Drs. Stephen and Carson from Ghareeb Dental Group join Dale Cooper to discuss a major step forward in dental care—affordable, fixed dentures that bridge the gap between traditional snap-ins and high-end permanent implants. The episode also explores the impact of dental health on overall well-being, the importance of continued education in dentistry, and a 50-year milestone for Dr. Sammy Ghareeb.
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Speaker 3 (00:43):
You are listening to the voice of Charles and Bob
ad w s HS the Voice of Charleston. I'm Deel
Cooper and in studio with me this morning to usher
in our new theme music for as the expert. We
have a little bit more jaunty, upbeat theme music and yeah,
I kind of like it. I kind of like it.
Joining me in the studio this morning from Greed Dental
Group is doctor Stephen and H. Carson. Doctor Stephen Greeb
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and Carson Henley are with us this morning from Greed
Dental Group. Doctor Steven, how you doing this morning?
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Yeah, I'm doing great, man. Howbout yourself?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Not too bad? Doing pretty well? Can complain too much?
And doctor Carson. How are you.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
A lean in for a second. Yeah, alright, Hello.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
So we're we're here this morning. By the way, if
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That's g h A r E EV GREEB Dental Group
dot com. We'll give you more information as the show
cond of goes along here today. So, gentlemen, what's been
going on? How's how's the dental hodgien business? Oh, you know,
it's great. It's a summer, summertime in the dental field.
Just like many others, there's a lot out of going
and coming and Evan, Yeah, schedules.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Get a little bit wild and unpredictable at times for
patients and for our staff and for ourselves. So it's uh,
this always keeping you on your toes.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Basically, it sounds like that we could almost be part
of the same business because the last four weeks solid
has been everybody out of shift, out of out of slot,
in some way, shape or form, covering for vacationing people.
So like this morning we have Ryan Nicholson is is
subbing for Anthony on the morning news and producing it,
which means that Matt Murphy subbing for Ryan on midday.
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I mean, it's all it's all in a domino effect.
We have our creative directors out. I'm covering for him
as I'm doing other jobs. Summer's always a fun time.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Industry voices on the air, you know, in different spots.
You know that can happen as well. I'm sure here
is as in our offices. We have to have to
give a big shout out to Joanna that is our
operations manager. She's her phone's on. I don't know over
time right now because it just keeps blowing up with everybody,
you know, changing shifts and changing schedules to fill for
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others in and out of in and out of town.
So it's everyone's having a good summer, but it poses
some different challenges.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
I know that we always could talk about continuing education,
different types of emergent technologies, things like that on this
program as we try to keep folks appraised of the
different tools that are in the dentist toolbox and how
they can help out in different situation. And we have
some relatively new proces you'll have to explain. As far
as dentrists go, that's something we talk about a lot.
Of course, a lot of folks. Unfortunately in West Virginia,
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that's probably a situation we run into people with a
lot of dentures because of the general hygiene issues we've
had in the past in this area, but just in
general across the country. I mean, dentrists is a big issue.
It's always an issue where people have problems with them
being amounted correctly, problems with them being loose or whatever.
So any anything that we have that makes that maybe
a little bitter or for some people or all people,
or however it might be, is always good news. So
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we do have some news in bad asp in that area.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Yeah, absolutely, And that's something that's very exciting that we've
started doing, just done a couple of cases here in
my office that is a new way to attach dentures
to implants and we talk about implants a lot on
the show, and hopefully our listeners are used to that
and used to that procedure. But something that is very
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very new, I suppose, and I think life changing for
many patients that we've started doing is a way to
fix a denture, to snap a denture to implants and
then it does not come out again. So that's what
a lot of patients have been really looking for over
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the years, and an affordable way to do it as well.
So in the past, what we've had, we've had pretty
well two options. We can make you ventures that snap
to your implants, but then they come in and out,
you take them in and out, and those little liners
we replace them over time. Or we can make you
a more robust type of a prosthesis. How can I
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say that a little more simply, but some teeth that
are made out of hard material that glue and screw
to the implants, right, So that's that's something that that's
the that's the upper level of restoring a mouth that
is missing teeth, and that's something we've done for a
long time. But then in between has always been a
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little bit hard. Either you have something that snaps in
and that the patient has to take in and out daily,
or you have something that is locked onto the implants,
but it is much more expensive because it's a lot
different material and a lot of different lab components to it,
and a lot more cost involved. So now we've found
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a bridge between those something between bridge. There's a good
a good little dental joke in the morning, so anyway,
but we can find something in between that I'm calling
a hybrid snap on type of a denture. But what
we can do is take that denture and snap it
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on and it does not come off until your dentist
takes it off for you to clean every six months.
So it's so patients love that because they don't have
to fool with something coming in and out that they
can potentially drop and break and create different stresses on
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that that denture with this constant moving taking in and out.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
And.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
It's something that they're comfortable with because they've gotten used
to this denture and we've made sure that it's comfortable
for them and it doesn't rub any sore spots, and
then we can snap that that sucker on and they
don't have to worry about it anymore and it stays
in so's it's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
This sounds really like you're getting a lot closer. I mean,
we've been talking abou dentists for a long time on
this program, and this sounds like something we were getting
a lot closer to. I mean, really, when you talk
to patients and the complaints that folks have or whatever
they might be, this comes even closer to addressing those issues.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
It sounds like, So would you say that this is
a happy medium for that patient that doesn't want that
thing that comes in and out? But also what isn't
sure if they want to spend the money, Can they
maybe in the future go to that more permanent solution
and use those implants for that situation.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
That's a good question. Definitely they can. That's that's the
beauty of the different types of implant therapies that we
implement in our offices is that patients can start with,
you know, the basic version, and then they can upgrade
as they as they like. So some patients I have
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have started with just you know, two implants and a
denture just to hold their denture in place. Well, I
want this thing to be a little tighter, so we
put in four implants, use that same denture and upgrade
it to a fore implant option and they say, well,
I want something that stays in, and now we can
upgrade that same denture to a denture that stays in.
And then if they say, well, I want something that
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looks more natural, that doesn't have this venture kind of
pink acrylic on it, and something just like teeth that's
more slim line, then we can upgrade them to a
fixed dental bridge that stays in. So, yeah, we can
always upgrade throughout this process to the next level. But
this is a nice stepping stone in that direction or
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a good final place for patient to be if that's
what they really like.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Hey, you just hear so much about dentures and problems
that it can cause either when folks are when talking
or eating or any number of those issues, and it
has to cause a little bit of a life quality
of life issue. You know, we're trying to hold discussions
or dinners that it could give you a little a
little hasn't see what those types of things or make
you self conscious, So it's very nice to adjust those
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types of issues. That's got to be very very good
for patients.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Yeah, and that's uh, this is for patients that may
be listening that have already some of these materials in
in in use in their mouth. These are called locator
attachments that are specific snaps that come out that attached
to the implant itself, a little stud sticking up from
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the implant, and then there's a cup inside of the
denture that traditionally we can snap down onto it. And
then it's been made to be what they call a
resilient liner, meaning that it's it's a hard nylon material
inside of that cup that you use that that creates
a snap to those to that denture attaching it to
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the implant. But then it's as it was in the past,
been made to be removed. But now being able to
snap that on with a more fixed liner, we can
easily what we call convert that denture to a fixed
denture that that many patients are wanting, because a lot
of the patients that come in they say, well, I
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can't really swing financially to get up to that fixed
bridge option. That's, you know, the Cadillac version of giving
your teeth back. But I don't want something that's constantly
coming in and out of my mouth. So it's a
it's a great it's a great intermediary between the two,
you know, and the patients are really enjoying that.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
It's really nice to have that that additional option on
there because that's something that hasn't been if able to
this point. And it sounds like within that you can
kind of upgrade as you're going along as well. So
if you have the opportunity, can that even be a
little later dot down the line, like for example, over
the course of a year you have work done, the
next year comes up, if if if you want to
have one of these upgrades done, could that work? Then
(10:54):
thinking about how dental insurance works and if you if
you're able to tap into something along those lines when
a calendar year to get an upgrader something I don't know, No, no, yeah,
I know that's complicated.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Insurance gets tricky. But the answer is yes, yeah you can.
