August 26, 2025 • 35 mins
Host Dale Cooper and Dr. Steven Ghareeb discus dental hygiene, best practices, cutting edge procedures, and the history of the field.
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Speaker 3 (00:35):
You're listening to ask the expert w HS the Voice
of Charleston. I'm Del Cooper. Thanks for tuning in on
this Tuesday morning. It's a nice morning out there. You'll
notice as soon as you walk outside that wall of
humidity is not going to hit you this morning. It's
relatively cool and nice outside. And I was looking at
the weather forecast last night. I think we're going to
have this weather all week. From what I can tell,
it's supposed to be. I've stopped looking at the weather,
(00:57):
so I'm glad you told me that. Yeah, yeah, thanks,
exciting really is, if I'm not mistaken. Monday through Friday
we have, well, yesterday was Monday, but today through Friday,
we have highs that are going to be in the
mid seventies, and I think tomorrow night we have a
chance to break a seasonal low. I think the seasonal
low is fifty in our forecast is like fifty one,
so there's a potential to maybe break to break the
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low temperature tomorrow night brisk. It'll be brisk, and after
the all of those ninety degree days and this summer,
it'll be nice to see that break. The voices that
you hear, of course, that is from Greeb Dental Group.
That is doctor Stephen Greeb is with us this morning.
Doctor Carson Henley is with us as well, and we're
going to be talking this morning about teeth hygiene. We
have some special program I think we're putting together where
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doctor Henley's going to interview doctor Greeb. I think we
have something like that that we're going to we'll give
it a sh the deploy here and see what's going on.
You're welcome to send us a text if you have
any questions as well. Three zero four non three five
five zero zero eight you can give us a call.
Three zero four three four five fifty eight fifty eight
three four five fifty eight fifty eight. First of all,
good morning. How are you doing this morning? Doing very well?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
How about yourself? I'm doing very well, Doctor Stephen Greed
from Greed Dental Group. More information online Greed Dentalgroup dot com.
Greeb Dentalgroup dot com is where you can find all that.
And doctor Carson, how you doing this morning.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
It's such a beautiful day. It is nice.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
I could hear. I woke up and I heard the
birds chirping. Right. Yeah, it's just perfect. It is very
nice outside. It's very nice. And uh my, uh my
little pet spotters. I had to get rid of them
this weekend. I had two orb weavers that I've been
letting live just outside my door, one on the back door,
one on the in the front door, and they just
got a little too big.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
The one that I got rid of this weekend was
about this big. I have a picture of them. I'll
show you later. I saw him one Saturday morning. I
was like, you gots to go this weekend, buddy, I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
I had one of those like wolf spiders that were
out in the on the back porch for a while.
We were out there eating and and my wife saw
that things like, I think we got to take care
of that one. It was, it's pretty large.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Earlier this year, I accidentally, I was, I was not accidentally.
I was getting my grill ready to uh grill some
food one night, and I took my grill cover off,
and I noticed that it looked like my grill cover
was sort of like like a kaleidoscope in front of
my eyes. I'm like, what the heck going on is?
I mean, I'm old? Am I that old? Where I
can't see? And so I'm like pulling this thing and
I'm pulling it off, and I noticed that what had happened,
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I guess, is that uh spiders, eggs had hatched on
my grill cover and there were just like thousands of
tiny little spiders all over my grill. Yeah. It was terrible. Wow.
Like I tried to do what I could with you know,
like some yards spray and some different things. But I
have a feeling those things are all over my house.
That's probably where that was about three or four months ago.
So these big ones I'm starting to see now, that's
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probably whe they're We're not talking about spiders of this morning.
We're talking about teeth and dental hygiene. I don't know
where that came from. I just for some reason, I
can't get the mental image of that giant spider out
of my head. I don't know. That's one of those things.
Don't call us about spiders this morning, call us about
your dental hygiene. You can find out more information online
Greeb Dentalgroup dot com. That's g h A R E
e B Greb Dentalgroup dot com. You can find information
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over there to take it to the closest location there.
There's all kinds of grieb dental groups close to you.
You can find locations and pocus how Charles and Cross
Slay and Saint Albans Tays Valley in Kanall City. Did
you update your website again?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
No?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
I think it's the same Eurro's website so nicely every time.
I thanks. Yeah, there's always all kinds of good stuff
that's up there. It is always being updated. So what's
going on in the teeth business in this month of
August of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Well, first off, I do believe spiders and dentists are
a lot alike because people are afraid of both.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Very true and probably unnecessarily too right, very much so
spiders are good, they kill the bad things. Insects tend
to be worse than the spiders when it comes to
infestations all the stuff. Again, I'm not an exterminator, not
an expert in that, but sounds right to me.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Anyway, I was taking a shower this morning and I
had the crazy idea of interviewing doctor Stephen Grieb and
asking him some questions. I love the idea, yeah, And
so I kind of want to start asking him some
questions and see kind of pick his brain because there's
so much in that brain and I'm just excited.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
I'm just ready to dig deep there.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
So if you don't mind, Dale, I'm gonna Askay, I'm
just gonna start.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Let's go. I'll take a little nap over here. Just
let me know when you're done.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
So, doctor Stephens, So yesterday I had a complicated case
and it's still going on.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
And during that case, it's been a month or a
month's long process. And I shared some photos with you
and and we talked about it for a little bit,
and you offered some advice. Whenever there are complicated cases,
I tend to reach out type of situations. Would you
reach out to them and get help with.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Well.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
In dentistry is doctor Henley saying, you end up accumulating
many mentors, you know, through the through your career, and uh,
definitely there in my mind, I have many mentors, but
the number one is by far in a way, of course,
my father, uh doctor Sam Eager Reeve. He's you know,
towards me since I was a you know, came into
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this world as well as professionally as for sure. So
we also mentioned last time that he's celebrating fifty years
in dentistry. So when you say who do I ask?
He's my go to of course, and I think that's
true for many of us in our in our group,
because when you have all that experience practicing in such
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a high level, you've probably run into the situation that
you know you're challenged with. So that's where I reach
out to Dad first for any of those questions I have.
And there it's it's funny because there are little things
in dentistry that get you. Yeah, we we have a
lot of big issues that go on about you know,
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surgery and implants or crowns and bridges. But then when
you get to a point of where you know, why
why is it that the lab isn't How do I
better instruct the lab? Or some very small minutia that
you know that Dad's encountered in the past, So those
are things are very valuable. What about why is this
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certain cement not working? How do I handle this specific
patient situation that may or may not be related to
clinical ministry, you know, to actual work, you know, so
a lot of interpersonal relationship issues too. So I'd say
the answer the question is is doctor Greed.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Himself for sure? Great answer, great answer. Deal, do you
have anything to add to that?
Speaker 3 (07:29):
I was just I thought it was interesting what you
were talking about there, because we called the show, asked
the expert. But there's really something to be said about
the knowledge. Obviously, studies and textbooks and stuff are required
and necessary, and you need to have that book knowledge.
