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What's going on everybody? John Stamper, we are here live in Chicago and we are excited to put
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together what is a special episode of the Beyond the Operatory Podcast. First and foremost we just
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want to say if you have subscribed to this podcast whether it's on YouTube or Spotify or Apple,
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we want to send you a big thank you. The dental city team is super excited about putting this together.
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We've already had a lot of great feedback from the first couple of episodes and you're in for a
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real treat as we finish 2026. So with the dental city team being here in Chicago at the midwinter,
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as you know, dental city is partnered with a lot of great companies. That's what makes this family
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really strong and so we wanted to take some time, spend a little bit of time with them at their
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booth, have them share, maybe some things that you may not know as a dental practice as well as
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what's new. So many of these great dental companies as you know, they're always doing new things and
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one of the things we also want to have them share is what is a great way for you, the dental practice
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to be able to send feedback to them, learn more about what they're doing. So we're going to be spending
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time here today with a lot of those different companies. We're going to put together this special
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episode of Beyond the Operatory, which is live from Chicago midwinter. So be sure to check it out.
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Again, if you like the podcast, we'd love to have you subscribe whether you watch on YouTube,
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Apple or Spotify. We're going to continue to be putting some great episodes together all
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enough for it to help you grow your practice. Thanks, everybody. We all know that the companies
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that you work with, the products and services are such a big part of what you do on a daily basis.
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And so we're excited to be here at the Zurk dental booth and we're excited to be with Kate Reinhart
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from Zurk. How are you doing? I'm awesome. It's been a great show already and it's already day one.
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I love it. All right. So I want to jump right into it. As we were talking about Beyond the
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Operatory is kind of the theme of the podcast and there's a lot of things that you all help
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practices with, but could you maybe talk about a couple of things that practices may not know
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about how you can help them? Yeah, certainly. So one of the biggest things that I like to talk about
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when I'm working with the practice is education, not just continuing dental education, but education
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on how their systems are working and the continuity with systems. So if we can get everybody on
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the same page from the start, that's going to be a way for you to set a system in place and
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actually have it maintain its integrity. On top of that, you know, the compliance piece of it too,
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not again, like ocean and whatnot, but compliance within your own systems and finding a spot where
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you can create a log, create accountability and responsibility within those systems. So again,
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not only is everybody trained on it at the same time, at the same time and at the same education,
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but also we have a system in place so that you can maintain it and not have any disruption,
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even if there's new team members, even if there's a big step turnover. So I would say for sure
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education and compliance, but not in a typical way that you would think about it.
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Always cool when you get the opportunity to speak with someone who's been here since the beginning
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and you've seen a lot of exciting things. So Sandra, it's nice to be with you. How you doing?
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Thank you. I'm very well. Thank you. Our product makes the dental experience more comfortable
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and safer and faster and I think clinicians and patients all want that to really maximize the
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benefits of this product in a practice. You have to really implement it into workflows.
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It'll shorten practice procedures anywhere from 20 to 40% depending on the procedure.
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Sealants can take half the time. Crown and bridge, instead of an hour and a half, it takes an hour.
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I'm with Yasmin who is with Hexah, one of the dental city partners and they're doing a lot of great
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things for dental practices. She works in the special market space. Yasmin, how you doing?
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I'm good. Thank you. Thank you for having me. We're a manufacturer of preventative restorative
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line and we have all our baby lines as well. We have Cavex and last cod and mixed pack and all that.
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We're doing a lot of homework. We're doing a lot of research. We're asking. We're sending our
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products out for testing. We're getting feedback and we're constantly keeping up with the time.
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We have a lot of dentists we work with. We have a whole team behind us and we're really sending
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our products out and just seeing what people want, what dentists want and like changing.
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So that's something that we're very proud of. Maybe people don't know that so I'd love to share that.
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As you can see we're at the Oral Block booth. We're at Deborah. Deborah, how are you doing?
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I'm very good. How are you doing? I'm doing wonderful and all right. So the first thing I wanted to
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ask you is what are a couple of things the dental practices may not know about Oral Block?
