The Dr. Chris Griffin Show – Season 1 Episode 4

“Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.” Now who said that?

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Hey everybody this is Dr. Chris Griffin. Thanks so much for taking time out of your busy practice to hang with us here at the Dr. Chris Griffin Show. Now this episode is really going to be near and dear to what I have going on in my personal life and practice right now because I’m actually in the process of getting deadly serious about implementing tougher cases into my practice specifically implant cases and I’ve been doing implants for a few years but I’ve been really doing the simplest ones and you know how to do a little bit. But you just kind of get tired not knowing how to the really tough stuff. And you want to be kind of master of that but you know how much it’s you know, how much effort it’s going to take to get to that mastery level, right? So you kind of hang back and you have all these excuses like a thousand excuses why you are not currently pursuing mastery of a certain thing.

But bottom line, the time has come I finally took enough revving from one of my best friends who’s really become quite an implant master. And so he’s…it’s really an interesting story. This is kind of getting off topic. I’ll get back in a moment, we’ll circle back, okay? But we were sitting in class in dental school in our, I don’t know D2, D3 year; something like that. And at the University of Tennessee they had a lecture on implants. That’s about all we had was a lecture, we certainly didn’t do any implants in the clinic but you know, let me just take you back to when I was in dental school right. I mean I’ve been practicing now for 20 years, seeing patients for 20 years and so they we’re actually putting in these blade implants, right? Have you ever seen a blade implant? If you’re younger or you’re not a dentist; a blade implant is for dentist who would actually, I mean these were customized right? I’m not even sure what they were made out of. Well they were made of some kind of a metal that was compatible; bio compatible.

And they would take this metal and they would shape it into a blade shape right? And in their garage a lot of times, they would hammer these holes in it to aid an Osseointegration and make it all custom shapes and stuff. And they were all really...