But there's something about having fifty years in that you
know just a little bit more maybe than what the
textbook has, or you know, the situation that certain compounds
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aren't worried, whatever it might be. You know, because of
this situation, because of this particular patient and a certain
presentation there that you have to go one way instead
of the other. That's something you don't necessar learn from
a textbook. That's something that you have to have a
mentor or someone that has some years in the business for.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
And to that end, there are certain things that I'm
more of an expert of than doctor saman greieb is.
When it comes to technology. Don't ask doctor Garib. You
might want to ask me.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Oh, doctor gotcha right right? That happens.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
There is some nuance there. But definitely I think the
way that doctor Steven answer that is, when you have
fifty years of institutional knowledge of an expertise of an industry,
you have seen it all and you have made all
the mistakes that need to be made so that you
don't make those mistakes again. And so whenever we ask
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each other, we are asking the experts among each other,
you know, with certain cases. And so I think it's
really neat when you come to greeb Dental Group, you
have those six locations, you have those what a dozen
doctors now, and so we have so many brains that
have seen different things, and we can interact and make
sure that we treat patients the right way and in
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the correct way.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
You start adding up all those doctors years of experience
we talked about doctor Green having fifty years, and then
there's twelve of twelve others with you know, I mean
I've been out now twenty years, you know, so it's
a it gets up there. There's there many, many years
of experience to draw from. So that's why I really
enjoy about being part of our our group is you
have a lot of minds to bounce things off of.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
All right, are you ready for another question? Sure? All right.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
You've had a lot of dentist associates. Correct which one
was your favorite?
Speaker 3 (09:34):
How did I know? This is probably now? You know.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
It's it's like, what's the answer? When you have the children,
it's like they're like jewels, all of the you know,
you like each stone in its own way. But no,
Doctor Henley, you've been a great associate, you know, so
I can't pick favorites, but but you've you know, I
had a great working relationship. Right now, we have doctor
Joseph in in my office. We've had doctor or Ferrari
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there as well, and we've had a lot of great
times with all of them. And it's a great, great
support that you know, to have when you have an
associate there at the office that can help you out,
you can help them out. And it's another mentor mentee
type relationship too, and going both ways because we both
we all learned from each other so well. So so
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I've enjoyed that and it's a great, great asset to
have in the office. And uh and again really appreciated
the time with doctor Henley in the office, but he
had to move on to what he thought were greater,
greater things. But yet I think sometimes he calls me,
He's like, do you do you want an associate back?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Trade off here again?
Speaker 6 (10:41):
So we had a good thing going right that there.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Are times I'm like, who told me to buy a practice?
No joke, one of the best choices of my life.
But there are days where you know, it's just owning
a business, and there are problems that arise that you
would not have had if you were just the associate.
And there are other problems when it comes to being associate.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
But I would do it again, yes, But man, there
are days for sure it's like renting instead of owning
right where you can call the maintenance guy if you're
just renting, but if you own the place, you got
to take care of it yourself. So many times I
get called into an operatory because there's a problem, and
I'm like, Okay, who's going to fix this?
Speaker 4 (11:19):
And they go, you are, You're a plumber, You're the electrician,
and legally I'm not, but like, you know, I have
to be fixed some plumbing. Sometimes I have to change
the toilet thing, you know. There, It's just it is
what it is, and it's kind of sometimes a joy,
but that joy can eat at you at times. All right,
Next question, I actually have a couple of friends who
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graduated dental school with me who no longer practiced dentistry
and they kind of maybe got burnt out maybe, but
I think it was because of their personality in a way,
maybe their personality wasn't set to be in the dental field.
What personality traits do you believe make the best person
fitted to be a dentist.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
Well, that also is a bit of a difficult question,
because the nice thing about dentistry, general dentistry in particular,
is that for those outside of the dental field, they
may think, well, all you get bored just working on teeth. Well,
in general dentistry, there are many different ways to go
with that. You can go all the way from being
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very involved in complex surgeries all the way to working
in an office reviewing dental claims and anywhere in between.
So you can have a desk job or a very
very precise surgical job within general dentistry. So what kind
of personality it takes. I think any personality could find
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their place in dentistry. But in general dentistry, I've found
that it's very helpful to be a little bit of
I don't want to call it mister fix it, but
like you're saying in your office, to fix the plumbing here,
you got to do this, and that you have to
be able to multitask and figure things out. Because yes,
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that's why we go to dental school. You learn this
is what happens, and that what happens. But it's as
in many medical careers, when you're treating patients, no patient
is exactly the same. You're never working on a static,
you know, mannequin. Everything is different, they move differently, they
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have different needs and different issues. No filling is exactly
the same, no crown, no implant. So you have to
be able to adapt very quickly on the fly. So
I think if that if that describes a personality type,
I think that that would that helps people very much
in general dentistry. Now again to say, even if you
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are considering dentistry and you are a very precise, controlling
in a type A individual, there are a lot of
those people that succeed very much so in dentistry. So
that's don't let that my disassive company included. Yeah, that's right.
So it's they can also develop the ability to figure
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things out in a very high functioning way as well.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
I think that's fascinating and meaning the two of you,
you guys, the one thing that you guys share in common.
I don't know who you, either of you personally well
enough to make any grand judgments, but you share intense curiosity,
like interest in what you're doing, and also you care
about like what the patient experiences. And I know that
you know, maybe we're doing the show, that's what we're
supposed to talk about, but legitimately I know that that's
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true of both of you. You care about what the
patient is experiencing on the other side, and I think
curiosity and care those two things have to play a
huge part into being a good doctor in general. But
you know, when you're talking about dental hygiene and things
like that certainly has to play a part in good results.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
Yeah, that's a good point, and that's that is also
part of that personality trait that if you're able to
figure things out, well, you're you're doing it for the
best interests of the patient and for your staff and
team there as well.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
And sometimes you have to walk into the lobby and
experience what the patient experiences. Oh interesting here, And so
there are times I will just be sitting on the
couch in the lobby and just look around and make
sure that there's no cobwebs in the corners, make sure
that the my fridge is stocked with Fiji water. I
went crazy about Fiji water two months ago. And so
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it's just one of those things where I want the
patients to walk in see those smiling faces. Doctor Stevens
office is excellent with that because you just walk in
and it's just magnificently upholstered and it's clean, and your
beautiful face is smiling at you, and it's just it's
very warming and welcoming. And so I think, whenever I
walk into my office, I'm like, is it even close
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to doctor Stevens's office.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
If it is, it's almost perfect, right, And so I think.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Talking about mentorship, I used his mentorship of how to
put together a nice looking office that caters to patient care.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
It's really amazing. And I've worked on the retail side
of things, I've owned businesses before. But everything, everything matters,
you know, everything matters to some degree. I mean, obviously,
being doctors, that's the most important thing is your knowledging,
your care for patients and things along those lines. But
when you're also running a business, you know, things like
the aesthetic of the office matters, the presentation when you
walk in, your staff that you have, all those things
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matter just as much, especially when you're talking about what
doctor Carson was just talking about with patients. You want
to know what that patient experience is like. You know that, Hey,
you know, I have this certain baseline knowledge as a doctor.
