{"id":8527,"date":"2022-03-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oraldna.com\/trends-in-salivary-testing\/?p=8527"},"modified":"2022-03-01T10:45:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T16:45:47","slug":"words-of-wisdom-from-lee-sheldon-dds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oraldna.com\/trends-in-salivary-testing\/index.php\/2022\/03\/04\/words-of-wisdom-from-lee-sheldon-dds\/","title":{"rendered":"Words of Wisdom from Lee Sheldon DDS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Every patient is different. Overcoming a patient\u2019s obstacles to treatment may take some finesse. The diagnosis and treatment plan are typically the easier task. In this series, Words of Wisdom, we have asked the experts from our Protocol Directory \u201cHow would you help your patient overcome their obstacle(s)?\u201d<\/p>\n

Patient<\/strong>: \u201cBut it doesn\u2019t hurt!\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Lee Sheldon<\/strong>: Helping the patient see what might be harming them even though it doesn\u2019t hurt them can be more easily achieved by using a phase contrast microscope. The direct sampling of the patient\u2019s plaque to a slide provides a concrete image that patients can\u2019t ignore. It becomes real. OralDNA\u00ae<\/sup> Labs\u2019 MyPerioPath\u00ae<\/sup> is the next step necessary to understand the specifics of the microbiology on the slide. Refusal of testing is uncommon. A simple phrase I use is \u201cWe’ll need to identify those bacteria so that we know if we need an antibiotic and what the best antibiotic might be.\u201d<\/p>\n

For those who don’t have a microscope, intraoral pictures also prove useful to help make the disease real. Here is a phrase I would use: \u201cIt feels as if this may be an aggressive disease. I’d like to send a sample of your saliva out to the lab so that we can identify the bacteria in your mouth.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>For more Words of Wisdom from Dr. Lee Sheldon, visit The Institute for Dental Specialists<\/a>\u00a0page of our Protocol Directory.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Helping the patient see what might be harming them even though it doesn\u2019t hurt them can be more easily achieved by using a phase contrast microscope and OralDNA\u00ae Labs\u2019 salivary testing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":8648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,59],"tags":[112,152],"class_list":["post-8527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-patient-education","category-practice-management","tag-patient-education","tag-practice-management"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.oraldna.com\/trends-in-salivary-testing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IDS.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7W16z-2dx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oraldna.com\/trends-in-salivary-testing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oraldna.com\/trends-in-salivary-testing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oraldna.com\/trends-in-salivary-testing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oraldna.com\/trends-in-salivary-testing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oraldna.com\/trends-in-salivary-testing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8527"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.oraldna.com\/trends-in-salivary-testing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8619,"href":"https:\/\/www.oraldna.com\/trends-in-salivary-testing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8527\/revisions\/8619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oraldna.com\/trends-in-salivary-testing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oraldna.com\/trends-in-salivary-testing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oraldna.com\/trends-in-salivary-testing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oraldna.com\/trends-in-salivary-testing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}