Rubber Dam Isolation – PDP026

In this interview I discuss with Harmeet Grewal about Rubber Dam Isolation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEQ7bAuPWZQ Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! How to get started with rubber dam isolation We discuss our undergraduate experience of rubber dam isolation How rubber dam reduces stress and improves the quality of your work Reduce ballistic droplet spread of viruses AKA the cough How to talk to patients about rubber dam - your mindset about rubber dam will affect your success rate and the patient experience of rubber dam! Are we rubber dam police? NO - sometimes rubber dam can be a hindrance! Me and Harmeet both love the mantra: Start now, get perfect later! Which rubber dam to use? Our views on IsoVac vs Rubber Dam Harmeet shows some useful clamps for molars and top hacks for Rubber Dam Check out Harmeet on Instagram @dr_harmeet_grewal Click below for full episode transcript:  Opening Snippet: Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of Protrusive Dental podcast. I'm your host Jaz Gulanti. Today we'll be talking with Harmeet Grewal, all about rubberdam isolation, which is so topical and so pertinent with the COVID-19. And how will we get back to work? Might there be a need for those dentists who are not routinely using rubber dam isolation to start using it? Obviously, we're worried about the aerosols, but also worried about the ballistic events IE when someone coughs and that's one mode that the virus can transmit. So it's very topical episode if you like... Jaz's Introduction: Thanks for everyone who voted on the social media channels. But what you voted was for Harmeet Grewal episode and rubberdam isolation. And the next episode will be to drill or not to drill caries with Louis McKenzie, so I'm looking forward to that one. I won't blab on for too long. I hope everyone out there. I hope you are doing really well. And I hope you're getting to spend time with family. And I hope you are thinking about the day that we come back into practice. How can we come back bigger, better, stronger. And of course I hope we can use this opportunity so when we head back to work we can be fresh. My Protrusive Dental pearl is that some episodes ago I shared my customer screen. Now since then, Richard McIndoe shoutout to him, has modified it and added the goals, the patient goals section, which I think is so important. But I had a lot of messages from a lot of people saying, Look, I've got this CSV file, the which is the customer screen, but I have no idea what to do with it. So I've gone ahead and made a video on YouTube about how to actually install a custom screen, and then also how to pre load the custom screen with text in there. So not having to always type the same thing. So for example, if you take a bite wing, usually 9 times out of 10, the justification for bite wing is to check bone levels and for interproximal caries. And that can be written there within the customer screen. So it's almost like a template within the custom screen. So if you're one of my email subscribers to the newsletter, and episodes, you will receive an email already with that. If you're not, then when you go to protrusive.co.uk pop up box will come up, sign up for the newsletter and the first email you'll get, the welcome email will have the custom screen and the YouTube link of how to install a custom screen. So that's all there for you. So that's getting you to think about when we head back to work. How can we make our note taking better, more efficient? How can we work smarter. So I hope that's useful to you. Now let's jump in with Harmeet Grewal and rubber dam isolation. Main Interview: [Jaz]Right, Harmeet, thanks so much for coming on the Protrusive Dental podcast. Great to have you. [Harmeet]Thank you. [Jaz]You are someone who's now redoing great things in education with rubberdam, which is such an important thing.