I'm really good at this. I'm really good at that.
You need to make sure you have the people in
the front end that are taking care of your patients
and getting them to you so they feel comfortable with you.
And I know both of you do a great job
on matter. All right, next question, are you ready to
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doctor Steven? All right? Thumbs up.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Question number four, So Obviously, your father is a dentist,
and many times children are hesitant going to the same
profession as their parents, whether that's good or bad. Right,
and you and I are somewhat rebellious spirits. What was
your thought process going to dental school and how did
you get there your personal journey.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Well, that's a good question. I'll try to keep it
brief because then we could be this you be telling
me the whole story, because it starts very young. I
was the kid in kindergarten. They showed the video at
your high school graduation. What did you say when you
were in kindergarten? They asked you what you want to be?
And five years old, I said I wanted to be
a dentist. So that is something that I mean. It
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literally stuck. I was always a goal of mine. I
wanted to get there as quickly as I could, and
so I began that process knowing that I had to
do well enough in school to be able to apply.
And I wasn't a brainiact by any means, but worked
hard to try to get the grades needed and necessary.
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And then I'm all, so, you know, a religious individual,
and I believe in divine intervention. So I would always
take the next step towards that goal. Whether it was
too early to take it or it is too late
to take it, I would take it and step out
in faith and say, if I'm supposed to do this
at this point, the doors will open, and thank god
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they did.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
So.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
For instance, I went to West Virginia State for a year.
I went to Marshall for two years, and then I
packed my schedule to get all of my required courses
order in order to apply for dental school. So once
I did that, then I said, well, I have everything
I need. It's a little early, but I'll just go
ahead and apply only to WVU just see what happens.
And I had an interview and fortunately, by some miraculous move,
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they accepted me. So got in a little earlier than
a little earlier than I expected, and went there, worked hard,
and it was a challenging four years, but it was
a great four years as well, and it worked out
very well because happened to meet the love of my life,
my wife, Shana. She was there in the hygiene program,
and now we have four beautiful children. And fast forward
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twenty years later, here we are. So that's kind of
the course. The path that I took.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
I really appreciate this actually because I remember doing this
show similar to this with you, doctor Carson, that we
kind of did the introductory show and you gave your
history stuff, Doctor Steve, And I've been doing this show
for so long, I don't know if we ever have
or how long had it been since we kind of
did the sort of the introductory like the origin story. Welcome. Yeah,
this is like the Clark Kent Superman thing. I mean,
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you know, we gotta we gotta see what happens when
he takes the glasses off, you know. And as a
matter of fact, he did take the glasses off to
give that answer, So there's something to that. I think.
What do you have another question? Oh yeah, I always do. Well,
can we take a break first when we come back
and do that? So let's do that. Let's go ahead
and take a break. You're welcome to join in if
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in the middle of doctor Carson sort of interviewing doctor
doctor Stephen, and we're having a good time with that.
One question I wanted to ask before you get to that,
and I was, I can't find the name of the
book that I that I had heard the author talk about.
Try to do a little searching, and I can't. I
can't find it. But I heard an interview with an
author who had done a book about It was a
(22:55):
scientific narrative, so it was like one of those popsod
books basically, but it was about the history of humans
told through their teeth, care about hygiene and different things
along those lines. Diet, the wear on the teeth, what
it did with these different things along those lines. And
the point that he made and it made me think
about you guys right away, was that we've discovered a
lot of things that dental hygiene helps with, like what
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we've talked about on this show with bacteria and how
the whole thing adds to the you know, the the
the holistic care of an individual and everything, but the
hard work of dentistry as far as what you're trying
to do in the mouth, a lot of that stuff
hasn't changed over centuries, you know, the things that you're
trying to resolve as far as with people's discomfort and
teeth and different problems like that. We have different tools
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that we approach them. Now, we have different diagnosed diagnosis
that we can use and find things, but generally speaking
kind of doing the same things. And it's like a
it's like an ancient cabal of of of people that
help with teeth. And I felt that in his explanation
of he was very passionate about it, and he like
just tied it back throughout hundreds of years of people
that had been experimenting around with how to fix teeth
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and how to fix mouth problems and different things like that,
and it evolved into the dentistry. But I just think
it was a fascinating history that it's not like the
moment that you know, anesthesia came up, or the moment
that drills were invented or something like that. That's not
the beginning of dentistry. It goes way back. I mean,
it's an ancient, ancient practice.
Speaker 6 (24:17):
Absolutely, and it's in What is very interesting is that
the thing that is preserved in the human body for
the longest are your teeth. So if you have a
natural disaster or an airplane crash, you identifying victims, you
do it by their teeth because they they they last.
The last thing decomposed in your body will be your teeth.
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So we can go back and observe ancient history through teeth,
as you're kind of alluding to, and in looking at those,
and we've found dental restorations, you know, in ancient Egypt
and using gold and things like you say that we've
we've still can use to an extent today. But it's
as long as we've had teeth, there have been tooth problems.
And if you've ever had a tooth issue, you know
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how debilitating that can be. And in the ancient world,
I imagine without the luxuries that we have of modern medicine,
how really tragic it could be for many people and
affect the infect them in many ways. So, yeah, people
have always been trying to fix them.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
And on top of that, what's so cool is how
fast the dental field advances. Well, just so once we've
been doing this show, it's incredible the things that doctor
Stephen has revealed. And you now that about of time
you've been doing I'm impressed all the time with how
quickly things come about. Exactly.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
So, when it came to replacing a single tooth, the
only option that was available was something called a partial
for thousands of years probably right, And then we developed
the techniques to make bridges which kind of put two
crowns on teeth with the bridge across it. And that
was probably what fifty to one hundred years ago that
probably was invented or so. And then within twenty thirty
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forty years we've done implants, and so it's just ramped up.
It's like exponential growth of technology. And now we're getting
into the phase of are we able to grow teeth
and so that's probably the next frontier of replacement is
literally you can grow a tooth and implant it. I mean,
I don't know where we are with that, but eventually
we could be there.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
I remember us sort of joking about that years ago
that hey, what are they going to do to figure
out a way to add shark DNA to a tooth
to get it to regrow or But I think that's
actually sort of what they're doing, if I'm not.
Speaker 6 (26:27):
Mistaken, We're actively trying to make that happen. It's the
lack of predictability is the issue there. Because you can
grow some teeth, but is it the right tooth in
the right place, in the right shape. So that's that
can be an issue.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Wow, I've never even thought of that. What I mean, sure,
maybe you can grow a bone mask, but what if
it's like, you know, a vampire tooth or a tiny
tooth or I mean any number of those things.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
Rightyeah, yeah, So, I mean, not to get too technical,
but like our wisdom, teeth have stem cells in them.
