This patient that she came in for a vision, and she had headaches.
She was tired of doing like Botox for her headaches, and she had poor sleep muscles.
When we did her imaging, not only did she have like a small airway in a jaw issue, of course. She also had an extra thing going on where she had this tumor behind her eye. So if we hadn't had that. Dr. Becky Coates is a dentist, entrepreneur, and the founder of TMJ Plus Wellness Center. She helps patients breathe better, sleep better, and live with less pain through a holistic approach
that addresses the root causes of jaw, airway, and sleep disorders. Most people that are silently suffering with issues that we treat in our wellness center, such as my jaw hurts. I have neck pain. They rub right here in their jaw.
They can't open wide, or they have poor sleep. Our team is really well prepared to help people with like those issues.
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I'm your host for today, Jason Tyler, and I am joined by Dr. Becky Coates of Dallas, Texas. Dr. Becky, welcome to the show, pleasure to have you on. Thank you. Now, we just finished recording your episode of America's Best Doctors, and I'll tell you, I have like...
We've mentioned this a little bit in the episode. I got like a weird relationship with the dentist.
“I think a lot of the audience members out there can probably relate, but your story is one”
that I really enjoyed being able to help tell. Talk to me about what do you think you want, like, the main lesson to be for people to learn from your story. Most people that are silently suffering with issues that we treat in our wellness center, such as my jaw hurts, I have neck pain, they rub right here in their jaw, they can't open
wide, or they have poor sleep, or they may have a little bit of that ground on how they may have like a small jaw or tongue tie. Those type of patients will come to see us, right? That many people who already have pain, just in suffering from their conditions that we mentioned, also may have that underlying like you mentioned kind of like fear, phobia of dentistry,
not necessarily that they remember about experience or anything like that, but it could be inherited like their parents didn't like dentists or going. So maybe they didn't go. So there's not necessarily anything bad experience about that. It's a generational trauma that gets yourself off, and there's this kind of like an unknown
thing.
“So you kind of like shy away from going to the dentist's, but the good news is that our”
team is really well prepared to help people with like those issues, not just like trauma or physical job issues, but just that underlying kind of uneasy sense about going to the dentist. So there's really some really comfort measures we have in our office. It's very friendly like we have a massage chair, which I've had this chair for like so long
for like probably 15 years, and it's like one of those sort of like floating chairs.
So people when they first arrive, they're just kind of at ease, and they just kind of
this massage chair, then as they come into our practice, they may be more sensory oriented. So they may have something like, you know, certain noises bother them. I'm one of those. Yeah, so anytime they're doing, when they're doing a cleaning and they have like a little little, the little polisher, the noise that that makes when it's on your two drives me
up. So that's actually, it drives me crazy. But it goes back to what we were talking about in your episode, like you guys utilize so many different things to put people at ease in your wellness center, like the noise canceling headphones, so that I don't have to hear the sound of the dremel on my teeth.
Like that to me, I heard that and I was like, oh, if my dentist offered that, I'd go twice a week. Yeah. Well, maybe twice a week is a little bit much, but it goes back to what we were talking about in your episode, which is root cause, right?
Because when you have people come in and they have these issues, I'm experiencing jaw pain, I'm having trouble sleeping, I have a brain fog.
I had never really thought of brain fog being able to be tied back all the way to the structure
Of this system that is the job.
Talk to me a little bit about the importance of like being able to trace things back to root cause.
“Well, many people are tied to the band-aid approach, so if they had brain fog, maybe they”
already been someone who would take something to sleep, a pill, or-- Melatonin. Melatonin, or they may take like a trasodone, like a more serious medication, or someone might have had like a sleeping apparatus, like they might have had like a just soft mouth guard, or they may have had like a C-Pap to breathe.