You can delay that and this is a great way
to step towards those process those those different procedures too.
In fact, for who this is perfect for is a
patient that has had already a snap on denture or
even a routine denture and they've gotten used to it,
gotten the sore spots worked out. That's the issue too,
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is because we're snapping this thing on and you're not
gonna be able to get it out, so we want
to be super comfortable for you. And that's the way
that we we work it is that we do a
gradual process to make sure that the patient's very comfortable
with that existing denture. And it could take some time,
so it could take over, you know, six months or
so if we really needed it to, and waiting a
little bit longer doesn't necessarily isn't necessarily a bad thing
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in that situation, especially if you're trying to get some
help from your insurance.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Yeah, And that's one of the things that I've discovered
the course of doing this show and having conversations with
with you and doctor Carson, is that when it comes
to dentriers or anything like that, really coming in to
be seen and being evaluated and figuring out what your
options want to be and maybe what you need to
do to get to the point where you need to
be whatever that is, that's really your first step. You
won't know anything until you get information behind it, and
don't make assumptions, because I think a lot of people
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make assumptions on what they can and can't do, and
how much something does or doesn't cost, and it's probably
good to get an evaluation first before you assume those
things for sure.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
And that's it's you know, it's a gradual process many times,
and that's where we need to have a you know,
a realistic outlook, you know, for how quickly things can
be done. And we want things to be done correctly
and properly. So many times it's it takes a little
bit of time, you know, and we got to plan
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things out appropriately. We can move quickly when we need
to move quickly, but to ensure that patients are as
comfortable as we want them to be, sometimes it takes
a little longer.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
You give us a call this morning if you have
any questions about maybe a dentrier situation you have, for
any dental hygiene situation for yourself, if you loved one,
if you want to take the opportunity to call, you
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Speaker 5 (13:42):
He's laughing because I'm slotting out of my chair anyway,
so researcher slipping, you know. So we actually just came
back from the Greenbrier, Is that correct, doctor Steven? And yes,
well I had to miss it because I, you know,
my family stuff. But I heard that there was a
big celebration there. If you want to discuss what happened
dot com, Stephen.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
That is the big news. And yeah, this summer marks
the fiftieth year that doctor Sammy Greb my father has
been in dental practice. Oh wow. So it's relations that's
amazing that we're super proud of him for. And he's
still still working, you know, a couple of days a
week as he as he likes to and keeping everything
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running at Greb Dental Groups. So so we're very fortunate
and blessed. He's in very good health and he's taught
us all more than more than anyone else could. So
so we're very proud of him and excited to share
that news and celebrate with him this this whole summer.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
So my math would be seventy five then, is that right?
Since nineteen seventy five, that's right. Yeah, man, that's incredible.
I know that's been a long time because I was
born in seventy four, so it was definitely a long
time ago.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
And I just want to point out that this is
the guy who's been doing this for fifty years. And
whenever we go and volunteer at health right, they put
doctor Seinan Greeb as the gold standard of just the
best care possible. We're like, we can never get to
a standard.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
He is.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Thirty five years or however long that's right.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
And so he just comes in and just whips out
these teeth.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
He's just so quick.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
And so good at doing it and so caring. So
he is definitely the guy that we look to and
we're thankful for starting Greediental Group and kind of being
that being that person that we can hopefully imitate one day,
hopefully I will.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Well, I know you guys have always been outreach has
always been a major party of your mission. And so
I know that that the patriarch, doctor Grieve has probably
taken a lot of pride and helping out with the community.
And you guys have done these different programs. I mean
every program that I know of that comes through telling
you guys participated in some way, shape or form that
gives back to the community to help people out that
are in a little lesser situation. So I mean that's
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a that's a great that's a great thing.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Well, he's definitely set the He's definitely set the standard
for us and led by example in that way and
has always been very thankful for or you know, what
his career has given him and his family as well
as a state in community. So he's always very excited
to give back in any way that he can and
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has passed that on to all of us, so thankfully
all of our doctors have taken that mantle, and as
doctor Henley was referencing at Health Right, they tell us consistently,
if it wasn't for Greed Dental Group, we wouldn't have
been able to care for all these patients at health Right,
and we're very proud to help with that.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
It's great information and I always enjoy talking about those
things as well, your community outreach as well as continuing education.
Still plenty of stuff we're going to talk about this morning.
You can control the conversation as well if you want
to give us a call three zero four three four
five fifty eight fifty eight. We're going to go ahead and
take a break right now and come back with plenty
plenty more to talk about in the realm of dental hygiene, teethcare, gums,
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anything you want to talk about along those lines. Your
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Minstay's Valley in keanall city. We'll go ahead and take
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a break and be back right after this. You're listening
to ask the expert w c HS the voice of
Charleston as promised, I have a little different music.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
For for expert. Now. That was so upbeat. I loved it.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Well, I tried I try to make it more update
upbeat because uh, and I'll explained this the other morning.
But for years we were in a studio where we
didn't have a real time monitor, so you know, we
were going off of visual cues. So I was watching
the station, but I couldn't really hear it, So you know,
we were going off of visual cues with it's I mean.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
It's funny you couldn't hear it. It's a right, there's.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
A it's it's like I could I could hear the face.
For radio, I can hear as much as I need.
It's a radio is all voice and timming. If if
one doesn't work, the other will so But anyway, that
was the way things worked for a long time. Since
we moved to the new studio, of course, we have
were fully functional once again, and so we can hear
like all everything that goes on while we're while we're talking.
And what I quickly found out is I was really
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tired of our expert music, so I had to change it.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
It's strange because we've heard that for what like ten years.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Well, well, people that have listened to the podcast have
heard it, and people have listened to it on radio
have heard it, but we haven't heard it because we
were we were in the studio where we were locked
into just the programming audio. Yeah, so anyway, I made
a change on that. So it's a little bit, a
little bit more modern, a little bit more upbeat, you know,
not quite as.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Just a talk show host.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Now you're this job, you know, I mean, I do
I do all I do most of the production on
the station. Yeah. Well, it's funny how I knew this
or what coincidence this is. But had a bunch of
tapes from when I was recorded with cassette, when from
when I was like ten or eleven, when I would
record songs off of the radio. Of course, like everybody
did on boomboxes back in the day. But also I
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would uh, I would jock in between songs, so it
was on w c op w coop and uh and
so yeah, I would do like my own little countdown
and stuff. There was all kinds of tapes of stuff
like that, and me doing that, me doing play by
play of video games, like with sports video games, doing
play by play and so I did all kinds of
stuff like that as a kid. So this was the
industry you always I guess I was supposed to be.
