Dr. Katie To recommends three questions for your next dental visit: what materials go in your fillings and crowns, whether your dentist uses the Protect Protocol for amalgam removal, and if they screen for airway and sleep problems. Dentists can spot these issues but won't mention them unless you ask.
The questions that are worth asking. So I'm gonna get you to take out your phones if you'd like and screenshot this one. This is for your own care, for your needs. This is for your next dental visit. What materials are you using for fillings and crowns? Any dentist that will not, uh, share this information with you is probably maybe not the dentist for you. Every patient deserves to know what you're having placed in your body. Do you follow the Protect Protocol? There are another— there's another protocol called the SMART. It's not quite as protective for the practitioner, for the dentist, the team, and the patient. Protect Protocol is the gold standard for amalgam removal. So if you have those mercury fillings and you want them out, you want to have the Protect Protocol. And then do you screen for airway and sleep issues? This would be something for you and Also any children that you would take to the dentist. Dentists can see the signs of airway and sleep issues, but they might not bring it up if you don't ask.
