Mike Wiegenstein: Driving home and they are kind of -- but they have a little recollection, you're telling me no recollection at all?
Dr. Travis Perkins: None.
Mike Wiegenstein: Now what does that -- other than, obviously, comfort and convenience, you said that the patients actually feel better sometimes.
Dr. Travis Perkins: Yeah.
Mike Wiegenstein: That you are able to do more. What from your point of view having the patient out and comfortable, what does that allow you to do?
Dr. Travis Perkins: Well, first of all, I believe it's more safe, we're giving somebody a pill, and second of all, although all the parameters are the same, you still need to have somebody drive you and come here, your post operative or after the fact, discomfort is much less. Your healing time is reduced, because we can you medications through the IV that actually for antiinflammatory are very helpful in the healing process.
Mike Wiegenstein: Well, the IV you can actually start the healing process before you started the herding process?
Dr. Travis Perkins: Yes, that's correct.
Mike Wiegenstein: Does that allow you to take what may have been a three, four or five visit treatment and compress it into one.
Dr. Travis Perkins: compress into one, that's correct also.
Mike Wiegenstein: Is there a reason that you choose, because obviously, I know that it's a little bit more expensive, a little bit more into risk, is there -- why would you chose to offer that to your patient? Is it purely because you do implants or is it just -
Dr. Travis Perkins: No, well I think that anxieties and the fears that people experience in the dental industry have pretty much destroyed this industry and I think that whatever I can do to make -
Mike Wiegenstein: Why is that? Seriously, why is everybody so paranoid of going to the dentist?
Dr. Travis Perkins: Because it hurts and plus I mean, can you think of another thing in your life which is psychologically demanding as right here, here is your facial features, your mouth, I mean everything starts and ends right there.
Mike Wiegenstein: Right, and I don't believe like people sinking their fingers on my mouth.
Dr. Travis Perkins: So, whatever I can do to make someone more comfortable, decrease their anxiety level, decrease the time it takes for them to heal, decrease the amount the pills they have to take after the fact so for pain or different things, that's what I am about, that's what I want to do, that's what I like.
Mike Wiegenstein: I am going to change the subject a little bit and probably it's nothing to do with what I want to talk you about but I thought as interesting, you're full of Japanese.
Dr. Travis Perkins: Well, for say yes.
Mike Wiegenstein: You spent time in Japan. I've observed you're speaking Japanese with patients; obviously this market has a large. Did you learn Japanese because of the large Japanese population here or because also you speak French.
Dr. Travis Perkins: I speak fluent French, yes.
Mike Wiegenstein: Is that from world travel, did you just, I mean, obviously you spent $500 a month or a year and going to school to learn what you do and now you're taking languages, how will do you speak?
Dr. Travis Perkins: Oh! That's pretty but I speak some Spanish, I took that when I was in high school but I like to travel, and when I graduated from high school I lived in New York for three years, I spent three years in France and I learned French when doing that and when I came back and went to college, I had a minor in French and so I learned French.
Mike Wiegenstein: I mean I use what I equated to you. If am going to the dentist I am nervous anyway. I went to the dentist in some country that I didn't speak the language very well and the dentist was able to speak to me in English that might elevate some, so did you learn Japanese because of the.
Dr. Travis Perkins: Well, I lived in Japan often on over the past 15 years, I've spend a lot of time there, l like the orient and there are twenty thousand Japanese people in Las Vegas. And I advertised in Japanese magazines. I have Japanese patients that fly here from Japan, have me treat them and I just find it fun, its accelerating that I can talk to other people in their own language and help them, get a smile out of them from their own language, I'm very comfortable.
Mike Wiegenstein: And it make some relax.
Dr. Travis Perkins: Absolutely.
Mike Wiegenstein: Alright come on show me some.
Debi Lindemenn: I got tired to see my short stubby little yellow teeth in the front. I'm a past smoker, I smoked for probably 40 years and then I decided that I needed to clean up, well before I retired so I wanted to get my teeth put in an order and I went and visited Dr. Perkins office and the professionalism right from the beginning was wonderful. I felt comfortable because there is a big undertaking to have your entire mouth being redone.
