I Don't Know About That - Dentistry

Episode Date: November 15, 2022

Jim, Forrest, Kelly and Jack learn all about dentistry from our expert Ryan Savage, DDS (@ryansavagedds). Our merch store is now live! Go to idontknowaboutthat.com for shirts, hoodies, mugs, and more! Subscribe to our Patreon at patreon.com/IDKAT for ad free episodes, bonus episodes, and more exclusive perks! Tiers start at just $2! Go to JimJefferies.com to buy tickets to Jim's upcoming tour, The Moist Tour. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Cats, bats, rats, what's all that about? You might find out, but I don't know about that. Jim Jefferies, I've run out of things to say, this is episode 3004. Hello everyone, listening wherever you may be on whatever app you're listening to Welcome to the I Don't Know About That podcast, we're happy to have you, sit back What number do you think this is? 120, 130 I think it's 127, if you include the one we did in that studio with the tattoos

There you go Nope What? I think we're 128 if you include the one we did in that studio with the tattoos. There you go. Nope. What? I think we're 128. Yeah, this is a discussion I've had before with Luis. Glad I wasn't involved in that. It's riveting.

That would have taken up precious time. Anyways. Can't argue with Forrest. He's our resident counter. All right, so we just recorded this special out in Toronto. It was a good time. It should be coming out, I don't know, whenever the company decides to bring it out.

Yeah, it went well. But it went well. Afterwards, I got a bit high. You know, it's always good to go, I don't drink anymore. And then people are like, good for you. And then they see you stoned out of your skull trying to put together a sentence. I've got my shit together.

It was really good. You did really good, and the crowds are really good. Both of the versions were good. Yeah, the Canadians, they came out for me. They were good. They're always good crowds. I think the only gigs that are coming up in North America, there's going to be a whole lot of other gigs announced very soon.

You've got Vegas. But I've got Vegas is the only thing. If you go to Ticketmaster, it's the only thing that's sitting there by itself. This week in February. This week, yeah, this week. Yeah, yeah. I've got February as well. That's already out there, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, I've got a February one as well. And then I'm going to tour Asia, if you're listening in Asia. Come out. Come and see what's going on. South Korea, Taiwan, Tokyo, Bangkok, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Bali. It's all there. If you're listening. It's all there. And if you want to find his dates, you can find it on his website.

Don't DM me. I don't know his schedule. Thank you. People always DM me. They're like, when is he coming here? I'm like, I don't know i i am not a part of that at all i don't know either people it's like when are you gonna next come sometimes i respond they go when are you next coming to britain no i'm gonna come in february or something

like that and then like things change and they're like hey what are those tickets i was wrong there see you next year i saw i just wait until the thing is announced. Go to your website. But there was one time someone was like, man, when are you coming to Chicago? He's like, I was there yesterday. That infuriates every comedian. Every comedian.

Or the one where I'll be in a cafe in St. Louis. Oh, man, it's great. You should come and do a show here. Why the fuck do you think I'm here? Nothing against St. Louis, but it's not my holiday destination. It's not my vacation. It's one of my bucket lists. Yeah, you think I'm here? Nothing against St. Louis, but it's not my holiday destination. It's not my vacation. It's one of my bucket lists.

Yeah, you know what I mean? Of course I'm doing a bloody show. And ID Cat Podcast on Instagram. Go there and follow us. Patreon. We've got a big episode. We're going to get straight into it But first

There's some things I just want to talk to you about Free Oh, you're recording Alright, please welcome our guest Ryan Savage G'day Ryan, and now it's time to play Yes though Yes though

Yes though Yes though Judging a book by its cover Now it's time to play. Yes, though. Yes, though. Yes, though. Yes, though. Judging a book by its cover. All right. So Ryan's sitting in front of a picture of Kobe Bryant. So is it about the basketball? I think we've done basketball. We have done basketball.

Jason Concepcion. G'day, by the way. Yeah. So is it? No. No, we're not doing basketball. You're in L.A. and you didn't come in the studio? Oh, so is it? No. No, we're not doing Mastermind. You're in LA and you didn't come

in the studio? Oh man, no one likes us. I think you're in Orange County, aren't you? Yes, sir. His name's Ryan Savage. If you're not in porn,

Ryan, you should be. Your name's ready to go. I mean, you don't know me already? Yeah, you're off to the... Well, not your face. I feel insulted. His stage name is Long Dong.

There you go. Dick Savage. Dick Savage. You usually ask some questions. I know, I know. If you ask one right off the bat, you'll get a yes. Okay, so is it about sports?

No. No sports. Is it about television? Nope. Is it about entertainment no yep it is about entertainment he specializes in something that you have something that i have it's not television well is it about playstations something that you you've done for television probably. Something I've done for television. That you did to yourself for television. He's done a lot of things

sometimes. I did to myself for television. I got sworn in. That wasn't entertaining at all. Give me a hint. I've done to myself. Aesthetically Oh you get veneers

Yeah Veneers yeah alright Yeah I got that done Dr Kevin Sands Dr Kevin Sands Alright So you do the You're a dentist

Yes sir That's a good one, the dentist. The dentist is a good occupation. I feel like they get paid more than everybody else and no one dies. Definitely no one dies. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know about the pay.

The other people, they do surgeries and stuff like that and people die. And then that puts a damper on the whole thing. They have to tell other people, you're going to die. This one, you're just like, you haven't flossed. Do you ever get bored of telling people they haven't fucking flossed? I'm a twice a week flosser. I don't like the feeling of it.

I do it a lot more than I used to. I used to be a no time a week guy. And now I do it every now and again. But I don't like the sensation. The water pick saved it again but i i don't like the water saved it for me i don't like the actual string but i water pick every now and again that once a week i water pick twice a week i floss and the rest is just and then with the veneers they say they don't change color but mine aren't as white as they used to be we'll get into this later we'll get into this later my brain on that one but they go oh you just need a bit of a polish.

And then they say, don't use tooth whitening stuff. That's not good for the veneers, for the whitening. It's too much. How I look at it is I'll just use them until they break down like a car and then I'll buy another set. Swap them out for better ones. I like my shape of mine. My one, I really like that they keep the shape, change the color.

Yeah, but I don't know if I want to go too white. I think that the super white is going out of fashion a little bit. of shape of mine my one i really i really like that they keep the shape change the color yeah but i don't know if i want to go too white i think that the super white is going out of fashion a little bit yeah because they went alarming everyone went so white and then i was watching the movie you don't want to go blue white yeah the i was watching casino the other day and like sharon stone i was like oh what's fucked up with her teeth and then i was like she has normal colored teeth there was nothing wrong with them you watch episodes of friends it's all like white they even do an episode where david schwimmer's character gets white teeth and they're like what the fuck's wrong with him

and then i watch tv here and everyone's so white i think that's going out of fashion i think we have to go back to i remember when i got my braces off this kid was making fun of me because my teeth were so white and i was like i don't think you understand how bullying works. This is not something to be ashamed of. But also they do that stupid thing on one of the Colgate commercials where they go, do the tissue test. And you hold the tissue up next. That's on the advert.

And they go, oh, my teeth aren't as white as a bleached piece of paper. You're saying that my teeth aren't as white as the bleached piece of paper. You're saying that my teeth aren't as white as the purest white color on earth. I should be ashamed of myself. Alright, let me introduce Ryan. Ryan Savage graduated from University of California, Irvine and then the Arthur A. Dugoni

or Dujoni? Dugoni? Dugoni. Dugoni School of Dentistry at the University of the Pacific in San Francisco, where he became a DDS. Do you know what DDS is? I'm sure it would be a question. No, it's not.

I'm asking you right now. No, no, no, no, no. This isn't part of my... Doctor of Dental Surgery. Doctor of Dental Surgery. You can find Ryan on social media, on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Snapchat, all at RyanSavageDDS. And, yeah, Ryan, tell us a little bit about your background there. So, uh, as you guys know, I'm down here in orange County, born and raised. Um,

I think the way our paths kind of crossed a little bit is I've been getting out there a little more on social media, kind of showing my work, uh, specializing in veneers, but also kind of bringing in the social media, uh, entertainment aspect. So just kind of keeping my work uh specializing in veneers but also kind of bringing in the social media uh entertainment aspect so just kind of keeping it fun keeping it light shout out to alex there you go yeah shout out to alex that guy's amazing so we definitely have some you know circles of entertainment friends and influencers kind of crossing paths and uh now it's you know we're in the we're in the hot spot of all that stuff. You know, LA definitely is leading. Do you put – my guy puts up pictures of all the celebrities he's done

in his waiting room. He didn't ask me. I didn't make – Come on, you've got to sign it. He didn't ask me to do it. There were some big names. I picked you up. I picked you up when you were also there.

All the Kardashians, all the Clippers at one stage, all the Clippers. He did the Kardashians. Sarah Clippers at one stage all the Clippers he did the Kardashians Sarah Michelle Gellar is up there on the wall there's a whole heap of famous people there were some singers because singers

I thought you would Miley Cyrus is up there Charlie Sheen gets them done like he'd be a good customer wouldn't he he'd be changing them customer, wouldn't he?