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I should have been playing doctor as all I was
a kid. More Southern radio guy. I think like chemical
engineer may have been a great thing to play around
with when I was a kid, more Southern radio. If
if a paycheck was the termination. But we have a
lot of stuff to talk. You've been teasing, and I
just heard like a zillion different things at once about Montreal,
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and we're going to talk a little bit about We're
want to talk a little bit about uh So I'm
assuming this had something to do with with with teeth. Oh, well,
it did, of course. Okay.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
I usually frame my vacation around going on a dental
trip because that's I go on so many dental trips.
Bringing the family just makes sense and we can kind
of make a little mini vacation out of it.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
So I went to Montreal.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Doctor Massey and his wife, Doctor Cindy Greeb went, Doctor
Mintry and his wife Heather, and doctor Sammy Greeb and
his wife, Miss Kay went. So there was four of
us that went from Greed Dental Group, which was really neat,
and we actually got to have dinner a couple nights
and the things that we learned were just so neat
because when you go to these meetings. By the way,
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the meaning we went to was the Academy of Jeneral
Dentistry the Aged Scientific Session, which was in Montreal, which
I had never been to Canada, nor much less Montreal,
so it was a really cool experience. But what's so
cool about these meetings is there's so many hands on courses.
So there's two types of courses, and there's probably more,
but mainly there's two types of courses. When you go
to these big meetings. There's lecture where you just sit
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there and listen, and then you can apply it over
time and you can bring it back to your staff
or your staff can join and listen to that lecture,
but then there's participation or hands on, which I feel
gets a little little more in depth because you're literally
sitting there using your hands, listening on a new technique
or at least being constructed on a new technique or
an old technique that you need more use with. And
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then you come out of that with just so many
skills that you didn't even know you needed or you
could have had. For example, I went through six hours
of indodontics, which is root canal's and I know how
to do root canal. I'm pretty good at them, but
I'm not perfect at them. No one is, and so
we're always trying to do a better job, always trying
to get that new technique that's going to make our
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patients healthier and better and have a better prognosis long term.
So these hands on techniques that you learn are just
so important. Another course that I took with something called
occlusion or biting and kind of working on how to
diagnose spite issues when it comes to your tempore mandibular
joint with TMD to pro mandipular disorder. A little caveat
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when patients say I have TMGM, like me too anyway.
So TMJ is the joint, but TMD is the disorder.
Just a little fun back there. So trying to diagnose
and help people out there is really cool and really neat,
and that's really probably the most complex thing you can
do in dentistri is dealing.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
With jaw issues.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
But that was really cool that I got to bring
my family real quickly something that they noticed. My wife
was at lunch with my children as I was at a.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
I was at a course.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
They were eating at the restaurant in our hotel by
a window, and all of a sudden, some cop cars
come by, and then after the cop cars come what
my wife assumed were shirtless men on bicycles, and then
as they turned the corner, they weren't just shirtless, they
weren't wearing much of anything.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Bicycle yes, on bicycles, any special seats because that doesn't
feel great, and so.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Apparently it was World Naked Bicycle Day or so. I
don't even know, but my seven year old was just like.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
It was the craziest thing she's experienced in her life.
And so you go to watch your all and you
see things you didn't expect. But certainly that was the
highlight of their experience. My experience was more CEU oriented.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
My daughter would my daughter would also find that she's
seven to she would find that the funniest thing she's
ever seen. Yeah, but in my adult mind, I really
can't imagine how that's comfortable for anyone to not that
that's what we're talking about, but uh, comfort somehow it
can't be. It can't be comfortable. There's just a lot
of sliding around. Is that healthy? But but and uh,
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and in all seriousness and talking about traveling to Canada
and going through another seminar with continuing education, I mean
that really just it's part of the whole of what
you do anyway. I mean, you're always looking for better,
better avenues, better ways to do things, more efficient ways.
Ultimately efficiency can lead to cost reductions, you know. I mean,
all of these things kind of one plays into another
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to another. And uh, and the stuff that's going on
and what you guys do is actually pretty exciting. I
mean there seems to be certainly during the course where
we been doing this show, it seems like every couple
times a year, you guys come on and talk about
something that's relatively new that's coming up. That's really cool
that you can do in your offices. And this industry
seems to be really finding ways to help patients a
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lot to bridge some of these gaps. There's puns everywhere
this morning, but to bridge some of these gaps when
it comes to when it comes to dental hygiene, dental care,
because some of the stuff can be you know, can
start getting a little bit expensive. But through the care
of a dental office that will work with you a
little bit, and your insurance and also these emerging technologies
and things like that, more and more people have access
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to get some level of help to make it more comfortable.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Absolutely sure, And I love what Carson was saying that
he went and he says, hey, yeah, I've done you know,
hundreds of root canals. I'm good at it. But I
was still taking this course to learn how to be better.
And that's the key for these continuing educations courses we
go to we don't we go there. We do learn
about new techniques, the latest and greatest, but we also
what we call hone our skills and improve upon things
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we may already do. But we always want to come
back with what we call a pearl, some one or
two pearls from you know, a week long event is
worth it for us to better care for our patients,
to make the work that we do more successful, more efficient,
and also to learn how to run our offices in
many other ways, not just not just learning the skills.
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So it's it's also worth noting that doctor Henley and
was at the Academy of General Dentistry meeting and he
is a trustee of the Academy of General Dentistry, which
is you know that one of the highest levels of
leadership in that academy. Doctor Greeb has has done that
in the past as well, So we're very proud of
our West Virginia representation there and being national leaders that
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they are in such a in such a prestigious academy.
Really it's worth noting too.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
And so what I got for that was I had
I got to be a marshal during the convocation and
direct traffic to four hundred new fellows and masters in
LLSA in the convocation ceremony. Just standing there and pointing
it was the most fun four hours of my life. No,
it really was an honor. But you know, sometimes being
a leader, you kind of get to do stuff that
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you know is it is what it is?
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Yeah, yeah, Sometimes what has to be done has to
be done. It's not always the most fun thing.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
What's that?
Speaker 5 (26:19):
So when I got my fellowship, I think it was
just four years ago, twenty twenty one in Austin, Texas,
at the scientific session, we covered that. Yeah, yeah, so
I was honored whenever that happened because doctor Sammy, well,
doctor Bruce Cassis was the current AGD president from West
Virginia in at the scientific session in Texas, and then
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doctor Sammy Greb and doctor Stephen Greb were marshalls for
that convocation just kind of what I just did, and
so it was really neat was I was the last
fellow to cross the stage and get my fellowship pin
in my and I think they kind of put a
pin over you. It's like attached to a ribbon and
the spin is something that you put on your jacket
and things like that. Well, then all of a sudden,
doctor sam and doctor Stephen ran on stage with me
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and we took a photo with Bruce and it was
four of us taking a photo. I think I was
the only one that had four people in the photo.
Everyone's like, who is this guy? How does he get
to do it. Well if you if you're from West Virginia,
you know, you get to do cool things. It's just
kind of cool bringing that full circle. Yeah, that is
very neat, and I like the fact that we covered that.
When I remember telling the story, I can't believe it
was four years ago. I'm sure that you have that
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same disconnect, but I can't believe that was four years ago.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
But yeah, this is the academy there they that is
based and founded upon high quality continuing education and UH.
And then it's it is an honor to UH to
for so many of us to have been leaders in
that academy is the second largest UH dental organization in
the United States, if not the world. So so we're
we're happy to be involved and honored to help lead.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
I always enjoyed doing these programs. Let me get the
information out again. We're starting to wrap up the show.
