July 23, 2024 • 10 mins
According to research, from the University of Alabama Birmingham, in the past more than five million teeth were injured during sports activities. That cost (at the time) more than $500 million dollars on replacing those teeth not to mention the more than 600,000 visits to emergency rooms. This could all be minimized with a simple mouth guard (and wearing it). Dr. Pat Carroll with Exceptional Dentistry joins Tony & Scott with some great insight that will save you time AND money!
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(00:02):
Ah, it's time to talk aboutteeth. Doc. No, it is
exciting. I'll tell you why it'sexciting. That's doctor Pat Carroll, who
is both the dentist at Exceptional Dentistryfor both Scott Fitschild and myself, Tony
Cruz. The reason it's exciting nowis because under your fixations or fixings of
(00:26):
our chicklets, we both have havenever had cavities ever since. So I
mean that that was that was historic. Well I've been a part of history.
So thank you both for that.I appreciate it telling you. I
mean, really, I had noidea how important dentistry really was. I
mean I did, I knew it, but you know you it's really simple,
(00:52):
but you can it can be soexpensive based on what we don't do.
So good morning to you. Let'slet's talk a little bit about our
kids in particular right now is we'regetting ready to go back to school,
Pat, what are your thoughts obviouslyabout sports and just the riular kids that
are just gonna wind up, youknow, brushing their teeth hopefully every morning.
We're not. Well, yeah,I guess the first thing, you
(01:14):
know, Scott and I were talkingoff airsbact is with all the false sports
coming on. How the people toprotect their teeth during all this? You
know, Tony, I've been doingthis for like forty three years now,
and I've been the gentist for theBats and for all the hockey teams here
in Louisville. I've been the dentistfor LA University. So as you can
imagine, I've seen a lot ofmy fair share of gental trauma. And
(01:36):
I consider a quote statistics to you, you know, blah blah blah.
But I think the most important thingI can tell you is I've seen a
lot of dal injuries over all theseyears. And the one thing listen and
help every parent listen to this,and every kid listens to this. Every
injury I treated had two things incommon. They were not wealth to do
(01:57):
things. They were not wearing amouth guard. Every injury, every dinner
injury I've treated, have not beenwearing a mouthguard. And and every person
that wears a mouthguard, I've nevercheered a dental entry on. So it's
it's just so important, and it'ssuch an easy thing to do. Uh.
And it's that one piece of equipment, you know, we'll go out
and buy our kids one hundreds andhundred of dollars of equipment and pay one
(02:19):
hundreds and hundreds of dollars. Theyhave them, you know in clubs and
to play sports, and that's that'show wonderful. But you can get a
fantastic mouthguard for like twenty five bucksand that's such an important piece of doc.
What are what are some of thebig injuries you see? Like,
because I'm sure everybody we were jokingthat, you know, stop using these
things as a you toy, becausethey all do. I see it.
But it takes one time to getthat injury where you go, oh,
(02:40):
wait a minute, maybe Doc wasright. What are some of the sports
injuries you see as a result?And that may I from not properly wearing
the right mouth gear? Well,the most in the thing you might find
the most interesting is you know,you know, our sons played hockey's nine
and had some to play football,and I was a soccer official for over
(03:02):
thirty years at some of the highestlevels, and you'd be surprised that the
sports I've seen the most injuries inare doccer and basketball because honestly, if
you think about scott football, youhave to wear the mouthpiece. Hockey you
have to wear the mouthpiece. Fieldhockey, you have to wear mouthpiece,
and so those kids don't usually getinjured. Now you and I've seen our
(03:24):
kids skating up the ice chewing onit and those things. So the big
things you got to wear it.You gotta wear it. But you know,
even if you look goes back toScotti Davids for at one time.
