October 10, 2025 • 17 mins
We spoke with Dr. Abbas Mohammadi about the effect of Ozempic on teeth, the meaning of Ozempic teeth, and how to stay informed about the impacts of medication and nutrition on the body.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, thank you for listening to Community Access. I'm
Allison de Merz. It's my pleasure to have my guest
today as a founder, doctor Abbas Mohammadi from Colombia Dental.
How are you.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Good morning, Allison, how are you?
Speaker 1 (00:13):
I'm great, Thank you, good to see you. Doctor listen.
I jumped on the ozempic bandwagon. I jumped on the
Manjaro bandwagon. I loved it because it shut down the
food noise. I was not hungry. I didn't feel hungry
at all. However, with ozempic, I got a swollen lymph
node in my stomach just being brutally honest near my pancreas.
(00:35):
Had to stop it. Forget what happened to my belly,
like going to the bathroom. That was a whole other thing.
I tried Munjaro, the chur zeppetide shut down the food noise.
Was never hungry, absolutely loved it. And then I get
a swollen lymph note in my jaw that I had
to have biof seed. So I am not someone who
can take any GLP, but I wish I could tell
(00:57):
me about ozempic.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Doctor well, ozen pick is like any other medication, has
side effects and also has the advantage. Okay, originally been
invented to manage the diabetics, but the scope of its
(01:19):
practice had been expanded to for fighting obesity or overweighthing.
I'm sure you have seen it and the tv ads
and so on so all the time.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
So again I'm not expert.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
To talk about ozenpig in overall about the advantage and
disadvantage of it in the whole entire body. This is
something the physician need to make that decision. They need
to be a you know, a good conversation with the
(01:57):
patient before starting ozenbic. But as the dentists, I can
tell the effect of ozen pig and the dentition and
the oral cavity. One of the side effects of the
ozmpiks is reduce the salivary gland secretion. As the result,
(02:21):
we're getting something that we call it zerostomia or dryma,
and patients that they have zerostomia are more prone to
developing dental carriers or cavity and periodental disease. So that
doesn't mean is because you get dry mode you shouldn't
(02:42):
take ozenpig. But my job is to inform the public
about the side effect of the ozampik and if they
take Ozenpig, they are have to be more careful it
coming to the dentist getting the routine cleaning because they
(03:05):
don't have saliva. Saliva is not has a layer is
secret something we call it glycoprotein, and that layer of
glycoprotein protectitive, is a layer protectative and the periodental tissue
or the gum. So when you don't have saliva, you
(03:26):
don't have that protective layer, so you get more prone
of developing carriers or periodental disease. So if you have
to take ozenpick, and I hope it's not for the
managing of the weight or so, because the original intent
(03:48):
of making ozen pick was not for the you know,
controlling the weight, you know, for weight loss, was for
managing of the diabetics. If they have to take it,
then they need to know about the side of facts.
They have to be coming to dentists more oftenly than
(04:10):
any other individual.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
In our practice.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Also, because we have a huge patient database, we have
noticed that patients that they are starting taking ozembi because
we've been in practice for twenty five years, so we
can you know, and we've been digitalized since twenty five years,
so we have all the record of the patients. Ozembik
(04:35):
is something fairly new, so we can compare to see
how the condition of the oral cavity had been worse
than since they started the ozembik. And frankly, some of
the very bright student from Trinity College, Cass Washington and
(05:01):
his crew, they approached me to conduct a research and
to go through those medical chores and look at the
chores to see how many, you know, how ozem pick
can affect the condition of the tief. This is a
(05:23):
very unique research that I don't think anybody else has
done it. There is no grand beyond those research. It's
just a bunch of hard working college students that they
are spending their time on weekends to dig in through
(05:43):
and find a correlation between the OZM pig and dental
carriers and periodontal disease. And you know, I'm proud to
be a part of this, you know study.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
A great picture of all the students. Oh yes, yes,
I'm speaking with doctor Abbas Mohammadi. I know I jumped
right out of the gate with ozampik and you're probably like,
what does this have to do with teeth? So I
apologize because I was excited to talk about this with you.
There is a lovely picture of you. Actually, is it
with you?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Is it my length and page? Yes, LinkedIn my LENGTHD
and page. Yes.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Yeah, they're so young.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yes, it's so exciting to so exciting. Yes exactly, they say.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Yeah. So do we know why ozampik causes dry mouth
or no we don't.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Yes, we know because it reduced the secretion of saliva,
so you you'll have less saliva, so effect on the
salivary line.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
What I mean is, do we know why that's a
side effect having less saliva? Does that make you less hungry?