We have a couple of minutes left here this morning.
I want to make sure that you have all the info.
We covered a lot of things here this morning, and
I know that can get a little bit dense, especially
if you have questions about your dental hygiene. And I
understand a lot of these things are not conducive to
making phone calls on the radio, So you're more than
welcome to give the GREEB Dental Group a call. And
lucky for you, there's an easy phone number to call.
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You can call one hundred Great Care one hundred Great
Care that will take you to a central location that
will route you to the location closest to you. That's Pocas,
South Charles and Cross Lanes, Saint Aumsta's Valley in Kanall City,
all the different locations of GREEB Dental Group. Doctor Stephen
is from the South Charleston location, Doctor Carson is from
the Kanall City location, Doctor Mitchrie is in Cross Lanes,
and uh great doctors spread throughout the valley. So if
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you want to call one hunter Great Care, you can
get routed to the closest office to you. And the
phone number is or the phone numbers one hundred Great caare.
The web address is a GREEB Dentalgroup dot com. That's
g h A r e B GREEB Dentalgroup dot com.
You can find out all kinds of great information and
a really slick website. Always I've always impressed with the
website when I bring it up.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
It is a little distracting, but it is.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
It's very nice. It's yeah, it's got it's got some
loot video in the background. It's very good. But anyway,
greeb Dentalgroup dot com. You can find all the information
there that you may need, as well as contact information
and all of that good stuff. And it's it's just
important for UH, for folks to understand as regardless of
where they are in their dental hygiene journey. Maybe they've
been away from a doctor for a long time or
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haven't seen one a lot, they have some issues that
they've been a little nervous to get addressed, or they're embarrassed,
whatever the situation may be. Your first step to getting better,
to not feeling embarrassed anymore, to feeling better about your teeth,
you got to go see somebody. You got to go
get evaluated. And it's probably not as bad as you think.
Everybody has these these traditional images in their head. We
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talked about root canals and stuff all the time. It's
not as bad as you think, you know, and go
in and get evaluated, and I think you would be
amazed at how much better you would feel on the
back end of those things, Because if you go through
life uncomfortable with your smile, with your with your teeth,
with gaps here, whatever it might be, that's a that's
a quality of life's issue issue, and you can address that.
There are things that can be done. You have a
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lot of tools in your toolbox for sure. And I mean,
come in have a conversation with us. Just spoke to
a patient yesterday that came in and was just very embarrassed,
so I really don't want don't want you touching anything,
you know, and was nervous, and I said, that's fine.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
We're just going to take a brief look today. That's
all we're going to do. Take a look around. We'll
have a discussion with you. Sat down and talked with
her for a very long time, hearing her concerns, and
then we created a game plan and she left very
comfortable in the path we're going to take and excited
to get it done and like you say, to improve
her quality of life that you know, I wasn't able
to eat what she wanted, having digestive issues also confidence
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and of course presentation to others and smiling. So we
want to we're here to take care of those issues
and do them comfortably for it.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
And have that kind of conversation and to take that step.
It is a huge step for a lot of a
lot of different people and to put them in ease
in doing that. But it really is something that you
can get addressed. If it's something that you don't feel
feel great about. Now, all you gotta do is ask
a couple questions and see where you can get and
and you might find yourself in a better situation relatively
soon down the line.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
Absolutely, yeah, we're happy to do it.
Speaker 5 (31:02):
And I think it does help. Whenever you walk in
you always see a smiling face. Yes, I get told
that all the time that I like you, doctor, but
I love your staff, and I'm well, yes, because obviously
my staff are amazing, right, yeah, and I thank you
for liking me. But truly without my staff, without doctor
Stevens staff, or any of our staff and our six locations,
we could not do what we'd do. And we're so
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thankful that we get to work with such lovely men
and women that make our patients feel comfortable and feel
confident that they're going to be taken care of.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
One of the things that happens to me on a
much lower scale in my job is I'll have people
that come in and this week is a great example,
since I'm covering for our creative director who's out this week.
Folks will come in and it's not typically on the radio,
and they own a small business or something, and they
want to cut their own commercial or a piece in
their own commercial, and so they'll record a line or
a couple of lines or several lines on a thirty
second commercial. They'll listen back to it and they're really
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embarrassed about how they sound. They shouldn't be number one,
because everybody doesn't like the sound of their own voice
the first time to hear it. And sometimes they're embarrassed
because the guy that does radio, if we're a living
is in the room for him, and it's like, oh
my goodness, so what do you think it's I've heard
it all. It doesn't matter. I mean, we've all been
on that journey. And some people complain about how I talk.
It's not you know, it's not anything that's a big
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deal to us as a professional on the radio end
of things. For Dennis, for people that are embarrassed about
what might be going on in their mouth, it's not
like you haven't seen it. You've seen it all. There's
nothing that you can really be shocked a boy at
this point. So if you have one of those barriers
where you're like, man, I'm going to go in and
I'm going to open up my mouth to the doctor
and they're.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Like, oh, hold on, it's calling the experts. We have
no idea.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
What's that's not going to happen to you. That's not
going to happen. They've seen it all. So if that's
one of your barriers, don't worry about that.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
That's right. That's a great point, and very happy to
put those patients at ease because they do come in
very embarrassed and saying things like that, I'll you know,
I haven't seen anything this bad or you know, I
hate to even show you, like, well, this is what
we do. This is our job, and it's like you're
comparing it to you know, this is what I do,
listening to to these voices all day and you can't
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surprise me with anything. Yeah, we were very very wide
varied experience on you know, seeing many things in the
mouth that that we're happy to figure out the path forward.
That's the thing that we're trying to do to get
them to that end goal of being comfortable and confident
in their smile and and the way that they function
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because now we're seeing more digestive issues too. It's it's
very fascinating that we're we're joining with the medical community,
uh in many ways where they're referring patients to us
to say, you know, this patient's having a lot of
you know, intestinal issues that we need to we need
to get them chewing their food better. And and that's
that's one small element too.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
There's a there's another show that I listened to. It's
a science based show. It's hosted by several different people,
but I think about you guys every time that I
listen to the show, or very frequently, because one of
the co hosts on the show is obsessed with their
teeth and and they talk and they relate a lot
of medical science based stuff that they cover, like just
in general talking about science science based news stories and
stuff like that, but he always ties it back into it.
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The time that I discovered that the whole my whole
body health is related to my teeth was the big
moment of my wife. And so this guy talks so
much about how his teeth health is drives the rest
of his health and how it's give him on this
healthy journey. That's okay, we've talked about on this program before.
Those things do all work in concert together.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
Doctor Oz had that big epiphany as well when he
was going through all of the different ways to improve
improve your health, and it was the one thing that
would make him live a little longer statistically that he
didn't do his floss every day, so he started doing that.
I think was doctor Sanjay Gupt on CNN some similar
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type of thing. So it's it definitely affects everything.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Doctor Stephen, appreciate your time this week. Thank you so much.
Doctor Carson you as well, Thank you so much. See
you back here next month.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
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Speaker 3 (34:53):
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Joining me in the studio this morning from Greed Dental
Group is doctor Stephen and H. Carson. Doctor Stephen Greeb
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and Carson Henley are with us this morning from Greed
Dental Group. Doctor Steven, how you doing this morning?
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Yeah, I'm doing great, man. Howbout yourself?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Not too bad? Doing pretty well? Can complain too much?
