welcome my name's dr bill soul koski and i'm a general dentist with the office in canada's burg at one eighty three east pike street i'm available for consultation at seven two four seven four five zero one  which is the topic of today's discussion preventive dentistry i have with me today two of the finest hi janice in the world and christy mitchell and jody bord and i want to introduce to our worldwide audience here streaming on the internet first christy mitchell what could you both do you in turn tell us about yourself tell us about your educational two years and jodi well i started dentistry mack in one thousand nine hundred five i started out as a dental assistant actually worked as an assistant for five years and then i went to school for hiding in ohio and dental hygienists play such an integral role in the overall health and well being of the individual not just from a cosmetic or but but from a health standpoint can you elaborate on the role of the dental hygienist and in longevity medicine well they found the was dental health it's interconnected to the rest of your whole body everything's in or related so if you have healthy gums and teeth that's a tribute to your overall health as well and so that's our job is to maintain dental health in an individual's mouth and to promote and educate the and tell me what what you do with me as a patient well first we ring you and assess your mouth your mouth is the window to the health of your body because it does relate to your cardiovascular system and we look at the gums in t say inflammation tell me what you mean by implementation how does it manifest itself to the public does inflammation i mean is describe what you mean generally when you speak of information i'm sure everyone's of gender bias and didn't bias basically means inflammation of the gums and that's when when you're brushing your teeth and you have bleeding or you know there's a little bit of soreness there that just means that something's going on underneath the gums infected and causing a problem when you say probe well it is a generic term but when you are in the dental application tell us why we pro what the attachment of the guns in the two years if you get any higher than that that means and from a thing going on in the gun the starting to detach so you slide the probe down along the see the neck of the two and then it gives a reading and that if it's a healthy reading the probably go minimally but if there is more of a pocket you pocket is where the two the gum has pulled away from the tube and bacteria and t get below the gum and then that's what interferes with the rest of your body it gets into your bloodstream and can affect your heart if i asked you i came in and you say and i was the  you would say on the camera you'd sell it on the wall you see bleeding and my answer would be you know they were always blood what your answer to that that's a warning sign you're healthy or not supposed to bleed bleeding gums are a sign of inflammation and infections and i always tell my patients that you know when you're eating your gums are bleeding you just don't know it and when there's bacteria that's normal in your mouth it's in your digestive tract the same and when you get when you're eating for instance pretzels or some hard food you're actually causing micro bleeds in your mouth and this bacteria gets into your gums in the your bloodstream and it's titrated every time you eat and then your body wants to fight this bacteria with the mechanisms of white blood cells and the response to infection to a foreign body and that's what the mechanism for them plaque on your arteries and bacteria and your coronary your carotid brain inflammation so invariably over time it effects your whole body to have bad gums i've seen historically people that are in eighty ninety one hundred years old healthy teeth healthy bodies there's a direct correlation whether it's how they took care of themselves what the or how they took care of their teeth it is longevity met there are very few people that are healthy when they become seventy and eighty that have bad gums and bad people it just does not happen and that leads to their  longevity medicine but i see jodi that you have a model here tell me what this represents because it's an interesting model i'm a two fer yes this basically represents and shows the actual to the root being healthy then so plaque so would you define pleasured to do what is the difference between this hard stuff plucked how do you remove plaque and how to remove the hard stuff well the way i see  i'm someone who cares about smile i like to cook sunny side up and i live and work in your community i'm the one who puts a smile on your child's face i'm an orthodontist a dental specialist who corrects crooked teeth life i'm the maker of healthy beautiful smile for more information visit braces dot org hygienists and they are the top of their field they are conscientious they really care about patients and keeping what god gave us that natural teeth is interesting i was talking to god about ninety five years old the summer we were actually after i don't look like exercise but i was exercising with him in the pool of his knees were a little hurting  and i said you can do anything about that he says not only try to go out with my original parts and i thought that was very appropriate to dentistry we can we can keep our teeth our whole lives absolutely you can't almost say that you mean couldn't you can say that about other aspects of medicine but in dentistry you know barring some injury or something we can guarantee if you follow the guidelines that you can keep your teeth your whole life and i'll sign that guarantee and say it's about prevention and that's why we're having this program that's why we have christy and jody here today the first segment we talked about gum disease and plaque and calculus and probing and and there are plenty of people and we see them all with a not in office because that's what we do but when you're out about people's breath is is bad and you know that's hurt some of it so horrendous you got a step back about forty c maybe we're aware of it because we're in the profession but that oftentimes associated with this accretions accumulations of plaque and calculus and and that affects your mouth those are your taste or your food it affects your overall health as we talked about the first segment  what i'd like to you to you to do is to lab or a we talk about this stuff being there how do we get it off and then how do we keep it off so that a patient comes in to have all this work and i call it  down along the route of the tube you don't just going straight down and back up and by doing that you're getting the plaque off and you can do you say you can see it more you're taking it underneath the go by doing that you're getting the plaque off and then it h it from hardening and then you don't have to do that but once it harden when what you see is you know it's like an iceberg you see only see this part above the gum and there's so much more going on below the when people come in they say i just want my teeth cleaned it's just always not that simple sometimes it is but we go above the get