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You're watching the Wellness Hour, the leader in medical news information. I'm Randy Alvarez. Today's topic, what you need to know about dental implants. According to my first guest, no more dentures. Get a fixed set of teeth in just a few appointments. With us, we have Washington's Dental Implant dentist, Doctor Lance Timmerman. Doctor Timmerman, welcome to the program.
Thank you.
For people that don't know you, you do a lot of things. So, who's a typical patient that you see and what are the different procedures that you do?
Typical patient, really, is everybody. We do all the small things and the big things, from cleanings and fillings, people with periodontal disease or gum disease. We have a laser that can help treat the tissues, as well as when we're cleaning out the tissues of the teeth. We do Invisalign, but not just Invisalign, which, if you're not familiar with, is an invisible way of getting straight teeth.
[Randy] Alright.
We also have what's called six-month braces, which is fairly new to the market, as well.
It's like fast braces?
It's kind of like fast braces. The teeth aren't really moving any faster, but the focus is really just the front teeth.
Okay.
[Lance] The interior teeth.
And they're clear? They're not metal?
There's no metal. The brackets are tooth-colored. They're virtually invisible.
[Randy] You have a model right there?
I do. In fact, I do.
[Randy] Okay. So, this is not like your regular...
No, it's not like regular braces. We usually tell people it's an alternative to porcelain veneers, and not an alternative to full braces.
Okay.
And the reason for that is the goal is different; we're not making perfect bites, we're not correcting everything that full orthodontics can do. Just like when we do porcelain veneers, we're still leaving an overbite behind; we're correcting things, but not everything.
You also have a machine that makes the crowns right there?
[Lance] We do.
While they're waiting. We do have the one-stop-shop single visit crowns. We also have--
You're the fastest crown guy I'm watching, I jokingly said.
We're efficient. We don't cut any corners, but because I see one person at a time, I'm not running from chair to chair, room to room, and I'm able to focus on each person individually, and we can typically get people in and out, 30 minutes.
You were saying that, like half off the normal time of a crown.
Yeah, we have people that decline treatment, because they thought that, oh, it's going to take me two hours out of my life to do this, when if they just knew that, really, because of our efficiency, we could get them in and out usually before work, they don't even need to take time off.
And the dental implant crowd. So, you have denture wearers. Who is the typical person that comes in for the dental implants?
For dental implants, it would be anybody missing a tooth.
[Randy] Okay.
Whether it be a single tooth missing or all of the teeth.
[Randy] Alright.
Is a candidate.
Okay, now, you don't look like a dentist, by the way. Do people tell you that every once in a while?
No.
You never hear that?
[Lance] No.
You don't look like a dentist? I mean, your teeth look like you could be a dentist. They're perfect teeth.
I work out.
I always like to ask. So, when did you know you wanted to be a dentist?
Growing up, I always knew I wanted to be in healthcare. I remember my fourth grade teacher. We had a conversation about going into medicine. Both my parents, my mother was a teacher, my father was in banking, and they both said, don't follow in my footsteps. I knew it was going to at least not be teaching or banking. When I was in college, I had a degree, in college I had a job, delivering for an orthodontic lab, and so, I met a whole bunch of orthodontists and dentists.
And you said, that's what I want to do?
Everybody seemed to like their job, as opposed to my parents, who kind of tolerated their job, and so I thought, maybe we'll refocus our efforts and kind of go that direction.
Your brother is a dentist, right?
Yes, he is, and I--
[Randy] Who was first?
It was me. I'm the older brother.
Did you talk him into it?
I kind of twisted his arm, and he found his way into dentistry, as well.
So, tell me a little bit about your training, in regard to dental implants.
Initially, my exposure with dental implants was just to restore the implant. The people would go to the surgeon, and he would place the implant, and then they would come to me, and I would put the crown on the implant. And so, I was only doing half of the job and sharing it.
Is that how it's normally done, by the way? Two people involved?
Majority of the time.
[Randy] Okay.
You're going to have multiple offices involved.
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