It's one of the last it's the the last thing
in our body to still retain stem cells in our
adulthood because that those teeth are still growing in young adults.
So there's talk of harvesting those stem cells and implanting
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them into another location in the mouth to grow a tooth.
But then you don't want to have a big, crazy
molar tooth in your front tooth, you know. So that's
the challenges get interested to really code it to the
correct thing. And that's where it's quite hard to replicate
our natural bodies.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
You know, I never thought about it. How interesting would
that be? You don't want like all your molars on
the front and you're in scissors in the back, and
I mean, you don't want to have all kinds of problems.
That wouldn't be good.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
It might make matters a little worse. Yeah, it's it's fascinating.
And as doctor Henley saying, you know, the the progression
of these options, we're very fortunate to be living in
the time in which we are, because they weren't. They
weren't They have not been around for more than a
couple hundred years, which is pretty pretty amazing.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
All right, are you ready for the next question, doctor
Stephen thumbs up? Let's go. All right, Actually just eved
a question through the phone. Who is your favorite sister?
What again?
Speaker 6 (28:08):
They're all like precious jewels, right, So it sounds like
Kathy's probably getting How could I know that is funny?
Uh No, I'm very fortunate to have grown up with
in a large family, have my my brother Mitcherie is
the eldest, and I have Samya that's my older sister.
Then there's me right smack dab in the middle, and
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then I have Cindy and then Kathleen the two younger ones.
And uh and we're all fortunate to be living in
the same area in adult as adult as adults and
have our children become very close with one another. So
so I'm very blessed. And I'm not going to pick
a favorite, right.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
I tried.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
That's very much all right, I I I do have
a real question. Now, what's the most unusual or challenging
case you've ever worked on? And what did you learn
from it?
Speaker 6 (29:00):
Well, there there are a couple that that are quite interesting,
a couple that stand out, and there because they stand
out because they are very outside of the ordinary. And
and I find myself again fortunate to have been involved
with these and what I what I learned the I'll
start with that first. I learned that it's very important
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to have good colleagues around you that you can trust
and that you can rely upon for some of these
very infrequent but very complex cases. For instance, it was
during my training we're talking about going to dental school
and through that. Something that sticks out even from back
then is that I was very interested in oral surgery
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and I did a lot of rotations in that service,
and I ended up going down to Charity Hospital in
New Orleans for a couple of weeks. Some dental students
enjoyed their summer breaks for we had like two whole
weeks off for the summer or something. But I did
more work down and UH and volunteered at a at
an oral surgery residency down there in New Orleans, and
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it's it was the number one trauma facial trauma center
in the nation because of its proximity to Bourbon Street
and people having an affinity to get in fights and
hit each other with baseball bats, breaking jaws, so they
would come to the oral surgery clinic and UH and
we would put them back together again.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
It was enough for it to be statistically relevant to
have facial entries.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
Oh my goodness, gracious, like that that was their claim,
Like we're the number one facial trauma center in the
nation right here. And so so I was there and
and they could use all the help, you know, they
could get. And I was a young dental student but
had a little bit of experience, and they threw in
like you were an oral surgery resident and you're wiring jaws,
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shot doing complicated extractions and and uh implant work and
and a lot of trauma that you have to deal with.
And so much so that that service for those that
are privy to hospital situations, that oral surgery service extended
into the facial esthetics, even plastic surgery, and so they
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shared call with plastics and anyone and E and T,
so anyone that came in with any problem from their
shoulders up, if you were there, you were treating them.
It didn't matter if it was a tooth or if
it was something on their head, you know. So with
that being said, one of the most interesting cases was
was unfortunate for this individual. He had tried to kill
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himself with a shotguns and it ended up not killing him.
He came in there and we had to put him
back together again. And it was it was very educational,
It was very unfortunate, but we saved the guy's life
and he's so I went back again about two months later,
(32:00):
he was back into the service again for some root,
some follow up care. So I'm all going into me
details on the radio. It's it gets a little little gnarly, sure,
but that was a very memorable case and I definitely
did not have the expertise to work on it, so
I relied heavily on those around me that were the
best in the business, uh there at that time. And yeah,
(32:22):
I'd say that was that's one that Then there's one
in private practice that is similar that worked with the
doctor Klustra at CMC Facial Surgery Center that helped me
out immensely with a very interesting case. Had to do
with moving jawbones and all of these things that we
couldn't do it within the office, but again very educational
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and and had provided a great service for a patient
as well.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Have you found where you have to do most like
when you have a massive facial like something that needs
to be done surgery or something like that. Is it
generally something that's that takes place from trauma or something
from birth? Is it usually a trauma situation that causes that, well,
it's actually actually.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
I would say it's more likely a developmental situation where
you're having to move jaws. You're born basically with either
too big or too small upper or lower jaws, and
are orthodontists in town do a great job too trying
to correct that non surgically, but sometimes you have to
do it surgically for a variety of reasons. And then
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what we tell patients is that you have to you
have to determine if it is really a necessary change,
kind of a life changing change, because it is a
bit of a process to go through. So sometimes we
can mask the issues a little bit, to camouflage them
by moving teeth rather than moving jaws, but sometimes it's
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just can't go. Their limitations to that as well.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
I imagine that for some people that might be an
underrated part of what you do. I mean, people that
live with this comfort from problems with developmentally that happens
with their jaw, teeth, facial structure, or something along those lines.
They don't to find some sort of relief for that.
I mean, it has to be a huge thing and
something that continues along those lines. About thirty seconds left
dot your Carson, anything else you want to get in
there before we have to lock out.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
No, I'm gonna stop it there. Okay, he did a
great job. Yeah, fast, very well. Hey oh, flipping around,
flipping around.
Speaker 6 (34:22):
I'm gonna have to come up with some questions for you.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
That's not a bad idea. Let me get to contact
information out for you. So if you need a contact
the Greed Dental Group, you can do that. You can
find out more information online. It's Greed Dentalgroup dot com.
That's g h A R e E B GREEB Dentalgroup dot com.
Find all the information there that you might need. The
phone numbers one eight hundred Great Care one hundred Great
Care is the phone number you can call that will
get your routed to the closest location to you. Those
locations are in Pocus, South Charleston, Cross Lane, Saint Authustas
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Valley and Canall City once again one at hundred Great Care,
Greb Dentalgroup dot com, Garib Dental Group dot com. And
you can find them every month right here on hs
on ask the Expert. Thank you so much for your
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next month. Thank you, and thank you very much. Doctor
Carson for conducting the interview this morning. You appreciate that.
