May 27, 2025 • 37 mins
Host Dale Cooper and Dr. Carson Henley discuss dental hygiene, best practices, cutting edge procedures, and the history of the field.
Locations in Kanawha City, Poca, South Charleston, Cross Lanes, St. Albans, and Teays Valley.
Call 1-800-GreatCare or visit online at www.GhareebDentalGroup.com
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The views and opinions expressed on this program do not
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Speaker 3 (00:32):
Twenty two minutes past the top the hour, you are
listening to as the expert WCHS the voice of Charleston
welcoming into the new studio for the first time.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
This is doctor Carson Henley.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
I'm what is happening?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
How?
Speaker 5 (00:45):
How does it feel? This is? This is very high tech.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Feels kind of nice.
Speaker 5 (00:48):
Right, it's so cool man physic in my headphones.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
You can actually hear right, you've never heard the like
the lead end of the show before because we couldn't
go I didn't know.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
There was one. This is not a lie. This is
brand new to me.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Yeah, yeah, doing a lot of us. I mean we're
starting to get a little used to it now, but
it's absolutely true. And anybody that listens to our radio stations,
we've been talking about the new studios for months now,
or for weeks anyway, years, talking about getting into it, weeks,
talking about well, once we get into it, And now
for a couple of weeks we've we've been there and
in some configuration. Not all of our stations here are
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done yet, but several of them are. Three of the
three of the seven are and plus a couple in
Celery Studios. And so what we're seeing is just good stuff.
It's good stuff, and this is so nice. And then
I was thinking, and this has happened to pretty much
everybody that I've done expert shows with. Is like Harvey
and Tom Payton. I've never seen them sit while I'm
talking to him. They're always on a stool. Yeah, you know,
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they're always on a stool. And like, so it's nice,
Like I'm sitting across, sitting across from you now, and
I'm not personal in a school. I hate stools. Man
race console is not a big fan of the race console.
So I like sitting down. I'm a big fan of that.
And that's where we are now.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
And my legs are cross facing you.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Just completely normal to dude's having a conversation.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Conversation. Yeah, that's all it is.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
You can join in on the conversation if you want
me to take phone calls too. Threes are four three
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five fifty eight fifty eight. If you have a question
about your dental health, your dental hygiene, anything along those lines,
doctor Hendley can help you with that this morning, and
give us a call three zero four three four five
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information out to you as things go along there today.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
The nice thing about this, and if you go back
and listen to any of the shows, or at least
compare them to previous ones, is we've lost every single
every bit of audio artifact is out of the studio anyway.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
Now.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Of course, AM radio, if you're listening to AM, will
have some some interference, and our FM signals are pretty pristine,
and that's what I usually listen to around town. And
when you're listening to one of our talk shows. Now
on that signal, it sounds like the people are in
the car with you. There's just no audio drop at all.
And I can explain the whole thing. Basically, we cut
out dozens of sources of real audio and now we
have one pristine source for all of our audio and
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we just basically go and get it from the pool
with whatever's one air.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
And it's just so nice.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
I have no idea what you're talking about, but it
sounds awesome.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Yeah, it's just uh for somebody that in listening to
my own stations for years, you would hear a little
bit of audio drop a little bit of our studios weren't.
They were leaky as far as the audio insallation goes,
so you'd hear like little echoing or you know, things
like that you're not supposed to hear necessarily in a
professional environment. There's none of that anymore. These studios are
so tight. There's no there's no loss of audio at all.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
No.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
I mean, you could scream as loud as you wanted
to in here and there would be not even a
little bit of an echo.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
It's nice.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Well, maybe we should try that, yeah, you know, or
they were not next to her might get upset, but
we have to tell them. My kid gets overly exuberant sometimes.
And when she gets overly exuberant, she'll just scream at
the top of it. And it's not that when she's
even necessarily mad.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
She'll just be super happy or she's making a point
or something like that, but she'll do it at the
top of her voice. And if you happen to be
walking by outside with the windows open or some female,
what in the heck is happening in that house? So
we have to tell my kids sometimes and honey, you gotta,
you gotta, you gotta relax. And plus she's a night
outl so it'll be like ten thirty at night or something.
You're like, kid, you gotta cut that out. That's too loud.
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So you know, we need some more sound paneling in
our house. It might help out.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Something that would help out for sure.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
May not be bad.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
But we're talking about dental hygiene this morning. You can
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So I was your holiday weekend always always a good
time to kick off the summer, not the not the
warmest temperatures, but it was pretty nice over the weekend.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
For the most part, I had a wonderful time. I
went swim. While I didn't swim, I went to tool
two different pool parties for my kids, so that was exciting.
Other than that, just enjoyed a good Sunday service at
church and all the get yesterday's activities for Memorial Service.
What did you do this weekend? Dale? How was your weekend?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
It was pretty good. A lot of work around the
house on Saturday and Sunday. Oh my kid, my kids homeschool.
She took her She took her first grade equivalency test
last week and we got our evaluation back. She passed that,
so we took her out for some celebration of her
like graduating first gradetrade and stuff like that. Oh yes,
there was definitely some cookie Monster ice cream from Basket
(05:14):
Robbins was involved in mandatory and just some driving around
and doing some things like that. And then yesterday, uh,
kind of a spur of the moment. We weren't going
to do.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Much, but.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
The local Pigley Wiggly down where I live in kannall
Cidi was having a great deal on their butchery all
their their butcher stuff, and so I went and got
a bunch of New York Strip steaks and hadn't broke
out the grill yet this year, so I cleaned out
the grill, replaced some of the hardware that I needed
real mint.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
Well, you know, we're neighbors, yeah, close to it, and
I didn't know he price melt it. You could let
me know it. Actually, that's all I'm gonna say. But
also I also forgot it was some my kids' birthdays
are in June, and because they're in June and summer,
we always have a party on in May. Oh nice.
We rented out too big and latable things from a
(06:01):
local party rental company in our backyard, and we had
like a billion kids out there playing. So that was exciting.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
I think that has to be And then your kid
gets very popular over that too, because as you get
to go to the kids out with the bouncy stuff,
that's really good.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Oh yeah, these kids walking up into like there's bounce houses.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Great.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
So instead of renting out a place, we rented out
we kind of brought the fun to our house and
saved us some money. And also we had, you know,
we could buy our own food and do all.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Sorts of a great idea. Our place isn't big enough.
My daughter one of the things that she really wants
to do this year, she wants to put on a
talent show for her birthday. And I think it would
be just absolutely hilarious. Like I think it would be
the most funny thing ever, and we really want to
do it. We might go up the coon skin run
out in the Amphitheater and do it up there or
something like that. I mean, it would be kind of
a big party then, but it might be fun.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
We haven't decided yet. But anyway, her teeth is doing well.
If we want to transition.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Over to where are we going to transition?
Speaker 4 (06:54):
That's right, we've talked about it before.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
But as far as youth teeth goes, she did have
a I don't know it's necessarily unique, but she has
the double rows of teeth. She had like the shark
teeth going on there, and she's lost her first teeth,
and she's got three of them, and she lost her
first tooth. She's got three of them that if she
would let me, I could just reach in there and
grab them and pluck him out. But she won't let
me do that. She has to. She has to work
on them on her own. The first one she worked
(07:18):
out just to prove me wrong, and I used a
little bugs Bunny psychology on her. I was like, honey,
that thing's never going to come out. You'll never be
able to get that tooth out. She's like, I can too.
I was like, you can't do it, honey, You're not
gonna be ilty. She's like, I can too. I'm like, honey,
Ruth is in the pudding. It's been ready to come
out for days and it's still not out. She's elmer
fudding the story. Yeah, exactly, which is very odd because
usually she's the one elmer fudding me. But in this case,
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she went and head under a blanket and worked on
her tooth until she got it out and came and
presented it to him.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
I got it, and I told you I proved you wrong.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
I won. Yes, you did good job. Yes, did a
great job. And that also reminds me yesterday at one
of these pool parties, right, a young kid came up
to me, knowing that I'm a dentist, and said, I
think I chipped my tooth, and so I'm never off
the clock, right, I'm always being asked questions. I'm always
at events and they go, I think her daddy is
(08:07):
a dentist, go ask him. And so I'm always being
asked things, and uh, it's just one of those It
just comes with the territory. I have to always be on,
always have to be ready. I always have to pull
out these facts from the back of my head that
are from dental school, or from things I've read, or
from from current literature. I don't know. It's always fun
to pull that out and just kind of kind of
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divulge my nerdom of knowledge when it comes to dentistry
on on these kids and people.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
But honestly, that makes it very relatable.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
I mean, whenever you carry around information like that and
you're able to translate it into kid friendly tidbits and
nuggets and things like that, I mean, that's a great
that's a that's just great outreach.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
That's great.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Yeah, I think so it's where that least.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
It's a great it's a great outreach.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Yes, you're a great man. You do a great job.
