Your Dental Top 5

This week on Your Dental Top 5 your host, Amanda Hill, RDH is talking with Laurel Gans, DDS about the top 5 non-clinical jobs for dental professionals. As we all know the Covid-19 pandemic changed the workforce in dentistry and Dr. Gans is going to talk to us about some alternate options. 

Quotes

“95% of the aerosols in your operatory are coming from your dental unit waterlines.” 

“You can be in the op, but not in the op, use your education, but not injure yourself.” 

“I like this check thing, it sounds good.” 

I have a twin sister who is also a dentist and within a year she was having wrist trouble.” 

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This week on Your Dental Top 5 your host, Amanda Hill, RDH is talking with The Latina RDH, Amber Lovatos, RDH about the top 5 things to know about the latin community. 

Quotes

“Brazilians are only latino because they don’t speak spanish.” 

“Latino refers to a group of people, latina refers to a woman or group of women.” 

“If you add 1 man to a group of 100 women you are now latino not latina.” 

“LatinX is neither male or female.”

“Don’t call us Spanish, we are not from Spain.” 

“There are 20 different latin countries, we are not all Mexican.” 

“We all have a very high sugar diet, and we will likely need some nutritional education and counseling.” 

“I didn’t know what dental floss was until I was an adult.” 

Links

Communicate with Spanish-speaking patients in your dental office

Smiles Por Vida: A Spanglish Children's Dental Book (Spanish Edition) 

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This week on Your Dental Top 5 your host, Amanda Hill, RDH is talking with Barbara Tritz, RDH, BS, MSB about biological dentistry. 

Quotes

“When I first started as a hygienist, for the first year I hated it.” 

“I fell in love with being a dental hygienist because I could finally be a healer.” 

“When they see what is on the screen they want to be healthy.” 

“I won’t work without a microscope, you have to know what you are dealing with, if you don’t know what you are dealing with you are just the cleaning lady.” 

“Most root causes are not in the mouth.”

“As a profession we are failing.” 

“If your patients are mouth breathing they are going to have perio and they are going to have caries.” 

“What we learned in school is the minimum.” 

“Healthy gums don’t bleed. Period.” 

Links

Queenofdentalhygiene.net

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This week on Your Dental Top 5 your host, Amanda Hill, RDH is talking with Debi Dencek about the reasons people buy from you and ways to communicate with your patients to get their buy in.

Quotes

“I make a point to listen before I speak.”

“There is no SOP for patient communication.” 

“They will never care how much you know until they know how much you care.” 

“Sometimes what we think is an obvious question, it might not be.” 

“Perio disease is 100% preventable.” 

“The deeper your pocket, the deeper you will go into your pocket.” 

“Prestige speaks to peoples egos.” 

“Have your patient become part of the dental theme.” 

“I’m not going to care about your mouth more than you do.”

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CordEze on Instagram 

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This week on Your Dental Top 5 your host, Amanda Hill, RDH is talking with Kathy Forbes, RDH, BS about dental insurance and coding! 

 Episode Highlights

• Kathy’s background

Quotes

“The general public including staff tend to not understand what insurance is.” 

“Dental insurance is a totally different animal from medical.” 

“Dental insurance is not really insurance.”

“You either use it, or you lose it.”

“I’m so sorry your employer didn’t negotiate for better benefits.” 

“Know your top 10 plans you are seeing come through your office.” 

“To take a 20% cut in your fees is to take a 50% cut in your profits.” 

“They are covering it because we submitted it.” 

Links

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Dear Patient Your Insurance Company Doesn’t Care About You

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This week on Your Dental Top 5 your host, Amanda Hill, RDH is talking with Top 5 ways to be an educator with none other than the Hygiene-Educators from Hygiene Edge, Shelly Brown and Jessica Atkinson. 

 Episode Highlights

Shelly’s Background

Jessica’s Background

Hygiene Edge Top 5

Quotes

“Our faculty at large is an aging faculty and we need people to step into those roles.” 

“I think networking is the key to anything you want to do.” 

“Make it known and start off small.” 

“The association gives you a view of what dental hygiene can be, and is really inspiring.” 

“Beef up your resume.” 

“If you didn’t write it down, it didn’t happen, you didn’t do it.” 

“Education doesn’t stop when you leave the classroom.”

Links

Hygiene Edge

Jell-Ed

GetHiredRDH 

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This week on Your Dental Top 5 your host, Amanda Hill, RDH is talking with Stephanie Botts, RDH, BSDH, CEAS about safer economics practices to practice safer dentistry… and life in general!

 Episode Highlights

• Stephanie’s Background

Quotes

“When you are in pain you are not giving the best to your patients, or yourself.” 

“Establish your neutral posture, and adjust the patient to fit you.”

“Involve the patient in your care.” 

“These micro beaks and stretch breaks throughout the day are very important.”  

“Blood carries nutrients and oxygen and other healing properties to the muscle.” 

“Give up that overhead light and use a headlamp and loupes.” 

Links

www.posturepros.net 

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This week on Your Dental Top 5 your host, Amanda Hill, RDH is talking with Amber Auger, RDH! Amber and Amanda talk about the top 5 ways to thrive in the operatory!

 Episode Highlights

• Amanda’s Top 5

Quotes

“I started dental hygiene with carpal tunnel.” 

“Watching patients change from disease to health is the coolest thing ever.” 

“It was supervised neglect 100%.”

“I said ‘I know you don’t want to hear it but I am under oath here.”

“I know you have that little black lab who is your buddy, and I want you to live a long and healthy life with him. The man started sobbing and went through with treatment.” 

“I always avoid the drama triangle.”

Links

https://amberaugerrdh.thinkific.com/courses/ThriveWinter21  

www.stanleydentalsolutions.com

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This week on Your Dental Top 5 your host, Amanda Hill, RDH is giving you her top 5 keys to curiosity! Join Amanda as she outlines 5 pathways to curiosity. 

 Episode Highlights

• 5 Pathways 

Quotes

“The one trait any one of us needs to have a successful career is curiosity.”

“Choosing to be curious is choosing to be vulnerable.” 

“Let go of being right, and lean into getting it right.” 

“When you lose sight of who you are, that is when you start to burnout.”

Links

Curiosity Revived the Cat: Digging into the Most Important Trait for Patient Communication and Career Fulfillment

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This week on Your Dental Top 5 your host, Amanda Hill, RDH is talking with Jennifer Stanley, RDH about the top 5 reasons to temp!

 Episode Highlights

• Jennifer’s Top 5

Quotes

“Jennifer is a full time temp.”

“I usually carry at least one full cassette of my favorite instruments.” 

“My body enjoys a half day of hygiene.” 

“Temping can help you with what your next chapter will be.”

“So many people feel like they are stuck.”

“Temping is a forced growth.”

“I promise I know how to cook, I am just cooking in someone else's kitchen.” 

Links

www.stanleydentalsolutions.com

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