Scott, he's a great guy,but he didn't love mouthpiece because doctor are
always chewing on they're sticking them outand said, yeah, but watch when
they're playing they've got him in.It's when they're kind of you know,
(03:44):
walking up and down the store.So what happens, doc, when when
said they get hit and let's saythe chicklets come together, what's the what's
the mouthguard preventing here? Well,you have one of two things. We
can you know a lot of timesif you don't have the mouthguard on,
you get it in the chin orsomething and you'll chip teach, you'll chip
front eats, you'll chip back teeth, and we can fix those with you
(04:04):
know, whether composits or crowns andthings like that. The most severe injury
we have is called an evulsion,where you take a blow where the teeth
come together, or you take anelbow and the tooth is either totally knocked
out or broken at the gun line, and we can't fix it. And
you know I was talking about thesethirty dollar mouth guards. When we have
(04:24):
to put a fix of new fixof tooth, or patient put a new
tooth in with an implant. Youknow, you've got a thirty mile,
thirty dollars mouthguard, or you've gota four thousand dollars implant crown. And
the other thing about these young people. We can't do implants or fixed work
on people that are, you know, twelve to eight. We can't put
implants in women till they're about nineteen, men till they're twenty twenty one,
(04:48):
twenty two. So they're wearing somethinginconvenient removable for five years, six years,
seven years. So the evulsions arethe big things that are hard.
But even chip teeth or we haveto but you know, if we put
a crown or filling on a tooth, I think I'm good, and most
of this are really good, butwe're not as good as the person or
whatever you believe that gave you theoriginal equipment. So when we make it.
(05:11):
It's going to fail sometime in yourlife, and it's going to be
repetitive over those years. So that'swhy it's so important to take care of
them. As you all say,take care of those shiplet's a evate.
So a twenty five dollars investment ina nice mouthguard, a good mouthguard can
really help your kids with their teeth, obviously if they're playing sports. Maybe
if they're not playing sports, orif they are just doing their own thing,
(05:34):
riding a bicycle, slash, skateboarding, those kinds of things. We're
talking to doctor Pat Carroll about notonly the fall sports, but also about
all of us. Pat, oneof the things that you bring to the
table is what do we do ina case of an emergency, especially if
you lose a tooth if it justyou know, you fall, you know
(05:54):
on your face, you know,concrete or something of that nature, you
chip a tooth and where it fallsout. What do you do if you
if you fall and you basically havea tooth come out, Uh, the
whole tooth come out. And Igo back to me. I was officiating
a soccer game once and I'm onthe side and two kids go up and
boom, their heads hit and Isee this tooth fly out. So once
(06:15):
we stop the game and I gotto kid the office with the first thing,
you'll find the tooth and your instinctwill be scrub it off and make
it real clean. Don't do thatbecause there may be some tissue and blood
on it that you really want tokeep on that tooth. So you may
want to just kind of wrin's alittle bit, but don't, you know,
don't scrub it off. And ifyou if you're if you haven't an
older person, you know, saytheir teens that stiff can respond it and
(06:38):
tell you what to do, orcan listen to what you tell them.
If you can gently try to reinsertit in the socket, just kind of
put it up there and hold it. Call your dentists and see if they
can't come in and see it.Because what we can do is we can
actually come in position that tooth intothe to the socket and kind of bond
it to the teeth next to it. And if you keep that tissue,
(06:59):
if we can get it in thererelatively soon, you know, say within
the hour, there's a good chancethat the tissue will grow back to it.
Now, the tooth may die.The tooth will will die. You'll
need a root canal, but youcan save the tooth, and the original
tooth is always better. If youdon't have something or the person is not
comfortable that, you know, putit in a bag with a little milk
or even water. Put a littlebagge, get to the dentists as soon
(07:23):
as you can. Sometimes you geta tooth that's kind of dislodged, kind
of pushed back, but it doesn'tcome all the way out. If you
can reach out and kind of pushit where it belongs, or call your
dentists and we can reposition it andsplinter into that area. Shift teeth are
not necessarily an emergency. That whatwe would call an urgency. You know,
if the nerves not exposed, it'sjust sensitive to cold and hot.
(07:46):
You give your dentists to call thenext day. We can most of us
usually can get you in for atrue emergency on that day and fix it.
If it's shifts and the nerves exposed, we can do a root canal.
We can still save it, butthat's that's what you can do with
that. And to your point whenyou opened it, you know, we
see a lot of skateboarding accidents.We see a lot of bird scooter accents.
