The Perio Patient Podcast: Recent Episodes
Benjamin Young
This is a podcast produced by one periodontist to his patients and talks life and the management of a condition of chronic inflammation called periodontitis or periodontal disease. It is produced in small chunks for easy digestion.
Understanding the cost of periodontal treatment is essential, but choosing care based solely on price without knowing all options can lead to unnecessary expenses and complications. Dr. Ben Young emphasizes the importance of informed decision-making and warns against profit-driven practices that may cut corners on patient care. He strongly recommends LANAP (Laser-Assisted New Attachment Procedure) over traditional surgical treatments for gum disease due to its effectiveness, shorter healing time, and lower cost when compared with other therapies that omit the electromagnetic energy component. To make LANAP more accessible, he has reduced its price to align with the cost of a single crown or root canal, making it a more affordable option than extensive periodontal surgery. Insurance coverage for periodontal treatment can be complex and misleading, often leaving patients with unexpected out-of-pocket costs, so understanding policy limitations is crucial. Finally, Dr. Young offers free gum health screenings to help patients assess their needs and connect with trusted general dentists to make sure dental health is maintained long term.
Please pass this podcast along to those you know who might benefit.
I talk about the difference with managing dental implants and teeth long-term.
If you have dental implants there are certain checks you need annually.
I also talk about how this holiday season is different from previous ones and also how humility helps us heal.
A review of Supportive Periodontal Therapy and a reflection on spiritual growth as a healthcare provider.
People often get a few important oral hygiene concepts wrong. This frequently results in tooth and gum damage.
This a discussion on the topic of cost for periodontal services. I get into dental insurance, LANAP versus conventional periodontal treatment, dental implants as well as the importance of budgeting in ongoing preventive or supportive dental and periodontal care.
Your dentist tells you that you need a crown lengthening procedure. Let me try to explain what this is and why you might need one.
Also we will get into the question about how long should people brush their teeth? The answer will be a little deeper than the rote answers often given.
Have you ever had a "deep cleaning"?
Did you know this means you have had periodontal disease?
It might be a good idea to listen to better understand the differences between different cleanings people can receive.
Introducing three recent readings from my daily blog found at thestillpoint.substack.com.
Also there is a holiday treatment offer stuck in there as well.
How should you, a patient, interact with dentists and physicians? It is helpful, I think to give you a little background on who the two groups are trained.
I am passing on an idea I think important about the upcoming elections. Be sure to vote.
You have an area of receding gums and you would like to know if it is a problem or not. This podcast delves into all of this and hopefully will help you consider what you might want to do about it.
Is our success in life more about our intelligence or about those who influenced us? In this podcast I tell you about my mom, how she kept me from getting cavities as a child and how she essentially launched my future career.
The patient is the Appointment Manager and makes decisions for their health care as well as that of the children under their care. I respect expertise but it cannot be used to pressure people to do things they do not feel comfortable doing.
Are there exceptions? Sure. There are exceptions to everything it seems, but we are discussing the big picture in this podcast.
Grateful people have learned to give their ego’s a rest.
Gratitude and humility go together. Anyone who bristles at the idea of humility and believes it to be a sign of weakness has trouble with true gratitude to others. Sure, we can all learn to thank people as a social behavior, but it will not warm us inside in the same way sincere gratefulness always does. Finally, it takes true courage to admit a need. And we cannot admit needs without humility. And humility is needed to have true gratitude.
On this ninetieth podcast, I think it's time to go back and talk about some of the basics, but it isn't just a rehash. I talk about my recovery experience a little and how it relates to treating periodontal disease and other health conditions.
I also give a quick review of the origin of A Tooth Has Four Parts and what its primary purpose is (probably not what you think).
Finally, I talk about why I podcast. Enjoy and share if you feel so inclined.
I share a brief comment about having multiple insurance policies. It isn't what you might be expecting.
thestillpoint.substack.com
Thoughts of one periodontist. In this episode I give you some background on the video presentation A Tooth Has Four Parts plus I tell you a few stories about my career.
I am starting a new project for a wider audience.
https://thestillpoint.substack.com/about
Children love wonder and repetition. They want the same stories over and over.
