought whitening products actually work, or are you just throwing away money when you do that? Like, do you should you should you go see a professional to do they have them at like you can go to your dentist, I guess you could also go to the the med spas have teeth whitening services? Like, should people invest in over-the-counter products or get it done professionally?

SPEAKER_01 14:46

Um, depends on the level of results you want, right? Like the over-the-counter stuff, it's gonna work to some extent. It's gonna work more, you know, slower. Uh, you're not gonna get the same level of whitening just because the concentration of the whitening materials that they're allowed to use isn't as as strong. Um, so if you want really fast, powerful results, go see your dentist. Uh, you'll walk out in an hour with a super bright smile. Um, if you don't mind waiting, you know, a couple of weeks to see some results, over-the-counter stuff tends to work. The strips um probably have the best sort of results as far as the different kinds of products available over-the-counter. Um, the one downside to the strips is that your teeth need to be straight. Uh, because otherwise, like the strip isn't going to be in contact.

SPEAKER_00 15:48

You'll have an uneven tan, or not tan, whatever.

SPEAKER_01 15:51

Yeah, you'll have smile lines. Yeah. Um, yeah, exactly. So, you know, if you do have a lot of crowding or rotated teeth or things like that, you should probably have like a custom type whitening tray made.

SPEAKER_00 16:09

Um, well, you you just now let's back on my radar because because of this this question here. I remember when I had my the only time I had my teeth whitened up, I think I was in my 20s. I remember I went up to a guard gate after I had it done and I smiled and and told them, have a nice day. And they were like, You have a beautiful smile. It's like, I need to come see you to get this done. We need to brighten me up, okay? Let's do it. Don't let me forget.

SPEAKER_01 16:37

Where do you hide all that yellowness, Jeremy?

SPEAKER_00 16:40

My teeth, I got I got a pretty good smile, man. It could be better though. Always room for improvement. What about what about charcoal toothpaste? What's the word on that? What is the word on that? About charcoal toothpaste.

SPEAKER_01 16:53

Yeah, it's all over. You know, I think it was probably more popular a few years ago than it is now, uh, but maybe not, not in some circles. So it gained a lot of a lot of popularity as like uh an at-home whitening um agent. And the way charcoal toothpastes whiten your teeth is by basically scrubbing off any stain on the surface. It's not really doing anything to whiten the tooth like a peroxide uh product would, like which is all of the whitening gels and whitening rinses and things like that. Uh, the charcoal is basically just scrubbing any stain that you have on the surface of the tooth off. Um what I don't love about it is that it's it's very abrasive, right? It's literally meant to scrub off stains off of your teeth. So that abrasiveness can damage enamel, right? It can scratch the enamel on your teeth, so which can cause it to wear prematurely, and then you stack on top the fact that a lot of those toothpastes don't have fluoride, which helps strengthen the enamel. Um, not my favorite products. The other thing, too, that kind of has like an unintended consequence is that some studies have shown that it can actually darken teeth because it gets into like little micro fractures in the enamel, and the charcoal itself is black, so it ends up giving teeth this kind of grayish tinge for some people, um, which is obviously the total opposite of what we're trying to accomplish.

SPEAKER_00 18:38

Well, well, who would have thought that charcoal could potentially make your teeth a little gray? I mean, duh.

SPEAKER_01 18:45

No, I mean, it really is. It took a Harvard study.

SPEAKER_00 18:53

Uh oh, here's a good one.

Sugar And Acidic Drinks

SPEAKER_00 18:56

What's worse for your teeth? Sugar or the I gotta do the quote unquote healthy drinks that people sip all day. I think all those healthy drinks have a lot of sugar in them anyway.

