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Dental Health Podcasts
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Dental Health listening from Dental A Team Podcast, No One Told Me, and A Tale of Two Hygienists Podcast, covering practice management, airway health, and clinical care.
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Finding the right Dental Health show for you
The drive to a dental appointment is short, but it's long enough to wonder whether anything in your queue could make the next hour less mysterious. Dental podcasts answer in very different voices. One is made by airway dentists for parents and patients. Another introduces Comfort Dental's own dentists. Many more are clinicians and practice owners talking among themselves about scope, implants, payroll and burnout. In those, patients are the subject of the conversation and rarely its audience.
That split matters because the arguments around the mouth are live. In 2026, podcast episodes were still taking opposite positions on fluoride and alternatives such as hydroxyapatite. The same month, trade programming for hygienists took up AI in the clinic and how to recognize AI-generated misinformation. Edison's March 2026 figures put monthly podcast consumption at 58% of Americans aged 12 and older. That number describes podcasting at large, and nobody has counted the dental share.
This guide sorts the shows by who they are talking to and what they offer:
- a clinician's explanation
- a look at the person holding the mirror
- professional shop talk
- the arithmetic of running a practice
Where a show has something to sell, that sits beside the recommendation.
Airway dentistry and the whole-body argument
No One Told Me is the most patient-facing show here, and the boldest. Its hosts, Dr. Liz Turner and Dr. Meggie Graham, are airway-centered dentists who read the mouth for clues about sleep, breathing and behavior.
In Episode 40 - The Missing Link Behind Tongue Ties And Anxiety, Turner walks through primitive reflexes. She explains them through learning to read: squiggles become letters, then words, then a story. She links retained reflexes to anxiety, clenching and posture in children and adults. Those are her clinical views, best taken as questions to bring to your own clinician. Her most useful moment is a doubt: "what if we treat the structures and the nocturnal enuresis isn't getting better?"
On No One Told Me, Episode 46 - The Hidden Health Problem You Have Been Ignoring with Dr. Katie Johnson is warmer. Johnson, a general restorative dentist in Denver, describes jaw surgery at 36 and her first breath afterwards in hospital: "this is what it feels like to breathe." She declines to make her story a promise, telling patients "I never know how much better somebody may or may not be."
No One Told Me's Episode 49 - How Sound Therapy is Changing Sleep, Breathing, Health with Brian Ganey needs a different ear. Graham introduces Ganey as involved with a Sound Health product she loves. Late in the episode come pointers to the hosts' own course offerings and to Sound Health. Ganey's assertions, including that teeth grinders show signs of obstructive sleep apnea, are his to support. For sleep and breathing beyond dentistry, try the Medical Conditions page.
The person behind the mask
Comfort Dental Podcast is about Comfort Dental's own dentists. Near the end of Dr. Jackie Blasko's and Dr. Todd Crandall's episodes, listeners are pointed to the company website. Heard as a brand's introduction, it still gives nervous patients something rare: dentists explaining how they think.
In 8 : She Just Wants to Be Nice: Dr. Jackie Blasko on Dentistry, Family, and Keeping It Human, Blasko says she shows patients their X-rays because "if you could see what I see" her advice makes sense. She also admits some days leave no time to hold a hand. Taped to her office wall is a banknote from a patient who credits his root canal with letting him travel to the Philippines to propose.
Comfort Dental Podcast's 11 : The DNA Examiner Who Became a Dentist: Dr. Todd Crandall of Comfort Dental Durango turns to patients kept away by memories of a dentist who "just kept pushing" through their pain. The fee comparisons both dentists offer are the company's own account.
Hygienists, hospitals and the fight over scope
A Tale of Two Hygienists Podcast, hosted by David and Jessica, is made for dental professionals. Curious patients will still learn what happens beyond the cleaning.
547 Beyond the Dental Chair: Oral Health in Hospital and Medical Settings follows oral care into a pediatric hospital. There, the guest says children in cancer therapy face a higher risk of bloodstream infections. Much of the work described is teaching nurses, whose mouth checks the conversation sums up as "It looks pink in there. It looks wet in there. We're good."
A Tale of Two Hygienists Podcast is at its most combative in 530 Legislation 101 for Hygienists: What Actually Moves the Needle. The guest, Derek, sketches a training ladder running from hygiene through dental therapy to dentistry. The episode argues that organized dentistry resists hygienist autonomy to protect a business model, and it even urges hygienists toward law school. It is one side of a political fight, argued with relish.
The same show's 548 Mission Trips: When Good Intentions Meet Ethical Responsibility puts a blunt question to volunteer programs: how do you vet your providers? The Public Health page widens that lens. For the technology argument, look for A Tale of Two Hygienists Podcast's 554 AI in Dental Hygiene: Tool, Threat, or Teammate?
