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This is a simple recurring donation that gets you perks to NPR's podcasts. Join at plus.npr.org. Thanks again for your support. Here's the show. You're listening to Shortwave. From NPR. Troyvers, it's Emily Kwong, and I have a confession. Somehow, in the six years that we have been making this show, we've never had on a dentist.
This is a very first. I'm so excited to be a part of the very first of anything.
I was like, how is this possible? Like, I floss. I have no reason to avoid dentists, but it appears that we as a nation are not going to the dentist enough. Justin Richard tells me that has led to a delay in the detection of oral cancer across the U.S.,
Nobody wants to go to the dentist. Even like most dentists don't want to go to the dentist. I don't love it either. I get it. But it's important. Do your routine care. Do your hygiene. Like, you know, hygienists are amazing.
Justin, by the way, is technically an oral surgeon. He's based in northern New Jersey, went to dental school in Boston, and did his fellowship in Arkansas.
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