60 – The Pareto Principle
Pareto principle Hi there. You are listening to The Perio Patient Podcast, a podcast for my patients and anyone else who cares to listen. My name is Dr. Ben Young and I am a periodontist in private practice in San Antonio, Texas. This is podcast episode 60 and I have entitled it “The Pareto Principle.” […]
59 – My Favorite Composer
Hi there. You are listening to the Perio Patient Podcast, a podcast for my patients and anyone else who cares to listen. My name is Dr. Ben Young and I am a periodontist in private practice in San Antonio, Texas. This is podcast episode 59 and I have entitled it “My Favorite Composer.” The overall […]
58 – Thoughts & Ideas of One Periodontist
Hi and welcome to another installment of The Perio Patient Podcast. Thank you for listening. I know you have choices and, for whatever reason, you have chosen to listen a moment to what I have to share. I will try to make it both informative and brief. If you have accepted my earlier premise about […]
57 – Forgetfulness
A tooth has four parts. This is the title to my presentation about periodontal disease I give to all my patients who come to me for a comprehensive periodontal evaluation. You can listen to this whole presentation — it takes about fifteen minutes — on my website on the home page. The website is dryoungperiodontics.com. […]
I See You’re in Pain
I wrote this after listening to someone give a lengthy explanation why they had so many problems and why it was all someone else’s fault. Here is my dialogue with an Imaginary Person (IP) on this complicated problem. Me: I see you are in pain and I see why. You are sitting in a pot […]
56 – Stress and the Cold
You know, there is a lot about coronavirus right now in the news. There are questions about wearing masks and it seems to be that goal posts are changing. Now, I am of the opinion that science is the discovering of truth through a process of skeptical investigation. What I mean by this is that […]
55 – Update on the Road
Hey everybody, this is Doctor Ben Young and I am recording this for my 2 podcasts — The Perio Hygienist podcast as well as the Perio Patient Podcast.I’m on the road and traveling over to Corpus Christi to see a patient…If you go back over some of my podcasts, you will find on the hygiene […]
54 — The Holistic Development of Dentists
There was an interesting article in the December 2020 issue of the Journal of the American Dental Association on a subject near and dear to my heart. It is interesting to me that this article was published in this particular journal because it has to do with dental mission work. Let me walk you through […]
53 — We Need a Little Christmas
Greetings and welcome to The Perio Hygienist Podcast. December 2020 edition. How are you? I mean really? Not the general normal-greeting-kind-of “How are you?” but the deeper question that requires a pause and a deep breath. Might the word anxious describe it? Are things bugging you, sort of in general? It’s a question of mood. […]
52 — Flossing Research
Hi there. Ben Young here. You are listening to The Perio Patient Podcast, a podcast for my patients and anyone else who cares to listen. Today is a topic close to my heart. I just want to share with you a study that was recently published in the Journal of Dental Research this year (2020) […]