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Speaker 3 (00:35):
You're listening to ask the expert w HS the Voice
of Charleston. I'm Del Cooper. Thanks for tuning in on
this Tuesday morning. It's a nice morning out there. You'll
notice as soon as you walk outside that wall of
humidity is not going to hit you this morning. It's
relatively cool and nice outside. And I was looking at
the weather forecast last night. I think we're going to
have this weather all week. From what I can tell,
it's supposed to be. I've stopped looking at the weather,
(00:57):
so I'm glad you told me that. Yeah, yeah, thanks,
exciting really is, if I'm not mistaken. Monday through Friday
we have, well, yesterday was Monday, but today through Friday,
we have highs that are going to be in the
mid seventies, and I think tomorrow night we have a
chance to break a seasonal low. I think the seasonal
low is fifty in our forecast is like fifty one,
so there's a potential to maybe break to break the
(01:20):
low temperature tomorrow night brisk. It'll be brisk, and after
the all of those ninety degree days and this summer,
it'll be nice to see that break. The voices that
you hear, of course, that is from Greeb Dental Group.
That is doctor Stephen Greeb is with us this morning.
Doctor Carson Henley is with us as well, and we're
going to be talking this morning about teeth hygiene. We
have some special program I think we're putting together where
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doctor Henley's going to interview doctor Greeb. I think we
have something like that that we're going to we'll give
it a sh the deploy here and see what's going on.
You're welcome to send us a text if you have
any questions as well. Three zero four non three five
five zero zero eight you can give us a call.
Three zero four three four five fifty eight fifty eight
three four five fifty eight fifty eight. First of all,
good morning. How are you doing this morning? Doing very well?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
How about yourself? I'm doing very well, Doctor Stephen Greed
from Greed Dental Group. More information online Greed Dentalgroup dot com.
Greeb Dentalgroup dot com is where you can find all that.
And doctor Carson, how you doing this morning.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
It's such a beautiful day. It is nice.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
I could hear. I woke up and I heard the
birds chirping. Right. Yeah, it's just perfect. It is very
nice outside. It's very nice. And uh my, uh my
little pet spotters. I had to get rid of them
this weekend. I had two orb weavers that I've been
letting live just outside my door, one on the back door,
one on the in the front door, and they just
got a little too big.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
The one that I got rid of this weekend was
about this big. I have a picture of them. I'll
show you later. I saw him one Saturday morning. I
was like, you gots to go this weekend, buddy, I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
I had one of those like wolf spiders that were
out in the on the back porch for a while.
We were out there eating and and my wife saw
that things like, I think we got to take care
of that one. It was, it's pretty large.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Earlier this year, I accidentally, I was, I was not accidentally.
I was getting my grill ready to uh grill some
food one night, and I took my grill cover off,
and I noticed that it looked like my grill cover
was sort of like like a kaleidoscope in front of
my eyes. I'm like, what the heck going on is?
I mean, I'm old? Am I that old? Where I
can't see? And so I'm like pulling this thing and
I'm pulling it off, and I noticed that what had happened,
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I guess, is that uh spiders, eggs had hatched on
my grill cover and there were just like thousands of
tiny little spiders all over my grill. Yeah. It was terrible. Wow.
Like I tried to do what I could with you know,
like some yards spray and some different things. But I
have a feeling those things are all over my house.
That's probably where that was about three or four months ago.
So these big ones I'm starting to see now, that's
(03:37):
probably whe they're We're not talking about spiders of this morning.
We're talking about teeth and dental hygiene. I don't know
where that came from. I just for some reason, I
can't get the mental image of that giant spider out
of my head. I don't know. That's one of those things.
Don't call us about spiders this morning, call us about
your dental hygiene. You can find out more information online
Greeb Dentalgroup dot com. That's g h A R E
e B Greb Dentalgroup dot com. You can find information
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over there to take it to the closest location there.
There's all kinds of grieb dental groups close to you.
You can find locations and pocus how Charles and Cross
Slay and Saint Albans Tays Valley in Kanall City. Did
you update your website again?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
No?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
I think it's the same Eurro's website so nicely every time.
I thanks. Yeah, there's always all kinds of good stuff
that's up there. It is always being updated. So what's
going on in the teeth business in this month of
August of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Well, first off, I do believe spiders and dentists are
a lot alike because people are afraid of both.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Very true and probably unnecessarily too right, very much so
spiders are good, they kill the bad things. Insects tend
to be worse than the spiders when it comes to
infestations all the stuff. Again, I'm not an exterminator, not
an expert in that, but sounds right to me.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Anyway, I was taking a shower this morning and I
had the crazy idea of interviewing doctor Stephen Grieb and
asking him some questions. I love the idea, yeah, And
so I kind of want to start asking him some
questions and see kind of pick his brain because there's
so much in that brain and I'm just excited.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
I'm just ready to dig deep there.
Speaker 4 (05:07):
So if you don't mind, Dale, I'm gonna Askay, I'm
just gonna start.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Let's go. I'll take a little nap over here. Just
let me know when you're done.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
So, doctor Stephens, So yesterday I had a complicated case
and it's still going on.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
And during that case, it's been a month or a
month's long process. And I shared some photos with you
and and we talked about it for a little bit,
and you offered some advice. Whenever there are complicated cases,
I tend to reach out type of situations. Would you
reach out to them and get help with.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Well.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
In dentistry is doctor Henley saying, you end up accumulating
many mentors, you know, through the through your career, and uh,
definitely there in my mind, I have many mentors, but
the number one is by far in a way, of course,
my father, uh doctor Sam Eager Reeve. He's you know,
towards me since I was a you know, came into
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this world as well as professionally as for sure. So
we also mentioned last time that he's celebrating fifty years
in dentistry. So when you say who do I ask?
He's my go to of course, and I think that's
true for many of us in our in our group,
because when you have all that experience practicing in such
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a high level, you've probably run into the situation that
you know you're challenged with. So that's where I reach
out to Dad first for any of those questions I have.
And there it's it's funny because there are little things
in dentistry that get you. Yeah, we we have a
lot of big issues that go on about you know,
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surgery and implants or crowns and bridges. But then when
you get to a point of where you know, why
why is it that the lab isn't How do I
better instruct the lab? Or some very small minutia that
you know that Dad's encountered in the past, So those
are things are very valuable. What about why is this
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certain cement not working? How do I handle this specific
patient situation that may or may not be related to
clinical ministry, you know, to actual work, you know, so
a lot of interpersonal relationship issues too. So I'd say
the answer the question is is doctor Greed.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Himself for sure? Great answer, great answer. Deal, do you
have anything to add to that?
Speaker 3 (07:29):
I was just I thought it was interesting what you
were talking about there, because we called the show, asked
the expert. But there's really something to be said about
the knowledge. Obviously, studies and textbooks and stuff are required
and necessary, and you need to have that book knowledge.
But there's something about having fifty years in that you
know just a little bit more maybe than what the
textbook has, or you know, the situation that certain compounds
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aren't worried, whatever it might be. You know, because of
this situation, because of this particular patient and a certain
presentation there that you have to go one way instead
of the other. That's something you don't necessar learn from
a textbook. That's something that you have to have a
mentor or someone that has some years in the business for.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
And to that end, there are certain things that I'm
more of an expert of than doctor saman greieb is.
