Dr. Dave brings in his dad who talks about their legecy and passing the mantel to his son. 
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You are going to be so gladthat you are with us right now on
sixth to n WTVN You're heard ityourself. You got the wrong person right
here, Bub Michayla. I thinkwe have the exact perfect person. We
do. Uh, the doctor Anthony'sare in and we say doctor Anthony's because
doctor Dave we know, but wehave doctor Dave's dad in and we're going

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to be entertained to say the least. All Right, We're gonna start with
you, doctor Dave, because thisis your segment. You come in every
month, and this time you broughtus such a treat and yeah, it's
a week after Father's Day, sothe timing is perfect. Yes, my
dad he's here with me. He'suh man, he's been such a good
role model and I'm just thrilled thathe's here with us, and I'm so

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glad he can spend this time withus. And he talks just as much
as doctor Dave. I mean,I've learned this and I love it.
So are you Dave too? Ido. Mike. You're Mike, Doctor
Mike, Doctor Mike, and doctorDave. So welcome to the show.
Thank you, this this business thatyour son has doing really well. But
it started a long time ago andit's because of you, and that's what

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we want to talk a little bitabout that legacy. And man, you
were telling us your story, howdid you become a dentist? You were
a finance major and you became adentist, Like, can you retell part
of that story again, because Ifind it very interesting. Well, I
was, I was in pred twoand a half years in college. I
went to the University of Notre Dame, and but I just proved off.

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I just Notre Dame. I'm justkidding. I got my dental degree from
Ohio State. Okay, all right, so I'm bifurcated. People hate me
twice for both of my teams.So anyway, I didn't do well in
academics when I was at Notre Dame, and I came out with a finance

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degree, and I decided at thatpoint in time that I wanted to go
into dental school. But the servicewas there waiting for me, and I
had I had a draft number thatI would have been drafted. So a
week before I was drafted, Ijoined because I didn't want to be drafted.
I thought that was something different.Anyway, and I spent three years
in the service, a year inVietnam, came back and I went to

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dental school, and during that timemy wife when I was over in Vietnam,
I got married just before I wentover, and my oldest son was
born while I was in Vietnam,and so I came back to a child,
all right, and then immediately thereafterwe had two more children while I
was going through dental school. Youknow, I have to ask you a

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question about coming back from Vietnam,because we've heard so many stories of what
it was like for people who foughtin that war. What did you notice?
What was it like for you?I am treated I wasn't treated poorly,
and I also felt that I servedmy country, which a lot of
the veterans feel. Yes, therewas a lot of denigration towards the veteran

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that came back, and a lotof people disregarded them and dissed them in
so many different ways. But Ididn't feel that way, and maybe I
was in a group of people thatdidn't feel that way. But there was
there was so much protesting during thattime. And was it a good war?
That's uh. We didn't we didn'tplay to win all right, And

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that's how I saw that war.We just didn't play to win, and
consequently it's an infamous war. Idon't think you were fixing teeth on the
side while you were over there.So why did you get into dentistry coming
back out of that from a financedegree at Notre Dame. Well, the
thing was, I had a neighborwho was a marine, and he talked

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with me when I was growing upor while I was in college, and
he says, Mike, you oughtto go into dentistry. You've got some
You've got a good background, andso he actually sponsored me to get into
dental school along with my my militaryrecord was very, very good, and
so my military record also got meinto the into dental school because it was
difficult. It's difficult. You haveto have the academics to get in and

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do a good job. And realistically, my academics weren't great, but they
were in dental school because out ofhow many yeah, what was your ranking?
Then I graduated seventh out of onehundred and seventy students. It's kind
of likea nothing like me actually toyou, doctor Dave, because when you

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first introduced your dad, you said, you know, he's been such a
great role model. Why oh man, you know, having a father to
give me direction and show me howto do things and how to treat people
was so helpful, so helpful asa young dentist, as a child,

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just having a father in the house. So he's not he's just he's a
great person. He's a great rolemodel. But he also I know,
he loves me, so it's beenvery, very supportive. Did you start
going in when you were little?All with him to work sometimes? I
mean, how did the interest starta little bit? Yeah, I think
he always wanted me to take overbecause my older brothers didn't. I'm the

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way I'm go before, and youjust thought I would be good at it,
and so that's how you just hardto encourage me. I would go
in there during the summer on asystem and get to talk to patients and
see what he's doing, and that'show I was introduced to it. Obviously,
not a lot of dentists don't goin to dentistry unless they got a
father or something. That's usually partof it, because who wants to get

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in the mouth and mess with people'sI don't know mouth. We have a
number, a stat that we're goingto share a little bit later, and
I think you might be surprised ofthe number of people who do go into
dentistry because of their mother or theirfather. But the one thing I wanted
to touch on too is how thepractice of dentistry has changed. I was
just on your son's website or yourFacebook page, and I see this post

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that was made about where are allthe people? Where is everybody? And
it's doctor Dave going around the officelooking where everybody is. He can't find
everybody. And at the end ofthe video is a baby was in the
office because everybody wanted to come seethe baby. Very much family atmosphere,
I would imagine that's one thing thathas stayed the same through the years.