We wanted to talk about. There are several things that
we can talk about this morning. You sent me some information,
but one of the things that that does get a
little confusing because it does differ from from office to
office depending on the dentist that you're going to. When
people get a little confused about the difference between like
types of sedation, if it's considered surgery, well I'm not
(09:12):
going to get I'm not gonna go completely under because
then I have to go to a to a to
a surgeon and then YadA, YadA, YadA.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
It's not as maybe it used to.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Be a little bit more delentiated like that, but it's
not necessarily the case anymore.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
It is very confusing when so sedation itself is a range,
and the license that you have as a dentist, as
a practicing dentist in West Virginia, is for you to
provide the a certain level of sedation. You're not licensed
to provide a certain drug necessarily. It's the whatever drug
will get you to that level of sedation. So I
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have a moderate sedation license, so I can get people
moderately sedated pretty much twilight. Legally, we don't say, or
you know, we can't ethically say we put you to sleep,
but when patients say, well i'd be asleep, I mean
a lot of times patients are kind of snoring, but
they're still awake and alert, right, and so it's this
weird kind of you have to say, yes, you will
(10:08):
be put out, but you won't be put under. So
we have to be very careful with that language. But
modern sedation is practically the deepest sedation you can get
when it comes to general dentistry. And what we find
is that that's not being offered here in this area,
and there's only a handful of dentists in the state
that do offer that, and so doctor Stephen offers that
(10:30):
I offer it. We do two different types of delivery
systems based on our specific license, but we definitely do
offer the same level. We're both moder we can both
provide modern sedation. Now, if you don't need modern sedation,
if you just if you're a little nervous getting a cleaning,
if you're a little nervous trying to say I need
a filling, but I don't really want to be put under,
(10:52):
you know, I don't really think I need to go
through that whole process. We have light sedation options such
as nitris laughing gas. It's not just for the kids,
it's for the adults. Some adults every single time they
go I need that nitrous, I need that laughing gas.
I'm like, yes, sir, here we go.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Let's look it up.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
And it's a very safe way to sedate patients. And
what's really cool is if there's ever I always tell patients,
if there's ever an emergency when it comes to nitrous,
we just take off the mask and they start breathing normally.
And so it's one of those really cool it's a
really cool way to say, like, if anything happens, we
just turn this off and you're breathing normally, and while
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you're breathing nitrous, you're breathing more oxygen than we are,
and so you're gonna be you are breathing more oxygen
than we are. You just have a little bit of
stuff that makes you feel good. And then above that,
we can deliver a medication such as a benzodaes a pinie,
which is pased a little anti anxiety pill. We can
do that without nitrous or with nitrous, and that allows
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patients to really feel even more relaxed. And then above
that is that modern sedation. That is what doctor Stephen
and I can provide. But almost every office with Groovedental
Group does have nitrous. I think we all do have nitrous.
We all can provide that little pill if you need to.
But above that, you need to come to doctor Stephen
or my office in Kano City to provide that. We
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actually just had a call. I had a call from
a local dentist who knew that I was offering modern
sedation and I spoke to the mom of the patient.
So the front office desk called me and said, you
offer IV sedation, Craig, I said, yes, Maam, I do.
I was talking to to the front office and she said,
(12:34):
can you talk to this mother. I'm like, okay, sure,
And so I started talking to the mom and I'm like, yeah,
this is how we do it. And she goes, oh,
thank goodness, my son's very anxious. Can we come see
you next week? And so I'm going to see you
this week for consultation, see how things go. So, I
mean it's kind of neat that we can provide that
for other dental offices that you know, they want to
provide the best service. But sometimes if the patient's too
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anxious and it can become dangerous. If they're too and
to fidgety, they need to have that sedation, so just
so that they can be provided the service that they need.
So that's kind of neat that word it's getting out.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
I've really thought before I started doing a show with
young doctor Stephen that sedation options when you went to
a dentist was basically a if this then that type thing,
like if you're getting this procedure, you get this level
of sedation. They right, you know that that's it. You
know that you that as a patient, you didn't really
have an options like, yeah, you know, I'd like to
be a little bit more under for this one, or
a little less under or whatever it might be.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
All the time a patient will say, so you're going
to take out the tooth, Yes, am I gonna be
awake for that. Yes you will be numb, you will
not feel what I'm doing. But if you need to
be sedated, we can discuss that. But a lot of
times they go, oh, never mind, I'm good. I just
thought I had to be put under. I didn't know
that I could just be awake and alert. I'm like,
yes you can, you just won't feel anything. But of
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course we offer the ability to put you under and
then if you need more complex surgeries such as implant placements.
We do that as well when it comes to sedation
options with that. But even if you just need a
cleaning and you just you're so anxious you don't want
to come see a dentist and you need something to
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calm you down, we have options for you.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Yeah, that's great to know and to be an advocate
for yourself in any of these things if that's something
that you're a little nervous about when it comes to
any kind of dental procedure.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Procedure. I just threw something in the trash can, and
that was way. That was a lot lower I though
I was going to.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
We finally got rid of all of the the echoe arms,
you know, so that we don't hear that sound anywhere
when you touch the mic stems. But yeah, thrown it
into the metal trash can. It might make a little
bit of noise. That's pretty good, it happens, that's okay.
If you would like more trash can noises, you can
give us a call this morning three zero four three
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questions that you have as well. If you'd like to
do that. Threes are four non three, five, five zeros
or eight. It's a text line. Threes are a four
non three five, five zeros or eight. And it's just
important for folks to know that there is different options
along those lines because people have different pain thresholds and
they know their bodies more than anything you know, so
they should be able to give the proper recommendation in
things along those lines when it comes to sedation or
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what level sedation or whatever it might be.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
For that. You know your body better than I will.
You know your mouth better than I will. So my
job is to investigate and give you the best recommendations.
But you know how you're going to react to things.
You know how you're going to handle certain situations, and
so we will walk through that. We'll give the options.
I've actually had to talk patients into sedation and out
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of sedation both ways. Certain times that I've had a
patient say I don't really think I need it, and
I go, can we try nitrist please? You know I
think you need it. Right. I'm not saying it's up
to you one hundred percent, but I think that's what
we need to do. Or the opposite can happen where
the patient goes I have to have got to be
put to sleep, and I go this will I can
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almost take out this tooth with my fingers enough to
trick it out, like literally, give me five seconds, I'll
take it out. And so it goes both ways. I
kind of can highly recommend things, but at the same
time giving that informed consent, so patients have every single
recommendation possible and they know what is best for them,
and then they end up choosing from there.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Not to get too far into the weeds of this
because I know that it gets somewhat complicated. You know, yeah,
but this has to do with insurance, and that's never
really all that fun when it comes to sedation and insurance.
Is that one of the ones? Can you is that
only under the dental insurance can that be blended into
your medical or how does that? Because I know sometimes
that's kind of complicated too.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
That is a question I cannot fully answer. I mean
not that I not that I don't want I want
to answer.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
I know, I know it's complicated or not, because I
know sometimes you can sort of you lean on medical
for certain like I went to a ID doctor a
couple of years ago, and I was surprised that when
I got my explanation of benefits, like all of my
odd benefits were taken up, but then there was like
medical benefits on top of that that was tapped into.
And I gotta you know, I mean, it was fine,
but I was just surprised that it's like, oh, I
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use both of my insurance here that.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
Was sometimes it bleeds into medical. Right. I had the
same thing. I had spot in my eye and we
were looking at it for a year and he said, oh,
this visit is covered, is covered under medical. I didn't know.
I just kind of went along with it. Sure, great.
Same thing with sedation. There are there are ways to
build medical and we're investigating that. There's a general dentist
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that I that is that offers sedation another part of
the state, and I've kind of talked with him about
it and how he does things. So I'm trying to
figure out because I don't have any anyone in this
area that kind of does specifically what I do. So
it's hard to really understand what we can build and
how to build it because when it comes to medical insurance,
that's something that we rarely deal with and so that's
(17:46):
something that's a whole other can of worms and how
to dare you open up that can of wa Yeah,
I'm sorry. Definitely. When it comes to dental insurance, we
build that easily, and then if we can build medical,
we will as well.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
We're going to take a break here in just a moment.
When we come back, we still have plenty of stuff
we're going to talk about. You can control the conversation.