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Well, we know when you get you have food, your smell, food,
your saliva starter stic. So yes, there is a correlation between.
It's a whole package. You know, when you disturb something
in the body is going to have a domino effect
(07:12):
on something else. I'm sure you know when you pass by,
you know, I'm your Italian Italian restaurant, You're going to
have you know, saliva start to Yeah, you salivated exactly,
you start. So, of course there is a correlation between
the food and secretion of the saliva from salivary.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Glands stops the salivating, you may not eat.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Correct corrects the same nerve system that they affect everything
and every it shot down the whole things.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
So you mentioned getting your teeth cleaned maybe more often,
keeping an eye on it more often.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Is there something over the counter or something that you
would prescribe for dry mouth for them?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Having sugar less candy and or gum also can stimulate
salivary gland for secretion, So it's not a bad idea.
I'm honest with you. I'm also a fan of chewing gum.
And also there is also another things that is I
(08:25):
do is because there's been also some study done about
the traditional gum that contained macroplastic and that macroplastic can
increase you know, inflammation in the gum, so that as
(08:46):
the side effects. But to circumvent that, I buy an
organic gum whole food carry on my radicles On Sunday,
I buy a bunch of for me though are from
a tree and it's not contained plastic and hypothetically is
(09:07):
better for your periodontal conditions. So I don't want as
identities to recommend people to just chewing a sugar less
candy or sugarless gum. Also, they have to consider about
the macroplastic and the traditional gums that are available commercially.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Well, that's good to know. How do you educate patients
about medication and nutrition?
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Well, in our hygiene practice, when the patients are coming,
we take a medical history. My hygiene is my daughters
are very well diverse, and they will, you know, go
through the medical history and we can make any type
of recommendation to the patient that sometimes they're not aware
(09:58):
of it, or sometimes even their is or not aware
of their side effect that they may result of those
side effects, for example, changing the subject not about the ozampic.
I had another patient that was taking calcium channel blocker
or knife edebin for the managing of the blood pressure.
(10:22):
One of the side effects of that is that cause
gum overgrowth or we call it gingerbol overgrowth. So as
soon as I saw the patient, I saw the tissues overgrowing.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
So I said, what medication taken?
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Of course, I'm not hesitaying the position to tell the
patient or don't take that medication, but I said, you
might want to go and console your physician and can
be maybe some other alternative because you're coming here every
four months and still your gum is like that, so
(10:58):
and even and I saw him him and you know,
they find sometimes some alternative medication and I see his
gum now is in much better condition. So we work
with our patients and sometimes we work in the col
(11:18):
like in this case, in collaboration with the physician, because
also side effects with saying that it Ozen picked my
or calcium channel blocker. Maybe many people they take, but
their side effect it might be more intense in somebody
than the other one.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
You understand what I mean.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
So this is not something like a silver bullet that
you can tell every patient this is good for you,
and this is not good for One of the things
that is really bothering me here is that we see
forma cosutical company. They put ad on TV or you know,
(12:05):
they're trying to sensationalize of the medication, and I think
this is wrong. United the State and Venezuela are the
only two countries in the world that they allow pharma
company to do that, to commercialize it and advocate for
(12:27):
medication to the public. And you're seeing the ad like
you know, they go, you know, they get happy now
they are in day and you know they're trying to
connect those you know, personal and cultural status that you
(12:47):
are gaining because you're taking those medications. And I do
believe that it's kind of a bad misleading, especially for
the patient that they're not having no background and pharmacology right,
and they go and they beg in their physician or
the doctor for medication because they think, oh, no, I'm
(13:09):
going to lose weight and going to date this guy.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
That wasn't you know. It's only that exactly, that's you know.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
They try. Of course, they the way you see the
ad employ that you know, employ that way, and they
spend a lot of money and the advertisement, so I
guess it works, that's why they're doing it, But I
don't think it's right. I think this is something that
(13:40):
former consutical company. They need to approach physician, they need
to approach dentists, the healthcare provider, try to educate them
and try to bring why is their medication is good
somebody that has the background to underst and that to
(14:02):
be in for not overall public because public doesn't have
the background and it gives a huge you know, levey
for misleading and things to be deceptive.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
I asked you the question about how you educate patients
about medication and nutrition. You talked about how you examine patients,
and I just wanted to bring up your dental hygienis
because people think while going there they just clean my teeth,
and actually these dental hygienas are absolutely amazing. They look
for everything correct, you know, what's on the outside of
(14:37):
your skin, on your face, even what's in you. They
notice everything people don't understand. Correct, just how educated and
experience correct.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
We have saved life even because people they came for cleaning.