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But the whole social media world istotally different. You didn't have to deal
with any of that, did you. No. We No, we didn't
have to do social media at all. And I'm thankful for that because I'm
very ill prepared in that world.Most of it was personality and meeting people
and being kind to people and treatingpeople well and caring for people. And

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that was our that in a smalltown. That's what carries you in a
big town. You need to marketin a small town. It's who you
are and how you relate to people, and that was very important and I
and we did well I think inthat way. And you have the combination
because I think relationships are really importantto you guys, but you're also branching

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out there with marketing and social mediato get the word about about how who
you guys are. I would say, doctor Dave. Yeah, absolutely,
Donny. Silly Facebook posts that areentertaining, but yeah, that's what you
have to put on social media andsomehow back you got to show. You
gotta show who you are and justjust be transparent of you know, what
you stand for and what you're allabout. And that's what those things.

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I think they do a little bitof that. It's also like a Super
Bowl commercial. You try to keepit entertaining for people because people don't like
to look at it. They wantto they want to see something fun,
right, something engaging. Yeah,something engaging. So it's not all about
us, it's more about the consumeror the person looking at the videos.
Hundred and you think about it,Facebook has become its own kind of community

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back, you know, thirty thirtyfive years ago community looked like one thing.
Now it looks a little bit morelike this, and it is a
community. So you have to putyourself out there. You absolutely do,
and you do a really good jobof that. Thank you. Now,
Doctor Mike probably wouldn't have liked doingall that, because, you know,
my parents would have been the sameway. I'm not that good. I
try to learn from Michaylas. She'sten years younger than me, so I'm

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trying to get into the you know, the way of the world, of
that whole thing. Now. Mykids, on the other hand, they're
in their twenties. They're experts atit, you know. They It's just
it's just a new beast, DoctorDave. You talked about, you know,
a great role model your dad is, and now you look at your
son who has taken over this practiceand made it just continuing on from what

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you started. How proud are youof what he's continued to do? You
know? Yeah? Yeah, Yougrow up your children and I'm gonna speak
a little spiritually here. You trainthem up in the way of the Lord
and they won't depart from it.And David, David's probably our most spiritual
child, or at least outwardly heis, and so he's embraced all those

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values which really encompasses the love forpeople. And that's that's continued in the
practice because I love people. Youjust do, and if you do,
you like to serve them in serviceswhere it's what's important, love your neighbor.
Simple as that second second commandment,second commandment. There you go.

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So when it comes to legacy,I think this makes a difference in business.
I'm a daughter of a business owner. I did not go into his
business and I moved away. Idid something different, but I actually did.
He did do a radio show,and so here I am, you
know, all these years later,and he took he took me in on
Saturday mornings to do his radio show. So it was related to his business,

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right, he was like Bob Vilaon the radio. But let's talk
with legacy. I think that's important, Doctor Dave. How do you feel
about it inside your practices, thelegacy that your dad started and what it
means you know these years later.Oh uh, that's deep, that's deep,
reflective. It's no. I Ijust don't I just don't want to

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screw things up. My dad did. He started this thing from scratch and
he created this whole. I don'tknow this culture. I want to say,
it's uh. And it's it's anoutward it's an outward mentality. It's
not an inward it's not a selfishmentality. And he's just and it's and
it's continued on and and and ashe passed the baton on to me,

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you know, it's been it's Ijust that's my hope and my thought is
that it just continues on and it'sa it's extension of him. He he
started this thing. It's it's AnthonyDental Care. My name is doctor Dave.
He's doctor Anthony over there. Souh, and this is so it's
the name doctor the Anthony Dental Care. I I I don't know if it

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represents him. I think it does, you know, hopefully it represents service
and love and those type of things. But that's where the name is at
right now. And as we getif we do more, practices will change,
you know. I don't. Idon't know, but I I don't.
The name is the name. Sothe research team looked at kids and

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their parents and their careers and theydid find that so many times we do
fall into the footsteps of our momsand our dads when it comes to dentistry
thirteen times more likely to follow yourmom or dad's footsteps to become a dentist
thirteen more times. So maybe it'sall that teething and stuff that's going on.

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They're brushing, the flossing, whatever, But something's setting right with kids
when they look at their parents asdentists thirteen times thirteen. I was expecting
something, but maybe not that much. Yeah, that's pretty incredible. We
had our daughter was a hygienist,you guys. I don't know whether you
ladies know that my daughter was ahigh genis. She came in as a

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high schooler. I would work onsaturdays. I'd work sixty hours a week
because it was a small community backthen, in a relatively poor community,
and so I'd bring my daughter inand she would assist me. I needed
an assistant, And so as timewent on, she stayed in the profession
and became a high genist and iscurrently working with a brother there. I

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think it's awesome, jamily. Wewant to continue this conversation with you guys,
the listeners. What about you,did you follow in the footsteps of
your mom? Of your dad.Do you think your kids will fall in
line with what you have chosen fora career. Yeah, we're going to
talk about that after the break,So give us a call. We'd love
to hear from you. Six onefour eight two one nine eight eight six

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six one four eight two one WTVN. And let's say it before we go
to break, doctor Dave. Howdo people get a hold of you guys?
If you know they want that care, they want that legacy, what
they want that feeling. Let's gowith the website www dot Anthony dentelcare dot
com, Anthony denteldtcare dot com.Talk about what matters. This is Extend WTVN.

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