When it comes to technology. Don't ask doctor Garib. You
might want to ask me.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Oh, doctor gotcha right right? That happens.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
There is some nuance there. But definitely I think the
way that doctor Steven answer that is, when you have
fifty years of institutional knowledge of an expertise of an industry,
you have seen it all and you have made all
the mistakes that need to be made so that you
don't make those mistakes again. And so whenever we ask
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each other, we are asking the experts among each other,
you know, with certain cases. And so I think it's
really neat when you come to greeb Dental Group, you
have those six locations, you have those what a dozen
doctors now, and so we have so many brains that
have seen different things, and we can interact and make
sure that we treat patients the right way and in
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the correct way.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
You start adding up all those doctors years of experience
we talked about doctor Green having fifty years, and then
there's twelve of twelve others with you know, I mean
I've been out now twenty years, you know, so it's
a it gets up there. There's there many, many years
of experience to draw from. So that's why I really
enjoy about being part of our our group is you
have a lot of minds to bounce things off of.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
All right, are you ready for another question? Sure? All right.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
You've had a lot of dentist associates. Correct which one
was your favorite?
Speaker 3 (09:34):
How did I know? This is probably now? You know.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
It's it's like, what's the answer? When you have the children,
it's like they're like jewels, all of the you know,
you like each stone in its own way. But no,
Doctor Henley, you've been a great associate, you know, so
I can't pick favorites, but but you've you know, I
had a great working relationship. Right now, we have doctor
Joseph in in my office. We've had doctor or Ferrari
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there as well, and we've had a lot of great
times with all of them. And it's a great, great
support that you know, to have when you have an
associate there at the office that can help you out,
you can help them out. And it's another mentor mentee
type relationship too, and going both ways because we both
we all learned from each other so well. So so
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I've enjoyed that and it's a great, great asset to
have in the office. And uh and again really appreciated
the time with doctor Henley in the office, but he
had to move on to what he thought were greater,
greater things. But yet I think sometimes he calls me,
He's like, do you do you want an associate back?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Trade off here again?
Speaker 6 (10:41):
So we had a good thing going right that there.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
Are times I'm like, who told me to buy a practice?
No joke, one of the best choices of my life.
But there are days where you know, it's just owning
a business, and there are problems that arise that you
would not have had if you were just the associate.
And there are other problems when it comes to being associate.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
But I would do it again, yes, But man, there
are days for sure it's like renting instead of owning
right where you can call the maintenance guy if you're
just renting, but if you own the place, you got
to take care of it yourself. So many times I
get called into an operatory because there's a problem, and
I'm like, Okay, who's going to fix this?
Speaker 4 (11:19):
And they go, you are, You're a plumber, You're the electrician,
and legally I'm not, but like, you know, I have
to be fixed some plumbing. Sometimes I have to change
the toilet thing, you know. There, It's just it is
what it is, and it's kind of sometimes a joy,
but that joy can eat at you at times. All right,
Next question, I actually have a couple of friends who
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graduated dental school with me who no longer practiced dentistry
and they kind of maybe got burnt out maybe, but
I think it was because of their personality in a way,
maybe their personality wasn't set to be in the dental field.
What personality traits do you believe make the best person
fitted to be a dentist.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
Well, that also is a bit of a difficult question,
because the nice thing about dentistry, general dentistry in particular,
is that for those outside of the dental field, they
may think, well, all you get bored just working on teeth. Well,
in general dentistry, there are many different ways to go
with that. You can go all the way from being
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very involved in complex surgeries all the way to working
in an office reviewing dental claims and anywhere in between.
So you can have a desk job or a very
very precise surgical job within general dentistry. So what kind
of personality it takes. I think any personality could find
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their place in dentistry. But in general dentistry, I've found
that it's very helpful to be a little bit of
I don't want to call it mister fix it, but
like you're saying in your office, to fix the plumbing here,
you got to do this, and that you have to
be able to multitask and figure things out. Because yes,
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that's why we go to dental school. You learn this
is what happens, and that what happens. But it's as
in many medical careers, when you're treating patients, no patient
is exactly the same. You're never working on a static,
you know, mannequin. Everything is different, they move differently, they
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have different needs and different issues. No filling is exactly
the same, no crown, no implant. So you have to
be able to adapt very quickly on the fly. So
I think if that if that describes a personality type,
I think that that would that helps people very much
in general dentistry. Now again to say, even if you
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are considering dentistry and you are a very precise, controlling
in a type A individual, there are a lot of
those people that succeed very much so in dentistry. So
that's don't let that my disassive company included. Yeah, that's right.
So it's they can also develop the ability to figure
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things out in a very high functioning way as well.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
I think that's fascinating and meaning the two of you,
you guys, the one thing that you guys share in common.
I don't know who you, either of you personally well
enough to make any grand judgments, but you share intense curiosity,
like interest in what you're doing, and also you care
about like what the patient experiences. And I know that
you know, maybe we're doing the show, that's what we're
supposed to talk about, but legitimately I know that that's
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true of both of you. You care about what the
patient is experiencing on the other side, and I think
curiosity and care those two things have to play a
huge part into being a good doctor in general. But
you know, when you're talking about dental hygiene and things
like that certainly has to play a part in good results.
Speaker 6 (14:56):
Yeah, that's a good point, and that's that is also
part of that personality trait that if you're able to
figure things out, well, you're you're doing it for the
best interests of the patient and for your staff and
team there as well.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
And sometimes you have to walk into the lobby and
experience what the patient experiences. Oh interesting here, And so
there are times I will just be sitting on the
couch in the lobby and just look around and make
sure that there's no cobwebs in the corners, make sure
that the my fridge is stocked with Fiji water. I
went crazy about Fiji water two months ago. And so
(15:34):
it's just one of those things where I want the
patients to walk in see those smiling faces. Doctor Stevens
office is excellent with that because you just walk in
and it's just magnificently upholstered and it's clean, and your
beautiful face is smiling at you, and it's just it's
very warming and welcoming. And so I think, whenever I
walk into my office, I'm like, is it even close
(15:55):
to doctor Stevens's office.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
If it is, it's almost perfect, right, And so I think.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Talking about mentorship, I used his mentorship of how to
put together a nice looking office that caters to patient care.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
It's really amazing. And I've worked on the retail side
of things, I've owned businesses before. But everything, everything matters,
you know, everything matters to some degree. I mean, obviously,
being doctors, that's the most important thing is your knowledging,
your care for patients and things along those lines. But
when you're also running a business, you know, things like
the aesthetic of the office matters, the presentation when you
walk in, your staff that you have, all those things
(16:32):
matter just as much, especially when you're talking about what
doctor Carson was just talking about with patients. You want
to know what that patient experience is like. You know that, Hey,
you know, I have this certain baseline knowledge as a doctor.