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First of all we are actually the only other manufacturer of artichain in the US.
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Every other artichain other than Oral Block is manufactured by another company.
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Okay. So what's important about that is how we manufacture our product.
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The other company they use terminal sterilization means they manufacture the product and then
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they sterilize it. They expose it to high heat to sterilizing. We sterilize all the individual
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components separately using sterilization methods that don't involve high heat and then we bring
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them together in a sterile environment. So where that means for the customer is we have a longer
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shelf life. 24 months has compared to 18 months. Our epinephrine is more stable and that enables us to
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be able to have that longer shelf life. So very excited to be with Michelle who is from Tokiyama
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and many of you may know this company from OmniColor which she's going to get into but Michelle
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is going to be with you. How are you doing? Thank you so much. It's great to be here. I'm doing great.
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Day one of CDS always exciting. A lot of dental offices don't know that OmniKroma is a one-shade
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universal composite covering A13D4 in a single shade which means it does not contain dyes or
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pigments to give it shade. So we rely solely on something called structural color which occurs
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naturally rather than relying on dyes and pigments. So no matter the shade of your patient OmniKroma
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is going to shade match to every single one of them. We're here at the How Your Booth. Very excited
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to be with Bobby. How you doing? Good. How are you? I'm doing wonderful. I think first and foremost
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it's just our name is well known in the industry right. We used to be Kimberly Clark. We spun off
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and became Halyard. So we've been doing this a long time. I think we do a pretty good job at it
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and we have the number one brand of glove and dental. So what every what every dental office needs to
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know about Halyard is they're going to get a high quality glove. It's not going to rip tear fall
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out of the box not cause hand issues and when you're wearing the glove for 45 minutes to an hour
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you want to be happy and that's we can help them be happy. Very excited to be with Kelly here as
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you can see we're at the Pro Edge booth at the meeting Kelly. How's it going? Great. It's been a great
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show so far. Really appreciate having us on. We were Pro Edge dental water labs. We were the largest
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dental water lab in the world focusing on water treatment and water testing but now we're Pro Edge
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dental compliance labs because we're offering more than just water now. So we have moved into
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spore testing and sterilization monitoring. We launching that here at Chicago Men winner and we're
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really excited about that. So we've got a new brand and as we expand into new product categories.
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So very excited about that. What are a couple things Kara that dental practices may not know about
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GC America? Well first of all we're you aware that we have products that identify then prevent
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and then restore. Okay. And why that's a huge factor is we're looking at the optimal health for
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patients and we're here to help you out with that working well. What are some of the things when
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a practice starts to use hacks on maybe 30 days, 60 days in some of the feedback that you get?
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Yeah you know we're here to fill the void so that companies can compete with like zealors can
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compete with the big dealers. Any voids that you guys have we have very good quality. A lot of our
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products are made in USA or made in Germany and we're able to afford a really good profit margin
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as well for the dealers as well. So I guess that people are surprised by the quality. We have very
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good quality for the price that we give. So that's something that we're very proud of and we're getting
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a lot of repeat customers based on that as well. So I guess that would be like a surprise thing for
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them. When I say that and then I tell them it's 20% less expensive they say you should have started
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with that. I think the biggest thing is the in sales we talk about and admit need and as sales
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people we go into an office and we try to find a way to help meet that need. Well within aesthetics
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the dental offices are usually very happy with the product they're currently using and sometimes
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there's a lot of hesitation to make a change. I'm using this I've had good luck I'm not having a
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problem if I switch am I going to have the same level of anesthesia like same confidence. So the
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nice thing I tell the dentist is that Dr. Gordon Christensen reviewed aura block and as you know he
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rents an independent dental testing facility. He doesn't take advertising it doesn't take free
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product. When he reviewed aura block he gave it a best product and the reason for that was rapid
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onset of anesthesia for a found anesthetic effect the longer shelf life and the lower cost. So what
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I would say that that practice is however you've been using the other anus artichain anesthetic
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continue to do it the exact same way you always have because it's exactly the same product
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look at the prescribed information we're for word exactly the same but just know that you're
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going to have a product that's going to give you that same profound anesthetic effect and that same
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rapid onset of anesthesia. Sometimes I get a little bit of shock sometimes I don't they don't
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believe me right away just because they're so used to a traditional setting where it's A18283
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but the one that blows them out of the water is the fact that omnichroma will shade match even
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after bleaching because it's dependent on the patient's tooth color only so even after they
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bleach her as they get older that will follow the color of the patient's natural dentition.
