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Dr. Mark Link explains how the term "comprehensive dentistry" means so much more than a simple list of procedures. For the team at Link Dental, it means considering each aspect of a patient's oral health–from the teeth and gums to the jawbone and jaw joints. Even beyond that, we focus on how the mouth is linked to whole-body wellness and quality of life.
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The way to think about comprehensive
dentistry is to think way out,
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zoom way out
and think about the patient first.
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Who is this person?
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What are their anxieties?
What are their concerns?
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What are their specific problems?
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What are the options to those problems?
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When we speak
about comprehensive dentistry,
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it's not about different procedures,
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it's about this idea
of looking at the entire mouth.
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Restoring a mouth is a little bit like
restoring a home or building a home.
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First, you have to have a good foundation.
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If you don't do have a good foundation,
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then everything you build
on top of it is going to be worthless.
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In dentistry, a good foundation
has to do with healthy jaw joints,
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healthy soft tissues,
and bone support for your teeth.
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Then the teeth, of course,
then become the house.
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The teeth become
the thing that we look at,
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and we function with.
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But without that foundation,
they're not going to last very long.
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So comprehensive dentistry means
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addressing the foundational issues
before you build the house.
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The benefits of having a healthy mouth,
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we used to think
were just local to the mouth,
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but we now know that actually,
the mouth is part of the body,
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and it's very intimately
related to the health of the body.
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There's again, studies that show
that if you smile, people smile back.
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It improves the quality of your life.
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People who have a beautiful smile
actually get paid more.
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They earn more, and they are,
generally speaking, happier people.