Although adults enjoy providing Christmas to children which involves wrapping gifts and reading same-old stories over and over, they hope for a little more. Where children want a magical time, adults want a meaningful one.
Repeating or doubling down on what worked before never works quite as well again, so in this podcast we will take a new path and I will tell grownups a new, and yes, deeper story.
How do you look for medical and dental information? And when you find it on the Internet, what do you do with it? How do you know from an Internet Search who you should see for care?
The answer, according to Dr. Young, is it depends on who you are.
In this podcast you learn about my Airstream, my mom, and the most important question the world is struggling with right now.
Thanks to all of you patients who are giving me such encouraging feedback. I talk about that too.
Best explanation of how COVID-19 works as well as about vaccinations. It is technical, but important information to pass to healthcare workers.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/damn-you-hell-you-will-not-destroy-america-here-spartacus-covid-letter-thats-gone-viral
It's all in the title.
https://www.thewoodeneffect.com/motivational-quotes-john-wooden/
To learn more about and my practice, please visit the following links. I'd love to connect with you!
-LINKS-
💻 Website: https://dryoungperiodontics.com/
👍 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/benjaminyoungdds/
❤️ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/benyoungdds/
🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/benyoungdds
🎥 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BenjaminYoungDDS
👨⚕️ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/benjamin-w-young-dds-ms-periodontist
To learn more about and my practice, please visit the following links. I'd love to connect with you!
-LINKS-
💻 Website: https://dryoungperiodontics.com/
👍 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/benjaminyoungdds/
❤️ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/benyoungdds/
🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/benyoungdds
🎥 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BenjaminYoungDDS
👨⚕️ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/benjamin-w-young-dds-ms-periodontist
The thoughts of one periodontist.
There are two types of leaders just as there are two types of healthcare.
Are face masks worn in public critical to stopping or even slowing the spread of a viral respiratory infection? Let's talk about what really works.
To learn more about and my practice, please visit the following links. I'd love to connect with you!
-LINKS-
💻 Website: https://dryoungperiodontics.com/
👍 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/benjaminyoungdds/
❤️ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/benyoungdds/
🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/benyoungdds
🎥 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BenjaminYoungDDS
👨⚕️ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/benjamin-w-young-dds-ms-periodontist
The Perio Patient Podcast - Episode 76.
It's the end of August 2021 and Afghanistan is on all of our minds? What can we do about the sadness and other emotions we are feeling? Permit me to give you three suggestions (with a bonus fourth thrown in).
I am an inquisitive guy who is fascinated by the specialty I practice. I also love dentistry, medicine, science, and the humanities, and talk and write about all of it. The reason I do this is because I believe patients need more than technical procedures. They can benefit from good information and encouragement from people they choose to get to know more than just superficially. My videos here are to benefit dental patients. Some of these videos are used in my private practice to educate patients. Other videos or general information.
To learn more about and my practice, please visit the following links. I'd love to connect with you!
-LINKS-
💻 Website: https://dryoungperiodontics.com/
👍 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/benjaminyoungdds/
❤️ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/benyoungdds/
🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/benyoungdds
🎥 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BenjaminYoungDDS
👨⚕️ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/benjamin-w-young-dds-ms-periodontist
The Perio Patient Podcast - Episode 75.
Today’s podcast is in response to a question I received by email from a listener, which is simply this: Why Would an Implant Fail?
Links to podcasts mentioned:
About Dental Implants: https://theperiopatientpodcast.libsyn.com/episode-68-about-dental-implants
About Vitamin D:
https://theperiopatientpodcast.libsyn.com/48-vitamin-d
For further material go to https://dryoungperiodontics.com/podcast/
I am an inquisitive guy who is fascinated by the specialty I practice. I also love dentistry, medicine, science, and the humanities, and talk and write about all of it. The reason I do this, is because I believe patients need more than technical procedures. They can benefit from good information and encouragement from people they choose to get to know more than just superficially. My videos here are to benefit dental patients. Some of these videos are used in my private practice to educate patients. Other videos or general information.
To learn more about and my practice, please visit the following links. I'd love to connect with you!