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You know being able to be out here all these shows I will tell you not to beat our chest but we
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hear all the time about our gloves especially lavender is I use that glove I love that glove.
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Why? Why do you love that glove? Whether my hands are wet dry clammy it goes on like butter it's
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smooth it fits it conforms it doesn't rip you don't lose dexterity when you're touching instruments
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but that's what it is they love it and my job is once that gets on their hands they don't want to
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take it off to me that's a win-win yeah they're really impressed that we have programs for them
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and those programs allow them to dabble in products that they may have always heard of but haven't
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instituted yet and they get to have the products that they know and trust but then be able to add
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what they are wanting to learn more about and what's great is we've expanded our team in order
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to have that local support where they will be getting that every three week support that maybe
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they're not used to in this present time. What are you guys most excited about when you look out
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over the next year or so with conversations you've been having with dental practice or some
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things on the horizon anything that you're really excited about? You know we're growing our line
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we're getting a lot of opportunities obviously we're being selective with who we choose
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and who we add to our portfolio but just the growth in our line has been really amazing to watch
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and very exciting to continue. Michelle and I were just talking about a lot of the great things
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that they're doing to help practices on the onboarding side but that's just not it on the education
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so what are some additional ways that you're helping practices on the educational side other than
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just going to the website? Yeah so with Amir Kramma being such a new product and a new concept
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we do do a lot of awareness education webinars CE's and everything like that you can find all
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of that information via our website or people learning dental learning anywhere you can find your
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normal CE's we will be there with a lot of different types of webinars and how you can
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utilize Amir Kramma and how that structural color comes into play because structural color is
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something that is Amir Kramma specific structural color is there's two different kinds of color
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producing phenomena there's chemical color there's also structural color chemical color is the
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purple in my shirt it's dyes and pigments added but because Amir Kramma does not contain dyes and
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pigments structural color is in an example morpho butterflies or a spilled gasoline pedal those
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fun colors that you see is just the manipulation of light Amir Kramma basically works off of that
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something we call smart chromatic technology and it actually uses structural color where the
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first and only composite to rely solely on structural color rather than dyes and pigments. That's
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awesome I learned about structural color now I'm going to talk about that with my wife and dyes
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and our clothes and all that good stuff so that is a nugget that you have to hear thanks everybody
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any final thoughts just on kind of in general like how you're helping practices but then more
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importantly kind of just you know the work that you guys are doing yeah um my favorite thing about
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going into dental practices is hearing from them three weeks later and them saying like this was
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a change that we needed and we didn't know that we had um I think if you're gonna integrate a
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system into a practice just just go all in don't don't be wishy-washy about it uh if you're
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thinking about neediness system you probably actually need it so don't delay the further away from
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normal you get the harder it is to come back so take the time invest the energy invest the resources
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so that when it comes time to put it into place you're ready. A lot of people when we changed
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our name thought oh we got bought by somebody it's like no we did not what we did is we changed
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our name Zyrus is a compilation of the Zygomaticus major and Restorius muscles which are
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two of the muscles that help you smile and so Zyrus is our way of remembering that we are working
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with smiles to foster and generate happiness in the clinician and the patient. That's awesome
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that's a great way to end this thank you so much another dental city team is really excited
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about this new partnership and introducing all the great work that you guys are doing to a lot
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of their customers and good luck at the rest of the show thank you we're super excited well what's
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great about working for GC America is that we truly think of the patient the patient is our end
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user and in order for our patients to have that optimal care we need to work with clinicians that