You know, we're not gonna bebut you know, just like you
(08:07):
said, I'm doing your own thing. If you can talk to kid and
wearing one mother skateboarding, that's awesome. And one other thing about a bathscore
before I get off of it.If you have a child that's in a
mouth guard, have to wear it, sport check that mouth guard about halfway
through because they may halfway through theseason because they may have kind of like
you say, choot through it.And maybe to get a new one because
it's got to cover all those teeth. Or my son has dropped it on
the ice and puts it back inhis mouth, totally grossing out his mom.
(08:35):
Time before we let you go,how important is it for for talking
down nonsports to the younger ones toget in and see you or another dentist
as they ramp up to the schoolyear. Well, it may be counterintuitive,
but a lot of people try to, you know, make those summertime
appointments. And Dennis, we're thebusiest in our summertime right now. We
(08:56):
from the time school starts for thatfirst month, that's probably when and our
offices are the least busy. Soeven though you might have to pull a
kid out for an hour or so, that might be when you can get
them in easier during that first monthbecause people get another things. But you
know, as kids are growing,those baby teeth are important, we've got
to take care of them. So, you know, we like to see
(09:16):
the kids by about two and atleast twice a year or through it so
we can monitor growth. There's somuch important how baby teeth come in,
as far how facial development goes out, airway development goes all kinds of things
that we never even thought about whenI was in down school that now we
can, like, you know,stop me and go. We need to
get you here so we can getthis done. So I guess the short
(09:37):
answer to that, Scott is,you know, very important. Get him
in and let us follow them tobe sure everything develops the way it should.
My best investment has been an electrictoothbrush. Small head you can get
into all the knocks and cranny andcrannies I'd never realized. I always got
a big toothbrush because I thought thatwould do it better. But you really
do get better with a smaller head, just saying yeah, smaller head,
(09:58):
smaller head that you and reach.It's important. And like I said,
you said, Tony, you allhaven't had any issues since we started.
Dennis, we try to put ourselvesout of business every day if people would
just listen to this. But likeyou said, small tooth brush and the
electure tooth person is wonderful things.They're awesome. We try to get all
our patients on them. So whatyou said is absolutely true. Absolutely appreciate
(10:20):
you, Patrick. Thank you.Pat Carroll with exceptional Dentistry joining us here
this morning. On news radio Aforty WHA, Scott Fitzgerald has sports coming
to your way next
Ah, it's time to talk aboutteeth. Doc. No, it is
exciting. I'll tell you why it'sexciting. That's doctor Pat Carroll, who
is both the dentist at Exceptional Dentistryfor both Scott Fitschild and myself, Tony
Cruz. The reason it's exciting nowis because under your fixations or fixings of
(00:26):
our chicklets, we both have havenever had cavities ever since. So I
mean that that was that was historic. Well I've been a part of history.
So thank you both for that.I appreciate it telling you. I
mean, really, I had noidea how important dentistry really was. I
mean I did, I knew it, but you know you it's really simple,
(00:52):
but you can it can be soexpensive based on what we don't do.
So good morning to you. Let'slet's talk a little bit about our
kids in particular right now is we'regetting ready to go back to school,
Pat, what are your thoughts obviouslyabout sports and just the riular kids that
are just gonna wind up, youknow, brushing their teeth hopefully every morning.
We're not. Well, yeah,I guess the first thing, you
(01:14):
know, Scott and I were talkingoff airsbact is with all the false sports
coming on. How the people toprotect their teeth during all this? You
know, Tony, I've been doingthis for like forty three years now,
and I've been the gentist for theBats and for all the hockey teams here
in Louisville. I've been the dentistfor LA University. So as you can
imagine, I've seen a lot ofmy fair share of gental trauma. And
(01:36):
I consider a quote statistics to you, you know, blah blah blah.
But I think the most important thingI can tell you is I've seen a
lot of dal injuries over all theseyears. And the one thing listen and
help every parent listen to this,and every kid listens to this. Every
injury I treated had two things incommon. They were not wealth to do
(01:57):
things. They were not wearing amouth guard. Every injury, every dinner
injury I've treated, have not beenwearing a mouthguard. And and every person
that wears a mouthguard, I've nevercheered a dental entry on. So it's
it's just so important, and it'ssuch an easy thing to do. Uh.