And doctor Carson. How are you.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
A lean in for a second. Yeah, alright, Hello.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
So we're we're here this morning. By the way, if
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That's g h A r E EV GREEB Dental Group
dot com. We'll give you more information as the show
cond of goes along here today. So, gentlemen, what's been
going on? How's how's the dental hodgien business? Oh, you know,
it's great. It's a summer, summertime in the dental field.
Just like many others, there's a lot out of going
and coming and Evan, Yeah, schedules.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Get a little bit wild and unpredictable at times for
patients and for our staff and for ourselves. So it's uh,
this always keeping you on your toes.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Basically, it sounds like that we could almost be part
of the same business because the last four weeks solid
has been everybody out of shift, out of out of slot,
in some way, shape or form, covering for vacationing people.
So like this morning we have Ryan Nicholson is is
subbing for Anthony on the morning news and producing it,
which means that Matt Murphy subbing for Ryan on midday.
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I mean, it's all it's all in a domino effect.
We have our creative directors out. I'm covering for him
as I'm doing other jobs. Summer's always a fun time.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Industry voices on the air, you know, in different spots.
You know that can happen as well. I'm sure here
is as in our offices. We have to have to
give a big shout out to Joanna that is our
operations manager. She's her phone's on. I don't know over
time right now because it just keeps blowing up with everybody,
you know, changing shifts and changing schedules to fill for
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others in and out of in and out of town.
So it's everyone's having a good summer, but it poses
some different challenges.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
I know that we always could talk about continuing education,
different types of emergent technologies, things like that on this
program as we try to keep folks appraised of the
different tools that are in the dentist toolbox and how
they can help out in different situation. And we have
some relatively new proces you'll have to explain. As far
as dentrists go, that's something we talk about a lot.
Of course, a lot of folks. Unfortunately in West Virginia,
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that's probably a situation we run into people with a
lot of dentures because of the general hygiene issues we've
had in the past in this area, but just in
general across the country. I mean, dentrists is a big issue.
It's always an issue where people have problems with them
being amounted correctly, problems with them being loose or whatever.
So any anything that we have that makes that maybe
a little bitter or for some people or all people,
or however it might be, is always good news. So
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we do have some news in bad asp in that area.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Yeah, absolutely, And that's something that's very exciting that we've
started doing, just done a couple of cases here in
my office that is a new way to attach dentures
to implants and we talk about implants a lot on
the show, and hopefully our listeners are used to that
and used to that procedure. But something that is very
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very new, I suppose, and I think life changing for
many patients that we've started doing is a way to
fix a denture, to snap a denture to implants and
then it does not come out again. So that's what
a lot of patients have been really looking for over
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the years, and an affordable way to do it as well.
So in the past, what we've had, we've had pretty
well two options. We can make you ventures that snap
to your implants, but then they come in and out,
you take them in and out, and those little liners
we replace them over time. Or we can make you
a more robust type of a prosthesis. How can I
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say that a little more simply, but some teeth that
are made out of hard material that glue and screw
to the implants, right, So that's that's something that that's
the that's the upper level of restoring a mouth that
is missing teeth, and that's something we've done for a
long time. But then in between has always been a
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little bit hard. Either you have something that snaps in
and that the patient has to take in and out daily,
or you have something that is locked onto the implants,
but it is much more expensive because it's a lot
different material and a lot of different lab components to it,
and a lot more cost involved. So now we've found
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a bridge between those something between bridge. There's a good
a good little dental joke in the morning, so anyway,
but we can find something in between that I'm calling
a hybrid snap on type of a denture. But what
we can do is take that denture and snap it
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on and it does not come off until your dentist
takes it off for you to clean every six months.
So it's so patients love that because they don't have
to fool with something coming in and out that they
can potentially drop and break and create different stresses on
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that that denture with this constant moving taking in and out.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
And.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
It's something that they're comfortable with because they've gotten used
to this denture and we've made sure that it's comfortable
for them and it doesn't rub any sore spots, and
then we can snap that that sucker on and they
don't have to worry about it anymore and it stays
in so's it's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
This sounds really like you're getting a lot closer. I mean,
we've been talking abou dentists for a long time on
this program, and this sounds like something we were getting
a lot closer to. I mean, really, when you talk
to patients and the complaints that folks have or whatever
they might be, this comes even closer to addressing those issues.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
It sounds like, So would you say that this is
a happy medium for that patient that doesn't want that
thing that comes in and out? But also what isn't
sure if they want to spend the money, Can they
maybe in the future go to that more permanent solution
and use those implants for that situation.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
That's a good question. Definitely they can. That's that's the
beauty of the different types of implant therapies that we
implement in our offices is that patients can start with,
you know, the basic version, and then they can upgrade
as they as they like. So some patients I have
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have started with just you know, two implants and a
denture just to hold their denture in place. Well, I
want this thing to be a little tighter, so we
put in four implants, use that same denture and upgrade
it to a fore implant option and they say, well,
I want something that stays in, and now we can
upgrade that same denture to a denture that stays in.
And then if they say, well, I want something that
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looks more natural, that doesn't have this venture kind of
pink acrylic on it, and something just like teeth that's
more slim line, then we can upgrade them to a
fixed dental bridge that stays in. So, yeah, we can
always upgrade throughout this process to the next level. But
this is a nice stepping stone in that direction or
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a good final place for patient to be if that's
what they really like.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Hey, you just hear so much about dentures and problems
that it can cause either when folks are when talking
or eating or any number of those issues, and it
has to cause a little bit of a life quality
of life issue. You know, we're trying to hold discussions
or dinners that it could give you a little a
little hasn't see what those types of things or make
you self conscious, So it's very nice to adjust those
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types of issues. That's got to be very very good
for patients.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Yeah, and that's uh, this is for patients that may
be listening that have already some of these materials in
in in use in their mouth. These are called locator
attachments that are specific snaps that come out that attached
to the implant itself, a little stud sticking up from
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the implant, and then there's a cup inside of the
denture that traditionally we can snap down onto it. And
then it's been made to be what they call a
resilient liner, meaning that it's it's a hard nylon material
inside of that cup that you use that that creates
a snap to those to that denture attaching it to
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the implant. But then it's as it was in the past,
been made to be removed. But now being able to
snap that on with a more fixed liner, we can
easily what we call convert that denture to a fixed
denture that that many patients are wanting, because a lot
of the patients that come in they say, well, I
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can't really swing financially to get up to that fixed
bridge option. That's, you know, the Cadillac version of giving
your teeth back. But I don't want something that's constantly
coming in and out of my mouth. So it's a
it's a great it's a great intermediary between the two,
you know, and the patients are really enjoying that.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
It's really nice to have that that additional option on
there because that's something that hasn't been if able to
this point. And it sounds like within that you can
kind of upgrade as you're going along as well. So
if you have the opportunity, can that even be a
little later dot down the line, like for example, over
the course of a year you have work done, the
next year comes up, if if if you want to
have one of these upgrades done, could that work? Then
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thinking about how dental insurance works and if you if
you're able to tap into something along those lines when
a calendar year to get an upgrader something I don't know, No, no, yeah,
I know that's complicated.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Insurance gets tricky. But the answer is yes, yeah you can.
You can delay that and this is a great way
to step towards those process those those different procedures too.
