In this episode, I'm speaking with Dr. Al Dandenberg, who is a periodontist, a gum health specialist for over 40 years in private practice.

And he is one of the leading thinkers in the world around this topic. And we get

into a deep conversation, first of all, on his story of his bone marrow cancer, his incurable

bone marrow cancer that was diagnosed several years ago. We talk briefly about why he thinks he got

that cancer, which I think you'll find insightful.

And then we shift gears into talking about his area of expertise, which is, of course,

oral health and gum health in particular. And Dr. Al has a lot of novel and certainly

contrarian and certainly unconventional ways of thinking and

approaching, optimizing your oral health. And I think you'll get a lot of valuable insights from

this podcast. So enjoy. So welcome to the show, Dr. Daenberg. Such a pleasure to have you.

It is an honor. Thanks for the opportunity, Dr. Daenberg. It's a pleasure to have you. It is an honor.

Thanks for the opportunity.

Yeah.

So first of all, I want to comment on your personal story.

You just posted yesterday on your Facebook profile, which I follow, that you've been cancer-free.

Well, you know what? I'm going to let you tell the story here.

We're going to focus on oral health, but I'd love, you know, your personal story in recent years is so profound.

I'd love for you to just share it with people.

So, it's a long story, because I'm almost 76 years old, but practicing periodontics

for 44 years in September of 2018, I developed some strange pain in my shoulder, which

eventually went to my back and my chest,

and I thought I pulled the ligament, and it turned out that I was diagnosed with incurable

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