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Very Dental: What Dentistry Can Learn from Medicine with Dr. Tarun Agarwal

The Very Dental Podcast Network

Release Date: 08/13/2021

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Any dentist or dental team member that spends any time in a medical office cannot help but notice the distinct differences in how we treat patients and deliver care. Dr. Tarun Agarwal joins Alan to candidly (and I mean CANDIDLY) talk about what physicians could learn from dental offices and what dental offices might learn from medicine! Some of the topics include:
  • T-Bone talks about meetings and the Voices of Dentistry
  • How COVID affected 3D Dentists...getting back in to "course shape."
  • How hard is it to perf a tooth? Hard...but not impossible!
  • What's new at 3D Dentists?
  • The history of the 3D Dentists retreat.
    • "This is how education should be."
  • Living together is an interesting way to learn
  • The treatment center/addiction during COVID
  • Al's medical problems
  • What medicine can learn from dentistry (and vice versa)
  • The patriarchal approach of medicine may have a place in dentistry
  • Two diabetics walk into a room
  • Water shaming...what is the right amount of water?
    • having to pee all the time at work
  • The Voices of Dentistry!
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