In fact, for who this is perfect for is a
patient that has had already a snap on denture or
even a routine denture and they've gotten used to it,
gotten the sore spots worked out. That's the issue too,
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is because we're snapping this thing on and you're not
gonna be able to get it out, so we want
to be super comfortable for you. And that's the way
that we we work it is that we do a
gradual process to make sure that the patient's very comfortable
with that existing denture. And it could take some time,
so it could take over, you know, six months or
so if we really needed it to, and waiting a
little bit longer doesn't necessarily isn't necessarily a bad thing
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in that situation, especially if you're trying to get some
help from your insurance.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Yeah, And that's one of the things that I've discovered
the course of doing this show and having conversations with
with you and doctor Carson, is that when it comes
to dentriers or anything like that, really coming in to
be seen and being evaluated and figuring out what your
options want to be and maybe what you need to
do to get to the point where you need to
be whatever that is, that's really your first step. You
won't know anything until you get information behind it, and
don't make assumptions, because I think a lot of people
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make assumptions on what they can and can't do, and
how much something does or doesn't cost, and it's probably
good to get an evaluation first before you assume those
things for sure.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
And that's it's you know, it's a gradual process many times,
and that's where we need to have a you know,
a realistic outlook, you know, for how quickly things can
be done. And we want things to be done correctly
and properly. So many times it's it takes a little
bit of time, you know, and we got to plan
(12:44):
things out appropriately. We can move quickly when we need
to move quickly, but to ensure that patients are as
comfortable as we want them to be, sometimes it takes
a little longer.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
You give us a call this morning if you have
any questions about maybe a dentrier situation you have, for
any dental hygiene situation for yourself, if you loved one,
if you want to take the opportunity to call, you
can call this this warning three zero four three four
two eight one three one threes that's the office number
you can call. The regular number now, Oh my goodness,
threes are a four three four five fifty eight fifty
the same number it's been for literally ever three zer
a four three four five fifty eight fifty eight. It's
(13:16):
an auto Q situation, so when you call, you'll be
automatically put into Q. Be ready to give your name
and your name and city when you get on the
air with the doctors. If you have any questions for
GREEB Dental Group three z are four three four five
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We have text line as well that's used fairly often.
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three zero four non three five five zeros your eight
online GREEB Dentalgroup dot com, g H A R E e
(13:38):
B Grief Dentalgroup dot com and you're welcome to gives
a call today.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
He's laughing because I'm slotting out of my chair anyway,
so researcher slipping, you know. So we actually just came
back from the Greenbrier, Is that correct, doctor Steven? And yes,
well I had to miss it because I, you know,
my family stuff. But I heard that there was a
big celebration there. If you want to discuss what happened
dot com, Stephen.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
That is the big news. And yeah, this summer marks
the fiftieth year that doctor Sammy Greb my father has
been in dental practice. Oh wow. So it's relations that's
amazing that we're super proud of him for. And he's
still still working, you know, a couple of days a
week as he as he likes to and keeping everything
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running at Greb Dental Groups. So so we're very fortunate
and blessed. He's in very good health and he's taught
us all more than more than anyone else could. So
so we're very proud of him and excited to share
that news and celebrate with him this this whole summer.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
So my math would be seventy five then, is that right?
Since nineteen seventy five, that's right. Yeah, man, that's incredible.
I know that's been a long time because I was
born in seventy four, so it was definitely a long
time ago.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
And I just want to point out that this is
the guy who's been doing this for fifty years. And
whenever we go and volunteer at health right, they put
doctor Seinan Greeb as the gold standard of just the
best care possible. We're like, we can never get to
a standard.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
He is.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
Thirty five years or however long that's right.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
And so he just comes in and just whips out
these teeth.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
He's just so quick.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
And so good at doing it and so caring. So
he is definitely the guy that we look to and
we're thankful for starting Greediental Group and kind of being
that being that person that we can hopefully imitate one day,
hopefully I will.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Well, I know you guys have always been outreach has
always been a major party of your mission. And so
I know that that the patriarch, doctor Grieve has probably
taken a lot of pride and helping out with the community.
And you guys have done these different programs. I mean
every program that I know of that comes through telling
you guys participated in some way, shape or form that
gives back to the community to help people out that
are in a little lesser situation. So I mean that's
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a that's a great that's a great thing.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Well, he's definitely set the He's definitely set the standard
for us and led by example in that way and
has always been very thankful for or you know, what
his career has given him and his family as well
as a state in community. So he's always very excited
to give back in any way that he can and
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has passed that on to all of us, so thankfully
all of our doctors have taken that mantle, and as
doctor Henley was referencing at Health Right, they tell us consistently,
if it wasn't for Greed Dental Group, we wouldn't have
been able to care for all these patients at health Right,
and we're very proud to help with that.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
It's great information and I always enjoy talking about those
things as well, your community outreach as well as continuing education.
Still plenty of stuff we're going to talk about this morning.
You can control the conversation as well if you want
to give us a call three zero four three four
five fifty eight fifty eight. We're going to go ahead and
take a break right now and come back with plenty
plenty more to talk about in the realm of dental hygiene, teethcare, gums,
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anything you want to talk about along those lines. Your
well gives a call this morning again three zero four
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More information online gree Dental Group g H A R
E B GREEB Dentalgroup dot com. Their phone number is
one eight hundred great care, one eight hundred great care.
Right to the closest location to you, and they're all
over the valley. Pocus how Charleston cross Laine saying, all
Minstay's Valley in keanall city. We'll go ahead and take
(17:13):
a break and be back right after this. You're listening
to ask the expert w c HS the voice of
Charleston as promised, I have a little different music.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
For for expert. Now. That was so upbeat. I loved it.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Well, I tried I try to make it more update
upbeat because uh, and I'll explained this the other morning.
But for years we were in a studio where we
didn't have a real time monitor, so you know, we
were going off of visual cues. So I was watching
the station, but I couldn't really hear it, So you know,
we were going off of visual cues with it's I mean.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
It's funny you couldn't hear it. It's a right, there's.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
A it's it's like I could I could hear the face.
For radio, I can hear as much as I need.
It's a radio is all voice and timming. If if
one doesn't work, the other will so But anyway, that
was the way things worked for a long time. Since
we moved to the new studio, of course, we have
were fully functional once again, and so we can hear
like all everything that goes on while we're while we're talking.
And what I quickly found out is I was really
(18:13):
tired of our expert music, so I had to change it.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
It's strange because we've heard that for what like ten years.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Well, well, people that have listened to the podcast have
heard it, and people have listened to it on radio
have heard it, but we haven't heard it because we
were we were in the studio where we were locked
into just the programming audio. Yeah, so anyway, I made
a change on that. So it's a little bit, a
little bit more modern, a little bit more upbeat, you know,
not quite as.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Just a talk show host.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Now you're this job, you know, I mean, I do
I do all I do most of the production on
the station. Yeah. Well, it's funny how I knew this
or what coincidence this is. But had a bunch of
tapes from when I was recorded with cassette, when from
when I was like ten or eleven, when I would
record songs off of the radio. Of course, like everybody
did on boomboxes back in the day. But also I
(19:00):
would uh, I would jock in between songs, so it
was on w c op w coop and uh and
so yeah, I would do like my own little countdown
and stuff. There was all kinds of tapes of stuff
like that, and me doing that, me doing play by
play of video games, like with sports video games, doing
play by play and so I did all kinds of
stuff like that as a kid. So this was the
industry you always I guess I was supposed to be.