-LINKS-
💻 Website: https://dryoungperiodontics.com/
👍 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/benjaminyoungdds/
❤️ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/benyoungdds/
🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/benyoungdds
🎥 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BenjaminYoungDDS
👨⚕️ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/benjamin-w-young-dds-ms-periodontist
The Perio Patient Podcast - Episode 74. There is a lot of bad news out there. We are swimming in it. And if you just step back a little and study it, I think you will agree with me that some of it is gaslighting.
Three famous psychology studies:
https://www.verywellmind.com/the-asch-conformity-experiments-2794996
https://www.verywellmind.com/the-milgram-obedience-experiment-2795243
https://www.verywellmind.com/the-stanford-prison-experiment-2794995
One interesting current video you might want to check out:
https://rumble.com/vk894g-dr-michael-yeadon-a-final-warning-to-humanity.html
I am an inquisitive guy who is fascinated by the specialty I practice. I also love dentistry, medicine, science, and the humanities, and talk and write about all of it. The reason I do this, is because I believe patients need more than technical procedures. They can benefit from good information and encouragement from people they choose to get to know more than just superficially. My videos here are to benefit dental patients. Some of these videos are used in my private practice to educate patients. Other videos or general information.
To learn more about and my practice, please visit the following links. I'd love to connect with you!
-LINKS-
💻 Website: https://dryoungperiodontics.com/
👍 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/benjaminyoungdds/
❤️ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/benyoungdds/
🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/benyoungdds
🎥 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BenjaminYoungDDS
👨⚕️ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/benjamin-w-young-dds-ms-periodontist
The Perio Patient Podcast - Episode 73.
In this episode, we get into the fascinating subject of how the body repairs itself and whether or not it is possible to regenerate the parts of the tooth. Buckle up. It's quite a ride.
I am an inquisitive guy who is fascinated by the specialty I practice. I also love dentistry, medicine, science, and the humanities, and talk and write about all of it. The reason I do this is because I believe patients need more than technical procedures. They can benefit from good information and encouragement from people they choose to get to know more than just superficially. My videos here are to benefit dental patients. Some of these videos are used in my private practice to educate patients. Other videos or general information.
To learn more about and my practice, please visit the following links. I'd love to connect with you!
-LINKS-
💻 Website: https://dryoungperiodontics.com/
👍 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/benjaminyoungdds/
❤️ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/benyoungdds/
🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/benyoungdds
🎥 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BenjaminYoungDDS
👨⚕️ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/benjamin-w-young-dds-ms-periodontist
The Perio Patient Podcast - Episode 72.
What is dental insurance preauthorization? I don't think it means what you think it means.
Exploring ways to better manage life and chronic inflammation affecting your mouth. The thoughts and ideas of one San Antonio periodontist, Dr. Benjamin Young DDS San Antonio.
I am an inquisitive guy who is fascinated by the specialty I practice. I also love dentistry, medicine, science, and the humanities, and talk and write about all of it. The reason I do this is because I believe patients need more than technical procedures. They can benefit from good information and encouragement from people they choose to get to know more than just superficially. My videos here are to benefit dental patients. Some of these videos are used in my private practice to educate patients. Other videos or general information.
To learn more about and my practice, please visit the following links. I'd love to connect with you!
-LINKS-
💻 Website: https://dryoungperiodontics.com/
👍 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/benjaminyoungdds/
❤️ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/benyoungdds/
🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/benyoungdds
🎥 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BenjaminYoungDDS
👨⚕️ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/benjamin-w-young-dds-ms-periodontist
The Perio Patient Podcast - Episode 71.
This podcast covers the topics found on my website under Periodontal Services. The first topic under this tab is a series of topics under the heading: Comfort and Sedation.
It is an important topic and includes explaining how I give a local anesthetic as well as why IV sedation is important for the most comfortable extractions.
Also, I discuss a fairly new technique within periodontics as well as oral surgery, orthopedic surgery, and plastic surgery called PRF>
Exploring ways to better manage life and chronic inflammation affecting your mouth. The thoughts and ideas of one San Antonio periodontist, Dr. Benjamin Young DDS San Antonio.
I am an inquisitive guy who is fascinated by the specialty I practice. I also love dentistry, medicine, science, and the humanities, and talk and write about all of it. The reason I do this is because I believe patients need more than technical procedures. They can benefit from good information and encouragement from people they choose to get to know more than just superficially. My videos here are to benefit dental patients. Some of these videos are used in my private practice to educate patients. Other videos or general information.
