
Alan Mead
Dr. Alan Mead is a dentist in Saginaw, Michigan and founder/host of the Very Dental Podcast Network (formerly Dental Hacks), one of dentistry's longest-running podcasts.
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Oct 6, 2026
Very Clinical: Getting Ahead of It, part 1: Anesthesia and Occlusion
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Alan MeadGUEST
But if you [laughs] if you don't warn them, and you go right in for the palatal and they're not ready for it or whatever, they're like, "Whoa!" And I, so I always, if I'm doing the pal- that on the palatal, I always take a mirror handle and lean into their palate like crazy.

Alan MeadGUEST
"So you're gonna feel a big bunch of pressure, and you might feel a pinch." And half the time, if you lean on it w- hard enough with the mirror handle, they don't feel anything.

Alan MeadGUEST
But it's always, with, with that pressure syringe, I always tell them they're gonna feel it.

Alan MeadGUEST
So it's, but it's, I always warn them just 'cause you never, some people feel everything, and some people don't f- I'm blown away by how, how many people don't feel the palatal.
Board Recap: A Changing Landscape — From Industry Shifts to Market Challenges, Strategic Planning Sets Angus Up for the Future
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Miranda ReimanHOST
So maybe if you want to talk a little bit about that and I guess how you guys see us being able to get more adoption of that.

Alan MeadGUEST
It kind of puts it all together, you know, from the registered Angus bull, GeneMax, to the Angus Link program, Genetic Merit Scorecard, to the end product with the Certified Angus Bee program.

Alan MeadGUEST
For me, it kind of organizes it in my brain of how this all is put together and how it all works together, trying to make the commercial cattlemen more profitable.

Alan MeadGUEST
We're trying to provide tools for those folks to be profitable, and I think the concept is, in my opinion, really important because it puts all those programs together.
21 MINS LATER

Miranda ReimanHOST
One thing that the Angus Media Board brought up that I would say is probably more reactive than proactive at this point was we talked about some of the increases in inflation and the increases of postage and printing and the impact that's been having on our business, especially specific to the publications and Angus Journal specifically.

Alan MeadGUEST
It's been 21 years since we've increased the cost of an ad in the Angus Journal, and we felt like it was probably with the cost of postage and printing and mailing that we needed to increase that cost.
The Question Every Dentist Is Asking About w/ Dr. Alan Mead
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Alan MeadGUEST
If they were doing insurance, they would probably use it to do insurance stuff, and they, they would probably do, like, the books, the ledger stuff.

Alan MeadGUEST
I know for a fact that he had a, an appointment book that was, like, the full-on appointment book with pencils and stuff like that.

Alan MeadGUEST
So literally, as I came in, he was transferring to Dentrix, where it was-- he had some clinical computers in the back along with the comp-- So that was, that was, like, the first big thing.
7 MINS LATER

Alan MeadGUEST
One of the best ways to show a person that you're like super superior, let's say the, a serious cosmetic dentist.