(19:21):
I should have been playing doctor as all I was
a kid. More Southern radio guy. I think like chemical
engineer may have been a great thing to play around
with when I was a kid, more Southern radio. If
if a paycheck was the termination. But we have a
lot of stuff to talk. You've been teasing, and I
just heard like a zillion different things at once about Montreal,
(19:42):
and we're going to talk a little bit about We're
want to talk a little bit about uh So I'm
assuming this had something to do with with with teeth. Oh, well,
it did, of course. Okay.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
I usually frame my vacation around going on a dental
trip because that's I go on so many dental trips.
Bringing the family just makes sense and we can kind
of make a little mini vacation out of it.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
So I went to Montreal.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Doctor Massey and his wife, Doctor Cindy Greeb went, Doctor
Mintry and his wife Heather, and doctor Sammy Greeb and
his wife, Miss Kay went. So there was four of
us that went from Greed Dental Group, which was really neat,
and we actually got to have dinner a couple nights
and the things that we learned were just so neat
because when you go to these meetings. By the way,
(20:29):
the meaning we went to was the Academy of Jeneral
Dentistry the Aged Scientific Session, which was in Montreal, which
I had never been to Canada, nor much less Montreal,
so it was a really cool experience. But what's so
cool about these meetings is there's so many hands on courses.
So there's two types of courses, and there's probably more,
but mainly there's two types of courses. When you go
to these big meetings. There's lecture where you just sit
(20:49):
there and listen, and then you can apply it over
time and you can bring it back to your staff
or your staff can join and listen to that lecture,
but then there's participation or hands on, which I feel
gets a little little more in depth because you're literally
sitting there using your hands, listening on a new technique
or at least being constructed on a new technique or
an old technique that you need more use with. And
(21:11):
then you come out of that with just so many
skills that you didn't even know you needed or you
could have had. For example, I went through six hours
of indodontics, which is root canal's and I know how
to do root canal. I'm pretty good at them, but
I'm not perfect at them. No one is, and so
we're always trying to do a better job, always trying
to get that new technique that's going to make our
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patients healthier and better and have a better prognosis long term.
So these hands on techniques that you learn are just
so important. Another course that I took with something called
occlusion or biting and kind of working on how to
diagnose spite issues when it comes to your tempore mandibular
joint with TMD to pro mandipular disorder. A little caveat
(21:54):
when patients say I have TMGM, like me too anyway.
So TMJ is the joint, but TMD is the disorder.
Just a little fun back there. So trying to diagnose
and help people out there is really cool and really neat,
and that's really probably the most complex thing you can
do in dentistri is dealing.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
With jaw issues.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
But that was really cool that I got to bring
my family real quickly something that they noticed. My wife
was at lunch with my children as I was at a.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
I was at a course.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
They were eating at the restaurant in our hotel by
a window, and all of a sudden, some cop cars
come by, and then after the cop cars come what
my wife assumed were shirtless men on bicycles, and then
as they turned the corner, they weren't just shirtless, they
weren't wearing much of anything.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Bicycle yes, on bicycles, any special seats because that doesn't
feel great, and so.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Apparently it was World Naked Bicycle Day or so. I
don't even know, but my seven year old was just like.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
It was the craziest thing she's experienced in her life.
And so you go to watch your all and you
see things you didn't expect. But certainly that was the
highlight of their experience. My experience was more CEU oriented.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
My daughter would my daughter would also find that she's
seven to she would find that the funniest thing she's
ever seen. Yeah, but in my adult mind, I really
can't imagine how that's comfortable for anyone to not that
that's what we're talking about, but uh, comfort somehow it
can't be. It can't be comfortable. There's just a lot
of sliding around. Is that healthy? But but and uh,
(23:32):
and in all seriousness and talking about traveling to Canada
and going through another seminar with continuing education, I mean
that really just it's part of the whole of what
you do anyway. I mean, you're always looking for better,
better avenues, better ways to do things, more efficient ways.
Ultimately efficiency can lead to cost reductions, you know. I mean,
all of these things kind of one plays into another
(23:52):
to another. And uh, and the stuff that's going on
and what you guys do is actually pretty exciting. I
mean there seems to be certainly during the course where
we been doing this show, it seems like every couple
times a year, you guys come on and talk about
something that's relatively new that's coming up. That's really cool
that you can do in your offices. And this industry
seems to be really finding ways to help patients a
(24:12):
lot to bridge some of these gaps. There's puns everywhere
this morning, but to bridge some of these gaps when
it comes to when it comes to dental hygiene, dental care,
because some of the stuff can be you know, can
start getting a little bit expensive. But through the care
of a dental office that will work with you a
little bit, and your insurance and also these emerging technologies
and things like that, more and more people have access
(24:33):
to get some level of help to make it more comfortable.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Absolutely sure, And I love what Carson was saying that
he went and he says, hey, yeah, I've done you know,
hundreds of root canals. I'm good at it. But I
was still taking this course to learn how to be better.
And that's the key for these continuing educations courses we
go to we don't we go there. We do learn
about new techniques, the latest and greatest, but we also
what we call hone our skills and improve upon things
(25:00):
we may already do. But we always want to come
back with what we call a pearl, some one or
two pearls from you know, a week long event is
worth it for us to better care for our patients,
to make the work that we do more successful, more efficient,
and also to learn how to run our offices in
many other ways, not just not just learning the skills.
(25:21):
So it's it's also worth noting that doctor Henley and
was at the Academy of General Dentistry meeting and he
is a trustee of the Academy of General Dentistry, which
is you know that one of the highest levels of
leadership in that academy. Doctor Greeb has has done that
in the past as well, So we're very proud of
our West Virginia representation there and being national leaders that
(25:44):
they are in such a in such a prestigious academy.
Really it's worth noting too.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
And so what I got for that was I had
I got to be a marshal during the convocation and
direct traffic to four hundred new fellows and masters in
LLSA in the convocation ceremony. Just standing there and pointing
it was the most fun four hours of my life. No,
it really was an honor. But you know, sometimes being
a leader, you kind of get to do stuff that
(26:10):
you know is it is what it is?
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Yeah, yeah, Sometimes what has to be done has to
be done. It's not always the most fun thing.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
What's that?
Speaker 5 (26:19):
So when I got my fellowship, I think it was
just four years ago, twenty twenty one in Austin, Texas,
at the scientific session, we covered that. Yeah, yeah, so
I was honored whenever that happened because doctor Sammy, well,
doctor Bruce Cassis was the current AGD president from West
Virginia in at the scientific session in Texas, and then
(26:41):
doctor Sammy Greb and doctor Stephen Greb were marshalls for
that convocation just kind of what I just did, and
so it was really neat was I was the last
fellow to cross the stage and get my fellowship pin
in my and I think they kind of put a
pin over you. It's like attached to a ribbon and
the spin is something that you put on your jacket
and things like that. Well, then all of a sudden,
doctor sam and doctor Stephen ran on stage with me
(27:04):
and we took a photo with Bruce and it was
four of us taking a photo. I think I was
the only one that had four people in the photo.
Everyone's like, who is this guy? How does he get
to do it. Well if you if you're from West Virginia,
you know, you get to do cool things. It's just
kind of cool bringing that full circle. Yeah, that is
very neat, and I like the fact that we covered that.
When I remember telling the story, I can't believe it
was four years ago. I'm sure that you have that
(27:25):
same disconnect, but I can't believe that was four years ago.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
But yeah, this is the academy there they that is
based and founded upon high quality continuing education and UH.
And then it's it is an honor to UH to
for so many of us to have been leaders in
that academy is the second largest UH dental organization in
the United States, if not the world. So so we're
we're happy to be involved and honored to help lead.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
I always enjoyed doing these programs. Let me get the
information out again. We're starting to wrap up the show.
