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Hi, my name is David Miller.

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I'm a board certified oral
maxillofacial surgeon at Oklahoma

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Dental Implants and Oral Surgery.

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As a general dentist,

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I felt like my ability to help people
was just limited with just the teeth.

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As an oral surgeon,
you have a lot more options to improve

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someone's entire facial esthetic.

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But I enjoy being able to construct
someone's mouth, even individual implants,

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and paying attention to the ascetics
that are required to make that look good.

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And all the thought of, you know,
where the gum tissue needs to lie

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and where to put the implant
three dimensionally in someone's mouth.

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I just find it all very interesting.

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My typical patients

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very nervous about coming in there,
having a procedure done

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that they typically don't know
a whole lot about.

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So taking the time to explain to them
what to expect.

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Walk them through step
by step of the procedure.

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Usually they're very apprehensive
about having anything done.

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And so we see that commonly every day.

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One of the things I pride

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myself on is being able to take somebody
who is really nervous and apprehensive,

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and then after the procedure is done,
they say that wasn't a big deal at all.

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I don't know why I was so nervous.

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We don't get that many repeat customers
as an oral surgeon that come back

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multiple times,
but when you get to establish

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some of that rapport with patient
and over a series of visits,

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they get to the point where they're
not even nervous coming in anymore.

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That's very rewarding.