welcome back to River City Live bringing
your child to the dentist obviously it's
imperative that you do it but can be
really stressful everything from trying
to accommodate everyone's schedule and
booking the appointment to getting your
kid actually there and dr. Gary Myers is
here with Myers pediatric dentistry and
orthodontist and we we have been talking
off-camera about something that's really
unique and I've I've talked to people
before and I've never heard of this
philosophy in dentistry but you consider
yourself an office of choice what does
that mean it basically means that it's
not my job to tell you what's your best
options B there's a lot of options in
dentistry we can do a lot of things a
lot different ways especially in kids
dentistry where the teeth will fall out
or the adult teeth are coming and we
want to make sure we're those are
protected and safe even to orthodontics
when do you start what do you use how do
you know what is your really aesthetic
goal so the idea is that I'm here to
coach you I'm here to help you figure
out what your family needs and
definitely economics fits into that so
what if you you know don't really have
the money for that everything all-out
treatment how can we either get by
without it or postpone it without having
a lot of problems and that's a great
thing for a parent who already feels the
pressure financially because if that
parent is already having struggles and
you tell them this child needs this for
the health of their teeth nine times out
of ten you sacrifice something and do it
because they're gonna feel like bad
parents if they don't be you're gonna
say to them what we'd like to ultimately
see you do this but for now let's get
through this year next year there's
there's a choice there's care credit
there's credit cards and you can take
this up to the max but then they're just
stressed in the family that I really
don't want to put on the family so we
really delve into that we get a little
personal in the consults and the
coaching and in the office and really
let parents know there's no guilt in
doing a B or C type treatment and we
kind of do break down in the in the
downturn no 8:09 we really started break
down a B and C a is you know priority
get you get out of pain or or do things
that be painful and say six months
possibly and then you move to the next
step which is let's take care of the
adult teeth it'll be and make sure
they're safe cuz that's a lifetime and
then finally okay now we're gonna start
looking at the baby teeth and sometimes
parents have to go alright if that one
gets in pain we'll deal with it it's
probably gonna be taking it out first
it's fixing it
and then we try to coach this okay well
if you're gonna do that let's do these
things at home unless make sure
everybody not just you know dad over
here or grandma who's watching them or
even the day care of the school make
sure they're on the same page and and if
a funny story is I try and give away my
secrets here but instead of saying don't
get my cake candy we try and teach them
to tell the school's hey my childhood
sugar intolerant you know and they kind
of go oh intolerant who's gluten
intolerant and tolerance that much it
must be serious they don't want to ask
and feel stupid so they just go okay I
don't want to give your kid sugar
cavities whenever that because most I
think a humorous thing to say would be
like your dentist want to you get
cavities so think you're actually
wanting to make sure kids if possible
are preventing these cavities and it's
not just sugar that causes them it's not
theirs there's really kind of three
different things
the famous Venn diagram you have the
host you have the sugar and you have are
the bacteria and you have the sugar so
or diet so how well you're brushing and
flossing
what are your bacteria just like your
gut has healthy good me we're all taking
probiotics these days so got healthy and
an unhealthy bacteria you got the same
thing in the mouth there's something
that cause trouble or something that
don't and so you might have it where you
know as a parent you know you know my
daughter does everything right eats
right still get cavities my son or can
be flipped off around but you know
doesn't care doesn't do anything eats
you know Kenny all day long and he's not
having a problem
that's the bacterial side maybe little
the host side but typically the bacteria
sauce so it's not enough if they say
well my best friend never has cavities
and eats sugar all the time so there's
nothing it's just everybody is different
has individuality and one take away
because I asked you this because I want
to prove a point to my daughter and say
she's watching fruit roll-ups things
like that they are you could put them in
their lunchboxes and they don't brush
their teeth all day I mean that the way
I see food is and the way I coach my
parents or my patients and and kids if
they're old enough to understand and my
favorite part is when when I can get the
kid just to tell people no my dentist
said I shouldn't do that and that's
where I get all excited when they come
back and mom says yeah they tell
everybody your dentist says don't do
that but um the biggest thing is with
the processed sugars shouldn't go at
snack to our bedtime with meals you're
okay and I trying to be
do not do anything you know extreme I
want to all be livable life so so so if
you want that for real up habit with
your meal not snack time okay so there
you see there's something you can take
away and and you can share that with
your kids and you could say it's dr.
Myers rules if you would like to get in
touch with him this is a great website
tooth to tooth dot-com or 904 505 2012 I
feel like we could go on and on forever
but for now let's just tell everybody
that you have two locations Middleburg
you have to come back and one at the
corner of lodges and Beach Boulevard
because you have a lot to share on a
very important subject so thank you so
much dr. Myers I can talk it all day
long so great well you'll come back and
do that for short and we will be right
back thank you