Episode Details

- Should Fluoride Be In Drinking Water?

- Oral Surgeon Created Toothpaste with Caffeine & Melatonin - Genius!

- This Floating Home With Little-To-No Property Taxes

- How Dr. Johnson Created An AI GPT For His Residency Journal Club Every Tuesday

Questions:

02:09 – Did you work today?

02:23 – Can we go through Duo, your toothpaste company?

04:24 – Did you make prototypes, or how did you develop this toothpaste?

06:04 – Do you include fluoride in your tablets?

07:41 – What are your thoughts on fluoride in the water?

09:42 – Does Duo toothpaste get swallowed, or do you spit it out?

11:03 – How did you come up with the name "Duo"?

12:46 – What happened to the other couple involved in Duo?

14:16 – Where were you located during residency?

15:11 – Do you travel by boat to your floating house?

15:55 – Did you grow up in a floating house?

16:47 – What is your wife’s specialty in dentistry?

17:21 – How long did you do long-distance with your wife?

19:02 – Was there another Stevie from Stony Brook in residency with you?

19:43 – What days do you practice?

23:51 – Did you form an LLC since you work at multiple offices?

27:14 – Are you worried about your employer selling the practice to a DSO?

30:01 – Have you seen research about melatonin being used for bone healing?

31:43 – What was your work on Vitamin D?

34:03 – Have you used AI in dentistry and content creation?

37:31 – Did your GPT model create research questions as well?

42:36 – Did you rotate on ENT?

Quotes & Wisdom:

"You can only help as many people as fast as your hands move. That’s why scaling a business is exciting—it allows you to impact more people."

"People were ready for mucosal absorption. We thought we’d have to explain it, but Zyn and other products have already done that work for us."

"AI is like any other innovation—at first, people hate it. They mock it. And then, eventually, they use it."

"Residency is a hierarchy. You do what you gotta do. But time is short, and you need to be smart about how you use it."

"I built a GPT to analyze journal articles because, honestly, we used to stay up till 4 AM making PowerPoints for Journal Club. If I had this in residency, it would have saved me so much agony."

"My wife and I live in a floating home. Low property taxes. It’s a good deal."

"Having a side project like Duo during med school kept me from feeling like I was spinning my wheels."

Now available on:

- Dr. Gallagher’s Podcast & YouTube Channel

- Dose of Dental Podcast #129

My watch in this episode = Citizen H500-S078199

- 3.2025

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