Summary: <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I am live at the Seattle Study Club Symposium Legacy Tour with Bill Robbins and Bob Margeas. They are both great dentists and amazing educators. Dr. Robbins has a full-time practice and is an Adjunct Clinical Professor at San Antonio Dental School. He has also authored two textbooks.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Margeas is known as the dentists dentist. He also has a private practice, and he believes in dentistry built on relationships, honesty, and trust. He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Iowa and has written numerous articles on esthetic and implant dentistry. The three of us have a great conversation about the symposium, the importance of mentors, communication, and the extremely bright future of dentistry.</span></p><br> <p> </p><br> <p><strong>You can find Bill and Bob here:</strong></p><br> <p><a href="http://www.beckelrobbinsdds.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bill Robbins</span></a></p><br> <p><a href="http://www.iowadentalgroup.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bob Margeas</span></a></p><br> <p> </p><br> <p><strong>Show Notes</strong></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[02:09] Bill Robbins is a restorative dentist in San Antonio, Texas.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[02:30] Bob Margeas has a full-time practice in Des Moines, Iowa. He has been practicing for 32 years.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[03:21] Bill thinks the legacy tour is an interesting program because there are amazing lecturers. The content has been leaning towards the heart side of dentistry.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[04:20] The people here are our mentors. The ones we grew up looking at. It's almost surreal to be on the stage with them.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[04:46] It's important to be a continual student. You can't think that you know everything.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[05:26] Bill likes to go to study clubs and get his CE in small doses.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[06:19] How going to the Seattle Study Club is like going to a big family reunion.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[07:27] There has never been a more exciting time to be a dentist especially with airway and other things going on with orthodontics.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[08:08] What orthodontists can do today actually allows us to do less dentistry.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[08:18] We can be conservative and think about what's right for the patient.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[09:36] Using bonding and minimally invasive dentistry.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[10:32] How are thinking gets challenged. It's not just the technology but it's also the thinking.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[10:58] The implications of the ortho and restorative interface. We can now intrude posterior teeth. </span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[13:38] Simple high-quality restorative and telling the truth really works. </span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[14:29] How the patients decide when they want the crown done. Don't biopsy a patient's wallet. </span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[15:46] Diagnosis is neutral. Sometimes when we try not to overwhelm a patient, we actually underwhelm them.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[16:19] The importance of communication and how leaders aren't born they are created.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[17:09] The importance of spending your CE money on leadership training and communication skills.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[18:00] Getting into the arena with the best thinkers and not getting overwhelmed.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[18:25] How young dentists a</span></p>