To learn more about and my practice, please visit the following links. I'd love to connect with you!
-LINKS-
💻 Website: https://dryoungperiodontics.com/
👍 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/benjaminyoungdds/
❤️ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/benyoungdds/
🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/benyoungdds
🎥 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BenjaminYoungDDS
👨⚕️ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/benjamin-w-young-dds-ms-periodontist
The Perio Patient Podcast - Episode 70.
LANAP -- Laser Assisted New Attachment Procedure has transformed the overall treatment of patients with moderate to advanced periodontitis from a lengthy difficult process to fewer appointments, less discomfort and lower cost.
Here is my take on this amazing technology.
Source: www.lanap.com
Source: https://youtu.be/Plz4O1gpWu0
Exploring ways to better manage life and chronic inflammation affecting your mouth. The thoughts and ideas of one San Antonio periodontist, Dr. Benjamin Young DDS San Antonio.
I am an inquisitive guy who is fascinated by the specialty I practice. I also love dentistry, medicine, science, and the humanities, and talk and write about all of it. The reason I do this, is because I believe patients need more than technical procedures. They can benefit from good information and encouragement from people they choose to get to know more than just superficially. My videos here are to benefit dental patients. Some of these videos are used in my private practice to educate patients. Other videos or general information.
To learn more about and my practice, please visit the following links. I'd love to connect with you!
-LINKS-
💻 Website: https://dryoungperiodontics.com/
👍 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/benjaminyoungdds/
❤️ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/benyoungdds/
🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/benyoungdds
🎥 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BenjaminYoungDDS
👨⚕️ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/benjamin-w-young-dds-ms-periodontist
The Perio Patient Podcast - Episode 69.
What does it mean to be a board certified periodontist?
Being board certified is not required to practice this specialty, so why do periodontists go through the time, expense and stress to obtain this particular certification?
Exploring ways to better manage life and chronic inflammation affecting your mouth. The thoughts and ideas of one San Antonio periodontist, Dr. Benjamin Young DDS San Antonio.
I am an inquisitive guy who is fascinated by the specialty I practice. I also love dentistry, medicine, science, and the humanities, and talk and write about all of it. The reason I do this, is because I believe patients need more than technical procedures. They can benefit from good information and encouragement from people they choose to get to know more than just superficially. My videos here are to benefit dental patients. Some of these videos are used in my private practice to educate patients. Other videos or general information.
To learn more about and my practice, please visit the following links. I'd love to connect with you!
-LINKS-
💻 Website: https://dryoungperiodontics.com/
👍 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/benjaminyoungdds/
❤️ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/benyoungdds/
🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/benyoungdds
🎥 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BenjaminYoungDDS
👨⚕️ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/benjamin-w-young-dds-ms-periodontist
The Perio Patient Podcast - Episode 68
The thoughts and ideas of one periodontist about the benefits as well as possible problems associated with dental implants. Even though dental implants are amazing and provide a much better quality of chewing compared with removable appliances (dentures and partial dentures with implant support), they can still fail. I talk about one such failure on this podcast.
Exploring ways to better manage life and chronic inflammation affecting your mouth. The thoughts and ideas of one San Antonio periodontist, Dr. Benjamin Young DDS San Antonio.
I am an inquisitive guy who is fascinated by the specialty I practice. I also love dentistry, medicine, science, and the humanities, and talk and write about all of it. The reason I do this, is because I believe patients need more than technical procedures. They can benefit from good information and encouragement from people they choose to get to know more than just superficially. My videos here are to benefit dental patients. Some of these videos are used in my private practice to educate patients. Other videos or general information.
To learn more about and my practice, please visit the following links. I'd love to connect with you!
-LINKS-
💻 Website: https://dryoungperiodontics.com/
👍 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/benjaminyoungdds/
❤️ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/benyoungdds/
🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/benyoungdds
🎥 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BenjaminYoungDDS
👨⚕️ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/benjamin-w-young-dds-ms-periodontist
The Perio Patient Podcast - Episode 67.
This podcast gives a toothbrush recommendation and covers current concerns I have about the United States Military culture. Finally, we take a few minutes to think about Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address and how differently he saw our nation compared with others back then and also today.