He'd be changing them out every six months. Anyway, so yeah, and I never got asked to get on the wall. No, I never made, I'm not wall worthy. If you came in, I'd definitely put you on my page. Ah, yeah, yeah. I'm Orange County famous for sure. Yeah, for sure. I'm not Beverly Hills famous. That's a different category.

All right. Well, I'm going to ask Jim some questions about dentistry and teeth. And when we're done having him answer those, you're going to grade them 0 through 10 on accuracy, 10 being the best. And Kelly's going to grade them on confidence, 0 through 10. I'm going to grade them on et cetera. We'll add those scores together. If you get 21 through 30,

you're a two sleuth. 11 through 20, two fist doofus. 0 through 10, you're a double-decker pecker wrecker. All right. You ever heard that one? No. When I was reading this, I was like, what the fuck? That's when I was in grade school.

And when I was in junior high school, that's what I used to say. You're almost 50. It's not good. I'm going to use it now. Back in junior high. Yeah, baby. Double-decker pecker-tecker. Back in 1962.

30 years old. You know that Hitler? He's a double-decker pecker-tecker. He wouldn't take kindly to that. Jack seems to like it. What is dentition? What, dentistry? Or dentition?

Dentition. It's work done by a dentist. Okay. How many teeth are in our first set? You have a baby? No, but in your first set. You're counting your babies? He's thinking of Charlie right now.

20. 20. What about our second set? For the people who aren't watching, he's counting his teeth with his tongue i think they got it just in case just in case 24 okay name as many enamel the uh the enamel the top the bottom the middle the root the gums the uh what you were like molars no the parts of the tooth oh that's the the root the enamel and the tooth okay Your teeth are composed of four tissues. How many are hard and how many are soft? There's four.

Three hard, one soft. Okay. What are incisors? Incisors are teeth that are pushing into each other. Okay. Blank is the hardest substance in the human body. The hardest substance in the human body. The hardest substance in the human body. Yeah, has to do with teeth.

Yeah, is bone. Okay. When you lose tooth enamel, how long does it take to grow back? Never grows back. Okay. What is an abscessed tooth? It's one where it's and the gum it's all gotten infected the gum and the root and all that type of stuff and what about a cavity a cavity is a hole in the tooth and then how do you treat it uh by drilling a bigger hole i know it's silly

by making the hole even we're making the hole even bigger and then filling it with either porcelain or metal or plastic. Why would someone need a root canal? Because they have an abscessed tooth and the root has gotten infected. I think I need that. What about a crown? A crown is when you put something on top of a tooth to make it go up and extend it into its full height can chewing gum help prevent cavities um i i think it's like one of these things like eating eggs it's like they were good for you it's bad for you it's whatever so so i believe that

the wrong type of saliva can help you have cavities but they always try to tell you that chewing wriggly sugar-free gum was good for your teeth and they give you gum sometimes at the dentist with your toothbrush and your toothpaste well at least they used to so i'm gonna say yes but it's open for debate what is plaque plaqueque is the stuff tartar and all that type of stuff that gets on top of your teeth. It's all the muck and grime of day-to-day living, bro. Okay. What causes

tooth decay? Yellow. What causes tooth decay? What color is it? Interesting one. It's not eating the wrong foods, not flossing because food gets caught in your teeth.

Drinking soda is a big problem because of sugar. Sugar really affects teeth decay. And that was done in a study in the only country that does human studies that are really disgusting, Sweden, where they got some mentally challenged people and they fed them sugar all day to prove categorically that sugar actually decays. Yeah, this was a thing in Sweden.

Oh, my God. But they proved it. They fucking proved it. It's for science. Meatballs and human torture. What are the largest teeth? Well, see, in diameter or mass, because your molars would be your biggest ones

when you think of the thickness and that type of stuff. But for length, your front two teeth are your biggest ones. What are those called? Your beaver ones. If your tooth is accidentally knocked out what can you put in it to help prolong its life what can you put it in put it in I'm sorry put it in

I would say probably it's always ice you got to do things my father's missing a front tooth that he got hit with a cricket ball and it went black and then it fell out and then he just has one tooth with a bit of gum like a v-shaped gum that sticks off and he shoves that up there and then but when he's home and just relaxing he that sticks off and he shoves that up there and then

but when he's home and just relaxing he takes it out so he always had that one gap in the tooth which if you have that one gap in the front of your tooth that lowers you like 30 iq points like i always looked up i always looked up to my dad like oh dad's the best you know and then you'd come home and take his tooth out and be like we live with this fucking slack-jawed bloody idiot and then one time i remember like the dog we had a little tiny scottish terrier the dog because it was all gummy and all that type of stuff the the thing took the tooth and dad was like he normally leaves it on a napkin on the table in front of you right and then dad's just like he's oh we bloody tooth's gone and then i saw the dog running around and just had one tooth sticking out the front of his fucking thing.

And I think I found it. And then it chewed it up too much and Dad couldn't put that back in. I also remember when I was a kid, you know, I remember when you say something stupid where you're like, oh, no, that just came out of me mouth, right? Yep. So I went to catch a cricket ball. I might have been about 13 or 14, like too old to be crying type of a level, right? I went to catch a cricket ball and I dived and it hit off my wrist and it smashed back into my face.

And I had one tooth that went a bit wobbly for a while, but then it strengthened back up, right? But blood coming out of my mouth and I was like, oh, no, I've lost my front tooth like my dad did. And I was like, I grabbed my mouth and went, oh, no, that's my favorite tooth. And the kids were like checking if I was okay, and they went, did you just say that's your favorite tooth?

And I got blood coming out of my mouth. I went, no, I said it's my front tooth. It sounded like, why would I say favorite? Why would I have a favorite? Why would I say favorite? Why would I have a favorite? Why would I say favorite? I clearly said front. What does odontalgia mean? What is it?

I don't know if I'm saying it right. Odontalgia mean? Odontalgia was one of the first players to play in the NBA from a different country from America. Yeah. They brought him in. You ever seen the movie The Air Up There? I did.

That was the story of him. With Kevin Bacon? Yeah. Oh, cool. True or false, fluoride is a marketing gimmick? Nah, fluoride's real stuff. You put fluoride in the water, it strengthens your teeth. They don't have fluoride in the water in Australia.

They have it in Australia, but they don't have it in Britain. I think we all know that the British are constantly moaning about their fucking teeth. You try working in a bar in England and putting ice in their drink, they will look like you just punched their child in the face. They will just go, I can't have ice. It's not good for me teeth. Plus, you get less, don't you?

You get less. Because the British, they'll never know the love that you get from unlimited refills. God bless you, America, and all your freedoms that the British don't have. What is gingivitis and can it be reversed? Gingivitis is a condition that happens to your gums. It can be reversed.

There's mouthwashes you can have, plus better dental care. What's the condition? Such as flossing. I may be wrong on this, but it's like getting like thrush on your gums almost. You know what I mean? It's like a fungal type of thing where your gums get red and inflamed and they build up around the teeth and it becomes quite sore.

And then it's a catch-22. You got it because you didn't floss and now it's so painful to floss. I've got gingivitis. Okay. How does oral health relate to heart health? You can die from having an abscess cyst or something in your mouth. If you don't deal with everything's connected nerve wise and if you have something there that's that's going bad that can lead to

heart failure what is halitosis halitosis is bad breath yeah how does that happen uh well see i gotta look because i get bad breath you know and and then you know i found using a tongue scrape really helped me because i get a lot of gunk on my tongue, white stuff on my tongue, and I scrape it off each morning. And I've been to dentists and they just go, oh, you're just a bit susceptible to it, you know. And so mouthwashes can help and all that type of stuff, but it doesn't really help because most bad breath actually comes

from your stomach acids. And so I find in the morning, you wake up with bad breath, but it's only because your stomach's just been sitting there a bit. And if you have a bit of toast, your breath sort of clears up again, more than, say, brushing your teeth. Brushing your teeth is like putting a deodorizing smell over the top of a garbage full of shit. You know, I'll just spray the top of the bin.

Why isn't the whole bin smelling good? What is the best way to prevent gum disease? Well, regular flossing, regular brushing, using mouthwash. And that's good oral care. Okay. What about this? What is black hairy tongue? Black hairy tongue is like the white stuff,

but then it starts to go black and the crevices in your tongue get too much bacteria and you start to grow a fuzz on it. I've never had that. Is it deadly? I've seen pictures of it. I don't believe it's deadly, no, but I don't think it's good.

How about this? How often should your toothbrush be replaced? More often than what most people do. I would say every two months you should replace your toothbrush and last question are electric toothbrushes more effective yes i believe that the sonic ones actually shift off the plaque and the tata i love mine yeah the sonic thing because uh you know yeah it does because well let's put it this way when you're in the dentist they use an electric toothbrush.

