 Hello everybody Andrea here. So let's talk about desensitizers. So do you have a patient or you're probably thinking about several patients where they come in and their teeth are just simply cold sensitive likely due to gingival recession. I don't want you to just tell them to stop rushing too hard. Okay, that's true. They have to stop rushing too hard if that's the issue, but you want to help them while they're there. Okay, don't just sort of tell them the easy way out. We'll stop rushing too hard. Here's a sensitive type of toothpaste. There you go. You should be applying a desensitizer on those areas of gingival recession to really help to coat that area so they hopefully don't become more sensitive plus the sensitivity that they have now you're basically putting a coating over top. I tell my patients, it's like a car wax for your car. You're covering the whole surface to protect your car. So your tooth against the outside elements, whether that's a good analogy, I don't know. But then I also tell somebody if I'm talking to a female, it's like a good hair conditioner for your hair, you need to protect your hair you will start to notice if you don't use a hair conditioner the difference it makes. Same thing with a desensitizer. A desensitizer, I apply at every single appointment for them when I see my patients whether that be three months, six months, nine months, I will take the time to reapply. I have had patients tell me that it works wonders that it works amazing. So I'm going to show you guys the desensitizer that I use. I used to use a gluma desensitizer I believe you have to like hear that sorry I can't remember because it's been such a long time since I've used it, but I found it just didn't work for a lot of people maybe in 10% of patients, plus it was very expensive. So I was on the hunt for something that worked better and I found something so I really like oral science. Just a little note as well they're not paying me to do the video. Okay you guys, I don't get paid to do reviews. So you truly know that this is an honest review of mine, not saying that I wouldn't be opposed to getting paid to doing it but I'm just not at this time. So Crystal in office desensitizer I will leave the link for you guys on the bottom. This is amazing. They even have a video of how to apply it. Let's see, I haven't actually watched the video yet. I'm sorry guys I'm just kind of showing you. So it's like tonight fast forward too far. I'm going to turn the sound off while I talk actually that's not a bad idea. So if you guys can see the video okay you literally apply it with a micro brush notice how it's a very thin micro brush actually I should make this bigger for you guys, sorry. So that's how you apply it with a very thin micro brush over the areas of gingival recession. You do not have to like hear it. The key about this one is it's not a simple sweep across it's like a padding because you want it to work with that tooth enamel with the dentin that's likely exposed and just really help to have that overall protective coating over it and they even have exactly how to use it. It does say here to use a large a larger micro brush or a cotton pellet but I found with cotton pellets. It just simply would soak up too much of the liquid so then I would be going to apply it to the tooth. And there wouldn't be any liquid on there so I'd have to add more of the actual drops which gets expensive which is fine if it works, but I just found that with a micro brush as they had shown here in the video. It worked just fine. So this is the website guys I'll leave the link for you on the bottom but this is the best desensitizer that I have tried I won't go back to anything else. You might be wondering do I charge for desensitizer you know what, to be honest, I don't. I probably should start charging for it because it's about what's the price of this I don't remember it's been a while since I bought it because a little bit goes a long way. I want to say $200 or $300 doesn't have price here. I haven't logged into my account so it might not have a price. Okay, so it says it's 9899 so actually cheaper than I thought. Do I charge my patients for it I do not but I suppose I really could. Typically in a dental office the desensitizing code is $45 I believe but it's also not comfort by a lot of insurance companies so this is where it gets tricky. Do I charge people who have insurance and it's covered for it but then they don't charge other people that's not right. Or if a patient tells me they can't afford it do I just basically say okay well this will really help your teeth. Oh well I'm not going to put it on so that's kind of my ethical dilemma. That's just why I don't charge it if somebody has sensitive teeth I put it on. If they're not covered for it well they don't have to worry about it, but as I'm doing this video I probably should charge $10 for it so at least I'm making some money against the cost of the bottle. You know I don't want to say everybody can afford $10 because that's not true, but I also find that if patients are really that sensitive and something like works for them, they will pay the price for it. Think about yourself if you were in pain like from your teeth being so cold sensitive, and then we can put a thin layer over it to make you not sensitive anymore, then you would probably pay for that right. So I probably will start charging for it after this video, but let me know you guys if you have any questions you don't like your this desensitizer it does work right away. It's amazing if the patient says that it didn't really work for them it just means that they need another coat as with anything for some things for the patient and works right away. Other times it takes a couple applications the next time you can always have them come in and reapply it again a couple weeks later. I'm a mobile dental hygienist so I would not just go to somebody's house to reapply it, unless they're really close to another patient or something because I clearly don't need all of my equipment to just apply the desensitizer. I do have patients that see me every three months, just put on the desensitizer because it does work that amazing. I also want to mention you guys with the desensitizer I really like to recommend a toothpaste that's also sold by oral science it's called remin. I'm going to find that for you guys right now just to show you. I like to recommend this toothpaste to because what this actually does I'm sharing my screen right now is this has the same components that's in the desensitizer in a toothpaste. So it's like they're constantly reapplying that protective coating. Now this contains xylitol you guys so it does not contain any sodium fluoride varnish so I do also like to suggest a mouthwash with the fluoride. So they're still getting the benefits of that so that's kind of another video you guys. I talked more about that too. I'm just going to show you the mouthwash that I recommend along with this toothpaste just to really help because yes this might help their sensitive teeth but if they don't have a toothpaste with any sodium fluoride in it well they're not getting the benefits of the anti carries activity right so their sensitivity might be better but they're they're getting cavities well that's certainly not helping. So just to show you guys quickly sorry I apply or I'm sorry I give them I suggest this opti rinse 0.02. Oh they have a larger size now I just noticed. Anyways sorry I did not know they had a larger size. This one I do recommend because this has xylitol and sodium fluoride. Again you guys oral science isn't paying me for doing this video these are just the products that I do honestly use. So thank you for watching and I'll see you guys in the next video.