In this episode of A Tale of Two Hygienists Machell and Andrew have a reunion of sorts from an episode they recorded at Chicago Midwinter Dental Meeting with Dr. Mark Cannon. Dr. Cannon joins us for another episode to discuss the oral microbiome as it relates to airway health.    This episode has FREE CE! Be sure to view your state guidelines to ensure this CE is applicable in your State. You can view all episodes with Free CE here. Take the CE course for this episode HERE         Episode Highlights - The skin is attached to the body - The WHY - Go a level deeper with your patients  - Diet - Don’t trust half of what you read - Pillars of health  - Education adjuncts  - Airway issues and the consequences  - The robbing of excellence - The importance of education    Quotes “You are the most important people in health care right now, you have the greatest opportunity and responsibility.”    “The oral microbiome or gateway is essential to your health, period.”    “To me it is like a beautiful landscape portrait where you look at all the systems that work together, all life is connected.”    “Just because it is there, doesn’t mean it is evil.”    “When you are performing a debridement, you are just removing the surace stuff, you are not getting your scaler into the cells, the number one thing you have in your arsenal is education.”   “We have to exercise and have the right diet to have a healthy microbiome.”   “We can’t always trust what we read, SHOCK.”   “What they are doing at home is even more important than what we are doing in our practices.”    “You have to hit the patient on so many fronts that you can’t do it in one appointment, they are only going to absorb 1/30th of it, you have to use adjuncts like tear sheets.”    “When patients leave I covered what I needed to cover, and let them know what we are going to cover at the next appointment.”   “If you don’t know what is normal, how do you know what is abnormal.”    Links:    https://www.drmarklcannon.com/   AAOSH: https://www.aaosh.org/