on line and below the gumline to clean off all of the the bacteria and the the electric brushes up our brush is definitely more efficient and effective but just use your regular brush you would put it in at an angle and just you can rotate it you would separate your teeth rotate the brush at the gum line and brush down on the top all the way around and then on the bottom you would rotate it and brush up always going in the direction that teeth grow down on the top up on the bottom scrub all you want across your chewing surfaces but when you're brushing the gums are just as important as your teeth and you would roll this and brush down roll it in brush up so many people get in there just scrubbing scrubbing scrubbing that pulls away the day and i like a soft bristle as you do i just like to press a little harder more firm and and especially on the biting surface and what how often do you brush your teeth haven't so you here's what i'm finding the older we get and i mean i'm not excluding you too because you're too very young but the older we get we seem to have to brush a little more and floss a little more and some of it's dry mouth some of it is you know right now you get to use them you know where some of that's been sort of a little less than they were before but i'm starting to advocate and i do brush if i'm at home or in the office i brush every time to do two reasons one i don't want stuff when i'm smiling and talking stuck in my teeth and the other is it's just knowing what we know we don't want to leave that stuff in there i don't wan leave anything in there to actually cause a final you know what gets on your t v if it remains on your teeth for a period of time the cycle just starts to continue to break a bacteria love to go to thrive and grow so essentially if you learn to take anything away it's brush at night it and it's just a piece of string for floss and your basic brush you don't say what you're telling me it's doesn't cost all i tell people this all the time that i've had personally people the work that i did thirty years ago still the same dentistry is an expensive one it's we have a lot of great professionals that care about people in our office and our offices when it's done the last if you take care of it and then you get your money's worth so if you greater awareness of what it takes to keep healthy gums healthy and consequently longevity medicine to help something's happening to the polar bear polar bears are losing their homes their hunting grounds their lives go to save the polar bear dot org today five zero one zero three we will offer a consultation to talk to either kristi or jodi about screening for your periodontal or your gums if you think you have bad governance give them a call and that be glad to tell you whether you do valid and this segment of the program we want to talk about what did we want to talk about i just how each person has their own individual needs when they come into the office whether they haven't been seen by a dentist in years we address that a certain way or someone comes on a regular six month basis so we approach every person individually the elderly person comes in they bring a list of medications with them we go over their health history and we see what the complications are from the medications dry mouth presents a whole nother avenue of problems you know with no saliva on your teeth that plaque sticks to your teeth and dry mouth causes bad breath so when you say individually kristie of other words for a certain age group like we're going to jody is going to talk about children but teenagers have a different dental problem than adults than people who are considered geriatric have a different issues associated but the ultimate goal is to maintain healthy pretty functional teeth that last a lifetime danger how do you address for instance what it what problems you see with teenagers more than you see with a lot of teenagers have braces and that's right there presents all kinds of problems as far as trying to keep them clean it's hard enough for us to clean and when they come in we needed to kape the patient to really clean around the brackets properly and they have to watch the sugar drinks that the sodas the sports drinks that lays around the brackets and eats away causing the k you get your braces taken off and you have these white marks all over your teeth you have beautiful straight teeth but you have these white marks on them and that's because the plaque and the sugar and the acids have laid around the brackets and broken down the enamel so we have to limit that and then tell me what you think about when you see it give me your direct t that's almost a no brainer snuff leads to oral cancer and all the damage irreversible damage to your gums you have that that backa laying on your your tissue it burns the vestibule of your tissue the inside lining just eats away in a lot of times it can't be repaired jodi has and experience working in a children's dental office in ohio before she was we were lucky enough to have her in kansas birds so children's dentistry pediatric dentistry presents itself for that with a special kind of challenge and could you tell us about a challenge how so well the pediatric patients and their parents think that they need to keep everything healthy and by doing that you know let's give our kids to do is good for you that's that's right it's good for your body it's not good for your teeth and lot of things that the children have such as juice or gummy vitamins or chocolate milk or even just a lot of white know it all has sugar in it and if the kids are not properly getting their teeth brushed  that you just have rampant the caymans decay all through the kids mouth now parents who you know are more aware and give more water and try to stay away from them vitamins and a lot of juices you know that the kids have a good health healthy teeth and right here are basically dental sealant this is something to prevent and then for the kids when their six year molars come in they are molars that the kids will keep for the rest of their lives so what we do is and the chewing surfaces where everything gets stuck such as food and so forth we just put a little bit of i tell the kids like a nail polish or a paint we distill it in there so that the food is able to stick and it helps prevent can do for a what we do first is we have a laser detection system to make sure that these groups have no cavities and then we seal them and i think that's a the smart way to do that and we've seen replaced nothing was drilled away there is no we did not compromise the tooth service in any way and then it can be reapplied at different times to just keep that tooth healthy and free from the can say we have thirty seconds like to thank christie mitchell and jody bordley dental hygienists they are such an important part of the overall health and well being of  of our patients and i'd like to thank them for their dedication and support in the last thing you might want to say during the program to to the to the general audience would both you have that opportunity to just wrap thank you for helping our audience keep their teeth should live healthy smile should last a lifetime