You can give us a call three zero four three
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eight fifty eight. You can text over questions three zero
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want to do a little bit. We're going to talk
a little bit about what to do in an emergency
situation during a holiday or during the weekend, or maybe
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you're you're traveling somewhere and you know, we're starting to
get into obviously, well, travel sports is nearly a year
long thing now, but school's out and it's getting warmer.
That means that travel sports we're going to pick up
even more. So that's more opportunity for loose teeth and
things along those lines. You know where are your mouth guard? Yeah,
it might take a bite out of out of a
barbecue that was supposed to have no bones in it
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and there was a bone in there.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
You did something your two thing. You might need some help.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
We'll talk about some emergency procedures how to get your
buy until you can get a possible injury down to
your mouth resolved. We'll talk about that and more when
we come back. You're welcome to give us a call.
The numbers three zer A four, three four, five fifty
eight fifty eight. More information online Grebdentalgroup dot com, gha
r EBGREB Dentalgroup dot com. Their phone number one eight
hundred Great Care, one eight hundred Great Care. We'll take
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a break and be backer after this. You're listening to
ask the expert. I'm del Cooper. Carson Henley is here
from GREEB Dental Group on five ADWCCHS, the Voice of Charleston.
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You're listening to as the expert of Uchs, the voice
of Charles and letting the music play out here. This
music has actually been the same, I mean maybe for
a decade, kidding, but you've never heard it before, right, No,
we never had the studio configuration where we could listen
to a live monitor or not. Not never, but in
the last when did we move over to that studio,
like maybe six or seven years ago? Right, I don't
(21:16):
right the whole time you've been here, So you've never
seen in the studio. Yeah, I think doctor Stephen maybe
was in the old studio before. But anyway, we we
can never hear the monitor. We had to go off
tomming so I could watch where the commercials were, and
I know radio, so I know the tomming. So we
always went off toiming before and now we can actually
wonder you would like start okay, yeah, it makes sense.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
It was all in the blond.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
Yeah, well, you like wouldn't start talking. For a second,
I'm like, why are we staring here awkwardly? What's happening?
And then it makes sense.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Now all in the blond just watching the numbers go by,
and I knew when to start talking and.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Stuff there, Steven, you're gonna be blown away.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
And now we can just listen like normal radio.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
It's nice.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
You can just hear exactly what's going on on the
air and react to it appropriately.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
It's not a bad thing.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
It's not bad at all. You kind to be blown away,
and now we can just listen like normal radio. That's nice.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
You just hear exactly what's going on on the air
and react to it appropriately.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
It's not a bad thing. It's not bad at all.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
You gets called this morning if you want to talk
about anything that we've been talking about, probably dental hygiene
would be great, but.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
That we stop on.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
You can give us a call of about three zero
four three four five fifty eight fifty eight three four
five fifty eight fifty eight.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
You can text up for questions as well. Three zero
four non three five five.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Zero zero eighth And one of the things Doctor Stephen
has done this for years on occasion and one of
the shows that I always like to do a segment
of is just to talk about what happens if you
have a dental emergency when you're not you know, when
you're not just sitting at work and you're like, oh
my toothfoll out. I can just run down to the
dentist office, you know. I mean not that you can
necessarily do that, but I mean chances are you could
probably get close to that. But people are living and
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moving and doing things. You might be on vacation and
you bite into something. All that tooth that's been giving
me problem for well, now it's really giving me trouble
where it comes out. Or I mentioned before the break,
you have a child in youth sport and you're playing
travel ball, maybe you're out of town and something happens
and that you got a problem with the tooth. What
are some of the things that folks can do to
kind of sort of manage situations like that if they
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come up.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
So, first off, let's manage the pain. If there's pain
going on, let's kind of go through what you need
to do. The number one thing I don't want people
to do is take any topical gel such as ambersol
or some type of tooth away pain. The jail that
you put in your mouth, don't do that right. That
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is actually bens a cane and it can cause medical
issues if you use it long term. I don't really
want to get into that, but so I don't. I
don't like patients using that topical jelly. That that topical anesthetic.
It's good to actually use it in my office prior
to me injecting because it helps numb the gum just
a little bit. But it doesn't really numb the tooth
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a lot. It's just numbs the gum. So don't use that.
What you really need to do for pain is take
two advil in one tileanol. That's four hundred milligrams of
a seat of ibuprofen, which is advil or motrin, same thing,
and five hundred milligrams of talentol, which is a ced
of menafin. I think now the tablets are only three
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twenty five just because of there was a risk of
liver issues and so they decrease the I'm getting into
the weeds, you know, I always do. But just know
that to addvil one talent all that will stop the
pain and you can kind of go back and forth
every four hours or every two to four hours, you know,
take the two advil, then take the one talent all
and kind of go back and forth. If you need
more than that, obviously call your dentists and they can
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prescribe something. If it's infected, we can give you an antibiotic.
But so many times if you're in pain, it's not
due to infection, it's due to inflammation, and so that
advil and thailanol is going to decrease that inflammation and
make you feel better. If you need more, we can
also prescribe something called a steroid, like a metrol dose pack.
Those things are like tonic water. They just make you
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feel so good. I've had patients say, my knees, I've
not felt this good. Long term that's not good, but
short term definitely good to actually kind of ease the
pain till you can get into your dentist. So that's
when it comes to the pain. Let's say you have
an emergency where your crown pops off. What the heck
do you do? Well? Number one, don't just throw it away.
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We might be able to place it on. But if
that crown is off and it's bothering you, and you
can maybe put it right back on. There's some temporary
crown sementation pace you can buy from CBS. Put that
follow the directions, put it right onto the crownd then
shove it down in there and then clean it up.
That generally can stay for a while. Or if you
don't have that, you can use denture adhesive that actually
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works pretty well, but finally get into the dentist and
they will do it a permanent chop of submitting it in.
So those are the two big emergencies that I can
advise on. When it comes to fractured teeth, not much
I can do other than it's everybody's different. If it's
a chip that's not into the pulp or the nerve,
we can fix it without too many complications. But if
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it's fractured into the root or things like that, chances
are you need to go see a dentist and they
need to maybe extract the tooth or give you other options.
So fortunately we can advise that by calling us and
we can talk to you and we walk you through
these emergencies. We do have a we have an emergency
phone line on the weekends and so it'll come to
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our cell phones and I've used it before yes, I've
used it before. Yeah, so it is very nice. We
get patients from the public call and then we kind
of always give we do our best to give advice
and so or if we can, we'll see patients during
the weekend. So that's those two biggest things. What to
do if you're in pain and what to do if
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your crown pops off. Other than that, there's not a
whole lot of things we can do.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
I guess when when we're talking about like sports and
athletics and with mouthguards, man, I remember when I played
football when I was a kid. I can't I can't.
I can't forget the texture and the feeling of the mouthguards.
It was just one of those things, you know, I
wasn't that great. So a lot of times the only
thing you could do was like chewing your mouth guard.
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You know, you would just like pop it up, it'd
be like sideways in your mouth, you'd tall on it
in the side. You know, you would just like throw that.
Yeah you basically just yeah, you ch all that thing down.
But is there such a thing as like superior mouthguards
or is a mouth guard and mouth guard? You know,
because you see some of these anymore like the standard
issue ones they gave us when we when I play
footballt capital or whatever, just clear little things. You strapped
them to your face mask and I guess they strap
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was like five feet long exactly. Yeah, a lot of
times right exactly. But when you go now you can
see these, you see like an individual and it will
cost like thirty five or forty bucks or something.
Speaker 5 (27:41):
You're like, is it really worth it or is it
just pretty? That's marketing, it's just pretty, just pretty. Yeah.
I would say the ideal way to do it is
go to your dentist and have them do a digital
steps an impression, and then they will make it the
form fit to your mouth. However, go to Walmart buy
something cheap, now I would I wouldn't necessarily go with
(28:02):
the cheapest just because it is the cheapest. Yeah you
too thin yea, yeah, yeah for sure. But generally speaking,
mouthguards are there choose to provide that shock of absorption.
They aren't very advanced and they don't need to be.
All you need to do is just increase the space
between your teeth with something that's spongy, and that will
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solve the problem generally.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
And it amazes me that and I saw this when
I was a kid too. And again I wasn't a
great player, but I've played enough to.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
Join the club.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
I was a b teamer my entire life. I was
not a great player that came to a school. That's
when Capital first, This was before you got here, but
Charleston High and Stonewall, two powerhouse football programs, combined into
Capital in nineteen eighty nine. That was my sophomore year,
was and that was when high school started back then,
was in sophomore year. So I was the first sophomore
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class to start at Capital going all the way through.
