Dental Care is Vital Care

Your mouth is treated like it isn’t part of your body — separate insurance, separate providers, separate records. Dental hygienist and Board Certified Patient Advocate Marissa Brubaker has spent 20 years as a dental hygienist, and one working interview with a mobile dental company serving seniors led to her career as a dental advocate. She explains why gums don’t bleed (tissue tears — and the bacteria head for your bloodstream), how dry mouth can quietly cascades into weight loss and withdrawal, and how her godfather Uncle Al’s oral cancer was missed because nobody looked or asked. Then Robin turns it into a toolkit: the exact words for the dental chair, a big treatment plan, a second opinion — and one question to ask someone you love this week. Link to full show notes: https://www.wellsaidhealth.com/dental-care-is-vital-care/