The Perio Patient Podcast - Episode 66.
Exploring ways to better manage life and chronic inflammation affecting your mouth. The thoughts and ideas of one San Antonio periodontist, Dr. Benjamin Young DDS San Antonio.
I am an inquisitive guy who is fascinated by the specialty I practice. I also love dentistry, medicine, science, and the humanities, and talk and write about all of it. The reason I do this, is because I believe patients need more than technical procedures. They can benefit from good information and encouragement from people they choose to get to know more than just superficially. My videos here are to benefit dental patients. Some of these videos are used in my private practice to educate patients. Other videos or general information.
To learn more about and my practice, please visit the following links. I'd love to connect with you!
-LINKS-
💻 Website: https://dryoungperiodontics.com/
👍 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/benjaminyoungdds/
❤️ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/benyoungdds/
🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/benyoungdds
🎥 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BenjaminYoungDDS
👨⚕️ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/benjamin-w-young-dds-ms-periodontist
The Perio Patient Podcast - Episode 65.
Exploring ways to better manage life and chronic inflammation affecting your mouth. The thoughts and ideas of one San Antonio periodontist, Dr. Benjamin Young DDS San Antonio.
I am an inquisitive guy who is fascinated by the specialty I practice. I also love dentistry, medicine, science, and the humanities, and talk and write about all of it. The reason I do this, is because I believe patients need more than technical procedures. They can benefit from good information and encouragement from people they choose to get to know more than just superficially. My videos here are to benefit dental patients. Some of these videos are used in my private practice to educate patients. Other videos or general information.
To learn more about and my practice, please visit the following links. I'd love to connect with you!
-LINKS-
💻 Website: https://dryoungperiodontics.com/
👍 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/benjaminyoungdds/
❤️ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/benyoungdds/
🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/benyoungdds
🎥 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BenjaminYoungDDS
👨⚕️ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/benjamin-w-young-dds-ms-periodontist
The Perio Patient Podcast - Episode 64.
Exploring ways to better manage life and chronic inflammation affecting your mouth. The thoughts and ideas of one San Antonio periodontist, Dr. Benjamin Young DDS San Antonio.
I am an inquisitive guy who is fascinated by the specialty I practice. I also love dentistry, medicine, science, and the humanities, and talk and write about all of it. The reason I do this, is because I believe patients need more than technical procedures. They can benefit from good information and encouragement from people they choose to get to know more than just superficially. My videos here are to benefit dental patients. Some of these videos are used in my private practice to educate patients. Other videos or general information.
To learn more about and my practice, please visit the following links. I'd love to connect with you!
-LINKS-
💻 Website: https://dryoungperiodontics.com/
👍 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/benjaminyoungdds/
❤️ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/benyoungdds/
🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/benyoungdds
🎥 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BenjaminYoungDDS
👨⚕️ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/benjamin-w-young-dds-ms-periodontist
That’s right. Think for yourself – even if you disagree with me and others.
It sounds strange that I would say this to you I know, and that is because there is an initial desire to be agreed with. How much easier would it be if you just did what I told you? It is an enticing thought, because my day would flow so much smoother. Everyone would fall in line and do what I say. It is the highest form of human power, is it not? to speak and have others move – without argument, without discussions.
But here is the problem...
So, what counters this natural tendency to play the victim in my own life? How can I not fume at every stop light or slow driver who happens to be in front of me? On the one hand, I can scold myself – tell myself to shape up and be nicer. But I have two problems with this approach. First, I think it lowers my mood – which I frankly don’t want to do if I can help it, and second, it doesn’t work.
Instead of just getting down on myself, my approach is to practice respect...
Throughout my professional career it has repeatedly been brought home to me that if I fail to explain clearly enough for patients to become comfortable with the decisions they will make, it will affect the treatment I am able to provide them. This means I have to schedule time at the beginning of care for them to be able to talk and for me to listen...
The Perio Patient Podcast - Episode 60.
Exploring ways to better manage life and chronic inflammation affecting your mouth. The thoughts and ideas of one San Antonio periodontist, Dr. Benjamin Young DDS San Antonio.