We detected the carcinoma. We detected ameloblastoma, severe cases that
patients they didn't even know about it. Okay, So it's
not just like a drawing or sometimes a very serious
(15:07):
condition can be overlooked or patient they don't know when
the cancer get in the stage that become painful. Usually
it's too late. But we can see a lot of
you know, lesions at the beginning and it might not
be a cancer. But even lesions, we see something unusual,
(15:28):
we send them, refer them to our oral version and
you know, they take the biopsy to make sure it
is or it is not. So those routine cleaning that
you said, You're absolutely right, it's not just for Hey,
let's just get the cleaning. It's a part of like
(15:49):
a physical exam for the oral cavity, and many disease
start the symptom from you know, in the mouth before
any part of the body. So our hygiens are very
well experienced and you know we do it through examination
(16:14):
during our hygiene visits or even o hygiene visit, even
during the emergency if it's it, or anytime the patients
are coming to our cleaning, we do a good oral examination.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
I'm speaking with founder, doctor Abbas Mohammadi of Columbia Dental.
You can go to Columbia Dental dot com. So, doctor,
you have thirteen locations.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Twelve location through a state of Connecticut. We have locations
from a Norwalk and up to Enfield and from New
Milford to Manchester to Connecticut, so basically both east coast
and west part of the Connecticut up to Torrington. We
(17:02):
cover every step so there is no location that takes
more than twenty or thirty minutes from every way of
the Connecticut to go. Our main office in Manchester, Connecticut
is open seven days a week and it opens from
seven am to nine pm. And on that Manchester location,
(17:23):
we have an in house lab and we are capable
of providing final prostices.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
In the same day.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Beautiful. Thank you so much for being here today and
for serving the community.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Thank you, Alison, thank you so much. Pleasure
Good morning, thank you for listening to Community Access. I'm
Allison de Merz. It's my pleasure to have my guest
today as a founder, doctor Abbas Mohammadi from Colombia Dental.
How are you.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Good morning, Allison, how are you?
Speaker 1 (00:13):
I'm great, Thank you, good to see you. Doctor listen.
I jumped on the ozempic bandwagon. I jumped on the
Manjaro bandwagon. I loved it because it shut down the
food noise. I was not hungry. I didn't feel hungry
at all. However, with ozempic, I got a swollen lymph
node in my stomach just being brutally honest near my pancreas.
(00:35):
Had to stop it. Forget what happened to my belly,
like going to the bathroom. That was a whole other thing.
I tried Munjaro, the chur zeppetide shut down the food noise.
Was never hungry, absolutely loved it. And then I get
a swollen lymph note in my jaw that I had
to have biof seed. So I am not someone who
can take any GLP, but I wish I could tell
(00:57):
me about ozempic.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Doctor well, ozen pick is like any other medication, has
side effects and also has the advantage. Okay, originally been
invented to manage the diabetics, but the scope of its
(01:19):
practice had been expanded to for fighting obesity or overweighthing.
I'm sure you have seen it and the tv ads
and so on so all the time.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
So again I'm not expert.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
To talk about ozenpig in overall about the advantage and
disadvantage of it in the whole entire body. This is
something the physician need to make that decision. They need
to be a you know, a good conversation with the
(01:57):
patient before starting ozenbic. But as the dentists, I can
tell the effect of ozen pig and the dentition and
the oral cavity. One of the side effects of the
ozmpiks is reduce the salivary gland secretion. As the result,
(02:21):
we're getting something that we call it zerostomia or dryma,
and patients that they have zerostomia are more prone to
developing dental carriers or cavity and periodental disease. So that
doesn't mean is because you get dry mode you shouldn't
(02:42):
take ozenpig. But my job is to inform the public
about the side effect of the ozampik and if they
take Ozenpig, they are have to be more careful it
coming to the dentist getting the routine cleaning because they
(03:05):
don't have saliva. Saliva is not has a layer is
secret something we call it glycoprotein, and that layer of
glycoprotein protectitive, is a layer protectative and the periodental tissue
or the gum. So when you don't have saliva, you
(03:26):
don't have that protective layer, so you get more prone
of developing carriers or periodental disease. So if you have
to take ozenpick, and I hope it's not for the
managing of the weight or so, because the original intent
(03:48):
of making ozen pick was not for the you know,
controlling the weight, you know, for weight loss, was for
managing of the diabetics. If they have to take it,
then they need to know about the side of facts.