We have a couple of minutes left here this morning.
I want to make sure that you have all the info.
We covered a lot of things here this morning, and
I know that can get a little bit dense, especially
if you have questions about your dental hygiene. And I
understand a lot of these things are not conducive to
making phone calls on the radio, So you're more than
welcome to give the GREEB Dental Group a call. And
lucky for you, there's an easy phone number to call.
(28:10):
You can call one hundred Great Care one hundred Great
Care that will take you to a central location that
will route you to the location closest to you. That's Pocas,
South Charles and Cross Lanes, Saint Aumsta's Valley in Kanall City,
all the different locations of GREEB Dental Group. Doctor Stephen
is from the South Charleston location, Doctor Carson is from
the Kanall City location, Doctor Mitchrie is in Cross Lanes,
and uh great doctors spread throughout the valley. So if
(28:31):
you want to call one hunter Great Care, you can
get routed to the closest office to you. And the
phone number is or the phone numbers one hundred Great caare.
The web address is a GREEB Dentalgroup dot com. That's
g h A r e B GREEB Dentalgroup dot com.
You can find out all kinds of great information and
a really slick website. Always I've always impressed with the
website when I bring it up.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
It is a little distracting, but it is.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
It's very nice. It's yeah, it's got it's got some
loot video in the background. It's very good. But anyway,
greeb Dentalgroup dot com. You can find all the information
there that you may need, as well as contact information
and all of that good stuff. And it's it's just
important for UH, for folks to understand as regardless of
where they are in their dental hygiene journey. Maybe they've
been away from a doctor for a long time or
(29:13):
haven't seen one a lot, they have some issues that
they've been a little nervous to get addressed, or they're embarrassed,
whatever the situation may be. Your first step to getting better,
to not feeling embarrassed anymore, to feeling better about your teeth,
you got to go see somebody. You got to go
get evaluated. And it's probably not as bad as you think.
Everybody has these these traditional images in their head. We
(29:36):
talked about root canals and stuff all the time. It's
not as bad as you think, you know, and go
in and get evaluated, and I think you would be
amazed at how much better you would feel on the
back end of those things, Because if you go through
life uncomfortable with your smile, with your with your teeth,
with gaps here, whatever it might be, that's a that's
a quality of life's issue issue, and you can address that.
There are things that can be done. You have a
(29:57):
lot of tools in your toolbox for sure. And I mean,
come in have a conversation with us. Just spoke to
a patient yesterday that came in and was just very embarrassed,
so I really don't want don't want you touching anything,
you know, and was nervous, and I said, that's fine.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
We're just going to take a brief look today. That's
all we're going to do. Take a look around. We'll
have a discussion with you. Sat down and talked with
her for a very long time, hearing her concerns, and
then we created a game plan and she left very
comfortable in the path we're going to take and excited
to get it done and like you say, to improve
her quality of life that you know, I wasn't able
to eat what she wanted, having digestive issues also confidence
(30:34):
and of course presentation to others and smiling. So we
want to we're here to take care of those issues
and do them comfortably for it.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
And have that kind of conversation and to take that step.
It is a huge step for a lot of a
lot of different people and to put them in ease
in doing that. But it really is something that you
can get addressed. If it's something that you don't feel
feel great about. Now, all you gotta do is ask
a couple questions and see where you can get and
and you might find yourself in a better situation relatively
soon down the line.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
Absolutely, yeah, we're happy to do it.
Speaker 5 (31:02):
And I think it does help. Whenever you walk in
you always see a smiling face. Yes, I get told
that all the time that I like you, doctor, but
I love your staff, and I'm well, yes, because obviously
my staff are amazing, right, yeah, and I thank you
for liking me. But truly without my staff, without doctor
Stevens staff, or any of our staff and our six locations,
we could not do what we'd do. And we're so
(31:24):
thankful that we get to work with such lovely men
and women that make our patients feel comfortable and feel
confident that they're going to be taken care of.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
One of the things that happens to me on a
much lower scale in my job is I'll have people
that come in and this week is a great example,
since I'm covering for our creative director who's out this week.
Folks will come in and it's not typically on the radio,
and they own a small business or something, and they
want to cut their own commercial or a piece in
their own commercial, and so they'll record a line or
a couple of lines or several lines on a thirty
second commercial. They'll listen back to it and they're really
(31:54):
embarrassed about how they sound. They shouldn't be number one,
because everybody doesn't like the sound of their own voice
the first time to hear it. And sometimes they're embarrassed
because the guy that does radio, if we're a living
is in the room for him, and it's like, oh
my goodness, so what do you think it's I've heard
it all. It doesn't matter. I mean, we've all been
on that journey. And some people complain about how I talk.
It's not you know, it's not anything that's a big
(32:15):
deal to us as a professional on the radio end
of things. For Dennis, for people that are embarrassed about
what might be going on in their mouth, it's not
like you haven't seen it. You've seen it all. There's
nothing that you can really be shocked a boy at
this point. So if you have one of those barriers
where you're like, man, I'm going to go in and
I'm going to open up my mouth to the doctor
and they're.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Like, oh, hold on, it's calling the experts. We have
no idea.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
What's that's not going to happen to you. That's not
going to happen. They've seen it all. So if that's
one of your barriers, don't worry about that.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
That's right. That's a great point, and very happy to
put those patients at ease because they do come in
very embarrassed and saying things like that, I'll you know,
I haven't seen anything this bad or you know, I
hate to even show you, like, well, this is what
we do. This is our job, and it's like you're
comparing it to you know, this is what I do,
listening to to these voices all day and you can't
(33:03):
surprise me with anything. Yeah, we were very very wide
varied experience on you know, seeing many things in the
mouth that that we're happy to figure out the path forward.
That's the thing that we're trying to do to get
them to that end goal of being comfortable and confident
in their smile and and the way that they function
(33:25):
because now we're seeing more digestive issues too. It's it's
very fascinating that we're we're joining with the medical community,
uh in many ways where they're referring patients to us
to say, you know, this patient's having a lot of
you know, intestinal issues that we need to we need
to get them chewing their food better. And and that's
that's one small element too.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
There's a there's another show that I listened to. It's
a science based show. It's hosted by several different people,
but I think about you guys every time that I
listen to the show, or very frequently, because one of
the co hosts on the show is obsessed with their
teeth and and they talk and they relate a lot
of medical science based stuff that they cover, like just
in general talking about science science based news stories and
stuff like that, but he always ties it back into it.
(34:06):
The time that I discovered that the whole my whole
body health is related to my teeth was the big
moment of my wife. And so this guy talks so
much about how his teeth health is drives the rest
of his health and how it's give him on this
healthy journey. That's okay, we've talked about on this program before.
Those things do all work in concert together.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
Doctor Oz had that big epiphany as well when he
was going through all of the different ways to improve
improve your health, and it was the one thing that
would make him live a little longer statistically that he
didn't do his floss every day, so he started doing that.
I think was doctor Sanjay Gupt on CNN some similar
(34:45):
type of thing. So it's it definitely affects everything.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Doctor Stephen, appreciate your time this week. Thank you so much.
Doctor Carson you as well, Thank you so much. See
you back here next month.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
See later.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
GARB Dental Group garib Dentalgroup dot com. Have a great
day everyone, and thanks for listening to five adwc HS
The Voice of Charleston.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
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