Comprehensive Dentistry

1 00:00:06.917 --> 00:00:10.767 The way to think about comprehensive dentistry is to think way out, 2 00:00:10.983 --> 00:00:13.467 zoom way out and think about the patient first. 3 00:00:13.525 --> 00:00:14.783 Who is this person? 4 00:00:15.300 --> 00:00:19.550 What are their anxieties? What are their concerns? 5 00:00:20.067 --> 00:00:22.108 What are their specific problems? 6 00:00:22.242 --> 00:00:24.183 What are the options to those problems? 7 00:00:24.283 --> 00:00:26.883 When we speak about comprehensive dentistry, 8 00:00:26.884 --> 00:00:29.142 it's not about different procedures, 9 00:00:29.143 --> 00:00:33.483 it's about this idea of looking at the entire mouth. 10 00:00:33.542 --> 00:00:37.817 Restoring a mouth is a little bit like restoring a home or building a home. 11 00:00:39.092 --> 00:00:41.700 First, you have to have a good foundation. 12 00:00:41.720 --> 00:00:43.320 If you don't do have a good foundation, 13 00:00:43.350 --> 00:00:47.633 then everything you build on top of it is going to be worthless. 14 00:00:48.592 --> 00:00:53.018 In dentistry, a good foundation has to do with healthy jaw joints, 15 00:00:53.067 --> 00:00:56.275 healthy soft tissues, and bone support for your teeth. 16 00:00:56.758 --> 00:00:59.925 Then the teeth, of course, then become the house. 17 00:00:59.970 --> 00:01:02.167 The teeth become the thing that we look at, 18 00:01:02.400 --> 00:01:03.583 and we function with. 19 00:01:03.675 --> 00:01:08.333 But without that foundation, they're not going to last very long. 20 00:01:08.617 --> 00:01:10.550 So comprehensive dentistry means 21 00:01:11.150 --> 00:01:14.517 addressing the foundational issues before you build the house. 22 00:01:15.075 --> 00:01:18.258 The benefits of having a healthy mouth, 23 00:01:18.350 --> 00:01:21.217 we used to think were just local to the mouth, 24 00:01:22.008 --> 00:01:25.442 but we now know that actually, the mouth is part of the body, 25 00:01:25.592 --> 00:01:28.908 and it's very intimately related to the health of the body. 26 00:01:28.950 --> 00:01:35.083 There's again, studies that show that if you smile, people smile back. 27 00:01:35.217 --> 00:01:37.058 It improves the quality of your life. 28 00:01:37.075 --> 00:01:40.275 People who have a beautiful smile actually get paid more. 29 00:01:41.617 --> 00:01:47.575 They earn more, and they are, generally speaking, happier people.