They have to be coming to dentists more oftenly than
(04:10):
any other individual.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
In our practice.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Also, because we have a huge patient database, we have
noticed that patients that they are starting taking ozembi because
we've been in practice for twenty five years, so we
can you know, and we've been digitalized since twenty five years,
so we have all the record of the patients. Ozembik
(04:35):
is something fairly new, so we can compare to see
how the condition of the oral cavity had been worse
than since they started the ozembik. And frankly, some of
the very bright student from Trinity College, Cass Washington and
(05:01):
his crew, they approached me to conduct a research and
to go through those medical chores and look at the
chores to see how many, you know, how ozem pick
can affect the condition of the tief. This is a
(05:23):
very unique research that I don't think anybody else has
done it. There is no grand beyond those research. It's
just a bunch of hard working college students that they
are spending their time on weekends to dig in through
(05:43):
and find a correlation between the OZM pig and dental
carriers and periodontal disease. And you know, I'm proud to
be a part of this, you know study.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
A great picture of all the students. Oh yes, yes,
I'm speaking with doctor Abbas Mohammadi. I know I jumped
right out of the gate with ozampik and you're probably like,
what does this have to do with teeth? So I
apologize because I was excited to talk about this with you.
There is a lovely picture of you. Actually, is it
with you?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Is it my length and page? Yes, LinkedIn my LENGTHD
and page. Yes.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Yeah, they're so young.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yes, it's so exciting to so exciting. Yes exactly, they say.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Yeah. So do we know why ozampik causes dry mouth
or no we don't.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Yes, we know because it reduced the secretion of saliva,
so you you'll have less saliva, so effect on the
salivary line.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
What I mean is, do we know why that's a
side effect having less saliva? Does that make you less hungry?
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Well, we know when you get you have food, your smell, food,
your saliva starter stic. So yes, there is a correlation between.
It's a whole package. You know, when you disturb something
in the body is going to have a domino effect
(07:12):
on something else. I'm sure you know when you pass by,
you know, I'm your Italian Italian restaurant, You're going to
have you know, saliva start to Yeah, you salivated exactly,
you start. So, of course there is a correlation between
the food and secretion of the saliva from salivary.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Glands stops the salivating, you may not eat.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Correct corrects the same nerve system that they affect everything
and every it shot down the whole things.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
So you mentioned getting your teeth cleaned maybe more often,
keeping an eye on it more often.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Is there something over the counter or something that you
would prescribe for dry mouth for them?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Having sugar less candy and or gum also can stimulate
salivary gland for secretion, So it's not a bad idea.
I'm honest with you. I'm also a fan of chewing gum.
And also there is also another things that is I
(08:25):
do is because there's been also some study done about
the traditional gum that contained macroplastic and that macroplastic can
increase you know, inflammation in the gum, so that as
(08:46):
the side effects. But to circumvent that, I buy an
organic gum whole food carry on my radicles On Sunday,
I buy a bunch of for me though are from
a tree and it's not contained plastic and hypothetically is
(09:07):
better for your periodontal conditions. So I don't want as
identities to recommend people to just chewing a sugar less
candy or sugarless gum. Also, they have to consider about
the macroplastic and the traditional gums that are available commercially.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Well, that's good to know. How do you educate patients
about medication and nutrition?
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Well, in our hygiene practice, when the patients are coming,
we take a medical history. My hygiene is my daughters
are very well diverse, and they will, you know, go
through the medical history and we can make any type
of recommendation to the patient that sometimes they're not aware
(09:58):
of it, or sometimes even their is or not aware
of their side effect that they may result of those
side effects, for example, changing the subject not about the ozampic.
I had another patient that was taking calcium channel blocker
or knife edebin for the managing of the blood pressure.
