Communication Masterclass for Periodontal Disease [B2B] – PDP086

When treating periodontal disease there is more to it than removing biofilm. Our role is to be a motivator and lifestyle coach - only then can we see successful periodontal outcomes in the longterm. What's your spiel to patients to explain what periodontal disease is? Do you show diagrams, draw or use your fingers? Listen to how Dr Ian Dunn explains Perio and you will want to implement his way of communicating on Monday morning! Brought to you by the Back to Basics series of August on Protrusive Dental Podcast. https://youtu.be/KAGHaWyacZs Check out this full episode on YouTube Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! Protrusive Dental Pearl: Have some tools to be able to communicate via drawing (draw teeth, draw bone or periodontium etc) whether it's digitally, on whiteboard or paper. There is beauty and magic about being able to draw something while your patients are watching beside you. “Communication has to be a two-way street. It shouldn't be a monologue, it should be a discussion.” - Dr Ian Dunn In this episode we discussed about, Communication Masterclass between Dentists and Perio patients (12:38)How to communicate with more resistant patients (17:33)Referrals done by GDPs that could have been manage at their own practice  (21:22)Trying to get out of comfort zone in Perio (26:20)How to communicate risks in Perio treatment (32:08) Catch Dr. Ian Dunn’s Perio courses and be able to communicate to patients effectively about periodontal diseases. Do join us on our Facebook community, the Protrusive Dental community! If you like this episode, be sure to watch Finding Your Niche in Dentistry with Dr Pav Khaira Click below for full episode transcript:  Opening Snippet: So this is the bit where you explain to a patient that they're rubbish at brushing their teeth but you do it in a way that you don't offend them because that was the thing I find most difficult. Mrs. Jones bacteria builds up on teeth. It reaches your trigger points. Your body triggers inflammation, that inflammation damages the bone... Jaz's Introduction:I'm Jaz Gulati and welcome to another episode in the back to basics series of the Protrusive Dental podcast. You are going to be blown away by today's episode is with Dr. Ian Dunn of periodontist, on communicating. Communication in perio specifically, for example, how do you explain to a patient that they have periodontal disease like six significant things a chronic condition that could potentially live with for the rest of their life? It's such an important thing for them to grasp so that they can get better outcomes. And you can get better success as a clinician. Like what's your spiel? What's your way of communicating that I think lots of Dentists have different ways of doing it. Now, you will probably get your way whichever way you're doing at the moment. And Ian will show you the way to do it. I mean, his way of explaining to patients, how periodontitis works, and to get them on board is just the best I've ever heard. So I'm so excited to share these gems with you, we will talk about communicating risk of treatment with patients. And he does that in such a great way as well. And the relevant Protrusive Dental pearl I have for you today is to have something one-eight, whether it's digital, or whiteboard or paper base, an opportunity for you to be able to draw certain things because certainly one of the tools that Ian Dunn uses is to draw certain things draw teeth, draw bone or periodontium. So therefore, I think it's a really useful thing sometimes to be able to draw something. Yes, we have our intraoral cameras or DSLRs. But sometimes there's a beauty and magic of being able to draw something while your patients watching, you know annotating as you're talking to them. So that's the main Protrusive Dental Pearl. I hope you enjoy this episode. Stick around for the outro and if you're watching on YouTube, and if you haven't already,