I'm really good at this. I'm really good at that.
You need to make sure you have the people in
the front end that are taking care of your patients
and getting them to you so they feel comfortable with you.
And I know both of you do a great job
on matter. All right, next question, are you ready to
(16:54):
doctor Steven? All right? Thumbs up.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Question number four, So Obviously, your father is a dentist,
and many times children are hesitant going to the same
profession as their parents, whether that's good or bad. Right,
and you and I are somewhat rebellious spirits. What was
your thought process going to dental school and how did
you get there your personal journey.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Well, that's a good question. I'll try to keep it
brief because then we could be this you be telling
me the whole story, because it starts very young. I
was the kid in kindergarten. They showed the video at
your high school graduation. What did you say when you
were in kindergarten? They asked you what you want to be?
And five years old, I said I wanted to be
a dentist. So that is something that I mean. It
(17:38):
literally stuck. I was always a goal of mine. I
wanted to get there as quickly as I could, and
so I began that process knowing that I had to
do well enough in school to be able to apply.
And I wasn't a brainiact by any means, but worked
hard to try to get the grades needed and necessary.
(17:58):
And then I'm all, so, you know, a religious individual,
and I believe in divine intervention. So I would always
take the next step towards that goal. Whether it was
too early to take it or it is too late
to take it, I would take it and step out
in faith and say, if I'm supposed to do this
at this point, the doors will open, and thank god
(18:20):
they did.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
So.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
For instance, I went to West Virginia State for a year.
I went to Marshall for two years, and then I
packed my schedule to get all of my required courses
order in order to apply for dental school. So once
I did that, then I said, well, I have everything
I need. It's a little early, but I'll just go
ahead and apply only to WVU just see what happens.
And I had an interview and fortunately, by some miraculous move,
(18:46):
they accepted me. So got in a little earlier than
a little earlier than I expected, and went there, worked hard,
and it was a challenging four years, but it was
a great four years as well, and it worked out
very well because happened to meet the love of my life,
my wife, Shana. She was there in the hygiene program,
and now we have four beautiful children. And fast forward
(19:07):
twenty years later, here we are. So that's kind of
the course. The path that I took.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
I really appreciate this actually because I remember doing this
show similar to this with you, doctor Carson, that we
kind of did the introductory show and you gave your
history stuff, Doctor Steve, And I've been doing this show
for so long, I don't know if we ever have
or how long had it been since we kind of
did the sort of the introductory like the origin story. Welcome. Yeah,
this is like the Clark Kent Superman thing. I mean,
(19:33):
you know, we gotta we gotta see what happens when
he takes the glasses off, you know. And as a
matter of fact, he did take the glasses off to
give that answer, So there's something to that. I think.
What do you have another question? Oh yeah, I always do. Well,
can we take a break first when we come back
and do that? So let's do that. Let's go ahead
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in the middle of doctor Carson sort of interviewing doctor
doctor Stephen, and we're having a good time with that.
One question I wanted to ask before you get to that,
and I was, I can't find the name of the
book that I that I had heard the author talk about.
Try to do a little searching, and I can't. I
can't find it. But I heard an interview with an
author who had done a book about It was a
(22:55):
scientific narrative, so it was like one of those popsod
books basically, but it was about the history of humans
told through their teeth, care about hygiene and different things
along those lines. Diet, the wear on the teeth, what
it did with these different things along those lines. And
the point that he made and it made me think
about you guys right away, was that we've discovered a
lot of things that dental hygiene helps with, like what
(23:16):
we've talked about on this show with bacteria and how
the whole thing adds to the you know, the the
the holistic care of an individual and everything, but the
hard work of dentistry as far as what you're trying
to do in the mouth, a lot of that stuff
hasn't changed over centuries, you know, the things that you're
trying to resolve as far as with people's discomfort and
teeth and different problems like that. We have different tools
(23:37):
that we approach them. Now, we have different diagnosed diagnosis
that we can use and find things, but generally speaking
kind of doing the same things. And it's like a
it's like an ancient cabal of of of people that
help with teeth. And I felt that in his explanation
of he was very passionate about it, and he like
just tied it back throughout hundreds of years of people
that had been experimenting around with how to fix teeth
(24:00):
and how to fix mouth problems and different things like that,
and it evolved into the dentistry. But I just think
it was a fascinating history that it's not like the
moment that you know, anesthesia came up, or the moment
that drills were invented or something like that. That's not
the beginning of dentistry. It goes way back. I mean,
it's an ancient, ancient practice.
Speaker 6 (24:17):
Absolutely, and it's in What is very interesting is that
the thing that is preserved in the human body for
the longest are your teeth. So if you have a
natural disaster or an airplane crash, you identifying victims, you
do it by their teeth because they they they last.
The last thing decomposed in your body will be your teeth.
(24:39):
So we can go back and observe ancient history through teeth,
as you're kind of alluding to, and in looking at those,
and we've found dental restorations, you know, in ancient Egypt
and using gold and things like you say that we've
we've still can use to an extent today. But it's
as long as we've had teeth, there have been tooth problems.
And if you've ever had a tooth issue, you know
(25:02):
how debilitating that can be. And in the ancient world,
I imagine without the luxuries that we have of modern medicine,
how really tragic it could be for many people and
affect the infect them in many ways. So, yeah, people
have always been trying to fix them.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
And on top of that, what's so cool is how
fast the dental field advances. Well, just so once we've
been doing this show, it's incredible the things that doctor
Stephen has revealed. And you now that about of time
you've been doing I'm impressed all the time with how
quickly things come about. Exactly.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
So, when it came to replacing a single tooth, the
only option that was available was something called a partial
for thousands of years probably right, And then we developed
the techniques to make bridges which kind of put two
crowns on teeth with the bridge across it. And that
was probably what fifty to one hundred years ago that
probably was invented or so. And then within twenty thirty
(25:55):
forty years we've done implants, and so it's just ramped up.
It's like exponential growth of technology. And now we're getting
into the phase of are we able to grow teeth
and so that's probably the next frontier of replacement is
literally you can grow a tooth and implant it. I mean,
I don't know where we are with that, but eventually
we could be there.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
I remember us sort of joking about that years ago
that hey, what are they going to do to figure
out a way to add shark DNA to a tooth
to get it to regrow or But I think that's
actually sort of what they're doing, if I'm not.
Speaker 6 (26:27):
Mistaken, We're actively trying to make that happen. It's the
lack of predictability is the issue there. Because you can
grow some teeth, but is it the right tooth in
the right place, in the right shape. So that's that
can be an issue.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Wow, I've never even thought of that. What I mean, sure,
maybe you can grow a bone mask, but what if
it's like, you know, a vampire tooth or a tiny
tooth or I mean any number of those things.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
Rightyeah, yeah, So, I mean, not to get too technical,
but like our wisdom, teeth have stem cells in them.