They're not there brushing you with a stick, are they? It's like a little rope thing. I'll tell you what cleans your teeth better. You can only do the front. I have a shower with such good pressure in my house. I'm telling you. Imagine Jim Sandman. I'm telling you.

I do it once every couple of days. It really happens. And I turn, I get my teeth, and I put it right up against the head, and it goes like that. And then I put my tongue across it. It's the cleanest my teeth ever feel. And it's the same as when they use the pressure washer in the dentist. Okay.

Ryan, on zero through 10, how did Jim do on his knowledge of dentistry and teeth, 10 being the best? I'm extremely impressed. There's a few things that we gotta clarify but overall I'm very impressed I would give them like a nine on that I've always been a dentist if not for the fucking finicky things with grades i hate the dentist i only go to the dentist if i can have laughing gas otherwise one time they said they're out of gas and i said all right i'll see you in six months i just walked out i said i'm not doing it i used to i used to vomit

every time and then he said something was shoved in my mouth i used to vomit as a kid when i used to go to the dentist it used to be like so so And I remember I puked on the fucking dentist's lap one time when I was about 10. And you know when adults don't swear in front of you and your kids? I think people are more relaxed with it these days. But back then, you never heard adults swear in front of you, right? And he went and he said, I'm really sorry. I'm really sorry.

Like this, right? And then all I heard was him talk to the nurse can you get me some more give me another cloth he's fucking done it again and then like really like again like i obviously i think i vomited the last time but i didn't think i got it on his pants but i could tell that all day this doctor was walking around like this yeah we are fucking that nugent kid coming in he's to fucking puke everywhere. Yeah, I think dentists are probably the most feared doctor that people go to. I had such a fear of the dentist.

I just found a new one that I really like, so now I don't mind going. But it was such an anxiety-inducing thing because it's painful. And a lot of times they're really mean. Well, I love laughing gas. I could live my whole life on that shit. I didn't get it when I got my wisdom tooth out.

Yeah, and so I like when my hygienist comes in and just goes, we'll just get you started on the gas. And then I was like just sucking it back as hard as I could, like sucking it back as hard as I could. And then she came in and she goes, I have to go away for about five minutes and handle this other thing. I'll just turn this off. No! i could like sucking it back as hard as i could and then she came in and she goes i just i have to go away for about five minutes and handle this other thing i can i'll just turn this off no and i had a lovely five minutes of laughing gas all to meself i solved the world's problems

how do you do on confidence kelly um i think he was pretty confident i'm gonna give him an eight all right that's 15 i'll give you 10 you're too sleuth there you go all right um so ask them what dentition is ryan he said work done by a dentist that's correct so no the first one he started out dentition is uh your teeth so the adult dentition the human dentition another word for teeth oh okay i would have thought it was my dentist too i i did that as a trick question because i had a feeling you would think that that was like the word for oh gotcha yeah so when you're referring the teeth as a dentist you just say dentition yeah i seem to find that dental nurses are cuter than regular nurses is that true 100, that's crazy too. That's it.

That's it. They don't have to deal with as many dying people. They don't have to clean the ass of elderly people who say they're stealing their jewelry, right? It's just definitely a happier environment. You know what I mean? It's just like the person's in and out. They're always joking around with the dentist.

They come in, they go, we have to take an x-ray, and they wander off again. How many teeth are in our first set is it 20 he nailed that 20 yeah how did you know that i have children plus i know that i don't have the moles at the back and you were just actually counting your teeth yeah huh and is it 24 then for a second 32 i didn't count that well well you're missing a couple of wisdoms right that's four yeah so if you got your wisdoms out that's 28 typically i know if you had i was i was born without wisdom teeth i have no wisdom teeth no so i so and then also people get four out for orthodontics sometimes so it might come down to so we call them in australia 12 year old molars but you call them wisdom teeth i think they call them wisdom teeth no no no

they're different 12 year molars are the second molars the wisdoms are the third molars wait some people are born without wisdom teeth i was born without wisdom teeth they can tell three they can tell on x-rays when you're quite young whether you're going to have them or not, right? And so I was told in my teens or whatever that I have no wisdom teeth. They're never going to come in. I was born without wisdom teeth,

so I never had to take my wisdom teeth out, which I would argue, I'd not even argue, I'm going to say this is a fact, that I'm the next step in the evolutionary ladder. 1000%. Because you've got to think that's the next thing we're going to lose, right? I bet you more and more people are getting less and less. We don't need them anymore.

Do you have an appendix as well? I still have a tail, Jack. No, I have an appendix, but I believe I'm the next more improved human being. Yeah, so why? You heard it here first, folks. So the wisdom teeth, that's why I always wondered, like everyone has to get their wisdom teeth out eventually, right?

Or is it? Not everyone. So you get them out if they're going to cause problems. But some people can have all 32 teeth, and as long as you can clean around them and they're functioning, there's no reason to take them out. So it really just depends if they're going to cause a problem or not. The later you wait, the more complicated

it becomes, right? I just got one out six months ago. It's just more that you're older, your bone doesn't heal as fast. Yeah. So how many did you have? When you're 15, you're made of rubber. I had four. I got one out in March because it abscessed and my whole face

was swollen. but they said that we don't really need to do anything with the other three right now did you have all four Forrest? I had all four and I was evolution you're one step behind me Ryan because you had three

you're moving up the evolutionary ladder but these two cavemen are still stuck with their four fucking wisdom anyway forest you had one out no but i had all four taken out but i don't remember them being maybe one was absent but i think they i think maybe one was obsessed and they just said we're going to take all four out at one time just do it now because super common easy because we can spot on an x-ray if it's going to be a problem yeah and i think that was what it was and i remember i remember they put me under and then i woke kind of up in the middle and my head

was just going and that and that yeah and the dance was just like hey don't worry about it and i remember it being like a tire and like king king and i just the work they were doing was not wouldn't have felt good oh see mine was so crazy i didn't get put under i just got the shots and i was once the uh shot went in five minutes later, my wisdom tooth was out. And I was like walking out. And I was like, what the fuck just happened? It was so fast. Do you find that some people, and you don't have to name names,

or you don't have to even answer this question, that some dentists are shonky as all fuck? Like, no, like seriously. Like a lot of them ask you. For some of them, you've got to get second opinions because I feel like they're putting braces on kids who don't need braces and stuff. It's like they're trying to upsell.

I'll tell you what happened, right? That's orthodontist, right? Orthodontist, yeah. They can also say you have a lot of cavities and then you go to another dentist. I had this dentist 20, before I was a comedian, 25 years ago I had this dentist and i went to and he had this machine i was just selling cast phones right i i mobile phones so i had no fucking money and and he had

this machine and it was like a little buzzy thing and he stepped we put it on each tooth and went now that one's okay he's like and he's like and he was like this one's hollow this one's hollow this one's about to get a cavity this one he named about five of my teeth that were about to have cavities and he said i can do them all at once now and get it over and done with to be preventative and then we can get ahead of it because then it won't look as bad because blah blah blah and i didn't have the money and i was like fuck all my teeth are rotting out and i said no i'll have to wait i don't have the money 25 years on i still haven't got cavities in them fucking you shonky cunt and right now ryan's sitting there going where's this machine where do you get one of these machines i know exactly what that machine is yeah Is that machine real? What's it called? So did it go wow?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Did it go like, yeah, yeah. So it's like a laser pointer. And what it does is it measures density. And there's supposed to be a certain density hardness to your enamel. But the problem is there's variations there. And then also if you put it on like a bit of black, it's going to go wow. So like it's very user sensitive.

So if the user is pointing it in the wrong way or shape, it depends. And then also it goes from zero to 99. 99 being like a fucking hole right in your tooth. Disgusting. But like a 20, it's going to make noise. Well, it's been 27 years and those teeth haven't had fillings. But mind you, I was on laughing gas and he didn't even have anything. He was just in front of me going, wow.

And I was like, oh, man, this guy's very good. What's it called? What's the machine called, Ryan? Diagnodent. In fact, I used to have one. It was cool. It helped, but it was no yes or no it wasn't the it wasn't definitive it was just something for me maybe that would help me find something that my eyes might have been

missing or my instrument but it is it's technology do you find that do you do braces or you you don't do that i don't do the wire braces i do invisalignalign. Invisalign. That's what I have. Do you? Yeah. I find that all Americans seem to get Invisalign, and then the rest of the world's a little bit more. Bad braces. Yeah, a little bit more.

