My days of taking you seriously1/26/2024 Lewis Ehrlich: Yeah, which is crazy I mean if you think that people will line up for a coffee two three four times a day at what? 5-10 minutes a pop and yet they can’t find you know, the four minutes that you need to brush twice daily you know for two minutes. We’re living in a little bit of a bubble there but having said that some of the statistics are pretty alarming you know, we’ve got what? 51% of people not brushing their teeth at all twice daily.ĭr. Ron Ehrlich: Yeah although our practice is in the city but even within the city of Sydney… but even with that, we’re kind of sometimes surprised, aren’t we?ĭr. Shocking actually but a little bit unsurprising from what we see day today as dentists as well.ĭr. What do you think?ĭr.Lewis: I thought it was very, very alarming. Ron Ehrlich: Lew here we are talking around our… oral health week… Oh, oral health day was only well, middle of March or into March and it was pretty big this year because the media you got hold of a lot of statistics that were pretty alarming. Lewis Ehrlich: Thanks for having me on Ron.ĭr. I hope you enjoy this conversation I had with Dr. So, this was a great opportunity to take you into our back office more or less and share this conversation I had with one of my partners Dr. That’s 2018 oral health been an issue for quite some time and made the point very importantly that oral health and general health were inseparable. Interestingly in the USA, the Surgeon General’s report in 2018 or in late 2017 highlighted almost for the first time the importance of oral health. It’s a national report card that sets out oral health improvement targets for all Australians and the tracker shines a spotlight on our current national oral health status which isn’t all that impressive I have to say while encouraging everyone especially the nation’s leaders which definitely need encouraging to work towards effectively addressing the oral health burden in Australia. The oral health tracker highlights the link between oral health and preventable chronic diseases such as diabetes conditions and there are lots of other conditions in their risk or risk factors. Now, this was developed in collaboration with the Australian Dental Association, the Australian health policy collaboration and quite a few leading Australian oral health experts. Now there’s been a lot of publicity lately about oral health because of in Australia what’s called the Oral Health Tracker. Well, who would have thought? Actually, we did many, many years ago. The mouth is connected to your body and most importantly is being recognized as the gateway to good health. It’s actually always been one but governments and other health professionals and many in the public are now realizing an amazing fact yes, it’s apparently a huge breakthrough in health care. Apart from being a great dentist, he’s a holistic health coach, he’s a qualified personal trainer, a former professional football player – soccer and he’s literally grown up with all these things we discuss on the show on the whole podcast. And Lewis got the academic medal at University and he is an outstanding clinician. So, my guest today is one of those partners, Dr. We do that regularly and we mentor each other, and we advise each other. It’s the five of us dentists share an office and we share our clinical experiences and our observations. Now I’m in a very fortunate position to work in a group practice and people come up to our surgery in the centre of the Sydney CBD and its beautiful space, we’re very proud of it, it’s a great environment in which to work but the best part of our practice is something which very few people see or experience. Now being a health practitioner brings with it huge responsibilities and every single practitioner I know takes those responsibilities really seriously. Ron Ehrlich: Hello and welcome to “Unstress”. Unstress episode with Dr Ross Walker on cardiovascular healthĭr. Oral Health in America: US Surgeon General Report Taking Your Oral Health Seriously Links and References Dr Lewis Ehrlich in conversation with Dr Ron Ehrlich
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