It's one of the last it's the the last thing
in our body to still retain stem cells in our
adulthood because that those teeth are still growing in young adults.
So there's talk of harvesting those stem cells and implanting
(27:10):
them into another location in the mouth to grow a tooth.
But then you don't want to have a big, crazy
molar tooth in your front tooth, you know. So that's
the challenges get interested to really code it to the
correct thing. And that's where it's quite hard to replicate
our natural bodies.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
You know, I never thought about it. How interesting would
that be? You don't want like all your molars on
the front and you're in scissors in the back, and
I mean, you don't want to have all kinds of problems.
That wouldn't be good.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
It might make matters a little worse. Yeah, it's it's fascinating.
And as doctor Henley saying, you know, the the progression
of these options, we're very fortunate to be living in
the time in which we are, because they weren't. They
weren't They have not been around for more than a
couple hundred years, which is pretty pretty amazing.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
All right, are you ready for the next question, doctor
Stephen thumbs up? Let's go. All right, Actually just eved
a question through the phone. Who is your favorite sister?
What again?
Speaker 6 (28:08):
They're all like precious jewels, right, So it sounds like
Kathy's probably getting How could I know that is funny?
Uh No, I'm very fortunate to have grown up with
in a large family, have my my brother Mitcherie is
the eldest, and I have Samya that's my older sister.
Then there's me right smack dab in the middle, and
(28:28):
then I have Cindy and then Kathleen the two younger ones.
And uh and we're all fortunate to be living in
the same area in adult as adult as adults and
have our children become very close with one another. So
so I'm very blessed. And I'm not going to pick
a favorite, right.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
I tried.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
That's very much all right, I I I do have
a real question. Now, what's the most unusual or challenging
case you've ever worked on? And what did you learn
from it?
Speaker 6 (29:00):
Well, there there are a couple that that are quite interesting,
a couple that stand out, and there because they stand
out because they are very outside of the ordinary. And
and I find myself again fortunate to have been involved
with these and what I what I learned the I'll
start with that first. I learned that it's very important
(29:23):
to have good colleagues around you that you can trust
and that you can rely upon for some of these
very infrequent but very complex cases. For instance, it was
during my training we're talking about going to dental school
and through that. Something that sticks out even from back
then is that I was very interested in oral surgery
(29:46):
and I did a lot of rotations in that service,
and I ended up going down to Charity Hospital in
New Orleans for a couple of weeks. Some dental students
enjoyed their summer breaks for we had like two whole
weeks off for the summer or something. But I did
more work down and UH and volunteered at a at
an oral surgery residency down there in New Orleans, and
(30:09):
it's it was the number one trauma facial trauma center
in the nation because of its proximity to Bourbon Street
and people having an affinity to get in fights and
hit each other with baseball bats, breaking jaws, so they
would come to the oral surgery clinic and UH and
we would put them back together again.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
It was enough for it to be statistically relevant to
have facial entries.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
Oh my goodness, gracious, like that that was their claim,
Like we're the number one facial trauma center in the
nation right here. And so so I was there and
and they could use all the help, you know, they
could get. And I was a young dental student but
had a little bit of experience, and they threw in
like you were an oral surgery resident and you're wiring jaws,
(30:53):
shot doing complicated extractions and and uh implant work and
and a lot of trauma that you have to deal with.
And so much so that that service for those that
are privy to hospital situations, that oral surgery service extended
into the facial esthetics, even plastic surgery, and so they
(31:14):
shared call with plastics and anyone and E and T,
so anyone that came in with any problem from their
shoulders up, if you were there, you were treating them.
It didn't matter if it was a tooth or if
it was something on their head, you know. So with
that being said, one of the most interesting cases was
was unfortunate for this individual. He had tried to kill
(31:37):
himself with a shotguns and it ended up not killing him.
He came in there and we had to put him
back together again. And it was it was very educational,
It was very unfortunate, but we saved the guy's life
and he's so I went back again about two months later,
(32:00):
he was back into the service again for some root,
some follow up care. So I'm all going into me
details on the radio. It's it gets a little little gnarly, sure,
but that was a very memorable case and I definitely
did not have the expertise to work on it, so
I relied heavily on those around me that were the
best in the business, uh there at that time. And yeah,
(32:22):
I'd say that was that's one that Then there's one
in private practice that is similar that worked with the
doctor Klustra at CMC Facial Surgery Center that helped me
out immensely with a very interesting case. Had to do
with moving jawbones and all of these things that we
couldn't do it within the office, but again very educational
(32:45):
and and had provided a great service for a patient
as well.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Have you found where you have to do most like
when you have a massive facial like something that needs
to be done surgery or something like that. Is it
generally something that's that takes place from trauma or something
from birth? Is it usually a trauma situation that causes that, well,
it's actually actually.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
I would say it's more likely a developmental situation where
you're having to move jaws. You're born basically with either
too big or too small upper or lower jaws, and
are orthodontists in town do a great job too trying
to correct that non surgically, but sometimes you have to
do it surgically for a variety of reasons. And then
(33:29):
what we tell patients is that you have to you
have to determine if it is really a necessary change,
kind of a life changing change, because it is a
bit of a process to go through. So sometimes we
can mask the issues a little bit, to camouflage them
by moving teeth rather than moving jaws, but sometimes it's
(33:50):
just can't go. Their limitations to that as well.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
I imagine that for some people that might be an
underrated part of what you do. I mean, people that
live with this comfort from problems with developmentally that happens
with their jaw, teeth, facial structure, or something along those lines.
They don't to find some sort of relief for that.
I mean, it has to be a huge thing and
something that continues along those lines. About thirty seconds left
dot your Carson, anything else you want to get in
there before we have to lock out.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
No, I'm gonna stop it there. Okay, he did a
great job. Yeah, fast, very well. Hey oh, flipping around,
flipping around.
Speaker 6 (34:22):
I'm gonna have to come up with some questions for you.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
That's not a bad idea. Let me get to contact
information out for you. So if you need a contact
the Greed Dental Group, you can do that. You can
find out more information online. It's Greed Dentalgroup dot com.
That's g h A R e E B GREEB Dentalgroup dot com.
Find all the information there that you might need. The
phone numbers one eight hundred Great Care one hundred Great
Care is the phone number you can call that will
get your routed to the closest location to you. Those
locations are in Pocus, South Charleston, Cross Lane, Saint Authustas
(34:45):
Valley and Canall City once again one at hundred Great Care,
Greb Dentalgroup dot com, Garib Dental Group dot com. And
you can find them every month right here on hs
on ask the Expert. Thank you so much for your
time today, appreciate your time. We'll see you back here
next month. Thank you, and thank you very much. Doctor
Carson for conducting the interview this morning. You appreciate that.
Have a great day everyone. Coming up next will be
Dave Allen and five AD Live, follow by Dave and
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three oh six with Dave Weekly on Hotline. Have a
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