They were telling me my son's going to need braces when his first few teeth, because they were a bit wide. The other teeth have grown in, and he has a beautiful mouth of teeth. They're all a buddy thing, but before, the other teeth were going, oh, know he has a beautiful mouth of teeth they're all buddy thing but before the other teeth are going oh he's gonna need braces they were they were psyching me up and then his teeth came in fucking belter did you have braces kelly i had brace i had like a tooth that was growing in up here no braces bring it down yeah well you had well you have veneers you cheated yeah but my shit teeth are still straight next time we're just gonna say you need veneer now can the veneers change color because i don't think mine as wide as they were but maybe i just got used to it they can yeah they can definitely change color the teeth underneath

can change color too so depending on material type the cements the generation the newer generation stuff now doesn't change colors as much but something done five ten years ago might be changing colors my job a good job i can't see it from here i can see yours i actually i meant to add a question about veneers what's the process of of getting veneers oh i know so so yeah i mean it's like first you start, you know, obviously you want to find somebody you are comfortable with that. Hopefully they have some kind of, you know, some social proof, right, of what their work is, like social media or whatnot. Consultation, you go in, have a look at everything, get your game plan together. And then the next visit should be getting you in the new look. So like in my office, we'll do the designs, we'll get the temporaries in and the new look. So like in my office, we'll do the designs,

we'll get the temporaries in and the new look, and then you test drive those for like a week. Yeah. Make sure you love everything. But you shave your teeth down, right? Yeah, they shave them down into little spikes, and then they get like the temporary ones that don't feel – like these, I forget I have veneers. These just feel like normal teeth, right?

Then they give you these temporary ones for a week that sort of look like what these ones are, but they're not a perfect fit on or they're still, you know, they're just a bit of a facade at this stage. But I remember that week because you can't eat shit. I've still got my original back teeth, so you have to get food and then shove it right over your gut and eat a steak, get a little bit of it right over your gut, you can't bite into nothing.

I'm going to say there's definitely different methods out there. I don't do the pegs. You can be very conservative. You can do no prep veneers. You can do minimal prep veneers. If you get to a peg, you're kind of, you're almost to like, you're not veneers anymore. You're doing crowns basically.

And everybody does their temps different. So like i lock mine on in single piece you can eat whatever you want i just tell you don't like bite to an apple but i'll tell you what i miss i loved chewing my fingernails i loved it and you can't do it you can't do it with veneers you can't it feels you can you just might chip yeah you might chip them chip a veneer. Yeah, you might chip them. Like a veneer, they're not as strong as teeth, are they? They're close. They should be about four times stronger. Okay, then why am I not chewing with me fucking fingernails? Go to town.

Because it's a bad habit. It depends on what material was used and what layering they did right at the edge. So if you have more of a core material, it's stronger. It doesn't feel the same as chewing it. It probably doesn't line up the way you used to remember it. So there's a lifetime of wear pattern. You'll get your favorite spot, right? Yeah.

But with the veneers, you probably won't have a favorite spot. No, I just cut my nails like a normal person now. But I never had clippers or anything. And now I'm fucking... What a life. But anyways, hopefully start to finish. Six weeks. Easy. Looks good. Shouldn't be painful. It should be easy. and you know i'm fucking what a life but anyways hopefully start to finish six weeks easy looks good it was it was it was one of the best things i ever did with my life it really uh improved my confidence and also not being afraid to smile or whatever like that and also

a bit you know like with me people can see the before and after because you watch my early specials and stuff like that. People still get into me. Anytime a man does anything to improve the way they look, society will call them vain or make fun of them. Women get away with murder. I've dyed my hair at the moment for my special. It's back to my original color.

There's already been comments about people telling me. People talk shit about you uh shit to you about your teeth yeah really i feel like i feel like i always see such nice comments about it no no people will talk shit about yeah they'll they'll say i preferred him with his jacked up teeth you know what it is it's normally people who we like your personality it's not it's it's normally another ago right right another i go who's upset that you've left their group a little bit even if you just left their group by 10 with you they're like ah you're meant to be ugly like what's the saying you're not ugly you're just poor

oh my god i've never heard that that's true though good looking people are well polished turds yeah that's what they say about like celebrities when they show their before and after it's like all of these women that are like the pinnacle of beauty standards right now it's like it's because they have tons of money they've got plastic surgery they've got trainers they've got chefs clothes that fit you're poor you're not makeup airbrush yeah exactly name as many parts of the tooth as you can Jim said the top

the middle the gum line the root enamel the bottom so some of that's good I mean we're talking structures the very tip

the cusp of the tooth yeah yeah yeah but he had a lot of stuff I knew a teeth would there's the cusp there's the lingual fossa there's the occlusal table.

There's the clinical crown, which is like the whole part of it. What was the first one? The cusps? The cusp is like the tip. The cusp. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and the cusp intercuspates with the fossa. So that's the chewing valley.

So the cusp is like the peak, and then the fossa is like the valley. Okay, the fossa. Here's something that my son used to say to me when he was. Valley. So the cusp is like the peak and then the boss is like the Valley. Okay. The fossil. Here's something that my son, you see, here's something my son used to say to me when he was, and he was telling us the answer. There's the cusp,

the fossil. I want to, I want to learn this, the cost of the fossil. Yeah. And then what was the other one? Well, the clinical crown is what you see. So the whole main part of it.

Okay. Yeah. Uh, I mean, then there's, then you would just be talking about very specific other like angles i mean he was right the root and the root crown cusp awesome okay i never had a good answer for this when my son was little and before he had his adult teeth which he has now he used to

say why does he have to brush his childhood teeth after he eats candy what difference does it make they're gonna fall out anyway and i was was always like, well, you just do. But I didn't have a good answer for that. You can't eat it if you don't have your teeth. Yeah, but baby teeth, who give a fuck? Well, a toothless baby that's five years old? They're going to come in. They're all going to fall out in that time.

I kept a couple of his teeth when he first, and I don't think I've lost them. It's a pointless, morbid activity to keep teeth. That's one of Lisa Curry's hobbies is collecting teeth. That's very interesting. Yeah, she's got tons of teeth. Whose teeth? Hers and then other people's.

Oh, God. She's got a lot of teeth. What do you reckon the going rate for the tooth fairy is I've been hearing like 10-20 bucks these days which is crazy it was like a quarter yeah I Jim gave my nephew 100 bucks when he lost his first tooth

and I was like don't do that I was drinking a lot no I'm very generous to other people's kids. I'm like, what do I mean? Here's a hundred bucks. Go tell your dad. Off you go.

I'm that guy, right? The Tooth Fairy is just Jim Jefferies. I like the splash, mate. My nephew at parties just stands next to me until he gets like a hundred bucks. It'll fall out eventually. He's like 25. He just looks at me. What are you doing? What are you doing what are you doing max um how's it going bro yeah but that's all i do at christmas is all the nephews

and nieces line up like 100 there we go that's how you do it little thought the whole thing but with my own kid i think i gave him a tenner and then he had a friend who was getting a hundred bucks a tooth and it's very hard to say why the tooth fairy liked that child more than you and can we also say this and if you're listening in the car with your kids right now you can mute it right now because we all know what i'm about to say and mute okay so there's no santa cla. You can't say this on radio as well. I tried to do a joke about Santa that like the ratings people will get on top of you. You don't have to mention the cunt, right?

But there's no Santa Claus. There's no Easter Bunny. But out of all the mythical fucking creatures that we tell our children, give them money and chocolate and presents, the Tooth Fairy is the most unbelievable. And the creepiest. And now this person comes into your room at night, goes under your pillow and steals your bones.

Yeah, why are all the beautiful creatures sneaking around at night? Give me that. Yeah, yeah. So it steals your tooth. What does he do with the tooth? Or she. Yeah, why does she want all these teeth?

What does she do? Well, it might be a he we don't know well why does why does lisa collect teeth yeah she's the tooth fairy okay yeah but like like does the tooth fairy go back and just look at all of it he or hers tooth and just god fucking did good i think the tooth fairy swims in a pool of teeth like mcscrooge is Tooth Fairy, is that an international thing or is that just US I don't know it's in the west

it's a real thing I can't believe is it in North Korea, that's always my litmus test was it in Australia of course there was a tooth I don't know why you're saying of course we had the tooth Bilby, which came in from the outback

and used to ride on a flying koala. I just did a quick search, and it says in Asia, the tooth fairy is more of a wish for the teeth of mice. Mice have continuously growing teeth, and thus Asian children wish for their missing teeth to be replaced by mice's teeth. I don't know if that's real. That sounds like a bad one. This gonna we're about this is from cambria dental we're about to

tour asia i'm gonna throw some tooth fairy gags in there and see and see what their response is it says japan has no tooth fairy and are not paid for it's not teeth yeah i i was in remember when i was in korea i was in south in South Korea doing a gig and I did that. If you watch like an intolerant, I do, I do a routine about Fragua, right? And it's all about force feeding geese food. So their livers get fatty and all that type of stuff. And normally as I went through the whole process of shoving a funnel down a

goose's throat and force feeding an animal forever, normally I got oohs and ahs in the audience, right? I got people feeling uncomfortable and they, they an animal forever. Normally I've got oohs and ahhs in the audience, right? I've got people feeling uncomfortable. And they weren't uncomfortable. And I went, oh, that joke's not going very well. I cut it off halfway through. And I went, that joke's never gone that badly. And one bloke just went, well, we eat dogs, right?