(10:22):
One of the side effects of that is that cause
gum overgrowth or we call it gingerbol overgrowth. So as
soon as I saw the patient, I saw the tissues overgrowing.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
So I said, what medication taken?
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Of course, I'm not hesitaying the position to tell the
patient or don't take that medication, but I said, you
might want to go and console your physician and can
be maybe some other alternative because you're coming here every
four months and still your gum is like that, so
(10:58):
and even and I saw him him and you know,
they find sometimes some alternative medication and I see his
gum now is in much better condition. So we work
with our patients and sometimes we work in the col
(11:18):
like in this case, in collaboration with the physician, because
also side effects with saying that it Ozen picked my
or calcium channel blocker. Maybe many people they take, but
their side effect it might be more intense in somebody
than the other one.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
You understand what I mean.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
So this is not something like a silver bullet that
you can tell every patient this is good for you,
and this is not good for One of the things
that is really bothering me here is that we see
forma cosutical company. They put ad on TV or you know,
(12:05):
they're trying to sensationalize of the medication, and I think
this is wrong. United the State and Venezuela are the
only two countries in the world that they allow pharma
company to do that, to commercialize it and advocate for
(12:27):
medication to the public. And you're seeing the ad like
you know, they go, you know, they get happy now
they are in day and you know they're trying to
connect those you know, personal and cultural status that you
(12:47):
are gaining because you're taking those medications. And I do
believe that it's kind of a bad misleading, especially for
the patient that they're not having no background and pharmacology right,
and they go and they beg in their physician or
the doctor for medication because they think, oh, no, I'm
(13:09):
going to lose weight and going to date this guy.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
That wasn't you know. It's only that exactly, that's you know.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
They try. Of course, they the way you see the
ad employ that you know, employ that way, and they
spend a lot of money and the advertisement, so I
guess it works, that's why they're doing it, But I
don't think it's right. I think this is something that
(13:40):
former consutical company. They need to approach physician, they need
to approach dentists, the healthcare provider, try to educate them
and try to bring why is their medication is good
somebody that has the background to underst and that to
(14:02):
be in for not overall public because public doesn't have
the background and it gives a huge you know, levey
for misleading and things to be deceptive.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
I asked you the question about how you educate patients
about medication and nutrition. You talked about how you examine patients,
and I just wanted to bring up your dental hygienis
because people think while going there they just clean my teeth,
and actually these dental hygienas are absolutely amazing. They look
for everything correct, you know, what's on the outside of
(14:37):
your skin, on your face, even what's in you. They
notice everything people don't understand. Correct, just how educated and
experience correct.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
We have saved life even because people they came for cleaning.
We detected the carcinoma. We detected ameloblastoma, severe cases that
patients they didn't even know about it. Okay, So it's
not just like a drawing or sometimes a very serious
(15:07):
condition can be overlooked or patient they don't know when
the cancer get in the stage that become painful. Usually
it's too late. But we can see a lot of
you know, lesions at the beginning and it might not
be a cancer. But even lesions, we see something unusual,
(15:28):
we send them, refer them to our oral version and
you know, they take the biopsy to make sure it
is or it is not. So those routine cleaning that
you said, You're absolutely right, it's not just for Hey,
let's just get the cleaning. It's a part of like
(15:49):
a physical exam for the oral cavity, and many disease
start the symptom from you know, in the mouth before
any part of the body. So our hygiens are very
well experienced and you know we do it through examination
(16:14):
during our hygiene visits or even o hygiene visit, even
during the emergency if it's it, or anytime the patients
are coming to our cleaning, we do a good oral examination.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
I'm speaking with founder, doctor Abbas Mohammadi of Columbia Dental.
You can go to Columbia Dental dot com. So, doctor,
you have thirteen locations.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Twelve location through a state of Connecticut. We have locations
from a Norwalk and up to Enfield and from New
Milford to Manchester to Connecticut, so basically both east coast
and west part of the Connecticut up to Torrington. We
(17:02):
cover every step so there is no location that takes
more than twenty or thirty minutes from every way of
the Connecticut to go. Our main office in Manchester, Connecticut
is open seven days a week and it opens from
seven am to nine pm. And on that Manchester location,
(17:23):
we have an in house lab and we are capable
of providing final prostices.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
In the same day.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Beautiful. Thank you so much for being here today and
for serving the community.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Thank you, Alison, thank you so much. Pleasure
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