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also have that same message of we want to preserve natural tea keep the teeth healthy motivate the
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patients to have the optimal. We are the website is www.orablock.com and there's a really nice seven
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minute video on there that talks about oral block and how it compares to the other articane
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anesthetics it talks about how we manufacture the product so kind of a knot you'd be nice if
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you're starting to use oral block and you want to do a real quick lunch and learn through your
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product it's seven minutes okay want to do a nice quick lunch and learn for your cut your
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office staff yeah great location okay the best place to start is on our website we have an
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excellent website that gives up a bunch of education and if you scroll down far enough you're
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going to be able to find a spot where you can book a demo call with myself or one of the other
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consultants and that's just a free consultation that you can ask any of the questions I want to
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hear about your pain points what are the challenges you're experiencing we talk through some of the
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little tips and tricks that we can integrate into the practice right away but then we get to the
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bottom up what are those pain points or why are we having them oftentimes it's simply just lack of
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organization. TokyoMah.com or TokyoMahyphenUS.com and we also did launch a new website omnichroma.com
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please check it out but you can learn a lot of information we are always available via phone or
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email if you have any questions at all perfect Michelle thanks for your time good luck the rest of the
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show I know the dental city team is really you know appreciative of the relationship that they
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have and to get the word out so we really appreciate you taking the time thank you so much all right
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thanks everybody we have CE free CE all the time you can go to our website proagegeneral.com
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and the resources tab there's our our webinars are there constantly we do some of them live some
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of them on demand but that is really kind of a constant for us we're always doing that awesome
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Kelly thanks so much I know the dental city team really appreciates the partnership definitely
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wanted to spread the word about the great work that you guys are doing and good luck here at the show
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as you launch a lot of new things thank you sir appreciate that very much you got it absolutely
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well we have a beautiful website that you're able to go on we're also on LinkedIn where you will
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see many of us posting all the exciting aspects that are taking place go to Instagram go to Facebook
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everywhere love it love it Cara thanks so much congrats on the success I know the dental city team
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really appreciates the partnership and good luck the rest of the show well thank you John it was great
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thanks everybody
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What's going on everybody? John Stamper, we are here live in Chicago and we are excited to put
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together what is a special episode of the Beyond the Operatory Podcast. First and foremost we just
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want to say if you have subscribed to this podcast whether it's on YouTube or Spotify or Apple,
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we want to send you a big thank you. The dental city team is super excited about putting this together.
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We've already had a lot of great feedback from the first couple of episodes and you're in for a
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real treat as we finish 2026. So with the dental city team being here in Chicago at the midwinter,
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as you know, dental city is partnered with a lot of great companies. That's what makes this family
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really strong and so we wanted to take some time, spend a little bit of time with them at their
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booth, have them share, maybe some things that you may not know as a dental practice as well as
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what's new. So many of these great dental companies as you know, they're always doing new things and
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one of the things we also want to have them share is what is a great way for you, the dental practice
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to be able to send feedback to them, learn more about what they're doing. So we're going to be spending
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time here today with a lot of those different companies. We're going to put together this special
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episode of Beyond the Operatory, which is live from Chicago midwinter. So be sure to check it out.
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Again, if you like the podcast, we'd love to have you subscribe whether you watch on YouTube,
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Apple or Spotify. We're going to continue to be putting some great episodes together all
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enough for it to help you grow your practice. Thanks, everybody. We all know that the companies
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that you work with, the products and services are such a big part of what you do on a daily basis.
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And so we're excited to be here at the Zurk dental booth and we're excited to be with Kate Reinhart
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from Zurk. How are you doing? I'm awesome. It's been a great show already and it's already day one.