In Korea, he said, we eat dogs. And I was like, oh, I don't think you're allowed to say that. It's like he said it to me. I went, oh, careful. Don't say that. Don't let that get out. In Korea, there is no tooth fairy. However, in many countries around the world,

children still believe in the tooth mouse. Spain, Guatemala, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Chile, and Mexico put lost teeth on their pillows expecting money or gifts left by El Ratoncito Perez The mouse who collects teeth Yeah, there you go And then the Philippines, they also have

a tooth rat I'll take the tooth fairy over there I've been to the Philippines that might be an actual thing there's lots of rags and stuff it says in India the maternal uncle gifts the child when he or she loses the first tooth

I don't know the 2022 original Tooth Fairy poll indicates the Tooth Fairy's average cash gift reached $5.36 per tooth, an all-time high in the 24-year-old poll. Well, that was... Conflation. Conflation. When I told my son about Santa Claus after Easter, right?

So what happened was this is... So he was eight or nine or something like that. And I read like I Googled what's the best age to tell a kid about Santa because Santa's a fun thing to have at home, right? The whole thing. It's a fun thing. And they said the average age is eight or nine, but in the Midwest the age is 11.

And I was like, they're dumbass people in the Midwest with their simpleton children walking around at 11 thinking about fucking Santa Claus, right? I'm not going to have him be one of those. This is an LA boy. He finds out early, right? So I told my son about Santa Claus. He cried.

And then he cried. And I said, oh, I started off with Easter. I said, yeah, the Easter Bunny's not real. And he went, oh, okay. And then he sat and And I said, oh, I started off with Easter. I said, yeah, the Easter Bunny's not real. And he went, oh, okay. And then he sat and thought for a bit. He went, but Santa's real, right? And I went, well, what do you think? What do you think?

And he went, well, he must be real because how could all the presents be delivered to all those kids if not for Santa? And I'm like, no, no, no. You're going to be disappointed here, mate. And then he started to cry. He was like eight. And I said, it's okay. And I said, but on the upside, on the upside,

I said, everything mythical you can think of, right? Everything, the tooth fairy. And he went, what? The tooth fairy? I go, yes. If Santa and the bunny aren't real and you're still clinging on to the tooth fairy you're not getting this concept at all all right and i said if the if the tooth fairy and santa claus and the easter bunny aren't real they're mythical creatures they're not real but on the good side all the bad things aren't real either there's no witches there's no ghosts there's no

boogeymen and he goes boogeyman what's a boogeyman i said i just told you he wasn't fucking real you took away all his friends in one day you're like that didn't go well no i feel like it was the best i could have done but i you know i got ahead of the game because i remember finding out about santa claus from a friend at school. And the way I found out was I'd gotten something. I was like 10 or something. And I'd gotten this wooden gift. And this kid came out, not at school, he came out of my house.

And there was like a wooden thing I had, right? It was a puppet type of thing. It was wooden, right? And I went, and I got this, and I got Connect Four, and I got a video game. And very clearly the elves made this. And he just looked at me. And in that moment I went, oh, no. this and i got connect four and i got a video game and very clearly the elves made this and he just looked at me and in that moment i went oh no and i didn't want him to be that kid i wanted him to be the kid that ruined other kids memories all right um your teeth are composed of four

tissues the how many are hard how many are soft jim said three hard one soft you got that right yeah so enamel dentin cementum enamel's the hardest that's a question later by the way yeah that's the hardest substance in the human body enamel yeah okay yeah and then the inside the very inside is called the pulp and that's like the nerve blood supply so why do they put so many nerves in there what's the fucking point of that that seems to be a design fault. You just need these things to be able to chew through things and then to mash up fucking food or to bite an enemy in a real bad incident, you know, bite someone or something.

And then what do we do? We put nerves in there in case you put something cold next to it. It'll give you pain like no one's business. Yeah, why? You know why they did that? Why right so you brush your teeth jobs so i could have jobs yeah oh i love when a dentist does this does this hurt yes didn't you see me flinching um what are incisors are they the teeth that are pushing into each other so they're the upper front four and the lower front four those are called incisors so they're like the flat wide tall ones by the way you're very nice right the snaggled tooth

has anyone ever asked with a veneer i want a veneer snaggle tooth. I want to keep it real. No. But I have had people say like, I want not perfectly straight. I saw a lady in like, I was in some, where I was, somewhere in the world,

but it was an impoverished country. It might've been India or something. But I saw this lady that had a tooth that was like, it felt like it was an inch and a half long and it was piercing up through the top lip and all that type of i'm like ah that canine yeah canine like a great big one what the fuck's all that about wait the canine wait so the inside yeah sorry the four the front top four and the front four front two and the bottom two the flat tall oh those four incisors those are the central incisors and then the lateral incisors next to it the canines

are the three from the center okay so wait the four on the top four center on the top and the four center on the bottom are the incisors inside the canines are right and then the canines are next and that's what was poking through this woman's lip yeah it was probably it was big man here's one for you now ever since ever since uh my early 20s there was a porn star called bella donna who had a gap in her front teeth and then madonna had a gap in her front teeth and ever since then that's been a thing for me whenever i meet women with a gap in the middle of their front teeth why do i find that sexy obviously these people are deformed because it's a it's a affiliation yeah i don't know that does it for me if there's a gap

in my teeth ah don't even come to work you better watch out you better do the show regionally from now on okay so so tooth enamel is the hardest substance in the human body. And then when you lose tooth enamel, how long does it take to grow back? Jim said it never grows back. Is that true? He's correct. What?

So what do you do? See, I gave Jim credit for later because some of his explanations were spot on. So what happens if it never grows back? Your tooth just starts to crumble? So what happens if it never grows back? Your tooth just starts to crumble? So the pulp actually starts out big from the inside of the nerve, and it lays down like an eggshell layer every now and again.

And over time, the inside of the tooth, which used to be hollow, gets less hollow. So you lose your enamel, but you still have that dentin and cement inside. So it's softer. It's not as good, but you're growing from the inside, if that makes sense. It's like a reverse pearl. I remember being a kid and then putting a whole lot of like slimy shit over my teeth

at one of the things. Yeah, fluoride. And it was meant to last me like a year or something like that. They still do that? That was like a thing they did? Yeah. So we can talk about fluoride.

What's up with fluoride? Yeah. So fluoride is not a gimmick. He's spot on there too. If you don't have it in your water, if it's like well water with no fluoride, you do have very weak enamel, easily susceptible to cavities. People have lots of tooth loss. Does a Brita take fluoride out?

I don't know. I don't think so but um but fluoride in higher concentrations so fluoride's the only thing that makes like toothpaste get the ada stamp of approval or like listerine all the other stuff is kind of like whatever minty fresh whatever but the fluoride you know the you're physically removing plaque but the fluoride can actually soak into the damaged enamel that the bacteria excretes acid, damages the enamel, demineralizes it basically. And then the fluoride ions can remineralize, re-harden it. And the interesting thing about that is if you remineralize enamel with fluoride, it's actually stronger and more cavity resistant. So it's actually one of those things where it's almost good to have a little damage and

then repair it. And it's almost impervious after that. Whoa. Is there... So that's why we put it on at the clinics. We paint the fluoride. So sugar's enemy number one, right? And I heard that like, so when uh unwrap mummies and stuff like that

they found that these people had pretty reasonably good teeth and they didn't really have too much dentistry but they had almost no sugar in their diets and they weren't brushing and all that type of stuff so so is it really just sugar or because there's also be largely just even like orange juice can do it to you there's sugar in that and stuff like that right so think about what orange juice is right you had to have like 30 oranges and then crush them all and put them in this thing like that's not how humans ate right they would have they'd be lucky to have this tiny little orange share like a few slices with everybody and that was as much sugar as they got you know so there wasn't a constant stream of highly concentrated sugars and then um you know we also have different habits now we live longer we have chronic stress i didn't think half of

those mummies were 24 yeah i was like they had wonderful teeth the 18 year old pharaoh yeah they got a spear through their heart. They didn't die of old age. I was at a Chipotle some time ago, and I heard two people talking about a fluoride conspiracy, by the way. This guy. Do you know about that? Yeah, yeah.

This guy was like, you don't know about that. They're putting fluoride in the water. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, we are. How do they put fluoride in the water? They just go to our water reserves and just pour a bucket of it in? Mike, I'm serious. How do they do it?

Fluoride is a naturally occurring element. So once you put it in, you don't have to top it up. It's not like chlorine or anything like that. We're not having a – is there a fluoride guy? I mean, they test it. I don't know if it evapor evaporates like chlorine or what not but yeah they test they want a certain parts per million I want that job

so I think like.03 or something parts per million and what's the conspiracy theory that it's used to control us I was just looking it up again because I remember the guy was talking don't worry that guy owes Sandy Hook victims a billion dollars I think it's mind control so the government can control your mind.

I'm sure he's part of it. He was selling fluoride-free toothpaste. Do dogs and cats, if they drink water, they have the same benefit for fluoride, or is this a distinctly human thing? I don't know. That's a good question. Let's Google that.