And it's that one piece of equipment, you know, we'll go out
and buy our kids one hundreds andhundred of dollars of equipment and pay one
(02:19):
hundreds and hundreds of dollars. Theyhave them, you know in clubs and
to play sports, and that's that'show wonderful. But you can get a
fantastic mouthguard for like twenty five bucksand that's such an important piece of doc.
What are what are some of thebig injuries you see? Like,
because I'm sure everybody we were jokingthat, you know, stop using these
things as a you toy, becausethey all do. I see it.
But it takes one time to getthat injury where you go, oh,
(02:40):
wait a minute, maybe Doc wasright. What are some of the sports
injuries you see as a result?And that may I from not properly wearing
the right mouth gear? Well,the most in the thing you might find
the most interesting is you know,you know, our sons played hockey's nine
and had some to play football,and I was a soccer official for over
(03:02):
thirty years at some of the highestlevels, and you'd be surprised that the
sports I've seen the most injuries inare doccer and basketball because honestly, if
you think about scott football, youhave to wear the mouthpiece. Hockey you
have to wear the mouthpiece. Fieldhockey, you have to wear mouthpiece,
and so those kids don't usually getinjured. Now you and I've seen our
(03:24):
kids skating up the ice chewing onit and those things. So the big
things you got to wear it.You gotta wear it. But you know,
even if you look goes back toScotti Davids for at one time.
Scott, he's a great guy,but he didn't love mouthpiece because doctor are
always chewing on they're sticking them outand said, yeah, but watch when
they're playing they've got him in.It's when they're kind of you know,
(03:44):
walking up and down the store.So what happens, doc, when when
said they get hit and let's saythe chicklets come together, what's the what's
the mouthguard preventing here? Well,you have one of two things. We
can you know a lot of timesif you don't have the mouthguard on,
you get it in the chin orsomething and you'll chip teach, you'll chip
front eats, you'll chip back teeth, and we can fix those with you
(04:04):
know, whether composits or crowns andthings like that. The most severe injury
we have is called an evulsion,where you take a blow where the teeth
come together, or you take anelbow and the tooth is either totally knocked
out or broken at the gun line, and we can't fix it. And
you know I was talking about thesethirty dollar mouth guards. When we have
(04:24):
to put a fix of new fixof tooth, or patient put a new
tooth in with an implant. Youknow, you've got a thirty mile,
thirty dollars mouthguard, or you've gota four thousand dollars implant crown. And
the other thing about these young people. We can't do implants or fixed work
on people that are, you know, twelve to eight. We can't put
implants in women till they're about nineteen, men till they're twenty twenty one,
(04:48):
twenty two. So they're wearing somethinginconvenient removable for five years, six years,
seven years. So the evulsions arethe big things that are hard.
But even chip teeth or we haveto but you know, if we put
a crown or filling on a tooth, I think I'm good, and most
of this are really good, butwe're not as good as the person or
whatever you believe that gave you theoriginal equipment. So when we make it.
(05:11):
It's going to fail sometime in yourlife, and it's going to be
repetitive over those years. So that'swhy it's so important to take care of
them. As you all say,take care of those shiplet's a evate.
So a twenty five dollars investment ina nice mouthguard, a good mouthguard can
really help your kids with their teeth, obviously if they're playing sports. Maybe
if they're not playing sports, orif they are just doing their own thing,
(05:34):
riding a bicycle, slash, skateboarding, those kinds of things. We're
talking to doctor Pat Carroll about notonly the fall sports, but also about
all of us. Pat, oneof the things that you bring to the
table is what do we do ina case of an emergency, especially if
you lose a tooth if it justyou know, you fall, you know
(05:54):
on your face, you know,concrete or something of that nature, you
chip a tooth and where it fallsout. What do you do if you
if you fall and you basically havea tooth come out, Uh, the
whole tooth come out. And Igo back to me. I was officiating
a soccer game once and I'm onthe side and two kids go up and
boom, their heads hit and Isee this tooth fly out. So once
(06:15):
we stop the game and I gotto kid the office with the first thing,
you'll find the tooth and your instinctwill be scrub it off and make
it real clean. Don't do thatbecause there may be some tissue and blood
on it that you really want tokeep on that tooth. So you may
want to just kind of wrin's alittle bit, but don't, you know,
don't scrub it off. And ifyou if you're if you haven't an
older person, you know, saytheir teens that stiff can respond it and
(06:38):
tell you what to do, orcan listen to what you tell them.