Shop talk with a drink in hand
Dentists, Implants and Worms, hosted by Dr. Justin Moody, is unbuttoned. Episode 300: Dr. Steven Vorholt is recorded in wine country. It drifts between barrels and bourbon and a sharp point about specialists who teach the dentists who refer to them.
The episode most worth a patient's time is Episode 287: Passion In Dentistry With Dr. Tanya Sue Maestas, with a dentist at an FQHC in Chaparral, New Mexico. The conversation turns to implant failures in patients who went south of the border because they could not afford care at home. A speaker also says a failed implant is harder to rescue than a failing tooth: bone and, most likely, some soft tissue take time to rebuild. Elsewhere comes a gentler reframe, that a root canal "actually means I'm gonna get you out of pain."
The money behind the chair
Practice economics fill a lot of dental audio, and patients can learn from overhearing it. Dental Leaders Podcast, hosted by Payman Langroudi and Prav Solanki, gives interviews room: #337 Extraordinary Experiences — Mehy Lo Presti runs 110 minutes. In #332 Action, Result — Bilal Ahmed, a pricing discussion puts the cost of an Emax crown at about 160. It sets that against fees that can reach 850 or 900 quid outside London, then lands on "Crowns make millionaires."
DEO's Growth Secrets Podcast for Dental Organizations is hosted by Emmet Scott and, in some episodes, Kendall Hussain. It treats growth as operations, and its guests can be vendors. In 245: How Dental Practices Answered 100% More After-Hours Calls With AI, Laura Nelson of Mango Voice explains the company's AI phone agent.
Dentistry On FIRE is Dr. Jeff Buske's coaching show for male dentists and doctors. In How Dentists Can Become Their Own Bank (Without More Risk), a guest, Michael, describes whole life insurance policies he says net 4% to 5% a year tax-free. Treat that as one advocate's case. The Self-Improvement page suits listeners drawn to the coaching side.
Beyond the mouth
Two catalog shows sit at the edges. The Healthy Harrison Podcast gives Episode 254 John Deskins // Archive Release to an economist who argues that health, workforce and economic development feed one another in West Virginia. It belongs with the Public Health page. HIListically Speaking with Hilary Russo, with episodes on flow, divorce and art, fits the Wellness and Mental Health pages. The Health & Fitness guide maps the wider category.
Where to start
- For a patient's story about breathing: No One Told Me, Episode 46 - The Hidden Health Problem You Have Been Ignoring with Dr. Katie Johnson. It's 29 minutes of personal account, with its limits stated.
- For nerves before a checkup: Comfort Dental Podcast, 8 : She Just Wants to Be Nice: Dr. Jackie Blasko on Dentistry, Family, and Keeping It Human, 47 minutes. Remember who made it.
- For clinicians and students: A Tale of Two Hygienists Podcast, 547 Beyond the Dental Chair: Oral Health in Hospital and Medical Settings. It's 35 minutes where dentistry meets the hospital ward.
- For anyone curious how prices get set: Dental Leaders Podcast, #332 Action, Result — Bilal Ahmed, 97 minutes of frank arithmetic.
- For an unpolished hang: Dentists, Implants and Worms, Episode 287: Passion In Dentistry With Dr. Tanya Sue Maestas, 47 minutes.
Start with the one nearest the question you brought to the waiting room; the rest will keep.
Featured shows below are part of the PlayNext catalog. Updated weekly.
Featured shows
8 shows, described rather than listed
Each one comes with a short write-up and the role it plays in this guide.
Ortho Marketing Live brings guest-led business conversations to orthodontic pricing, case acceptance, marketing agencies, practice KPIs, and digital treatment. It suits owners and treatment coordinators who want practical examples.
Art of Dental Finance and Management gives dentists advisor-led conversations on practice numbers, PPO contracts, debt, insurance, investing, and buying or selling a practice. It suits dentists making financial and management decisions.
Wellness In Dentistry pairs two dentistry insiders for candid conversations about burnout, expectations, big projects, substance abuse, DSOs, and seasonal practice pressure. It suits clinicians who want honest talk about working life.
No One Told Me connects dental and airway questions to sleep, breathing, feeding, growth, behavior, and speech through engaged expert interviews. It suits parents and clinicians looking for clear links between symptoms and oral development.
Comfort Dental Podcast uses open-ended interviews with rotating dentists to explore patient control, burnout, practice ownership, and the human stories behind clinical work. It suits dentists curious about careers and care philosophy.
Dental A Team Podcast delivers rapid-fire coaching on schedules, communication, leadership, growth, private practice, and day-to-day office questions. It suits dental teams ready to turn management advice into specific actions.
A Tale of Two Hygienists brings informed, fast-moving conversations to clinical technique, ethics, access, special-needs care, and oral health beyond the dental chair. It suits hygienists seeking practical and professional context.
The Healthy Mouth Movement Podcast uses guided expert explanations to connect children's breathing, behavior, eating habits, and oral development. It suits parents who want practical context for what they notice at home.