I would think it would have a similar benefit. I think it would be the same. The thing about canines and felines is their life expectancy is like a tenth of ours, right? Yeah, but I've had a cat with decaying teeth and you're just like, what was I meant to do? Right, and then I've had dogs with terrible teeth too. So good question. I don't know. Drink more fluoride, dogs.

This says no. This says don't give drink more fluoride dogs this says no this says don't give dogs fluoride well I wouldn't say give them fluoride but like does it affect their tooth development being in the water yeah this is like it definitely affects human development it says don't give your dogs tap water

oh well Arnie sorry buddy I watch a lot of yeah go to the river get the water for buddy. I watch a lot of... I watch a lot of... We're just going to see if they're out right now. Yeah, go to the river. There you go, buddy. Get the water for them. I've seen a lot of those murder things where someone's a bite specialist and they come in and they go,

these are the bites of a such and such and they reckon that's not good evidence anymore. Do you reckon you could tell the bite mark of somebody, of some of your work? Like you've given someone some things. Could you go back and go yeah yeah that was dennis i i could certainly compare the bite mark to if i had models yeah yeah i could i could what do you do with those models i think i got mine back so i mean mine are all digital mostly so we use scanners mostly now. So I have visual records and then I can print it.

So say I had a client that was a suspect. Cops could say, hey, print that model work. We need to check. Or somebody died, right? Yeah. I see that in the movies. They do have dental forensics. Somebody got burned up and they were like, yeah, well, yeah.

Yeah, that's common. So if you had metal fillings, X, Y, and Z, and implant there, it's kind of like a fingerprint. The cops have come to you before? No, I've never been a part of that. But if they ask for my X-ray records and want me to look at something, that's an easy thing to do. Okay.

An abscessed tooth, is that where the gum has gotten infected? Is that what that is? Yeah. He was pretty spot on. He said the root wood got infected and the gums got infected. So an abscess is where there's a pocket of bacterial sludge coming from a certain source. It will be in the gum or in the bone, and the source can be from either the inside of the tooth, like where he was saying the root got an infection. But sometimes you can get what's called a periodontal abscess, and that's just in the gum space.

So it is basically, think of it like a zit, and it's either in the bone, it's either in the gum, and it's either from a tooth or from some kind of infection in the gum. Yeah, because my tooth has been hurting, but then it hasn't. The biting? Nah, it was like a little bit my upper back where not i guess not my wisdom but that's out but the next one up but then i did a thing my mom used to do like oil pooling with coconut oil you know yeah yeah and i did that now it feels better he's like no i don't do that hippie shit no i don't

care oil pulling isn't gonna hurt anything i just would say don't replace like brushing your teeth no no no i brush and stuff yeah i'll do all that yeah and they've actually found that you know like mctl coconut oil can be bacteriostatic so kill bacteria and stuff i'm still gonna see it's anti-inflammatory so i'm still gonna see a dentist but it feels better now yeah you need to take an x-ray to just find out is anyone actually obsessed or not is anyone still shoving a gold tooth in i feel like that's gotta be it's always poor people who get a gold tooth and it looks like that's more be it's always poor people who get a gold tooth and it looks like that's more expensive than porcelain what's going on it is more expensive because of

the cost of gold but i i have several clients that can get it for the look of gold so like a lower gold canine or now they're doing like gems or like crystals on their teeth and stuff yeah i'm actually kind of exploring into that uh not the gem per se but an actual like a diamond diamond on a veneer it's kind of a complicated still like how people like rappers do it yeah but like yeah all right i'm bigoted i'm bloody no i had my buddy cam gavinsky he had he found some shitty dentist and uh silver lake and they're like we need to put a cap on your tooth. He's like, what? And without asking, they just put a silver cap on. A silver one?

Yeah. He's like, what the fuck? He's like, is it all the technologies from the 70s? That's probably a preformed. It was something weird. So then he went to my dentist, and they're like, we haven't seen work like this in 30 years. Where did you go?

Silver's bad, right? No, it's just more like no because it's probably not actually silver it's just the color silver but it's probably a pre-formed like titanium press on so they probably had in a drawer yeah reduce the tooth under it to a certain size so that you could just put a bunch of glue in it and shove it on and be like good enough for government work yeah that's pretty much that's exactly what they do for kids that's what they do for kids. That's what they do for kids. And kids, it's fine because you're only going to have that tooth for like four more years or three more years.

As an adult, that's kind of third world. Dentures are over now, right? We can just shove teeth into gums and screw them in, right? Yeah. If you've got the money. We can't retain dentures, yeah. Yeah, because I used to love that when an old person would take out their teeth it was always fun yeah yeah just there'll be a gummy

and their lips would fold in on themselves yeah yeah always look like a lot of fun they're always complaining about the binding glue and they're like i can't eat popcorn oh god i can't whistle anymore i find with one of my veneers one and towards the back i get fucking if i eat lobster or shellfish that when it gets stringy and chewing it gets caught under there it's a kind of a thing to get back out so i just wanted to put that out there um there you go i mean that's the favorite tooth why would why would uh why would someone need a root canal jim said abscessed tooth rot root has gotten infected a crown yeah so if like uh if the if the nerve and the blood support a if it's killing them so bad like you're like so the pulp is the nerve and the blood supply so say

you're like this tooth is killing me make it stop you can either do a root canal take the nerve out doesn't hurt anymore or you take the tooth and then yeah if it already like say a cavity got to the nerve or the blood supply killed it that's when that abscess will get in there and you gotta sterilize that so what a root canal is you don't take the root out you're just cleaning out the pipe down the middle of it so you're sterilizing it filling it in so you can keep that tooth and your body is happy again and the nerves gone then the nerve yeah the nerve and the blood supply is gone so it's technically a dead too i'm sure i i've mentioned this before but the term root in australia is a quokalism or slang for fucking so i rooted this chick i got i got a root on the

weekend right yeah so when you say root canal all I can hear is fuck tunnel fuck tunnel there you go that's all I hear sometimes you need one

but all you need to get is all root canals and you have no more nerves Jim yeah I just don't

yeah the nerves the cold my wife can't believe because she's British she can't believe that I just bite ice

I put ice in my mouth and go crunch crunch crunch she's British, she can't believe that I just bite ice. I put ice in my mouth and go crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch. She looks at me like I'm on an episode of Jackass and I'm doing a dare. Right. Can chewing gum help prevent cavities? Jim says trick question. He says yes, but he's open for debate. Yeah, his was 100% accurate.

See, this is where he was scoring points because he really delved into this so there's a there's a tooth uh there's a sugar out there called xylitol and there's been a lot of studies about it that show that it's it's cariogenic i mean uh it's bacteriostatic it'll kill bacteria that cause cavities so um that sugar can kill bacteria and then also just the the chewing of gum will create a salivary flow. So when people have really bad dry mouth, you're a lot more likely to get cavities because bacteria loves dry mouth conditions. So natural saliva has enzymes and things that kill bacteria and make it harder for you to

get cavities. So the right gum can definitely prevent cavities xylitol so juicy fruit with an X yeah I'm looking at it right now I don't that's not the guy I'd have this one kind of gum I don't even know what so I mean there's a ton of them now but I mean Trident I think has five all at all I think that's why they advertise what like to just approved what toothbrush do you recommend because eight out of ten because Xylitol. I think that's why they advertise themselves as dentist approved. What toothbrush do you recommend?

Because eight out of 10 dentists reckon whatever the one that starts with O. So, yeah. Orbit. So Orbit is great and all. I love Sonicare though. Ah, Philips Sonicare. That's what I go. I love Philips.

That's what I use, the Sonicare. My wife has a pink one. I have a black one. We're very gender specific at our house. My wife has a pink one. I have a black one. We're very gender-specific at our house. And you put it in that glass where it charges. It doesn't look like it's charging. It just looks like a fun glass. Quality product, the Sonicare.

It's a magic thing. I have a Sonicare, too. They're expensive, but they're great. Yeah, but they have a whole line of levels. I mean, I think they're like a Conal yeah but they have a whole line of levels i mean i think that they're like a conaline one that's like 80 i think it's called protective clean it's like 80 bucks that's well worth it well well worth it um okay and then uh i don't use pulling floss i only use the picks i can't i can't hold it in my hands like I'm trying to choke out a mobster.

It doesn't matter. Yeah, if you get something between there, it's good. Some floss picks are great. And a water pick is as good as flossing or no? Water pick is very good for the gums, like flushing out the pockets, but it's not as good as floss in wiping the surface where the teeth physically touch. So where the teeth physically touch so where the teeth physically touch it cannot get in there so the only thing on the planet that can do that is a piece of string that slides between there so you can use it on your front gap where they're not touching you can gap pick stop talking about

my gap are you getting horny over there he's like put something in there actually make it go faster he winked at me and since we're on the subject. Kelly Bear. Since we're on the subject of toothbrushes, how often do you have to be replaced? Did he answer that? I'm sorry. So his was great. Two months is perfect.