Dr. Perkins and I had discussed it and we decided to go with numerous implants on the right side. Altogether, I have six implants and I have the whole top of my mouth as veneer that was shown exactly what was going to be done and then I think I was a little fearful wondering if it was going to hurt but I have to say, I never went through any pain because it was never easier than what I have experienced here and I've been to numerous dentists in the past and the staff is always ready, when your scheduled appointment and this has made me feel wonderful about my life, the confidence seeing myself I'm no longer hide from pictures because my teeth are now just beautiful, they are so natural looking and I it just given me all the confidence to go ahead in life.
Julia Thawley: Well, it was an accident, I was in this big convention and then one of the to two teeth fell off and I have to make it get it repaired and so I look at the following book and nobody wants to work with me, I'm diabetic and he said well there is nothing I can do for you on implants because I'm diabetic and Dr. Perkins said as long as you can maintain your sugar level then I will be able to work with you. Well, it was a challenge for Dr. Perkins because I had my dentures for a while and he said the bones were ready not available or so I have to have some grafting. And he had bone grafting, I got some teeth lapped at the back and then I got some teeth lapped in the front but my front here and all most of here they are all done by Dr. Perkins.
He knows what he is doing, he knows what to expect, he tell me what to do and what not to do, so I'll be prepared and I'm take good care of my implants. Its not only for -- of course, every women wants to have a beautiful smile but for me its more of eating the food I want, whether they are hard or not hard, tasting the food I want, now even my own friends and my husband they really love my smile.
Mike Wiegenstein: That's just incredible Doctor and every time you show me something that just reminds of how different your office is in most and lets' talk little bit about technology and what it parted place in your practice, how important it is to dentistry in general and basically what's changed and how quick its changing like tell me what's going on right here?
Dr. Travis Perkins: For example, this is our SFR laser whitening system, it reduces the amount of time it takes for somebody to whiten their teeth, reduces the since that will be following that.
Mike Wiegenstein: No, because that is a big thing. A lot of people have to take home tray and a lot people you know I talked we would have seen that whitening strips in the stores there is no control there basically one side fits all and somebody told me about the time you can done by enough to whiten your teeth you do better and coming to do this but everybody tells me that the ensured whitening in dental offices causes your teeth to be really sensitive cold hurts, hot hurts that for few days
Dr. Travis Perkins: okay, yeah.
Mike Wiegenstein: Is that something that helps cut --
Dr. Travis Perkins: This helps cut down on a lot, it is of all the systems out there this is absolutely the best one.
Mike Wiegenstein: Now this pretty new edition in your office.
Dr. Travis Perkins: Yes, basically some major investment to the office as far as comparatively speaking for other systems but I feel like it's a better investment for this office.
Mike Wiegenstein: And obviously following your protocols little safer.
Dr. Travis Perkins: Right exactly.
Mike Wiegenstein: So tell me little bit about.
Dr. Travis Perkins: We were speaking of IV sedation earlier and you see over here we have got our hospital quality monitoring system and if you already go into a hospital or and on operating room or an emergency room you would see something just like that although that's not required for my office, we have at here because for us it's a way of keeping our patients more safe.
Mike Wiegenstein: To the patients like knowing that you're maintaining that.
Dr. Travis Perkins: Yes, I think so
Mike Wiegenstein: Alright, now I want you to show me you talk to me about a machine that you have that eliminates or cuts down reduces whatever you want to call at the risk of secondary injury because if you have to cut bone which you obviously do sometimes to put implants up until recently and probably sell most offices in the country the -- there in there, you have something now
Dr. Travis Perkins: What you said is a dental drill and traditionally if you are to talk about cutting into or doing implants you know one little finger couldn't be in major re precautions stitching things up, well this is one of our speaking of technology to one of our little instruments that we have in --
Mike Wiegenstein: Now, you make the point about being a little instrument in the office, fell on my chair when I found out how much it costs when we drive in a car.
Dr. Travis Perkins: Right, that's right
Mike Wiegenstein: But what does it do?
Dr. Travis Perkins: Well, this will actually cut into bone that will not damage soft tissue like your skin or nerve or your gum tissue for that matter.
Mike Wiegenstein: So, if you would do surgery with the scalpel, a burr on a drill, twitch bone patient moves that risk of a secondary.
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