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Sanda Moldovan

Award-winning board-certified periodontist and nutritionist, President & Founder of Beverly Hills Dental Health & Wellness, founder of the Orasana oral health line, and author of "Heal Up! Seven Ways to Faster Healing and Optimum Health."

Aug 13, 2026

2:08
What should they be asking for instead?
2:12
The best way to diagnose in dentistry is via 3D imaging.
2:18
It's called a cone beam CT scan, and it's a digital scan, digital imaging, so it has a lot less radiation, but it allows us to see clearly, you know.
2:30
And the newest machines are so crisp, like, we could really see, like, cracks in the teeth which can create radiating pain and migraines.
2:40
Um, a- and, uh, really, really clear what is going on, and if the migraine pain is due to, uh, anything related to the jaw or the TMJ, we can see.

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23:11
If you could wave a magic wand and make everybody do one thing to improve their oral health, what would it be?
23:18
That's a great question.
23:19
So, um, to me, I think it starts at home, you know? So I'm gonna start with home advice.
9:53
Mm-hmm
9:54
... words, where a chart only gives us certain numbers.
9:57
So charting has been allow- around in periodontics for, like, decades.
10:01
Digital photography, not so long.
10:04
Um, so what do we chart? The distance from the gum to the bone.
10:09
W- we chart also gum recession.
10:11
We chart if whether or not the tooth has what is called a furcation, or bone loss underneath a tooth, especially in the back, back teeth area.

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54:49
Yeah.

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