And there were NFL players galore on that first incarnation
of that team. Pretty incredible. Uh spread of talent that
was on that team, and uh yeah, so I mean
I was it was there was a bunch of people.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Coach Roger Jefferson was the coach. There's one of the
most winning coaches in high school football. Won the national
or the state championship our first year in existence, two
out of the first three, loss at the second year.
But yeah, I didn't. I saw the field in very
limited capacity. I played football, but I never understood I
played just enough to know I've had my teeth snapped
together enough on a hit to know that you really
(29:30):
want to wear those those mouthguards. And I never understood
the kids that pushed back when it summers, Like is
it an image thing? I mean, because certainly having cracked
or no teeth later in life is not going to
be great. And the chances you make an NFL money
to get your your like your grill put together or
something is probably not very good.
Speaker 5 (29:47):
No, that's probably not going to happen. And speaking of
playing college, I didn't play couch. Playing high school football
in Texas, same thing. Oh, Like, they were NFL players
all over the place. It seemed like I remember watching
film this one time and this linebacker. So I don't
know if you've heard of south Lake, Carol, they're like
a big barrels. They were in my district. I went
on Church End sometimes. Yeah, I went to church in
(30:09):
South Lake, so like that's kind of where I grew
up in that area. And there was this one linebacker
I think he went to the NFL, but he tackled
a ligneman that was twice his size and just smuf.
I don't know, I've never seen someone hit someone so
hard in real life and be like I'm glad I'm
on the sideline right now like that. It was welcome
to the NFL moment, but welcome to high school football
(30:30):
in Texas moment right And it wasn't me. I was
just watching someone get like destroyed. So I get it.
That's not for me. But definitely you need to protect
your teeth putting on Simply getting those boiled down mouthguards
is all you need. We don't need to do something
super expensive. But the best thing for you, period is
go to your Dennis, have them do that impression, do
(30:51):
a suckdown model themselves with very advanced materials. I mean,
you do get what you pay for, but at what
point is it worth it?
Speaker 4 (30:59):
Dimsion turns at some point there for sure. That makes
a lot of sense.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
A couple of minutes left in the program with doctor
Carson Henley from the Greed Dental Group. You can get
on air with us this morning, just about five minutes left.
You give us a call three zero four three four
five fifty eight fifty eight. Three zero four three four
five fifty eight fifty eight. If you'd like to give
us a call, you're more than welcome to do that
and get a question into doctor doctor Henley, a couple questions.
I thought I would ask you selfishly, since I have
since I have a since I have a child, I
(31:24):
thought I could ask you some some child related dental
hygiene questions. So I've took you and Doctor stephen gave
me some advice a couple of years ago to get
my daughter over her adversion to brushing her teeth, and
then most of those things worked. She's she's pretty good
with brushing her teeth. Now she'll I guess all kids
will push back sometimes when they really don't want to
or whatever, but for the most part, she brushes her teeth.
(31:46):
We make it a game. Here's here's the clever game
that parents find themselves in. So she wants to quote
unquote race me. Right, as a parent, I understand that
racing brushing your teeth is not a great idea because
you want to go as slow as possible. Right, So
what I have to do is I have to brush
my teeth for as long as I want her to
brush my teeth, and then make it very very obvious
(32:09):
when I'm getting ready to wash out my mouth and
be done and everything, and make overly deliberate gestures so
she can, like swoop in and get done right before
me so she can beat me to the quote unquote race.
So for like years, I've been throwing this race that
I've been trying to make go as long as I
possibly can so she'll spend enough time brushing her teeth.
She does fine, she just needs the context of like
(32:30):
this race that her and Daddy do at night times,
specifically around her.
Speaker 5 (32:34):
You're the turtle and you're trying to trick her into
being a turtle exactly.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
And there's going to be a time, because the kid's clever,
there's gonna be a time when she's going to figure
it all out. Or maybe she already has and she
just plays along for me. Heck, I have no idea anyway.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
We've gotten her.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Along pretty well, I think for the most part. However,
as her baby teeth are starting to they'll be going
pretty soon. She's lost her first and she's starting to
lose more. But I do notice a like a patina
or a ring of discoloration on like the bottom parts
of her teeth from where she either wasn't great brushing
(33:08):
for a while or her technique and stuff is good now,
but that gap there may have caused some problems one
teeth that are going out. If we have good practices, now,
what is my level on what we should do as
far as that goes?
Speaker 4 (33:21):
Am I? Okay?
Speaker 3 (33:22):
As long as going forward we have good practices, am I?
And am I in some sort of peril because some
of the teeth that are in there now are discolored.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
What is my problem there?
Speaker 5 (33:31):
If they're going to fall out within a year? I
tell patients all the time, or parents have patients if
if a tooth has a cavity, if the tooth is discolored,
if the tooth has stained, whatever, and it's going to
fall out within a year, I'm okay leaving it, and
you probably can be as well. If a tooth is
going to fall out, there's really no point in investing
in that tooth. And that's my take. Now, if that
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tooth is bothering you, instead of fixing it or filling it,
maybe extracted early. I think that's a good option as well.
But I think you're doing a great job. You're caring
for your daughter and she's trying to beat you, although
she doesn't realize that she's losing every time. She's winning
by losing, you know, it's kind of funn.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
The worst thing that happened to me one night, or
not the worst thing ever, but one night last week,
I don't know, I was distracted or whatever. We were
brushing my teeth, and I forgot that we were you know,
that I was supposed to go through this thing I've
been doing for years. Just for whatever reason, this particular
slipped my mind, and so I just wrapped up, washed
my mouth out, got ready, and she like just looked
at me with her toothbrush still in her mouth, looking
at me with her eyes really big. And my kid
(34:34):
doesn't like will till she gets mad. So she's like, Okay,
that's it. We're never racing again.
Speaker 5 (34:41):
It just it. We're done.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Yeah, she was so mad at me. I rectified it.
Did she hang out her toothbrush?
Speaker 5 (34:49):
Is that what she did?
Speaker 3 (34:50):
Well, what she did is she very emphatically it's a
bluey you know, electric toothbrush, And what she very emphatically
did is she ran it under the water to rinse
it off, look at me the whole time, and then
just put it on the sink, staring me dead, like
that's it.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
I'm so disappointed in you.
Speaker 5 (35:06):
We're done with this.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
She's so outrageous. Not hanging up your cleats, hanging up
your toothpaste. Yeah, she's outrageous with stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
But so with kids, there is a little bit of
I guess that make it a game. Yeah, there's some kids,
I guess it will just take to it and then
they'll have perfect little pearls their entire at kiddom. And
there's other kids like my daughter who got there eventually,
but she was kind of a wild child to get
her to the point where she would do her teeth
once or twice a day, and she does a pretty
decent job with it now. But I did have to
gamify it. I had to turn it into something other
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than just brushing your teeth. It had to be something else.
Speaker 5 (35:37):
Yeah, yeah, I think that's smart, just trying to come
up with any number of games. When it comes to
the two minutes we want, we always hand out these
sand dial things that are time to two minutes. I
remember getting those as a child, and I remember how
slow that sand was going through the sand dial thing, right, Like,
two minutes is a long time when you're trying to
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do one thing, especially you're keen. You're just brushing as
hard as you can and trying to get going.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
So she hums, right, of the valkyries, the what the
ride of the valkyris, you know, the the the symphonic movement.
I'm sure like like sort of like the like the
like the whole thing like going, and she she hums
like all of that stuff while she That's how she
toms out her teeth brushing when she gets to when
she gets to the second crescendo, she knows that she's
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pretty much that's about the end of it.
Speaker 5 (36:26):
I should teach my kids cheerits of fire, right.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (36:29):
Yeah, that's a little slower, Yeah, yeah, I see that
work out. All right.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
Let me get the information for Greed Dental Group out
to you one last time before we have to leave
the airways this morning. Greed Dental Group you can find
them online. It's a greeb Dentalgroup dot com. Garb Dentalgroup
dot com. Uh. That will get you to to the
website which will take you to one of the closest
locations to you. There's locations all over the Valley, Pocus
at Charles and Cross Lane, Saint Athens Stays, Valley, Kano City.
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Doctor Carson is in the Kanall City Office. He was
our guest this morning. Doctor Stephen is typically here as
well and Charleston location.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
Doctor Carson, thank you so much for your time, appreciate
it today.
Speaker 5 (37:04):
Thanks for having me. It was a blast. It was
a good time. Man.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
Welcome to the new studio. This is great. We'll see
you back here next month. That's a Grieve Dental group
on five ad W CHS. The Voice of Charleston that
has been asked the expert. Coming up next is Dave
Allen five eighty Live. I'll be back this afternoon with
Dave weekly at three oh six on Metro News Talk Hotline.