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I love it. All right. So I want to jump right into it. As we were talking about Beyond the
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Operatory is kind of the theme of the podcast and there's a lot of things that you all help
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practices with, but could you maybe talk about a couple of things that practices may not know
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about how you can help them? Yeah, certainly. So one of the biggest things that I like to talk about
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when I'm working with the practice is education, not just continuing dental education, but education
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on how their systems are working and the continuity with systems. So if we can get everybody on
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the same page from the start, that's going to be a way for you to set a system in place and
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actually have it maintain its integrity. On top of that, you know, the compliance piece of it too,
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not again, like ocean and whatnot, but compliance within your own systems and finding a spot where
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you can create a log, create accountability and responsibility within those systems. So again,
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not only is everybody trained on it at the same time, at the same time and at the same education,
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but also we have a system in place so that you can maintain it and not have any disruption,
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even if there's new team members, even if there's a big step turnover. So I would say for sure
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education and compliance, but not in a typical way that you would think about it.
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Always cool when you get the opportunity to speak with someone who's been here since the beginning
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and you've seen a lot of exciting things. So Sandra, it's nice to be with you. How you doing?
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Thank you. I'm very well. Thank you. Our product makes the dental experience more comfortable
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and safer and faster and I think clinicians and patients all want that to really maximize the
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benefits of this product in a practice. You have to really implement it into workflows.
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It'll shorten practice procedures anywhere from 20 to 40% depending on the procedure.
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Sealants can take half the time. Crown and bridge, instead of an hour and a half, it takes an hour.
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I'm with Yasmin who is with Hexah, one of the dental city partners and they're doing a lot of great
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things for dental practices. She works in the special market space. Yasmin, how you doing?
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I'm good. Thank you. Thank you for having me. We're a manufacturer of preventative restorative
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line and we have all our baby lines as well. We have Cavex and last cod and mixed pack and all that.
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We're doing a lot of homework. We're doing a lot of research. We're asking. We're sending our
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products out for testing. We're getting feedback and we're constantly keeping up with the time.
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We have a lot of dentists we work with. We have a whole team behind us and we're really sending
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our products out and just seeing what people want, what dentists want and like changing.
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So that's something that we're very proud of. Maybe people don't know that so I'd love to share that.
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As you can see we're at the Oral Block booth. We're at Deborah. Deborah, how are you doing?
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I'm very good. How are you doing? I'm doing wonderful and all right. So the first thing I wanted to
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ask you is what are a couple of things the dental practices may not know about Oral Block?
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First of all we are actually the only other manufacturer of artichain in the US.
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Every other artichain other than Oral Block is manufactured by another company.
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Okay. So what's important about that is how we manufacture our product.
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The other company they use terminal sterilization means they manufacture the product and then
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they sterilize it. They expose it to high heat to sterilizing. We sterilize all the individual
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components separately using sterilization methods that don't involve high heat and then we bring
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them together in a sterile environment. So where that means for the customer is we have a longer
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shelf life. 24 months has compared to 18 months. Our epinephrine is more stable and that enables us to
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be able to have that longer shelf life. So very excited to be with Michelle who is from Tokiyama
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and many of you may know this company from OmniColor which she's going to get into but Michelle
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is going to be with you. How are you doing? Thank you so much. It's great to be here. I'm doing great.
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Day one of CDS always exciting. A lot of dental offices don't know that OmniKroma is a one-shade
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universal composite covering A13D4 in a single shade which means it does not contain dyes or
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pigments to give it shade. So we rely solely on something called structural color which occurs
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naturally rather than relying on dyes and pigments. So no matter the shade of your patient OmniKroma
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is going to shade match to every single one of them. We're here at the How Your Booth. Very excited
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to be with Bobby. How you doing? Good. How are you? I'm doing wonderful. I think first and foremost
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it's just our name is well known in the industry right. We used to be Kimberly Clark. We spun off
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and became Halyard. So we've been doing this a long time. I think we do a pretty good job at it
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and we have the number one brand of glove and dental. So what every what every dental office needs to
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know about Halyard is they're going to get a high quality glove. It's not going to rip tear fall
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out of the box not cause hand issues and when you're wearing the glove for 45 minutes to an hour
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you want to be happy and that's we can help them be happy. Very excited to be with Kelly here as
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you can see we're at the Pro Edge booth at the meeting Kelly. How's it going? Great. It's been a great
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show so far. Really appreciate having us on. We were Pro Edge dental water labs. We were the largest
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dental water lab in the world focusing on water treatment and water testing but now we're Pro Edge
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dental compliance labs because we're offering more than just water now. So we have moved into
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spore testing and sterilization monitoring. We launching that here at Chicago Men winner and we're
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really excited about that. So we've got a new brand and as we expand into new product categories.
