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Welcome everyone to the Becker's Healthcare podcast series.
I'm Mariah Muhammad, writer and moderator with Becker's
Healthcare. And I'm thrilled to have with me
today, doctor Joe Rubis, associate dentist and member
of the dental advisory board at Great Lakes
Dental Partners. Doctor, welcome to the Becker's Healthcare
podcast. We're very excited to have you join
us today. To get us started, would you
mind please introducing yourself and telling us a
bit about your background?
Name is doctor Joseph Rubis. I went to
dental school at Marquette University School of Dentistry.
Started working in the dental field with my
dad at about age 14, and I graduated,
dental school in 2005.
Wonderful. Thank you so much for giving us
that background. So what are some of the
biggest issues you're following in dental this year,
would you say?
No. I think it's about, you know, bringing
the new technologies
together,
you know, dentists understanding
how to use AI as part of their
practice nowadays because
all this digital dentistry and AI
wasn't taught to us in dental school. So
it's about figuring out how to now take
the new technology and utilize it
and for the older dentist to, you know,
accept it as, you know, the new way
of going forward.
Yeah. Yeah. That completely makes sense. Is there
anything that you're most excited about or anything
that's making you nervous, whether you're seeing in
the in the news or anything that you're
doing,
within the organization?
I think it's more exciting than anything else.
You know? Like, being able to have
oral health care, you know, and that systemic,
you know, part of it
become more mainstream
nowadays. You know? Like, I do a lot
of malocclusion treatment
and and,
you know, the orthodontics
field and, you know, what clear aligners can
do nowadays for people.
I was at an
immediate implant seminar the other day on Friday,
and over half the cases they showed immediate
implants on had worse facets on their cuspids
and had mild occlusions. So, you know, it's
about trying to get that before the teeth
break and and help these kids as they're
growing, like, understanding that aspect of growth and
development better than we did
20, 30 years ago.
Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely.
In your opinion,
what do you think the most effective health
care leaders need in order to be successful
in today's, you know, day and age, in
the next 2 to 3 years, would you
say?
I think, you know, it goes back to
staying up to date on their technologies
and knowing how to utilize it and their
workflows to to get everything streamlined
and not be left behind as, you know,
things move faster and faster today.
Yeah. Yeah. For sure. Well, thank you so
much for those final thoughts, doctor. This has
definitely been an informative discussion. So, again, I
wanna thank you so much for coming on
Becker Healthcare, and I look forward to connecting
with you again soon.
Great. Thank you
very much.