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Speaker 3 (00:32):
Twenty two minutes past the top the hour, you are
listening to as the expert WCHS the voice of Charleston
welcoming into the new studio for the first time.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
This is doctor Carson Henley.
Speaker 5 (00:41):
I'm what is happening?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
How?
Speaker 5 (00:45):
How does it feel? This is? This is very high tech.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Feels kind of nice.
Speaker 5 (00:48):
Right, it's so cool man physic in my headphones.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
You can actually hear right, you've never heard the like
the lead end of the show before because we couldn't
go I didn't know.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
There was one. This is not a lie. This is
brand new to me.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Yeah, yeah, doing a lot of us. I mean we're
starting to get a little used to it now, but
it's absolutely true. And anybody that listens to our radio stations,
we've been talking about the new studios for months now,
or for weeks anyway, years, talking about getting into it, weeks,
talking about well, once we get into it, And now
for a couple of weeks we've we've been there and
in some configuration. Not all of our stations here are
(01:23):
done yet, but several of them are. Three of the
three of the seven are and plus a couple in
Celery Studios. And so what we're seeing is just good stuff.
It's good stuff, and this is so nice. And then
I was thinking, and this has happened to pretty much
everybody that I've done expert shows with. Is like Harvey
and Tom Payton. I've never seen them sit while I'm
talking to him. They're always on a stool. Yeah, you know,
(01:44):
they're always on a stool. And like, so it's nice,
Like I'm sitting across, sitting across from you now, and
I'm not personal in a school. I hate stools. Man
race console is not a big fan of the race console.
So I like sitting down. I'm a big fan of that.
And that's where we are now.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
And my legs are cross facing you.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Just completely normal to dude's having a conversation.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Conversation. Yeah, that's all it is.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
You can join in on the conversation if you want
me to take phone calls too. Threes are four three
four five fifty fifty eight. Three zero four three four
five fifty eight fifty eight. If you have a question
about your dental health, your dental hygiene, anything along those lines,
doctor Hendley can help you with that this morning, and
give us a call three zero four three four five
fifty eight fifty eight. More about the greed Dental Group
one line GREEB Dentalgroup dot com. That's g h A
R E B GREEB Dentalgroup dot com. We'll get more
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information out to you as things go along there today.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
The nice thing about this, and if you go back
and listen to any of the shows, or at least
compare them to previous ones, is we've lost every single
every bit of audio artifact is out of the studio anyway.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
Now.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Of course, AM radio, if you're listening to AM, will
have some some interference, and our FM signals are pretty pristine,
and that's what I usually listen to around town. And
when you're listening to one of our talk shows. Now
on that signal, it sounds like the people are in
the car with you. There's just no audio drop at all.
And I can explain the whole thing. Basically, we cut
out dozens of sources of real audio and now we
have one pristine source for all of our audio and
(03:02):
we just basically go and get it from the pool
with whatever's one air.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
And it's just so nice.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
I have no idea what you're talking about, but it
sounds awesome.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Yeah, it's just uh for somebody that in listening to
my own stations for years, you would hear a little
bit of audio drop a little bit of our studios weren't.
They were leaky as far as the audio insallation goes,
so you'd hear like little echoing or you know, things
like that you're not supposed to hear necessarily in a
professional environment. There's none of that anymore. These studios are
so tight. There's no there's no loss of audio at all.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
No.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
I mean, you could scream as loud as you wanted
to in here and there would be not even a
little bit of an echo.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
It's nice.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Well, maybe we should try that, yeah, you know, or
they were not next to her might get upset, but
we have to tell them. My kid gets overly exuberant sometimes.
And when she gets overly exuberant, she'll just scream at
the top of it. And it's not that when she's
even necessarily mad.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
She'll just be super happy or she's making a point
or something like that, but she'll do it at the
top of her voice. And if you happen to be
walking by outside with the windows open or some female,
what in the heck is happening in that house? So
we have to tell my kids sometimes and honey, you gotta,
you gotta, you gotta relax. And plus she's a night
outl so it'll be like ten thirty at night or something.
You're like, kid, you gotta cut that out. That's too loud.
(04:12):
So you know, we need some more sound paneling in
our house. It might help out.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Something that would help out for sure.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
May not be bad.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
But we're talking about dental hygiene this morning. You can
get in on the conversation. Three zero four three four
five fifty eight fifty eight three four five fifty fifty
So I was your holiday weekend always always a good
time to kick off the summer, not the not the
warmest temperatures, but it was pretty nice over the weekend.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
For the most part, I had a wonderful time. I
went swim. While I didn't swim, I went to tool
two different pool parties for my kids, so that was exciting.
Other than that, just enjoyed a good Sunday service at
church and all the get yesterday's activities for Memorial Service.
What did you do this weekend? Dale? How was your weekend?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
It was pretty good. A lot of work around the
house on Saturday and Sunday. Oh my kid, my kids homeschool.
She took her She took her first grade equivalency test
last week and we got our evaluation back. She passed that,
so we took her out for some celebration of her
like graduating first gradetrade and stuff like that. Oh yes,
there was definitely some cookie Monster ice cream from Basket
(05:14):
Robbins was involved in mandatory and just some driving around
and doing some things like that. And then yesterday, uh,
kind of a spur of the moment. We weren't going
to do.
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Much, but.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
The local Pigley Wiggly down where I live in kannall
Cidi was having a great deal on their butchery all
their their butcher stuff, and so I went and got
a bunch of New York Strip steaks and hadn't broke
out the grill yet this year, so I cleaned out
the grill, replaced some of the hardware that I needed
real mint.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
Well, you know, we're neighbors, yeah, close to it, and
I didn't know he price melt it. You could let
me know it. Actually, that's all I'm gonna say. But
also I also forgot it was some my kids' birthdays
are in June, and because they're in June and summer,
we always have a party on in May. Oh nice.
We rented out too big and latable things from a
(06:01):
local party rental company in our backyard, and we had
like a billion kids out there playing. So that was exciting.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
I think that has to be And then your kid
gets very popular over that too, because as you get
to go to the kids out with the bouncy stuff,
that's really good.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Oh yeah, these kids walking up into like there's bounce houses.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Great.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
So instead of renting out a place, we rented out
we kind of brought the fun to our house and
saved us some money. And also we had, you know,
we could buy our own food and do all.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Sorts of a great idea. Our place isn't big enough.
My daughter one of the things that she really wants
to do this year, she wants to put on a
talent show for her birthday. And I think it would
be just absolutely hilarious. Like I think it would be
the most funny thing ever, and we really want to
do it. We might go up the coon skin run
out in the Amphitheater and do it up there or
something like that. I mean, it would be kind of
a big party then, but it might be fun.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
We haven't decided yet. But anyway, her teeth is doing well.
If we want to transition.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Over to where are we going to transition?
Speaker 4 (06:54):
That's right, we've talked about it before.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
But as far as youth teeth goes, she did have
a I don't know it's necessarily unique, but she has
the double rows of teeth. She had like the shark
teeth going on there, and she's lost her first teeth,
and she's got three of them, and she lost her
first tooth. She's got three of them that if she
would let me, I could just reach in there and
grab them and pluck him out. But she won't let
me do that. She has to. She has to work
on them on her own. The first one she worked
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out just to prove me wrong, and I used a
little bugs Bunny psychology on her. I was like, honey,
that thing's never going to come out. You'll never be
able to get that tooth out. She's like, I can too.
I was like, you can't do it, honey, You're not
gonna be ilty. She's like, I can too. I'm like, honey,
Ruth is in the pudding. It's been ready to come
out for days and it's still not out. She's elmer
fudding the story. Yeah, exactly, which is very odd because
usually she's the one elmer fudding me. But in this case,
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she went and head under a blanket and worked on
her tooth until she got it out and came and
presented it to him.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
I got it, and I told you I proved you wrong.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
I won. Yes, you did good job. Yes, did a
great job. And that also reminds me yesterday at one
of these pool parties, right, a young kid came up
to me, knowing that I'm a dentist, and said, I
think I chipped my tooth, and so I'm never off
the clock, right, I'm always being asked questions. I'm always
at events and they go, I think her daddy is
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a dentist, go ask him. And so I'm always being
asked things, and uh, it's just one of those It
just comes with the territory. I have to always be on,
always have to be ready. I always have to pull
out these facts from the back of my head that
are from dental school, or from things I've read, or
from from current literature. I don't know. It's always fun
to pull that out and just kind of kind of
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divulge my nerdom of knowledge when it comes to dentistry
on on these kids and people.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
But honestly, that makes it very relatable.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
I mean, whenever you carry around information like that and
you're able to translate it into kid friendly tidbits and
nuggets and things like that, I mean, that's a great
that's a that's just great outreach.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
That's great.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Yeah, I think so it's where that least.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
It's a great it's a great outreach.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Yes, you're a great man. You do a great job.