SPEAKER_01 19:09

Right, right. Um yeah, so what kind of healthy drink are we talking about? Like some sort of like unsweetened green tea, ice green tea sort of thing. Okay, you're probably pretty safe. Um, you know, a lot of those, a lot of those drinks contain sugar, and many of them are very acidic. So basically everything that tastes good has some sugar or is acidic. Um, we want to avoid the sugar because that fuels bacteria and what they do in the mouth, which is ultimately to produce acid. Uh, and we want to avoid acidic foods and beverages because it's like you know, pouring battery acid on your teeth. Um now it's okay to sit down and eat some fruit that is acidic, right? You're gonna sit down, you're gonna eat it, it's gonna take you 10-15 minutes to eat it, and then your saliva is gonna come in and buffer that acidity and bring your mouth back to a normal, you know, homeostatic point. Um the problem with the drinks is that we end up just kind of sipping on this all day, every day, right? Constantly exposing our teeth to this, to the acid and the acidic environment. So your your saliva never has a chance to buffer that acidity and bring things back to normal. So if I had to pick one, if my choices are sipping on some healthy beverage all day or sitting down and eating a bag of you know sweet tart halos, sit down, eat the bag of sweet tart halos, and then go brush your teeth 30 minutes afterwards. And from a dental standpoint, you're gonna be okay. Metabolically speaking, it's not good, but from a dental standpoint, you're gonna be better off than with the drink.

SPEAKER_00 21:04

Interesting. I would have thought the opposite.

SPEAKER_01 21:06

Right.

Veneers Social Media And Bad Trends

SPEAKER_00 21:09

Do you think social media and veneers have created unrealistic expectations for smiles?

SPEAKER_01 21:17

Oh man. Fuck social media and all of its unrealistic expectations with everything. Uh, not only with a smile, but with your life and your kids and your spouse and your car and your aspirations. And man, social media makes you feel bad about even what you aspire to be. It's like, I don't aspire enough. Um yeah, I think social media puts a filter on things that is not healthy for us.

SPEAKER_00 21:49

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 21:50

I think we should we should have a smile that we feel confident about. I think that is important, right? And because it is it is uh It is a kind of business card to the world, right? Your smile says a lot about you. It doesn't necessarily have to be a beautiful smile by you know conventional standards. But it should be a healthy smile. It should be a confident smile, should be a welcoming smile. Smile is uh really important, but it does not need to be, you know, a perfectly symmetrical lab-designed uh thing to have to have beauty.

SPEAKER_00 22:36

Speaking of social media, what's the dumbest trend you've seen pop up online lately?

SPEAKER_01 22:46

Ooh. Um I don't know. I saw some folks like filing their own teeth to make things little uh the lizard teeth that you're filing on. I've seen that too, which is crazy. Like they they shaved their teeth into like cones.

SPEAKER_00 23:08

I heard that's very painful.

SPEAKER_01 23:10

Uh it's gotta be. And I mean, like, dude, talk about commitment.

SPEAKER_00 23:15

Like, you are committed to your life committed if you file your teeth into spikes, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:21

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um fangs. Wild, wild. You know what? I'm probably gonna catch a little bit of heat for this one, but I'm gonna throw in another stupid thing on social media. Um, doctors, professionals in general dancing around like monkeys to get likes. I think there's something to be said about sharing your personality online for sharing good information online, um, to share how fun, right, your place of business is, right? Like a lot of us are running small businesses, and we want to show prospective patience how great this place is. So I feel like there's a lot of pressure within that community to pump out content that is trending, and everyone's doing like the Bad Bunny video or the whatever latest dance thing is, and you've got like you know, the doctor on camera like shaking their butt side to side, and it's just like we want to see you on camera shaking your butt side to side, doc.

SPEAKER_00 24:41

Come on. I give everybody a preview of what's to come.

SPEAKER_01 24:45

Yeah, I don't think anyone wants to see that. Um I think it's kind of sad that we've we've gotten to the point where we collectively feel so pressured to do things like that to to share our businesses. Um, you know, one of the one of the coolest compliments that I get a lot from patients, especially new patients, is that when they come into the office, they comment on how you hear people laughing. Like all the time. It just sort of like rolls down the hallway, right? We have we have a very small, intimate practice. We have four private rooms, right? So when you come in, we close the door, but it's a small place. So and laughter carries. And all the time I hear that, like how cool it is that you know, this could be seven o'clock at night on a Tuesday, right? Right before we close up, folks are laughing and having a good time, and that vibe permeates the place, right? I don't think we need to do the booty shaking video to convey that we're fun people that you want to be around, right? That you won't mind being around. Because maybe nobody wants to actually come in, but there's

Rapid Fire Dental Rules

SPEAKER_01 26:01

that.

