651: Patient Lifestyle Habits that Sabotage Your Treatment Plans - Uche Odiatu - a podcast by ACT Dental
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Patient Lifestyle Habits that Sabotage Your Treatment Plans
Episode #651 with Dr. Uche Odiatu
Dentists are the gatekeepers of wellness and the wave is coming! Implants not taking? Dry sockets persisting? A bad patient can make even the best dentist look bad. Get ready to ask the right questions and build an office culture to bring you and your patients to the best dental and overall health yet. To learn how, listen to Episode 651 of The Best Practices Show!
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Main Takeaways:
Awareness is the first step of change.
A patient with toxic lifestyle habits can make even the best dentist look bad.
To ask better questions about health, you have to be healthy yourself.
There is a wellness wave happening. Get ready to be on it.
Quotes:
“Well, a study club is all about achievement, next level, elite patient care. They do the clinical stuff. They have the sterilization, the best implant parts. They have the best of everything. A trained team; a crack team. Then a patient shows up, who loves lemon meringue pie, doesn’t love his job, disengaged from work, watches the whole evening “Emily in Paris” and you wonder why your implant doesn’t integrate or there’s a dry socket. A whole lot of stuff patients do at night, in their non-dental clinic time can either support your treatment or sabotage.” (1:59—2:35)
“Awareness is the first step of change. So you gotta start thinking, we haven’t begun studying this. I have sleep on my new patient questionnaire. Well, “how do you sleep?” “Great.” “Ok let’s go onto the next one. Do you drink coffee?” There is so much more to sleep than just saying “do you sleep great?” Time in bed isn’t sleep. Most people say “yeah I get to bed at midnight, get up at 7” and the dentist goes “ok that’s 7 hours” No. That’s time in bed. Actual sleep efficiency is 70%. That’s only 5 hours. And 5 hours, Matthew Walker Neuroscientist, 5 hours is not good. It’s an inflammatory cascade at night if you sleep 5 hours. Literally nothing is healing. The immune system is not able to re-boot.” (3:53—4:32)
“A really bad patient who has got really toxic lifestyle habits can make the best dentist’s work...
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