We wanted to talk about. There are several things that
we can talk about this morning. You sent me some information,
but one of the things that that does get a
little confusing because it does differ from from office to
office depending on the dentist that you're going to. When
people get a little confused about the difference between like
types of sedation, if it's considered surgery, well I'm not
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going to get I'm not gonna go completely under because
then I have to go to a to a to
a surgeon and then YadA, YadA, YadA.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
It's not as maybe it used to.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Be a little bit more delentiated like that, but it's
not necessarily the case anymore.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
It is very confusing when so sedation itself is a range,
and the license that you have as a dentist, as
a practicing dentist in West Virginia, is for you to
provide the a certain level of sedation. You're not licensed
to provide a certain drug necessarily. It's the whatever drug
will get you to that level of sedation. So I
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have a moderate sedation license, so I can get people
moderately sedated pretty much twilight. Legally, we don't say, or
you know, we can't ethically say we put you to sleep,
but when patients say, well i'd be asleep, I mean
a lot of times patients are kind of snoring, but
they're still awake and alert, right, and so it's this
weird kind of you have to say, yes, you will
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be put out, but you won't be put under. So
we have to be very careful with that language. But
modern sedation is practically the deepest sedation you can get
when it comes to general dentistry. And what we find
is that that's not being offered here in this area,
and there's only a handful of dentists in the state
that do offer that, and so doctor Stephen offers that
(10:30):
I offer it. We do two different types of delivery
systems based on our specific license, but we definitely do
offer the same level. We're both moder we can both
provide modern sedation. Now, if you don't need modern sedation,
if you just if you're a little nervous getting a cleaning,
if you're a little nervous trying to say I need
a filling, but I don't really want to be put under,
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you know, I don't really think I need to go
through that whole process. We have light sedation options such
as nitris laughing gas. It's not just for the kids,
it's for the adults. Some adults every single time they
go I need that nitrous, I need that laughing gas.
I'm like, yes, sir, here we go.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Let's look it up.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
And it's a very safe way to sedate patients. And
what's really cool is if there's ever I always tell patients,
if there's ever an emergency when it comes to nitrous,
we just take off the mask and they start breathing normally.
And so it's one of those really cool it's a
really cool way to say, like, if anything happens, we
just turn this off and you're breathing normally, and while
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you're breathing nitrous, you're breathing more oxygen than we are,
and so you're gonna be you are breathing more oxygen
than we are. You just have a little bit of
stuff that makes you feel good. And then above that,
we can deliver a medication such as a benzodaes a pinie,
which is pased a little anti anxiety pill. We can
do that without nitrous or with nitrous, and that allows
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patients to really feel even more relaxed. And then above
that is that modern sedation. That is what doctor Stephen
and I can provide. But almost every office with Groovedental
Group does have nitrous. I think we all do have nitrous.
We all can provide that little pill if you need to.
But above that, you need to come to doctor Stephen
or my office in Kano City to provide that. We
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actually just had a call. I had a call from
a local dentist who knew that I was offering modern
sedation and I spoke to the mom of the patient.
So the front office desk called me and said, you
offer IV sedation, Craig, I said, yes, Maam, I do.
I was talking to to the front office and she said,
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can you talk to this mother. I'm like, okay, sure,
And so I started talking to the mom and I'm like, yeah,
this is how we do it. And she goes, oh,
thank goodness, my son's very anxious. Can we come see
you next week? And so I'm going to see you
this week for consultation, see how things go. So, I
mean it's kind of neat that we can provide that
for other dental offices that you know, they want to
provide the best service. But sometimes if the patient's too
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anxious and it can become dangerous. If they're too and
to fidgety, they need to have that sedation, so just
so that they can be provided the service that they need.
So that's kind of neat that word it's getting out.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
I've really thought before I started doing a show with
young doctor Stephen that sedation options when you went to
a dentist was basically a if this then that type thing,
like if you're getting this procedure, you get this level
of sedation. They right, you know that that's it. You
know that you that as a patient, you didn't really
have an options like, yeah, you know, I'd like to
be a little bit more under for this one, or
a little less under or whatever it might be.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
All the time a patient will say, so you're going
to take out the tooth, Yes, am I gonna be
awake for that. Yes you will be numb, you will
not feel what I'm doing. But if you need to
be sedated, we can discuss that. But a lot of
times they go, oh, never mind, I'm good. I just
thought I had to be put under. I didn't know
that I could just be awake and alert. I'm like,
yes you can, you just won't feel anything. But of
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course we offer the ability to put you under and
then if you need more complex surgeries such as implant placements.
We do that as well when it comes to sedation
options with that. But even if you just need a
cleaning and you just you're so anxious you don't want
to come see a dentist and you need something to
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calm you down, we have options for you.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Yeah, that's great to know and to be an advocate
for yourself in any of these things if that's something
that you're a little nervous about when it comes to
any kind of dental procedure.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
Procedure. I just threw something in the trash can, and
that was way. That was a lot lower I though
I was going to.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
We finally got rid of all of the the echoe arms,
you know, so that we don't hear that sound anywhere
when you touch the mic stems. But yeah, thrown it
into the metal trash can. It might make a little
bit of noise. That's pretty good, it happens, that's okay.
If you would like more trash can noises, you can
give us a call this morning three zero four three
four five fifty eight fifty eight three zero four, three
four five fifty eight fifty eight. You can text over
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questions that you have as well. If you'd like to
do that. Threes are four non three, five, five zeros
or eight. It's a text line. Threes are a four
non three five, five zeros or eight. And it's just
important for folks to know that there is different options
along those lines because people have different pain thresholds and
they know their bodies more than anything you know, so
they should be able to give the proper recommendation in
things along those lines when it comes to sedation or
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what level sedation or whatever it might be.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
For that. You know your body better than I will.
You know your mouth better than I will. So my
job is to investigate and give you the best recommendations.
But you know how you're going to react to things.
You know how you're going to handle certain situations, and
so we will walk through that. We'll give the options.
I've actually had to talk patients into sedation and out
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of sedation both ways. Certain times that I've had a
patient say I don't really think I need it, and
I go, can we try nitrist please? You know I
think you need it. Right. I'm not saying it's up
to you one hundred percent, but I think that's what
we need to do. Or the opposite can happen where
the patient goes I have to have got to be
put to sleep, and I go this will I can
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almost take out this tooth with my fingers enough to
trick it out, like literally, give me five seconds, I'll
take it out. And so it goes both ways. I
kind of can highly recommend things, but at the same
time giving that informed consent, so patients have every single
recommendation possible and they know what is best for them,
and then they end up choosing from there.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Not to get too far into the weeds of this
because I know that it gets somewhat complicated. You know, yeah,
but this has to do with insurance, and that's never
really all that fun when it comes to sedation and insurance.
Is that one of the ones? Can you is that
only under the dental insurance can that be blended into
your medical or how does that? Because I know sometimes
that's kind of complicated too.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
That is a question I cannot fully answer. I mean
not that I not that I don't want I want
to answer.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
I know, I know it's complicated or not, because I
know sometimes you can sort of you lean on medical
for certain like I went to a ID doctor a
couple of years ago, and I was surprised that when
I got my explanation of benefits, like all of my
odd benefits were taken up, but then there was like
medical benefits on top of that that was tapped into.
And I gotta you know, I mean, it was fine,
but I was just surprised that it's like, oh, I
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use both of my insurance here that.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
Was sometimes it bleeds into medical. Right. I had the
same thing. I had spot in my eye and we
were looking at it for a year and he said, oh,
this visit is covered, is covered under medical. I didn't know.
I just kind of went along with it. Sure, great.
Same thing with sedation. There are there are ways to
build medical and we're investigating that. There's a general dentist
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that I that is that offers sedation another part of
the state, and I've kind of talked with him about
it and how he does things. So I'm trying to
figure out because I don't have any anyone in this
area that kind of does specifically what I do. So
it's hard to really understand what we can build and
how to build it because when it comes to medical insurance,
that's something that we rarely deal with and so that's
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something that's a whole other can of worms and how
to dare you open up that can of wa Yeah,
I'm sorry. Definitely. When it comes to dental insurance, we
build that easily, and then if we can build medical,
we will as well.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
We're going to take a break here in just a moment.
