What started as a straw to keep you from getting coffee stains on your teeth, has been found to help a host of other interesting things! We welcome Alice Stone, creator of the Sipify straw. The Sipify straw's benefits and design were to drink h

Relearning the "Soft Skills" In Dentistry Guest Hope Loyd RDH

Feb 12th, 2024 36m 36s

Hope and fear in the dental experience. Bringing the EMPATHY back to business. Soft skills are the people skills in dentistry. Communication, empathy, compassion, building trust with patients, making people feel comfortable and their concerns h

Don't Beat Yourself Up Into Your Goals: Allison Lacoursiere

Oct 2nd, 2023 33m 28s

Loving yourself into your goals and desires, don't beat yourself up into your goals. The person you will become when you love yourself, is going to be more comprehensive and aligned. Today we had the gift of hosting our friend Allison Lacoursie

Cranial Distortions: Scoliosis of the Face, Dr Martin Rosen

Sep 25th, 2023 53m 46s

Key highlights: Cranial Distortions, craniofacial distortion, sphenoid strain, asymmetric face, plagiocephaly flat head syndrome, torticollis, cranial chiropractic adjustments, birth trauma, cranial nerves, Vagus nerve. Dr Martin Rosen, Chiro

6 Breaths a Minute?! Uniting the Body to the Thoughts. Dr Sam Zink

Sep 18th, 2023 46m 7s

Have you ever heard the ideal breath pattern? Would you be shocked it is 6 breaths per minute? The frequency of that breath is also 0.1 Hertz, could this be part of the secret to tapping into your spirit and inner peace? If you are like most pe

retreat: 3 days in the Dominican Republic, Business, Self Love, and Growing your Confidence.

Sep 11th, 2023 32m 48s

Wanna get away? Do you need a few days to focus on you, to get clear on your vision for your life, and to release what is holding you back. Sometimes in life we just need a few days to focus on ourselves, to have time set aside to think and to

Connection Between the Teeth and Energy Meridians

Aug 28th, 2023 56m 46s

Have you ever heard holistic dentistis talk about teeth and energy meridians, or teeth and chakras? Did this make you scratch your head in confusion? Here to explain it to us, we welcome back Dr Mary Afzali who has lectured on this for holistic

MMA custom jaw surgery in the same time as it takes for a crown! Guest Dr David Alfi

Aug 14th, 2023 40m 18s

Dr David Alfi, oral surgeon and master of orthognathic double jaw surgery. Dr Alfi is really unique because he uses custom surgical plans so he can do a double jaw surgery in the same time it would take for a crown, 1 to 1.5 hours! Typical jaw

Facial Cupping Expert: Sakina Di Pace

Aug 7th, 2023 40m

Face Cupping for lymphatic drainage of the face and neck, guest The Facial Cupping Expert. You may have had cupping done where you get those intense bruise looking marks on the skin for a week, don't worry facial cupping is totally different. F

The Subconscious Body: The Hidden Power of the Subconscious. Guest Alexandra Svalastog

Jul 31st, 2023 1h 6m

Special guest Alexandra Svalastog, Medical Hypnotherapist, Cognitive Behavioral Hypnotherapist, and Stress consultant. She helps work with the illusive subconscious through hypnosis to rewire the brain to create good emotional health. If you li

Worms that Poop in Your Mouth: Why I Need To Floss Everyday

Jul 23rd, 2023 43m 3s

This episode is truly special. Transitioning into another career, living a life of purpose and doing the thing you always wanted to do, not being defined by a disease diagnosis, and the healing power of faith and the power hidden in the subcons

RDH Rant: The Bad Girls of Hygiene

Jul 17th, 2023 38m 53s

Building a community and a safe place to rant. Creating a space to get real and supporting each other in real life situations. Starting as a facebook group to vent about dentistry and to get feedback from otherdental hygienists, it has become

Surf Therapy OT: Surfing to Balance. Guest Naomi Matanick

Jul 10th, 2023 38m 11s

What is surf therapy? Using surfing as an intervention can help kids or adults with sensory processing disorders. Both profiles of sensory processing disorders can benefit, people with low awareness of their body and under active, and people wh

