Why is Dr Tif Qureshi doing Blood Tests for his Patients? Should YOU? – PDP275
About this episode
Dr Tif Qureshi discusses the importance of blood tests in dental practice and their implications for patient care.
Your patient brushes well, avoids sweets — and still keeps getting decay. What if the answer isn’t in their mouth at all? What if two inexpensive finger-prick tests told you more about a patient’s gum disease and implant prognosis than anything on the radiograph? And here’s the uncomfortable one: if the science is this clear, is not checking starting to look like a medico-legal risk? Especially for imlpant surgery! This is a conversation with Dr Tif Qureshi — the dentist who changed how the profession thinks about the lifelong patient, the envelope of function, and Align, Bleach, Bond. He’s gone down a new rabbit hole: metabolic health. In general practice he’s now doing blood tests — HbA1c and vitamin D — and making the case that the mouth isn’t connected to the body, it is the body. This isn’t about becoming a “biological dentist” (as you’ll hear, Tif is refreshingly blunt about the wilder end of that world). It’s about respecting the biology, screening sensibly, and helping patients where we’re genuinely placed to help. https://youtu.be/mt1MXLFCTp0 Watch PDP275 on YouTube Protrusive Dental Pearl: Test Yourself First Before you even think about introducing blood tests for your…
People in this episode
Host: Jaz Gulati
Guest: Dr Tif Qureshi
Topics covered
- blood tests
- gum disease
- metabolic health
- dental practice
- patient care
Keywords
- blood tests
- HbA1c
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