Most companies are going to say three to four months. But my thing is, if it's starting to change shape at all, it just looks less fresh, just get rid of it. Because it can become like a home for bacteria. So you want it just looks less fresh just get rid of it because it can become like a home for bacteria right so uh you want to just keep those fresh and also you should always replace it after you've been like sick right yeah so i mean it's going to carry bacteria and viruses on it so i mean you've already had that you could you could soak it in like hydrogen peroxide or something i mean it's not like you have to throw it away like if it's like two weeks old just put it i have one of those sterilizer things that you

like yeah the uv light thingy yeah have you ever had like a one night stand or a short-term relationship where you go over the person and you get busy and then the morning you go can i use your toothbrush and they look at you like what and? And you're like, what the fuck are the things you've had in your mouth already? Like, we've been making out. I licked out your asshole. Can I please use your toothbrush? Yeah, but there weren't extra food particles in there. People get grossed out by it.

Did you have corn? Forgot to ask about a crown. What is a crown? A crown is like a helmet. It goes over your tooth. It's usually to just make it stronger. Okay. So it doesn't matter which way you get hit from.

It's strong again. It's almost the same thing as a veneer. I had a vasectomy last week, and then Jack just grabbed these balls out of sympathy. He just looked over at me. He adjusted his seat, and his testicles weren't going well. No, they just crashed into each other. That was very painful.

Oh, I thought it was a bit of... No, I have no sympathy. I thought it was phantom pains. Plaque. What is plaque? Jim said the muck and grime of everyday living, bro. That's pretty accurate. It's a biofilm collection on your teeth from bacteria,

but it will form based on what you ate, if you brushed it off or not. So your daily habits affect how thick and fast that biofilm forms. Okay, and does that havefilm forms. Okay. And does that have, because I'm just jumping ahead here, does it have anything with our oral health relating to heart health? Because I think that I remember reading about. A thousand percent. A thousand percent. So American Dental Association and the American Heart Association now have a joint article that they write every year. The link

between your oral health and your cardiovascular system, like everything to do with like, you know, your arteries and your heart, even your lungs, the bacteria in your mouth goes to the rest of your body. So if you have a very healthy mouth, there's nothing really going into the rest of your body. But if you have an unhealthy mouth with like you know gingivitis we'll talk about that a little bit lots of plaque bleeding gums things like that it is getting into your bloodstream and it's going to other parts of your body and they're finding out that like blockages plaques in your it's a different spelling of plaque but plaques in your um in your arterials and things

like that are causing like heart attacks and ischemia and you know congestive heart failure all kinds of issues so it is uh very related how long has dentistry been around how long have we been putting people in a chair and getting pliers out and having a go well Well, I don't know the exact years, but before there were dentists, early on it was blacksmiths, right? So blacksmiths worked with metal. They had all these tools. If you had a bad tooth, they'd take it out. Did Jesus go to the dentist?

Do you reckon he went to the dentist? Yeah, I don't know if he had time. He seemed like a busy guy. Hold on a second. You said blacksmiths, and then who came along? Dentists. Barbers. Barbers.

Barbers are like the... Before that, we just had hair on the floor, and no one cracked it. Yeah. So barbers are the place you get your hair cut, you get a shave, and if you had two problems, you'd have them pull it, basically, and especially in the Wild West and things like that. The barber shop was where you went to. So it's kind of hard. I think it was like maybe in the early 1900s

that they started having dentistry schools as part of their medical schools. Yeah, yeah. And that kind of spun off from there. Do you want a hot shave and an abscess cyst pulled out? That says barber surgeons were jacks of all trades and pulled teeth, performed minor surgery, cut hair, and applied leeches.

There you go. Leeches, yeah. So they did a little bit of medicine there too then. Leeches. Jack of all trades. What causes tooth decay? Eating wrong foods, soda, sugar, yeah. Definitely factors.

I would say the most root answer is bacteria. So bacteria eats sugar, usually excretes acid. The acid will bore a hole into your tooth. It'll dissolve the enamel, which then allows the bacteria to migrate further, and the process continues. So acid reflux must be terrible for your teeth right absolutely because uh the bacteria thrive in an acidic environment forest is going that acid getting a better environment and then you splash stomach acid on there they love it it's like going

in a hot jacuzzi for them and it also helps their progress go faster and you were right on the halitosis thing that um you know bad breath can very much come from that acid reflux that a lot of people have they don't know so they have gird or acid reflux the middle of the night their stomach opens up lets all this gross goop up into your throat and your esophagus and it kind of creates a stink environment because your stomach is kind of like a sewer system right that's where halitosis is from it's not your teeth so halitosis is just literally the term for bad breath but bad breath can come from lack of brushing bacterial plaque calculus which is the hard deposits on your teeth that the hygienists need to scrape off um but also that that kind of like that acid reflux coming up from your stomach.

Eating a dog shit and leaving it in your mouth. Pretty much. That's also a source of bad breath, for sure. Because there's some people in my life that I've known, nobody in this room, that constantly have bad breath. And you're just like, I can't. It's like you're almost like, I can't be friends's like you're almost like I can't be friends with that.

I've had periods in my life where it's been bad and worse. But I'll tell you, it's one of the great things about marriage is you have a person that will check all the time. How's me breath? You go up to your wife. She'll go, it's fine. Okay, good. I can enjoy the party.

That's nice. Yeah. I mean, there's something that in dentistry we call a peri-o-breath. So, I mean, I know what you're talking about. You go into that room and you're like, holy shit, like this is, I can't ignore this. That person probably has a lot of buildup on their teeth. So as long as they're seeing their dentist and their hygienist and doing everything they can at home, sometimes it's fast reflux and there's nothing you can do about it.

But a lot of these things are very preventable. How do you get rid of that stuff on the tongue? I get that stuff on the tongue and I use a scraper and some days are better than others. Yeah, so the scraper's good. Just make sure it's not an actual fungal infection or something like that. Go see

your doc. I've gotten it for years and years and years. Yeah, and as long as it's not as long as it's just like a normal thing yeah you just kind of got to do your maintenance gotta do the tongue so what's the difference a lot of people don't get that though what's the difference between the white stuff and the black hairy tongue that we asked about so the black hairy tongue is usually um just yeah either tobacco staining or just bacteria. That strain of bacteria turns black instead of white.

The white is usually fungal. The black is usually bacterial. Oh, so I got a fungally tongue. And it won't kill you, the black? Or the black hairy tongue? None of those things are life-threatening, typically. They just look gross. Yeah, it does look gross.

I'm looking it up right now. The largest teeth, I think you mentioned it already. So again, he was pretty impressive on that. He was like, well, if you're talking volume, then it's the molars, specifically the upper first molars. Those are usually the biggest ones, so upper firsts. And then the canines have the longest roots, so the upper canines have the longest roots.

Okay. And if your tooth is accidentally knocked out, what can you put it in to help prolong its life? He was wrong on that one. I think he said ice. You want to put it in milk. Milk? Milk has similar enzymes and enzymatic proteins in it that are similar to what is on the surface root of that tooth.

So you want to put it in that. Almond milk. Almond milk? Not oat milk. That's not going to work you need chocolate milk because you need the enzymes

wait so you put it in milk and then go see a dentist run it yeah run it in a dentist no you go see a dentist then you put it in milk Forrest no I meant

of course you put it in bloody milk first no I meant like interesting side story wreck him wreck him you put it in milk and then you No, I meant like... Interesting side story. Wreck them. Wreck them. You put it in milk,

and then you just sit back and watch a bit of telly. No, you're fine. It'll work itself out. Until your next six-month visit. You don't need to make a special trip. No, I meant like with your dad, like you just keep it in milk forever. Yeah.

Right? So there was actually a Christmas party that we were having. And I got an emergency call from a patient who had fallen rock climbing, and they knocked their tooth out. So we told him put it in milk. Okay, we'll see at the office in 20 minutes. And when you knock the tooth out, though, like you've severed the blood and nerve supply, right? There's no there's no regrowing. So I did a root canal on the tooth in my hand and then immediately inserted it back into his mouth splinted it and it's been 10 years he still has it there perfectly fine so it's not always going to work but it's a it's definitely a good

i'm sure that you've okay because you never want to look in someone's mouth as a doctor or any any type of doctor look i don't mind you know no you you never look in look in someone's mouth as a doctor or any type of doctor. I don't mind. You never look in the mouth and then just go, oh, fuck me. This is fucking terrible. But do you ever just go, okay, just wait here for a minute and go into the other room and talk to one of the nurses and go, fuck me.