SPEAKER_00 26:01

That's my we're gonna do a quick fire round. Lightning lightning answers, no overthinking here, okay? Rapid fire, electric or manual toothbrush?

SPEAKER_01 26:12

Electric.

SPEAKER_00 26:13

All right, floss before or after brushing? Before mouthwash, essential or overrated? Important.

unknown 26:28

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 26:29

Worst food for your teeth in one word, sugar.

SPEAKER_01 26:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:35

Did I get that right?

SPEAKER_01 26:36

Acid.

SPEAKER_00 26:39

Uh best food for your teeth.

SPEAKER_01 26:43

Uh water.

SPEAKER_00 26:48

It's a lot of food. Come on. It's a cop out. Give me a food.

SPEAKER_01 26:52

Um, I don't know. Anything that doesn't contain have a lot of uh that isn't very acidic or contain a bunch of sugar. Okay. Leafy greens.

SPEAKER_00 27:02

Leafy greens. One product you'd ban from every bathroom.

SPEAKER_01 27:07

Oh uh uh battery-powered toothbrushes, like the ones you put like a double-A battery in.

SPEAKER_00 27:13

No good.

unknown 27:14

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 27:14

I think they give people a false sense of security.

SPEAKER_00 27:18

Gum. Friend or foe?

SPEAKER_01 27:21

Friend.

SPEAKER_00 27:23

Interesting. Most satisfying procedure to do.

SPEAKER_01 27:29

Uh extractions.

SPEAKER_00 27:31

Ooh. Not for me. Morning brusher or night brusher, which matters more?

SPEAKER_01 27:39

Um uh uh oh, Tart shared something with me about this a while back. Oh, uh brush your teeth in the morning to keep your friends, brush your teeth at night to keep your teeth. Maybe I flipped that. Brush your teeth at night to keep your teeth, brush your teeth in the morning to keep your friends.

SPEAKER_00 27:56

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 27:57

If I had to tell, pick one morning brush.

SPEAKER_00 28:00

Morning brush. Okay. Coffee, tea, or red wine, which stains worst?

SPEAKER_01 28:05

Red wine, probably.

SPEAKER_00 28:07

Red, red wine, B40, baby. Whitening strips, yes or no? Oh, we talked about that. Yes or no? Maybe that's a maybe. Uh maybe the the drink you wish people would stop sipping all day.

SPEAKER_01 28:21

Oh, like any sort of like energy drink type thing.

SPEAKER_00 28:24

No Red Bull?

SPEAKER_01 28:26

Horrific. I know. Just chug it. Chug the Red Bull, have it, just don't sip on it all day. Gatorade's another really bad one that people love to sip throughout the day.

SPEAKER_00 28:36

Uh a tooth tip you tattoo on everybody's forehead.

SPEAKER_01 28:43

Uh two minutes twice a day.

SPEAKER_00 28:51

Worst advice you've heard on TikTok.

SPEAKER_01 28:58

Oh. Uh I don't know that I've heard like explicitly bad advice on you don't watch TikTok.

SPEAKER_00 29:10

Okay, yeah, skipping. Toothpaste, peace or full strip.

SPEAKER_01 29:18

You so you somehow made that uncomfortable. Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 29:28

Okay. Ooh, tongue scraper. Necessary or nah.

SPEAKER_01 29:35

Tongue scraping, definitely necessary. I'm personally a toothbrush tongue scraper. And some people might take exception to that.

SPEAKER_00 29:45

I personally started tongue scraping for the first time in my life four months ago. I've noticed a huge difference on the bacteria buildup of my tongue. Yeah. My daughter's been doing it forever, and I just didn't even think to do it. And then somebody else brought it to my attention. I was like, I should probably do this. And it's worked wonders for me. So just um sweetest tooth in your own family.

SPEAKER_01 30:08

Oh, probably me.

SPEAKER_00 30:11

Of course it's you. Uh favorite part of the job in three words. Don't think too hard.

SPEAKER_01 30:21

New smile reveal.