I am an inquisitive guy who is fascinated by the specialty I practice. I also love dentistry, medicine, science, and the humanities, and talk and write about all of it. The reason I do this, is because I believe patients need more than technical procedures. They can benefit from good information and encouragement from people they choose to get to know more than just superficially. My videos here are to benefit dental patients. Some of these videos are used in my private practice to educate patients. Other videos or general information.
To learn more about and my practice, please visit the following links. I'd love to connect with you!
-LINKS-
💻 Website: https://dryoungperiodontics.com/
👍 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/benjaminyoungdds/
❤️ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/benyoungdds/
🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/benyoungdds
🎥 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BenjaminYoungDDS
👨⚕️ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/benjamin-w-young-dds-ms-periodontist
Exploring ways to better manage life and chronic inflammation affecting your mouth. The thoughts and ideas of one San Antonio periodontist, Dr. Benjamin Young DDS San Antonio.
I am an inquisitive guy who is fascinated by the specialty I practice. I also love dentistry, medicine, science, and the humanities, and talk and write about all of it. The reason I do this, is because I believe patients need more than technical procedures. They can benefit from good information and encouragement from people they choose to get to know more than just superficially. My videos here are to benefit dental patients. Some of these videos are used in my private practice to educate patients. Other videos or general information.
To learn more about and my practice, please visit the following links. I'd love to connect with you!
-LINKS-
💻 Website: https://dryoungperiodontics.com/
👍 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/benjaminyoungdds/
❤️ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/benyoungdds/
🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/benyoungdds
🎥 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BenjaminYoungDDS
👨⚕️ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/benjamin-w-young-dds-ms-periodontist
If we are not constantly working to live a purposeful life, then —I don’t know about you, but — it’s easy for me to just curl up and sleep a little longer.
Our brains are like sieves -- and this is a good thing. I talk about how to focus on important things in the midst of a lot of urgent things.
The thoughts and ideas of one periodontist.
The thoughts and ideas of one periodontist
Are people under stress more likely to catch a cold? Well, there was a study that attempted to answer that question back in 1991.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1713648/
I recorded this while on the road as I explain and I give you a few personal opinions about things involving all of us at the moment.
There was (at least to me) an interesting research article in the December 2020 issue of the Journal of the American Dental Association (JADA) on the subject of short-term mission work by dentists and how these activities affect those who participate.
I use this to describe the benefit of this type of activity to professional development in healthcare workers in general by using myself as the example.
How is your mood? Does this Christmas season have a little dark mood to it? If so, I hope you find this podcast therapeutic.
We Need a Little Christmas performed by Angela Lansbury and from the musical Mame.
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen performed by Pentatonix.
Joy To The World (Live At The Helix In Dublin, Ireland/2013)
I go over a study that correlates flossing with keeping teeth – which correlates with better health. The study was reported in the Journal of Dental Research this year and involves patients who are over the age of 65.
As a side benefit, while we work through a summary of this study, I explain a little about statistics in research.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0022034520916151?journalCode=jdrb
I've enrolled in a series of lectures on the topic of "Personality." A lot has changed since Myers-Briggs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_E._Williams
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/09/10/what-personality-tests-really-deliver
https://www.understandmyself.com
https://courses.jordanbpeterson.com/library
Happy Thanksgiving to friends in the US and around the world. It's too good a holiday not to share.
Proprioception is the brain's ability to know where all parts of the body are in space and time. It is the reason we can walk without falling and know when a strawberry seed has lodged between our teeth. Understanding proprioception can help people keep their dental implants healthy and also help them determine whether or not they are having gum pain or a toothache.
The thoughts and ideas of one periodontist.
Vitamin D is an important supplement to consider taking.
https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200518/more-vitamin-d-lower-risk-of-severe-covid-19
https://www.healthline.com/health/food-nutrition/benefits-vitamin-d#_noHeaderPrefixedContent
We know it as HIPAA which really doesn’t help me that much because I then think it spells out HIPPA. Of course, when we can’t spell it, it then becomes difficult to figure out what it stands for.
I share two recent HIPAA violations in order to help us understand what it is meant to protect. The first article I share talks about a breach of the information of an insurance company by hackers that ultimately cost the company $6.85M in fines. The other article resulted in fines to a hospital because they failed to release medical records to a child patient’s mother in a timely manner.