3 Layers Of The Pelvic Floor. Guest The Vagina Doc Dr Linda Sayyad

Jun 26th, 2023 51m 38s

Who knew the pelvic floor had 3 layers? Did you know that you can get tight muscles and tension in the pelvic floor which can be the cause of back pain, sciatic pain, and pain with sex? We are gonna dive into all things vaginas, because you eit

Speech Milestones and When to Suspect Speech Delay: Grace Bernales

Jun 19th, 2023 35m 26s

From the baby babbles and cooing, to the first dada sounds, those are early speech sounds and early communication. Here to teach us about speech milestones is Grace Bernales, known as Graceful Expression SLP from Pasadena California. Grace is a

The Tired Child: Dr Meghna Dassani

Jun 12th, 2023 32m 26s

"You can't just flirt with sleep, you are all in or you are not." The Munch Bunch Podcast welcomes Dr Meghna Dassani, airway dentist in Houston Texas, podcaster of The Healthy Sleep Revolution, host of the Airway Is Life Summit, and author of "

What Happens When We Don't Address Oral Dysfunction As Babies? Guest Shelly Taft, IBCLC.

Jun 5th, 2023 40m 54s

Crosspod episode with Shelly Taft, IBCLC, Host of the Baby Pro Podcast. Shelley is going to talk about the baby signs of tongue ties or tension and common baby symptoms. The Munch Bunch will talk about the long term effects of missing the oral

Microdosing: Caffeine for the Soul. Guest Harmony Williams.

May 22nd, 2023 50m 11s

Microdosing, the new hot buzzword. Mushrooms, LSD, ketamine, MDMA. What are they, what is the therapeutic purpose, what does it help with? Did you know they have been researching magic mushrooms for years for treatment of depression, OCD, PTSD.

Sleep: The Science, The Myths, The Hacks. Guest Dr Snooze.

May 15th, 2023 48m 31s

Getting the brain benefits of deep sleep. This episode we talk with renowned sleep scientist “Dr Snooze” about: the SleepSpace app, sleep, insomnia, links between lack of deep sleep and dementia, marijuana as a sleep aid, and the “night cap” dr

You Are Surviving Breath To Breath: Dr Roger Price

May 8th, 2023 51m 30s

Did you know that nasal breathing is a 6 step filtration process? We hear about how the nose filters the air but you will need to listen to learn how it all works! This process cleans the air, disinfects and traps pathogens, and helps the body

Myospots and Holistic Dentistry: Treat the Mouth, Treat the Body.

May 1st, 2023 47m 23s

We welcome on Dr Shehab Faragallah, Dentist from Gold Coast Holistic Dental Care in Australia. Dr Shehab and his partner Dr Ibrahim El-Deeb created the Myospots, a product that helps with passive tongue posture and helps act like a tongue attra

Watch the lives on insta from tequila and tongue tie conference

Apr 25th, 2023 2m 24s

Watch the clips we recorded from the “tequila and tongue tie” conference in Scottsdale on our instagram @themunchbunchpodcast We had a blast. It was good food, good hotel, awesome pediatric dentists, and a heck of a dance party fiesta. So in li

Collaboration Over Competition: How RDHs and SLPs Can Work Together

Apr 17th, 2023 45m 27s

Guest Kelley Quolas, Myofunctional Therapist and RDH. You may know her from the funny myo reels on @MyMyoMyHealth on Instagram and Tik Tok. Kelley has 2 practices, Phoenix and East Valley Arizona. What we think is super cool about Kelley is tha

Breathe DDS brushing his teeth with a stick and eating liver.

Apr 10th, 2023 48m 37s

Ancestral dentistry, Dr Nick Koogler Breathe DDS has been doing some "caveman living experiments" on his body. He has been using a Miswak stick from the toothbrush tree, it is a stick humans have been using for thousands of years in the equator

Tequila and Tongue Ties Conference

Apr 4th, 2023 39m 7s

Dr Ben Curtis, the President of The Tequila and Tongue TiesConference in Scottsdale Arizona. The event is April 21-22 2023, at the WestinKierland Resort and Spa. The event is sponsored by Waterlase. The theme isteam implementation of tongue