Hey, everybody, welcome to this week's episode of Red Pillar Healthcast. My name is Dr. Charlie Faganhleton here with Lauren Johnson, everyone's favorite nurse practitioner. And we have a really cool guest today. We've been doing guests lately and we've been getting good feedback. So we are going to keep doing what y'all want us to do. And so everyone's really familiar with the term biological dentistry. And so we have a

specific type of dentist on the show today. Her name is Dr. Michelle Jorgensen. And she is in Utah.

But before I do any disservice by explaining what she does, I just want to kind of let her do her thing,

why she does not say biological dentistry, and then the conversation will take us wherever we need to go. Awesome. Well, thank you

for having me on. I'm excited to speak with your listeners, and I would like to tell my story,

because I think it explains really kind of this, this idea of,

you know, what is biologic dentistry? Because you said, you know, everybody's familiar with it,

but even that term brings a lot of confusion. You know, people don't have a clue what it means.

So let me just tell you how I got to where I am and where I, what I call myself now.

I was just a general dentist, regular dentist practicing and had been for

about 10 years when I started to get really sick. Now, my father's a dentist. I have two brothers

that are orthodontists. I was just telling you before we went on air, two brothers that are

orthodontists, another brother that's an oral surgeon. So this is just what our family does. And I just thought that that's what I would do forever.

You know, I would just keep practicing dentistry, doing a great job of it. And that's not what

happened. So I started getting really sick. And of course, I didn't think of dentistry as my

problem. I just started trying to fix everything. You know, I had really bad gut issues. My hands

were going numb all the time, but especially when I was working,

so I couldn't hold instruments very well. And my brain was to shot. Like, I've always had a really

good memory, but I couldn't remember anything. I couldn't remember patients' names from room to room.

So it was very apparent something was really wrong. But unfortunately, no doctors could tell me what

was wrong. You know, I did the path that most people take or a lot of people take where you go to doctor

to doctor to doctor and everybody says, you're just fine.

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