SPEAKER_00 30:23

Ah, love it. Coffee before patience. How many cups? Oof. Hopefully, not too many. You don't want to be you're doing an extraction. You're like, oh, I had 18 cups of coffee this morning. We're good. Let's go. Um one sentence of advice for someone who hasn't been to a dentist in 10 years.

SPEAKER_01 30:49

Um it is now's the best time.

SPEAKER_00 30:57

I was gonna say, get your ass to the dentist now. I could say that. Yeah, I don't think that lands properly. That's reading between the lines. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Um pull one tooth a year forever or never floss again. Huh? What? So pull one of my own teeth? Where pull one tooth? I'm skipping that. That's ridiculous. Treat a patient who never brushes or one who argues with everything you say.

SPEAKER_01 31:33

Oh, one who never brushes.

SPEAKER_00 31:35

Okay. One that never brushes never brushes but listens. Lose your sense of taste or your sense of smell.

SPEAKER_01 31:47

Ooh. Um, well, if I lose my smell, well, do I lose my taste if I lose my smell? Because if they're independent, I'll lose the smell. I'm good. I love food. I want to taste it.

SPEAKER_00 31:57

I'll speak from experience. I don't smell anything as it is, and I do taste. I'm sure that if you lost your, I'm sure that my sense of taste is diminished because of the smell, but for me, a hundred percent, I'd rather lose the sense of smell. I mean, who can you imagine eating food with zero tape? Like it would be like just chewing on a weird, mushy texture of nothingness. Yeah, no, no bueno. Yeah, definitely smell. Um only do root canals for the rest of your career. Well, or only do cleanings. The other one. Cleanings. Have a patient name for have a patient name every tooth, or have them describe the pain as weird. Um every tooth.

SPEAKER_01 32:45

I like specifics.

SPEAKER_00 32:48

Eat only crunchy food forever or only sticky food forever. Crunchy, no doubt. Yeah, 100%. I'm with you on that. Drill with no music or with a song you hate on repeat.

SPEAKER_01 33:04

Oh, I like this one because our patients know that we put custom music on for you know for every appointment. Like we have the private rooms, right? So we create a whole little vibe there for them. Um, I no music. No music.

SPEAKER_00 33:22

I honestly would much prefer to have you as the person that's actually performing the procedure on me, listen to something that puts you at peace and ease rather than play something that I want to listen to that you hate, that you're like, ah, like I want you to be in the best mind space possible. I don't care as long as you're doing good work. I'm I could jive with any music on the background. That's true.

SPEAKER_01 33:40

That's good for now. Yeah, thanks.

SPEAKER_00 33:41

Uh give up coffee or give up your favorite suite.

SPEAKER_01 33:47

I'd give up coffee.

SPEAKER_00 33:48

Oof. Yeah, probably. Okay. Uh work on celebrities who never floss or kids who won't sit still.

SPEAKER_01 34:02

I don't know. I think it depends on the kid. It depends on the celebrity. Right? I'm okay with a celebrity that doesn't floss. And I'm okay with some kids that won't sit still. But there's some kids that are pain. Some celebrities that are insufferable. I reject your question, Jeremy.

SPEAKER_00 34:21

I reject your question. I reject everything about it. Okay. Uh, last one. Have everyone floss daily or have everyone quit sugar? If you could only pick one for the world.

SPEAKER_01 34:32

Ooh, uh, quit sugar, probably.

SPEAKER_00 34:36

Okay. Cool. That was fun. I like that. Yeah, this was fun. I want to do we're gonna do another another rapid fire around at some point. That was fun. That was the first time I ever actually did that. It was enjoyable. I hope everybody else

Closing Thoughts And How To Reach Us

SPEAKER_00 34:48

enjoyed it. Cool. All right, well, we will leave it at that. Everyone, thank you so much for joining us. And I appreciate you being with us on this journey. And, you know, the drill. Don't forget to like, subscribe, let us know your feedback. We always like to hear what's on your mind. If there's anything you'd like us to talk about on a future episode, we are all ears. And smile. And smile. There you go.

SPEAKER_01 35:10

Keep smiling, everybody.

SPEAKER_00 35:12

All right, everyone, take care.

SPEAKER_01 35:14

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