The thoughts and ideas of one periodontist.
The article referred to can be found at https://dryoungperiodontics.com/how-to-get-straight-as-in-college/
So is it Veterans' Day or Veterans Day? Here's your answer.
Thank you to all who have served our Nation in the military.
If you are a perfectionist, you need to listen to this -- perhaps over and over -- until it makes "perfect" sense.
Daily habits are more important than what we attempt to do to manage life every once in a while. Routines should be simple and low stress. To get to this level of management is not easy and takes time. Am I there personally? No way. It's one of life's constant challenges.
If you want to get the most out of your dental insurance it will require changing your mind about who is best suited to handle communicating with the insurance company. Most patients defer all of this complicated insurance stuff to the dental office. Rather than do this, why not use the dental office as a source of information to equip you to deal with your insurance company? Of all the players, you are the one the insurance company is most likely to respond to in positive ways.
The thoughts and ideas of one periodontist.
The best healthcare comes to those who assume responsibility for participating rather than expecting things to workout. So much really depends on the patient's attitude as to whether or not they will be able to achieve and then maintain a good quality of life and health.
Here I get into the differences in the pain that comes from within a tooth and the pain associated with the area around the tooth.
If we are to follow the science, then let’s look at some of the numbers and see what we can understand that may not be clear from what we are hearing from all the sound bites.
The thoughts and ideas of one periodontist.
This is a brief update and I talk a little about Vitamin D. More to come from the information I picked up at this meeting as i go back through it in the upcoming weeks.
We are continuing our tour through the teeth. In an earlier podcast I went through the different front teeth for adults and children. In this episode we get into the bicuspids and molars. Finally, how do all the teeth function together? I explain why you need them all (except for wisdom teeth).
The thoughts and ideas of one periodontist.
Should everyone everywhere where Face Masks in order to keep the virus from infecting people? Let’s get practical and think this issue through.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/in-depth/coronavirus-mask/art-20485449
Today, let’s think about viruses because it’s on our minds. It worries a lot of people and rightly so – but we will get through this. COVID-19 is like other cold and flu or influenza viruses in many ways. It isn’t even unique in that people don’t die from these other viruses. They do. What is new is that it is new. This means we as a population do not have a built-up immunity to it just yet. We will get there eventually. Also, like all other viruses, COVID-19 will never completely go away. It will hang around and cause infections here and there from now on.
https://www.fda.gov/drugs/information-drug-class/qa-consumers-hand-sanitizers-and-covid-19
Well today I want to step way back and to talk about a subject that all of us living in the United States share – whether we like it or not. And it actually relates directly to my professional and personal life as well as yours, because it is the environment in which I practice my specific area within the broader circle of healthcare and how all of us are able cooperate together for the delivery of healthcare along with everything else within our particular society.
You have twelve front teeth. Six on top and six on bottom. You have twelve front deciduous teeth before these. Allow me to introduce you to them in a little more detail. Come sit next to me in an early tooth anatomy class in dental school.
The biggest cause of tooth decay is refined sugar because bacteria can use it without effort to run their machinery. It is their favorite food. Once it has been used by these organisms, it is turned into an acid that begins to dissolve the hardest substance in the body, tooth enamel.
The thoughts and ideas of one periodontist on how technology is changing the practice of dentistry and periodontics. It has a lot to do with the digital revolution.
https://www.oberlo.com/blog/podcast-statistics#:~:text=There%20are%20currently%20850%2C000%20active,of%2012%20listen%20to%20podcasts.
Today I talk about
The Least Expensive Appropriate Treatment Trick,
The Missing Tooth Clause Conundrum and
The We Cover This Procedure Except When We Don't Debacle.
So… was water fluoridation a good idea?
How well did it reduce dental caries in children?
Finally! We obtain some answers…and a few more questions.
Ah, such is science.
A few thoughts about the value of listening to others and how challenging change really is.
Starting to look at a Cochrane Review of Water fluoridation and prevention of dental caries or tooth decay as well as dental fluorosis.