When we come back, we still have plenty of stuff
we're going to talk about. You can control the conversation.
You can give us a call three zero four three
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want to do a little bit. We're going to talk
a little bit about what to do in an emergency
situation during a holiday or during the weekend, or maybe
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you're you're traveling somewhere and you know, we're starting to
get into obviously, well, travel sports is nearly a year
long thing now, but school's out and it's getting warmer.
That means that travel sports we're going to pick up
even more. So that's more opportunity for loose teeth and
things along those lines. You know where are your mouth guard? Yeah,
it might take a bite out of out of a
barbecue that was supposed to have no bones in it
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and there was a bone in there.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
You did something your two thing. You might need some help.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
We'll talk about some emergency procedures how to get your
buy until you can get a possible injury down to
your mouth resolved. We'll talk about that and more when
we come back. You're welcome to give us a call.
The numbers three zer A four, three four, five fifty
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Speaker 3 (20:55):
You're listening to as the expert of Uchs, the voice
of Charles and letting the music play out here. This
music has actually been the same, I mean maybe for
a decade, kidding, but you've never heard it before, right, No,
we never had the studio configuration where we could listen
to a live monitor or not. Not never, but in
the last when did we move over to that studio,
like maybe six or seven years ago? Right, I don't
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right the whole time you've been here, So you've never
seen in the studio. Yeah, I think doctor Stephen maybe
was in the old studio before. But anyway, we we
can never hear the monitor. We had to go off
tomming so I could watch where the commercials were, and
I know radio, so I know the tomming. So we
always went off toiming before and now we can actually
wonder you would like start okay, yeah, it makes sense.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
It was all in the blond.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
Yeah, well, you like wouldn't start talking. For a second,
I'm like, why are we staring here awkwardly? What's happening?
And then it makes sense.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Now all in the blond just watching the numbers go by,
and I knew when to start talking and.
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Stuff there, Steven, you're gonna be blown away.
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And now we can just listen like normal radio.
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It's nice.
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You can just hear exactly what's going on on the
air and react to it appropriately.
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It's not a bad thing.
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It's not bad at all. You kind to be blown away,
and now we can just listen like normal radio. That's nice.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
You just hear exactly what's going on on the air
and react to it appropriately.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
It's not a bad thing. It's not bad at all.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
You gets called this morning if you want to talk
about anything that we've been talking about, probably dental hygiene
would be great, but.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
That we stop on.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
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Speaker 3 (22:26):
Zero zero eighth And one of the things Doctor Stephen
has done this for years on occasion and one of
the shows that I always like to do a segment
of is just to talk about what happens if you
have a dental emergency when you're not you know, when
you're not just sitting at work and you're like, oh
my toothfoll out. I can just run down to the
dentist office, you know. I mean not that you can
necessarily do that, but I mean chances are you could
probably get close to that. But people are living and
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moving and doing things. You might be on vacation and
you bite into something. All that tooth that's been giving
me problem for well, now it's really giving me trouble
where it comes out. Or I mentioned before the break,
you have a child in youth sport and you're playing
travel ball, maybe you're out of town and something happens
and that you got a problem with the tooth. What
are some of the things that folks can do to
kind of sort of manage situations like that if they
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come up.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
So, first off, let's manage the pain. If there's pain
going on, let's kind of go through what you need
to do. The number one thing I don't want people
to do is take any topical gel such as ambersol
or some type of tooth away pain. The jail that
you put in your mouth, don't do that right. That
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is actually bens a cane and it can cause medical
issues if you use it long term. I don't really
want to get into that, but so I don't. I
don't like patients using that topical jelly. That that topical anesthetic.
It's good to actually use it in my office prior
to me injecting because it helps numb the gum just
a little bit. But it doesn't really numb the tooth
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a lot. It's just numbs the gum. So don't use that.
What you really need to do for pain is take
two advil in one tileanol. That's four hundred milligrams of
a seat of ibuprofen, which is advil or motrin, same thing,
and five hundred milligrams of talentol, which is a ced
of menafin. I think now the tablets are only three
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twenty five just because of there was a risk of
liver issues and so they decrease the I'm getting into
the weeds, you know, I always do. But just know
that to addvil one talent all that will stop the
pain and you can kind of go back and forth
every four hours or every two to four hours, you know,
take the two advil, then take the one talent all
and kind of go back and forth. If you need
more than that, obviously call your dentists and they can
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prescribe something. If it's infected, we can give you an antibiotic.
But so many times if you're in pain, it's not
due to infection, it's due to inflammation, and so that
advil and thailanol is going to decrease that inflammation and
make you feel better. If you need more, we can
also prescribe something called a steroid, like a metrol dose pack.
Those things are like tonic water. They just make you
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feel so good. I've had patients say, my knees, I've
not felt this good. Long term that's not good, but
short term definitely good to actually kind of ease the
pain till you can get into your dentist. So that's
when it comes to the pain. Let's say you have
an emergency where your crown pops off. What the heck
do you do? Well? Number one, don't just throw it away.
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We might be able to place it on. But if
that crown is off and it's bothering you, and you
can maybe put it right back on. There's some temporary
crown sementation pace you can buy from CBS. Put that
follow the directions, put it right onto the crownd then
shove it down in there and then clean it up.
That generally can stay for a while. Or if you
don't have that, you can use denture adhesive that actually
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works pretty well, but finally get into the dentist and
they will do it a permanent chop of submitting it in.
So those are the two big emergencies that I can
advise on. When it comes to fractured teeth, not much
I can do other than it's everybody's different. If it's
a chip that's not into the pulp or the nerve,
we can fix it without too many complications. But if
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it's fractured into the root or things like that, chances
are you need to go see a dentist and they
need to maybe extract the tooth or give you other options.
So fortunately we can advise that by calling us and
we can talk to you and we walk you through
these emergencies. We do have a we have an emergency
phone line on the weekends and so it'll come to
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our cell phones and I've used it before yes, I've
used it before. Yeah, so it is very nice. We
get patients from the public call and then we kind
of always give we do our best to give advice
and so or if we can, we'll see patients during
the weekend. So that's those two biggest things. What to
do if you're in pain and what to do if
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your crown pops off. Other than that, there's not a
whole lot of things we can do.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
I guess when when we're talking about like sports and
athletics and with mouthguards, man, I remember when I played
football when I was a kid. I can't I can't.
I can't forget the texture and the feeling of the mouthguards.
It was just one of those things, you know, I
wasn't that great. So a lot of times the only
thing you could do was like chewing your mouth guard.
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You know, you would just like pop it up, it'd
be like sideways in your mouth, you'd tall on it
in the side. You know, you would just like throw that.
Yeah you basically just yeah, you ch all that thing down.
But is there such a thing as like superior mouthguards
or is a mouth guard and mouth guard? You know,
because you see some of these anymore like the standard
issue ones they gave us when we when I play
footballt capital or whatever, just clear little things. You strapped
them to your face mask and I guess they strap
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was like five feet long exactly. Yeah, a lot of
times right exactly. But when you go now you can
see these, you see like an individual and it will
cost like thirty five or forty bucks or something.
Speaker 5 (27:41):
You're like, is it really worth it or is it
just pretty? That's marketing, it's just pretty, just pretty. Yeah.
I would say the ideal way to do it is
go to your dentist and have them do a digital
steps an impression, and then they will make it the
form fit to your mouth. However, go to Walmart buy
something cheap, now I would I wouldn't necessarily go with
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the cheapest just because it is the cheapest. Yeah you
too thin yea, yeah, yeah for sure. But generally speaking,
mouthguards are there choose to provide that shock of absorption.
They aren't very advanced and they don't need to be.
All you need to do is just increase the space
between your teeth with something that's spongy, and that will
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solve the problem generally.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
And it amazes me that and I saw this when
I was a kid too. And again I wasn't a
great player, but I've played enough to.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
Join the club.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
I was a b teamer my entire life. I was
not a great player that came to a school. That's
when Capital first, This was before you got here, but
Charleston High and Stonewall, two powerhouse football programs, combined into
Capital in nineteen eighty nine. That was my sophomore year,
was and that was when high school started back then,
was in sophomore year. So I was the first sophomore
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class to start at Capital going all the way through.
And there were NFL players galore on that first incarnation
of that team. Pretty incredible. Uh spread of talent that
was on that team, and uh yeah, so I mean
I was it was there was a bunch of people.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Coach Roger Jefferson was the coach. There's one of the
most winning coaches in high school football. Won the national
or the state championship our first year in existence, two
out of the first three, loss at the second year.
