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I'm Maj. Steven Savage, I work
at Schriever Air Force Base.

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I'm a general dentist.

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Here, at Schriever Air Force Base,

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we take care of a wide
range of dental procedures.

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What you're most familiar with,

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is probably our annual
cleanings that we provide.

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But, we also provide a lot
of fillings for cavities.

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We also do sedation,
surgeries, implant work.

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We do basically anything that you expect

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at the civilian site.

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We do it here.

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It all starts with an annual exam.

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What we have to do is, we
have to figure out what,

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if any, needs there are.

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And what we can accomplish,

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what we can do to fix thing,
if there are any problems.

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We wanna make sure that
there's not gonna be any pain,

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any problems, any thing
to cause any difficulties

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when the mission needs
to be taken care of.

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- So, some of the processes
that we have improved here,

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at Schriever Dental Clinic,
is the time in the chair.

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We have technology here
that we could make crowns

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for patients in approximately
two and a half hours,

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instead of having a
patient wait a whole month.

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So, it's important for our
processes to be quicker

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and a lot faster,

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because patients typically don't
like coming to the dentist.

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We don't want to have a
patient in the chair longer

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than they need to be.

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We try to be efficient.

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One of the ways that we do that,

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is with this machine behind me.

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This machine is actually called the Cerec.

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It's a very expensive machine,

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but it basically allows
us to take pictures

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of the patient's mouth

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and create a fabrication of
how their tooth will look.

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So the Cerec has a camera attached to it

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and this camera basically
captures the terrain

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of the patient's mouth.

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And creates a 3D model into the computer.

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Once the images are captured and refined,

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we basically take it back to the lab

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and we put a block into the milling unit.

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And the milling unit actually starts

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to create the tooth itself.

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So we have a lot of fun toys here,

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that we use in the clinic,

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including the Cerec.

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So to me, my favorite part about

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this job is helping
patients alleviate any pain

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that they're in.

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And to just make sure
that we're here for them

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and that they know that.