You've never seen anything like this cunt's mouth. There's a branch in there. A thousand percent. You'd be lying if you said that doesn't happen yeah i saw a picture there was like a plant growing out of someone's tooth or something what i think it was yeah nuclear that would be amazing but i mean that's not impossible you get a seed stuck in there you go fall asleep in the sun whatever life will find a way. Did you Google it? No. What food do you reckon, apart from sugar,

what food should you not sort of bite into is bad for your teeth? You said apples when you get the videos. Candy apples, lollipops. Are you talking about really hard, crunchy, sticky combo things that makes you bite weird because you're more likely to just smack through it and like smack your own teeth against each other maybe chip something since and then also like on a chemical level like avoid super acidic things all the time before i had the veneers i could eat a dime bar or a butterfinger very easily now i can't stand the feeling of those that crispy toffee oh it's like against

my veneers does it feel weird or painful no it just feels weird it's not painful but also it's almost like it gets stuck in there and i used to be able to feel it a lot more with the old teeth and now i'm just like i don't even it just feels a bit detached just those two candy bars all other candy bars still on the table okay Those are two good ones, though. The dime's better than the thing. The dime's better than the bottom candy bar. What about Milk Duds? Milk Duds is a different one.

That's a chewier caramel. That's okay. It's not a brittle, sugary texture to it. I'm always worried to eat those. Not the old ones, though. It always feels like they're going to rip my teeth out. Oh, no. I eat a Milk Dud.

Doesn't scare me. You're so brave. That doesn't scare me. You're so brave. I wish I was you. I prefer a curly whirly from Britain. Double decker. Double decker is good, yeah.

All solid chocolate bars. Double decker pecker wrecker, whatever Forrest said. Exactly. I don't like Skittles anymore. Skittles, they've lost my life. That'll do it too. They've lost the luster for me as life has gone on.

Candy corn? I've never eaten candy corn. That stuff's ridiculous. Silly American food. Yeah, gross. We jumped around here a lot, but I think we have only a couple left here. What does odontalgia mean? I know Jim thought it was was the odont means tooth

geo geo means pain center for the denver nuggets tooth pain tooth pain tooth pain oh am i saying it wrong odontalgia odontalgia yeah odontology also he was a dictator in the 80s you can pick a country i He sounds like a suburb. The last one we had to get to is what is gingivitis? Jim said a condition that happens to your gums, like getting thrush. He was pretty spot on on that one too. Also, if you didn't know it was a disease, another good porn name. Gingervitis?

Exactly. Gingervitis. I imagine she's a redhead. Gingervitis. That sounds like an STD you she's a redhead. Gingivitis. That sounds like an STD you get from a redhead. Right. So you break down the word ginger, gingiva, gums, itis, inflammation of. So inflammation of the gums.

So it's the swelling, redness of those gums. A lot of things can cause that. Most commonly it's going to be plaque bacteria your gums being inflamed and irritated responding to that but there's a lot of other things that cause that like hormone changes so you can have pregnancy gingivitis which is like not based on bacteria it's not communicable it's not something that um you you can even really combat by brushing more. It's just the hormones are fluxing. And then there's certain medications that can cause it too, especially like things for autoimmune diseases that kind of mess with that inflammatory response system.

So gingivitis is one thing. Knowing the root cause is another. So bacterial plaque gingivitis. Quick true or false question. It is good to open a bottle with your teeth. True or false? As a trick at a party, a thousand percent. Yeah, that's true.

You should do that. I chipped. You're not a very good dentist. Just keep down speed, Dal. The answer was false. No, it keeps them in business if you're gonna fucking open bottles i thought you knew your shit on a daily basis no but at a party yeah for sure

do it get it on video and then reversing gingivitis or the best way to prevent gum disease flossing brushing mouthwash yeah that's yeah exactly and then the only thing just you know good habits every day and then i would say make sure you see your dental provider at least a few times a year. The whole twice a year thing, I honestly don't think that's enough. I think even a perfectly healthy mouth is not that great after six months. So if you can get in there maybe three times a year, that would be a good call. Here's my problem with that, though. This is the thing I never understand is why are there different insurances?

You have health insurance and dental insurance. Let me ask you this. Yeah. Let me ask you this. What is the thing i never understand is why is there's different insurances you have health insurance let me ask you this yeah let me ask you this what is the insurance's goal oh god to make a money to make the most money they can they don't give two shits about you my my membership so it's great why can't we just have insurance i know they call have life insurance but it's a different thing yeah But just one insurance payment that covers everything. Your house, fire protection, your teeth, whatever. And just go, it's 15 grand a year. It covers everything in your life. Brilliant. I would love that.

A lot of people wouldn't be able to afford that. It covers everything, Forrest. Yeah, but 15 grand a year, most people wouldn't be able to afford that. It's not an option for everyone. This is to cover your house, your car, your teeth, your body. And the more money you get, the more checkboxes you get to take. Most people need health insurance. Your collection of watches.

Yeah. Okay. Everyone needs to protect that. Yeah, I'm not in that club. Very relatable. Okay, this is the time, part of our show called Dinner Party Facts, we ask our guest to give us some interesting or obscure fact about the subject that people or listeners can use to impress people at a dinner party or a bar or something.

Yeah. Your pets. Oh, cocktail knowledge. Well, I think it's apropos to what we're talking about. If you're a regular flosser, you're likely, on average, to increase your life by six years. I'm going to stop flossing. So that's pretty... Yeah, that's pretty significant, right?

Get the fuck out of here. You're telling me that flossers get six more years on this planet? Yeah. Regular flossers on average live six years longer. Then I can take cigarettes up again. Right, because it's like 10 minutes per cigarette or six years for flossing. What does regular mean? What does regular regular mean how many times a week um i would say at least three to

four times a week three or four times a week okay oh yeah i'm good to go i'm living forever yeah get to flossing get to living how do they prove that because you know like that statistic might be a bit skewed because the person who floss probably also eats well and probably also is careful in their car and probably uses condoms right they're not a fucking burger eating raw dog and piece of shit like myself right who doesn't floss so it's just the statistics are a bit skewed that person probably works out as well because they care maybe do you floss? do you work out? yeah but I don't floss a lot

yeah but you do so maybe you'll get three years every time I go into the dentist it seems like the dentist gets excited when they tell me I'm a mouth breather that's a weirdo is that a question? The dentist gets excited when they tell me I'm a mouth breather. That's weird. Is that a question?

Get a new dentist. She said, I have a question. Do you get excited calling people mouth breathers? Here we go. I've got no idea. I've got no idea. No, but I did. I think I had this moment where I asked somebody. I was like, so, yeah, like you have these kind of like reddish gums just in this one area.

I'm like, do you snore or breathe through your mouth in your sleep? And they're like, are you calling me a mouth breather? Because I think they were referring to Stranger Things, you know? And I was just like, I got it. I don't think dentists get off on that. I know, they seem really excited. I've got an idea for you. That dentist was excited.

I've got an idea for you, I've got an idea for you. You know how we're always laying on the back and you've got that chair that does fucking everything, up and down and all the chair technology. You and the barbers are keeping some inventor in fucking business. Well, yeah, it makes sense, barbers. So you lay back and then you're standing above me doing a thing and then you have to bring the sucker in and then you spray water in your second so i have to be on gas i also

have to be thinking about not swallowing stuff i can see things floating around my mouth change it up no one ever does anything different man right i'm flat on my stomach i'm in a I'm in a massage chair me face is going down you wheel underneath me like a mechanic yeah with a yeah

stuff falling on his face you wheel underneath me on like one of those skateboards like a mechanic yeah he has one of the welding masks you work upwards then you don't have to spend

your hard earned money on the sucking machine stuff just falling on his face yeah it'd be better on my neck. No, he doesn't angle it. He does it to the side. He can have windshield wipers on his shield. He does it to the side.

He does it to the side. But wouldn't that be easier? And then you're like getting a back massage. Another question. Oh, yeah. That's a great idea. And then put a hole in the massage table so I can get wanked off at the same time.

I'm not doing that. No, you're not doing that. You're busy working on the mouth. We're not the hot nurses. We didn't bring you on this podcast to be silly, Dr. Savage. Anyway, so then you've got to do the teeth like that underneath. Another person doing a massage, maybe a head massage as well. I i don't know it might be overkill uh here's another question if i'm on me deathbed all right and they say oh you only have a week left to live if i start flossing a lot can i get

another six years from that point on like like it's like religion like as long as you accept jesus into your heart right before you die which we we're all going to do, you get to go to heaven, right? As long as you accept him. If I floss right away, do I get the six years? I would say like six seconds probably. Probably not worth it. Probably not worth it. At that point.

I have a question. Do you take HMOs? I do not. Okay. Thanks. I do not. I'm out. Can I explain why? Sure. I don't feel like any dentist okay okay um hmos are very interesting system where you get paid six dollars a month

to have that patient or something like that something ridiculously small to have that patient under your care and then you have to provide everything for them for basically free. So it's like HMO systems only work if you have like 5,000 patients and your whole goal is to never see them. I hope this abscess doesn't allow me to practice the chemistry I want to practice. So they come in, they get a cleaning, and they go, should I be back in a few months, doctor? Oh, no, your mouth's good. You're like, oh, no.

Looking good. You're good. And don't floss either don't get fluoride don't drink the water thank you Ryan Savage for being here you can find Ryan

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Thanks, gang. If you're ever at a party and someone comes up to you and goes, I don't floss and I think I'll live forever. Go, well, I don't know about that. And walk away. Good night, Australia.