If you can gently try to reinsertit in the socket, just kind of
put it up there and hold it. Call your dentists and see if they
can't come in and see it.Because what we can do is we can
actually come in position that tooth intothe to the socket and kind of bond
it to the teeth next to it. And if you keep that tissue,
(06:59):
if we can get it in thererelatively soon, you know, say within
the hour, there's a good chancethat the tissue will grow back to it.
Now, the tooth may die.The tooth will will die. You'll
need a root canal, but youcan save the tooth, and the original
tooth is always better. If youdon't have something or the person is not
comfortable that, you know, putit in a bag with a little milk
or even water. Put a littlebagge, get to the dentists as soon
(07:23):
as you can. Sometimes you geta tooth that's kind of dislodged, kind
of pushed back, but it doesn'tcome all the way out. If you
can reach out and kind of pushit where it belongs, or call your
dentists and we can reposition it andsplinter into that area. Shift teeth are
not necessarily an emergency. That whatwe would call an urgency. You know,
if the nerves not exposed, it'sjust sensitive to cold and hot.
(07:46):
You give your dentists to call thenext day. We can most of us
usually can get you in for atrue emergency on that day and fix it.
If it's shifts and the nerves exposed, we can do a root canal.
We can still save it, butthat's that's what you can do with
that. And to your point whenyou opened it, you know, we
see a lot of skateboarding accidents.We see a lot of bird scooter accents.
You know, we're not gonna bebut you know, just like you
(08:07):
said, I'm doing your own thing. If you can talk to kid and
wearing one mother skateboarding, that's awesome. And one other thing about a bathscore
before I get off of it.If you have a child that's in a
mouth guard, have to wear it, sport check that mouth guard about halfway
through because they may halfway through theseason because they may have kind of like
you say, choot through it.And maybe to get a new one because
it's got to cover all those teeth. Or my son has dropped it on
the ice and puts it back inhis mouth, totally grossing out his mom.
(08:35):
Time before we let you go,how important is it for for talking
down nonsports to the younger ones toget in and see you or another dentist
as they ramp up to the schoolyear. Well, it may be counterintuitive,
but a lot of people try to, you know, make those summertime
appointments. And Dennis, we're thebusiest in our summertime right now. We
(08:56):
from the time school starts for thatfirst month, that's probably when and our
offices are the least busy. Soeven though you might have to pull a
kid out for an hour or so, that might be when you can get
them in easier during that first monthbecause people get another things. But you
know, as kids are growing,those baby teeth are important, we've got
to take care of them. So, you know, we like to see
(09:16):
the kids by about two and atleast twice a year or through it so
we can monitor growth. There's somuch important how baby teeth come in,
as far how facial development goes out, airway development goes all kinds of things
that we never even thought about whenI was in down school that now we
can, like, you know,stop me and go. We need to
get you here so we can getthis done. So I guess the short
(09:37):
answer to that, Scott is,you know, very important. Get him
in and let us follow them tobe sure everything develops the way it should.
My best investment has been an electrictoothbrush. Small head you can get
into all the knocks and cranny andcrannies I'd never realized. I always got
a big toothbrush because I thought thatwould do it better. But you really
do get better with a smaller head, just saying yeah, smaller head,
(09:58):
smaller head that you and reach.It's important. And like I said,
you said, Tony, you allhaven't had any issues since we started.
Dennis, we try to put ourselvesout of business every day if people would
just listen to this. But likeyou said, small tooth brush and the
electure tooth person is wonderful things.They're awesome. We try to get all
our patients on them. So whatyou said is absolutely true. Absolutely appreciate
(10:20):
you, Patrick. Thank you.Pat Carroll with exceptional Dentistry joining us here
this morning. On news radio Aforty WHA, Scott Fitzgerald has sports coming
to your way next
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