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So very excited about that. What are a couple things Kara that dental practices may not know about
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GC America? Well first of all we're you aware that we have products that identify then prevent
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and then restore. Okay. And why that's a huge factor is we're looking at the optimal health for
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patients and we're here to help you out with that working well. What are some of the things when
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a practice starts to use hacks on maybe 30 days, 60 days in some of the feedback that you get?
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compete with the big dealers. Any voids that you guys have we have very good quality. A lot of our
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products are made in USA or made in Germany and we're able to afford a really good profit margin
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as well for the dealers as well. So I guess that people are surprised by the quality. We have very
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good quality for the price that we give. So that's something that we're very proud of and we're getting
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a lot of repeat customers based on that as well. So I guess that would be like a surprise thing for
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them. When I say that and then I tell them it's 20% less expensive they say you should have started
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with that. I think the biggest thing is the in sales we talk about and admit need and as sales
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people we go into an office and we try to find a way to help meet that need. Well within aesthetics
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the dental offices are usually very happy with the product they're currently using and sometimes
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there's a lot of hesitation to make a change. I'm using this I've had good luck I'm not having a
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problem if I switch am I going to have the same level of anesthesia like same confidence. So the
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nice thing I tell the dentist is that Dr. Gordon Christensen reviewed aura block and as you know he
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rents an independent dental testing facility. He doesn't take advertising it doesn't take free
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product. When he reviewed aura block he gave it a best product and the reason for that was rapid
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onset of anesthesia for a found anesthetic effect the longer shelf life and the lower cost. So what
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continue to do it the exact same way you always have because it's exactly the same product
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look at the prescribed information we're for word exactly the same but just know that you're
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going to have a product that's going to give you that same profound anesthetic effect and that same
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rapid onset of anesthesia. Sometimes I get a little bit of shock sometimes I don't they don't
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believe me right away just because they're so used to a traditional setting where it's A18283
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but the one that blows them out of the water is the fact that omnichroma will shade match even
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after bleaching because it's dependent on the patient's tooth color only so even after they
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bleach her as they get older that will follow the color of the patient's natural dentition.
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You know being able to be out here all these shows I will tell you not to beat our chest but we
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hear all the time about our gloves especially lavender is I use that glove I love that glove.
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Why? Why do you love that glove? Whether my hands are wet dry clammy it goes on like butter it's
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smooth it fits it conforms it doesn't rip you don't lose dexterity when you're touching instruments
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but that's what it is they love it and my job is once that gets on their hands they don't want to
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take it off to me that's a win-win yeah they're really impressed that we have programs for them
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and those programs allow them to dabble in products that they may have always heard of but haven't
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instituted yet and they get to have the products that they know and trust but then be able to add
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what they are wanting to learn more about and what's great is we've expanded our team in order
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to have that local support where they will be getting that every three week support that maybe
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they're not used to in this present time. What are you guys most excited about when you look out
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over the next year or so with conversations you've been having with dental practice or some
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things on the horizon anything that you're really excited about? You know we're growing our line
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we're getting a lot of opportunities obviously we're being selective with who we choose
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and who we add to our portfolio but just the growth in our line has been really amazing to watch
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and very exciting to continue. Michelle and I were just talking about a lot of the great things
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that they're doing to help practices on the onboarding side but that's just not it on the education
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so what are some additional ways that you're helping practices on the educational side other than
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just going to the website? Yeah so with Amir Kramma being such a new product and a new concept
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we do do a lot of awareness education webinars CE's and everything like that you can find all
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of that information via our website or people learning dental learning anywhere you can find your
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normal CE's we will be there with a lot of different types of webinars and how you can
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utilize Amir Kramma and how that structural color comes into play because structural color is
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something that is Amir Kramma specific structural color is there's two different kinds of color
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producing phenomena there's chemical color there's also structural color chemical color is the