But yeah, I didn't. I saw the field in very
limited capacity. I played football, but I never understood I
played just enough to know I've had my teeth snapped
together enough on a hit to know that you really
(29:30):
want to wear those those mouthguards. And I never understood
the kids that pushed back when it summers, Like is
it an image thing? I mean, because certainly having cracked
or no teeth later in life is not going to
be great. And the chances you make an NFL money
to get your your like your grill put together or
something is probably not very good.
Speaker 5 (29:47):
No, that's probably not going to happen. And speaking of
playing college, I didn't play couch. Playing high school football
in Texas, same thing. Oh, Like, they were NFL players
all over the place. It seemed like I remember watching
film this one time and this linebacker. So I don't
know if you've heard of south Lake, Carol, they're like
a big barrels. They were in my district. I went
on Church End sometimes. Yeah, I went to church in
(30:09):
South Lake, so like that's kind of where I grew
up in that area. And there was this one linebacker
I think he went to the NFL, but he tackled
a ligneman that was twice his size and just smuf.
I don't know, I've never seen someone hit someone so
hard in real life and be like I'm glad I'm
on the sideline right now like that. It was welcome
to the NFL moment, but welcome to high school football
(30:30):
in Texas moment right And it wasn't me. I was
just watching someone get like destroyed. So I get it.
That's not for me. But definitely you need to protect
your teeth putting on Simply getting those boiled down mouthguards
is all you need. We don't need to do something
super expensive. But the best thing for you, period is
go to your Dennis, have them do that impression, do
(30:51):
a suckdown model themselves with very advanced materials. I mean,
you do get what you pay for, but at what
point is it worth it?
Speaker 4 (30:59):
Dimsion turns at some point there for sure. That makes
a lot of sense.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
A couple of minutes left in the program with doctor
Carson Henley from the Greed Dental Group. You can get
on air with us this morning, just about five minutes left.
You give us a call three zero four three four
five fifty eight fifty eight. Three zero four three four
five fifty eight fifty eight. If you'd like to give
us a call, you're more than welcome to do that
and get a question into doctor doctor Henley, a couple questions.
I thought I would ask you selfishly, since I have
since I have a since I have a child, I
(31:24):
thought I could ask you some some child related dental
hygiene questions. So I've took you and Doctor stephen gave
me some advice a couple of years ago to get
my daughter over her adversion to brushing her teeth, and
then most of those things worked. She's she's pretty good
with brushing her teeth. Now she'll I guess all kids
will push back sometimes when they really don't want to
or whatever, but for the most part, she brushes her teeth.
(31:46):
We make it a game. Here's here's the clever game
that parents find themselves in. So she wants to quote
unquote race me. Right, as a parent, I understand that
racing brushing your teeth is not a great idea because
you want to go as slow as possible. Right, So
what I have to do is I have to brush
my teeth for as long as I want her to
brush my teeth, and then make it very very obvious
(32:09):
when I'm getting ready to wash out my mouth and
be done and everything, and make overly deliberate gestures so
she can, like swoop in and get done right before
me so she can beat me to the quote unquote race.
So for like years, I've been throwing this race that
I've been trying to make go as long as I
possibly can so she'll spend enough time brushing her teeth.
She does fine, she just needs the context of like
(32:30):
this race that her and Daddy do at night times,
specifically around her.
Speaker 5 (32:34):
You're the turtle and you're trying to trick her into
being a turtle exactly.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
And there's going to be a time, because the kid's clever,
there's gonna be a time when she's going to figure
it all out. Or maybe she already has and she
just plays along for me. Heck, I have no idea anyway.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
We've gotten her.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Along pretty well, I think for the most part. However,
as her baby teeth are starting to they'll be going
pretty soon. She's lost her first and she's starting to
lose more. But I do notice a like a patina
or a ring of discoloration on like the bottom parts
of her teeth from where she either wasn't great brushing
(33:08):
for a while or her technique and stuff is good now,
but that gap there may have caused some problems one
teeth that are going out. If we have good practices, now,
what is my level on what we should do as
far as that goes?
Speaker 4 (33:21):
Am I? Okay?
Speaker 3 (33:22):
As long as going forward we have good practices, am I?
And am I in some sort of peril because some
of the teeth that are in there now are discolored.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
What is my problem there?
Speaker 5 (33:31):
If they're going to fall out within a year? I
tell patients all the time, or parents have patients if
if a tooth has a cavity, if the tooth is discolored,
if the tooth has stained, whatever, and it's going to
fall out within a year, I'm okay leaving it, and
you probably can be as well. If a tooth is
going to fall out, there's really no point in investing
in that tooth. And that's my take. Now, if that
(33:52):
tooth is bothering you, instead of fixing it or filling it,
maybe extracted early. I think that's a good option as well.
But I think you're doing a great job. You're caring
for your daughter and she's trying to beat you, although
she doesn't realize that she's losing every time. She's winning
by losing, you know, it's kind of funn.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
The worst thing that happened to me one night, or
not the worst thing ever, but one night last week,
I don't know, I was distracted or whatever. We were
brushing my teeth, and I forgot that we were you know,
that I was supposed to go through this thing I've
been doing for years. Just for whatever reason, this particular
slipped my mind, and so I just wrapped up, washed
my mouth out, got ready, and she like just looked
at me with her toothbrush still in her mouth, looking
at me with her eyes really big. And my kid
(34:34):
doesn't like will till she gets mad. So she's like, Okay,
that's it. We're never racing again.
Speaker 5 (34:41):
It just it. We're done.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Yeah, she was so mad at me. I rectified it.
Did she hang out her toothbrush?
Speaker 5 (34:49):
Is that what she did?
Speaker 3 (34:50):
Well, what she did is she very emphatically it's a
bluey you know, electric toothbrush, And what she very emphatically
did is she ran it under the water to rinse
it off, look at me the whole time, and then
just put it on the sink, staring me dead, like
that's it.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
I'm so disappointed in you.
Speaker 5 (35:06):
We're done with this.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
She's so outrageous. Not hanging up your cleats, hanging up
your toothpaste. Yeah, she's outrageous with stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
But so with kids, there is a little bit of
I guess that make it a game. Yeah, there's some kids,
I guess it will just take to it and then
they'll have perfect little pearls their entire at kiddom. And
there's other kids like my daughter who got there eventually,
but she was kind of a wild child to get
her to the point where she would do her teeth
once or twice a day, and she does a pretty
decent job with it now. But I did have to
gamify it. I had to turn it into something other
(35:35):
than just brushing your teeth. It had to be something else.
Speaker 5 (35:37):
Yeah, yeah, I think that's smart, just trying to come
up with any number of games. When it comes to
the two minutes we want, we always hand out these
sand dial things that are time to two minutes. I
remember getting those as a child, and I remember how
slow that sand was going through the sand dial thing, right, Like,
two minutes is a long time when you're trying to
(35:58):
do one thing, especially you're keen. You're just brushing as
hard as you can and trying to get going.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
So she hums, right, of the valkyries, the what the
ride of the valkyris, you know, the the the symphonic movement.
I'm sure like like sort of like the like the
like the whole thing like going, and she she hums
like all of that stuff while she That's how she
toms out her teeth brushing when she gets to when
she gets to the second crescendo, she knows that she's
(36:24):
pretty much that's about the end of it.
Speaker 5 (36:26):
I should teach my kids cheerits of fire, right.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (36:29):
Yeah, that's a little slower, Yeah, yeah, I see that
work out. All right.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
Let me get the information for Greed Dental Group out
to you one last time before we have to leave
the airways this morning. Greed Dental Group you can find
them online. It's a greeb Dentalgroup dot com. Garb Dentalgroup
dot com. Uh. That will get you to to the
website which will take you to one of the closest
locations to you. There's locations all over the Valley, Pocus
at Charles and Cross Lane, Saint Athens Stays, Valley, Kano City.
(36:53):
Doctor Carson is in the Kanall City Office. He was
our guest this morning. Doctor Stephen is typically here as
well and Charleston location.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (37:02):
Doctor Carson, thank you so much for your time, appreciate
it today.
Speaker 5 (37:04):
Thanks for having me. It was a blast. It was
a good time. Man.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
Welcome to the new studio. This is great. We'll see
you back here next month. That's a Grieve Dental group
on five ad W CHS. The Voice of Charleston that
has been asked the expert. Coming up next is Dave
Allen five eighty Live. I'll be back this afternoon with
Dave weekly at three oh six on Metro News Talk Hotline.
Speaker 4 (37:20):
Have a great day everyone. On five ed W CHS.
We are the Voice of Charleston.
Speaker 6 (37:24):
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