It's complicated but valuable because as we work through questions on this scientific subject it helps us think about how science is used and misused in the general culture.
https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD010856.pub2/full
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_Earth
The thoughts and ideas of one periodontist
Just checking in and giving you a few more thoughts about fluoride as well as periodontal maintenance as experienced by one of my patients today.
Is fluoridation a good thing? To answer this, we have to first understand what fluoride is and where it comes from.
Some of my material comes from these two sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluoride
This is the 75th anniversary of water fluoridation.
Do we still need it? How do we know?
To get there I want to tell you about the Cochrane Library -- what it is and what it does.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochrane_Library
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26092033/
In the 1950s, it was decided, absent data, that low dose radiation was as bad as high dose and so no dose would be tolerated. This was called the Linear No-Threshold (LNT) dose hypothesis. Today this is being overturned in medicine and eventually in dentistry.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2020/01/28/ditch-that-lead-apron-in-the-x-ray-room/#227a1e413bd5
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/14/well/live/radiation-exposure-x-rays-scans-lead-apron.html
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0764446999800444
The thoughts and ideas of one periodontist.
What patients need to know about their dental insurance. How to understand it and how to make sure the dental insurance company is treating them fairly.
The thoughts and ideas of one periodontist.
What patients need to know about their dental insurance. How to understand it and how to make sure the dental insurance company is treating them fairly.
The thoughts and ideas of one periodontist.
What patients need to know about their dental insurance. How to understand it and how to make sure the dental insurance company is treating them fairly.
What patients need to know about their dental insurance. How to understand it and how to make sure the dental insurance company is treating them fairly.
The thoughts and ideas of one periodontist. Does it really work to be selfless? What it takes to develop technical skills.
People are heading back to school so let’s talk about teaching and what it is. Also we will talk about what floss can’t ever do. I introduce one of my greatest influences in early childhood, Dr. Rudolf Flesch (and my mom), who I credit for helping me get good grades in school.
Here is more about Dr. Flesch. Read it and weep. http://www.improve-education.org/id29.html
Here is an article I wrote about how to get straight A’s in college (I learned this from my youngest daughter btw). Personally, I got a C in organic chemistry. https://blog.mysanantonio.com/benyoung/2012/09/how-to-get-straight-as-in-college/
My smoking story. How to think about quitting smoking in ways that will actually strengthen your resolve.
https://youtu.be/bjX7FIfAA2k
Patients with chronic inflammation who smoke have more trouble in general than those who don't. With regards to periodontal disease smoking affects the mouth in two ways -- locally and systemically. But the nicotine addiction is a tough problem. There are some things you can do to help quit and we discuss a few in this podcast.
I’m heading off to Haven for Hope and the Christian Dental Clinic in San Antonio to serve with a number of other dentists a population of refugees living in our city. I explain how we do this as part of the ministry of Christian Medical and Dental Associations (CMDA). To learn more, check out their San Antonio Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/cmdasatx/
Today the topic is pain management. I get into the difference between narcotics and non-narcotics.
Let’s talk about local anesthetics and dentists. In this episode I describe how to help children with their fears about going to the dentist. Also, should dental hygienists be allowed to give local anesthesia? What might be some good ways to train and certify them? I also give a few of my own tips on how dentists might think about providing comfortable anesthesia. So, patients – how important would you say the delivery of comfortable local anesthesia is to you? Is it as big a deal as I think it is? Let me know your thoughts.
Happy birthday to a new grandson! Do you know the difference between infection and inflammation? Allow me to make it simple. Also, we discuss inflammatory diseases in general as well as what autoimmune diseases are. The mouth is an easy and direct way to begin to address inflammatory diseases of the body and a laser at the right setting can accomplish this quickly and effectively. Finally, when the mouth is healthier, it affects the rest of the body’s health as well.
Add the word “cementum” to your vocabulary. Brushing and flossing tips – what’s important and what might be damaging? What is a comprehensive dentist?
Explaining periodontal disease in ways that are simple and still honest. Where I came up with A Tooth Has Four Parts.
I joined to get my dental education paid for, but little did I know how profound a transformation on my life personally and professionally this experience would be.
Podcasts are a mixture of personality and content. I talk about full disclosure, so you know better who you are listening to.
My idea about how this podcast might help you with the management, not only of periodontal disease should you have it, but health in general.