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Tepe Tools and Oral Health with Michelle Strange, RDH

Healthy Mouth Healthy Life Podcast

Release Date: 03/23/2016

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#26 - Gary Takacs - The 3 Most Important Questions to Ask When Choosing a Dentist  show art #26 - Gary Takacs - The 3 Most Important Questions to Ask When Choosing a Dentist

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Last year I had the pleasure of attending the Voices of Dentistry Podcasting Summit, and was delighted to sit down and spend some time with the one and only Gary Takacs. Gary is a seasoned podcaster, consultant, educator, and all around great guy! To date, he has consulted over 2,200 dental offices, and has interviewed over 250 guests on his podcast; I guess you can say he’s a someone who knows what successful dental professionals looks like! I wanted to pick Gary’s brain about what questions a person should ask themselves when they are faced with choosing a dentist and dental...

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#25 - Ed Harrold - Breathing Techniques For Anti Stress and Anti Aging show art #25 - Ed Harrold - Breathing Techniques For Anti Stress and Anti Aging

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I had the pleasure of an in person interview with Ed Harrold at the Inaugural FACE Conference in Washington DC this year. FACE is an organization that helps bring health care providers together and teach the screening of airway disorders, and Ed was there to motivate the group and teach us how to better take care of ourselves so that we can continue to help others. This is a great interview packed with tips on how to help stall aging, deal with stress, help our children’s health, get the most out of a workout and for our healthcare workers, tips on wearing a mask and having a clean nasal...

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#23 - Success Story - How Angie Avoided General Anesthesia For Her Son's Cavities show art #23 - Success Story - How Angie Avoided General Anesthesia For Her Son's Cavities

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#22 - Julie Worrel RN - What You Need To Know About Mouth Breathing show art #22 - Julie Worrel RN - What You Need To Know About Mouth Breathing

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Julia Worrell is a Nurse whose personal experience has changed the way she looks at someone’s health and how it relates to what the body needs to do in order to stay healthy, pain-free and working properly. Her journey through developing an underbite as a child that led jaw surgery which led to a cascade of health problems including snoring, weight gain and the inability to concentrate, put her on a personal quest to find answers for what she was struggling with. Being an ER nurse she sees many patients in crisis, and it's seeing these patients which have caused her to deeply understand the...

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#21 - Success Story - How This Mom Saved Thousands at the Dentist show art #21 - Success Story - How This Mom Saved Thousands at the Dentist

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Dani is like most moms I speak with. Someone who cares deeply for her children’s well-being, and feeling like a failure because her child has cavities that she cannot seem to control. To make matters worse, she’s not getting any additional help from her dental office when she visits for her kids twice a year cleaning and exam! “Just brush and floss and get fluoride treatments” were what she was instructed to do…but the problem is, she was ALREADY doing that.  MULTIPLE times a day! Dani shares her story of what it was like to take her son to the dentist for many years only to be...

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Elijah and I meet up at for this interview at CDA (California Dental Association) annual conference. He catches us up on current affairs, and what behind the scenes looks like for him. He’s focusing on multiple businesses, but plans to focus primarily on Smiles at Sea soon. Cancun July 7-9 Fri-Sun (fri pm classes, sat am classes) this will focus on “rising stars”. (Discount code in links below) Elijah has gathered a new-found focus, we talk about the intention for that and how he is really looking at how he can mentor more people and raise them up and help get them to their next level....

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#19 - Shirley Gutkowski  - Xylitol and How It Helps Stop Cavities show art #19 - Shirley Gutkowski - Xylitol and How It Helps Stop Cavities

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Xylitol is one of the things I talk about with anyone who will listen!  It has so many uses and misconceptions. People question the name and often confuse it with artificial sweeteners so they disregard it. But it isn’t a chemical artificial sweetener at all, it is a sugar that is found in birch trees and corn cobs...it also happens to be something that our body creates naturally, and supplementing with it in the mouth helps stop cavities SIGNIFICANTLY! The magic of xylitol is best realized when you understand WHY it works, and to best explain that I brought in Shirley Gutkowski....

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#18 - Angie Stone - CAREERfusion and HyLife Oral Health Alliance (HOHA) show art #18 - Angie Stone - CAREERfusion and HyLife Oral Health Alliance (HOHA)

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Today’s episode has Angie Stone with us again, but this time it’s on location at CAREERfusion 2017 in Daytona Beach, FL! I wanted to capture the moment of , because as an out of the box thinking hygienist, I’ve been told for many years by many peers that “I just needed to be there”. It took me years to, and thanks to the DebbieZ Pay It Forward Fund, I was chosen this year as a scholarship recipient! Angie and I spend time talking about what has helped her outside of the box career, where HyLife Oral Health Alliance is going, and what prompted her to write (Amazon Best Seller)....

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Since 1956, the Swedish company, Tepe, has been creating home care tools for your mouth, focusing on the most challenging areas. What started out as a toothpick has led to over 20 different brushes styled to meet your needs and clean where the typical toothbrush misses.

When toothbrushes and tools miss area, cavities and gum disease happens.

The expense and heartache of being in the dental chair hurts your wallet and your soul.

But that pain can be stopped!

Toothbrushes and mouth tools aren’t created equally.  They vary from head design, bristle type, bristle density to handle design, and Tepe has spent 50 years perfecting home care tools. They bring health to oral and make home care easy, effective and cost efficient.

Join Michelle Strange, RDH, and I as we talk about what it takes to use tools to clean the different areas of the mouth, and why gum stimulation/massaging is what really helps create a healthy mouth.

Michelle helps the consumer understand why gum stimulation helps protect your teeth and gums, and why flossing may not be the answer for many people (spoiler alert: she does give you alternatives that need to be done if flossing isn’t your thing, but you also want a healthy mouth).

After we cover tools and oral health, we switch our conversation to career paths, and discuss how stepping out of her comfort zone has not only skyrocketed her career, but made her a better clinician and employee.

This podcast is not to be missed if you suffer from healthy mouth issues, or are someone who sees patients in an office.  

Tepe’s products make oral health much more predictable and cost effective. Proper cleaning prevents build up; build up typically leads to cavities or gum disease, unless the the buildup is stopped.