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purple in my shirt it's dyes and pigments added but because Amir Kramma does not contain dyes and
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pigments structural color is in an example morpho butterflies or a spilled gasoline pedal those
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fun colors that you see is just the manipulation of light Amir Kramma basically works off of that
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something we call smart chromatic technology and it actually uses structural color where the
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first and only composite to rely solely on structural color rather than dyes and pigments. That's
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awesome I learned about structural color now I'm going to talk about that with my wife and dyes
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and our clothes and all that good stuff so that is a nugget that you have to hear thanks everybody
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any final thoughts just on kind of in general like how you're helping practices but then more
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importantly kind of just you know the work that you guys are doing yeah um my favorite thing about
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going into dental practices is hearing from them three weeks later and them saying like this was
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a change that we needed and we didn't know that we had um I think if you're gonna integrate a
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system into a practice just just go all in don't don't be wishy-washy about it uh if you're
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thinking about neediness system you probably actually need it so don't delay the further away from
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normal you get the harder it is to come back so take the time invest the energy invest the resources
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so that when it comes time to put it into place you're ready. A lot of people when we changed
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our name thought oh we got bought by somebody it's like no we did not what we did is we changed
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our name Zyrus is a compilation of the Zygomaticus major and Restorius muscles which are
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two of the muscles that help you smile and so Zyrus is our way of remembering that we are working
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with smiles to foster and generate happiness in the clinician and the patient. That's awesome
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that's a great way to end this thank you so much another dental city team is really excited
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about this new partnership and introducing all the great work that you guys are doing to a lot
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of their customers and good luck at the rest of the show thank you we're super excited well what's
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great about working for GC America is that we truly think of the patient the patient is our end
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user and in order for our patients to have that optimal care we need to work with clinicians that
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also have that same message of we want to preserve natural tea keep the teeth healthy motivate the
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patients to have the optimal. We are the website is www.orablock.com and there's a really nice seven
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minute video on there that talks about oral block and how it compares to the other articane
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anesthetics it talks about how we manufacture the product so kind of a knot you'd be nice if
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you're starting to use oral block and you want to do a real quick lunch and learn through your
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product it's seven minutes okay want to do a nice quick lunch and learn for your cut your
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office staff yeah great location okay the best place to start is on our website we have an
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excellent website that gives up a bunch of education and if you scroll down far enough you're
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going to be able to find a spot where you can book a demo call with myself or one of the other
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consultants and that's just a free consultation that you can ask any of the questions I want to
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hear about your pain points what are the challenges you're experiencing we talk through some of the
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little tips and tricks that we can integrate into the practice right away but then we get to the
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bottom up what are those pain points or why are we having them oftentimes it's simply just lack of
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organization. TokyoMah.com or TokyoMahyphenUS.com and we also did launch a new website omnichroma.com
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please check it out but you can learn a lot of information we are always available via phone or
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email if you have any questions at all perfect Michelle thanks for your time good luck the rest of the
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show I know the dental city team is really you know appreciative of the relationship that they
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have and to get the word out so we really appreciate you taking the time thank you so much all right
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thanks everybody we have CE free CE all the time you can go to our website proagegeneral.com
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and the resources tab there's our our webinars are there constantly we do some of them live some
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of them on demand but that is really kind of a constant for us we're always doing that awesome
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Kelly thanks so much I know the dental city team really appreciates the partnership definitely
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wanted to spread the word about the great work that you guys are doing and good luck here at the show
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as you launch a lot of new things thank you sir appreciate that very much you got it absolutely
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well we have a beautiful website that you're able to go on we're also on LinkedIn where you will
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see many of us posting all the exciting aspects that are taking place go to Instagram go to Facebook
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everywhere love it love it Cara thanks so much congrats on the success I know the dental city team
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really appreciates the partnership and good luck the rest of the show well thank you John it was great
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