And most people haven't really like you mentioned a tune to, if you have a narrow jaw, you don't have as much room for your tongue, right? So if you don't have room for your tongue, your tongue is going to go back in your throat in like cause, basically a traffic jam to breathe at night. So basically, we'll get us our patients very simple to see how wide is your jaw, does
your tongue fit, can you breathe through your nose, and maybe other alternatives, then Melatonin, or a C-Pap. There's many things you can do in dentistry to help someone open their airway up, something as minor as a guard for sleep apnea alternative, or sometimes for people they need to do something very simple orthodonically, so they basically have enough room to breathe.
And just like, even just going to that, like, I would never think like, oh, my jaw is too
“small for my tongue, and that's why I snore when I sleep.”
Like the average person doesn't maybe think of, I talked about it a little bit when we were doing your interview, I was like, you kind of almost have like this engineering approach to viewing the way that this whole system functions, right? And it's like, hey, we can take, we can diagnose that your jaw, the actual hinge that it sits on is not wide enough, and that's what's causing this problem with your tongue,
and that's how it's causing you to snore. I never, I would never think about it that way, but that's why we trust the professionals. What would you say to, you know, the average person out there who is dealing with trouble sleeping, they're dealing with jaw pain, they're dealing with all of these different little things, and they're applying these band-aid solutions and nothing's working.
But would you say to that person to get them to come into TMJ, I really do like a more comprehensive approach? Usually for people, they are sick-attired, they're being sick-attired, and they've reached their limit, their threshold, whatever that would be, whether that would be X, Y and Z solution isn't working, or my spouse is tired of me complaining of the same pain or they can't sleep
or that spouse can't sleep, because I'm too noisy and then you sleep in a different
“bedroom, so sort of relationship type of conflict, and I think for people that want more”
long-lasting solution, there are different alternatives, right? You don't have to just wear a seatpap, most people know that for sleep apnea, because they're medical doctor would have prescribed it, but the statistics on that show that most 75% of patients are not compliant wearing a seatpap, Y, because it's claustrophobic, or they've got a trouble with it, it's too cumbersome, so maybe something is a guard to help bring their draw forward,
is something attainable and easy for that person, or maybe someone's already tried that, and they say I don't want to have to wear some plastic thingy on my teeth all the time, and they
may just be someone who wants to be ultimately fixed like the system, so the engineer aspect you
refer to, maybe that's someone who will be open-minded to creating some expansion, and someone who wants to do that, they probably will say, oh, I've probably got some jaw-clicking jaw-stuff too, so they have more than one reason that they are seeking care. God, you got you, and then over time, those reasons kind of pile up and pile up, and then eventually, now you're starting to look at like full-on system failure, and we talked about one thing that I
thought was very, very interesting, was the ability for you within your practice, you do this really comprehensive approach to finding out the exact functioning and the exact level to which somebody's draw as functioning, right? You have different systems within the wellness center to really map out what's going on in there, and within those systems, you were able to find out that a client that had come in, and they were coming in with blurry vision, and ended up being that there was a tumor,
like the size of your fist in there, talking to me a little bit about that story, because that's
where it was insane. Yes, that seems crazy, right? So people who would say, when they first
Make an appointment, why do I have to do this sort of over an hour assessment...
type of X-ray? Well, the importance of that is so we can get the right diagnosis, and many times there
“might be another issue that you don't think that is related to your pain. So, for instance,”
you referred to this patient that she came in with blurry vision, and she had headaches. She was tired of doing, like, Botox were her headaches, and she had poor sleep also, so she didn't want to have to be taking some kind of pill to help her get to sleep and stay asleep, but when we did her imaging, not only did she have, like, a small airway in a jaw issue, of course. She also had an extra thing going on where she had this tumor behind her eye, so if we hadn't had that extensive
exam, or diagnosis, or 3D image, we wouldn't have been able to help with this other medical problem that a physician hadn't seen yet because of this X-ray. So, the good news about that is we were
able to get her the care that she need, refer to a neurosurgeon, and basically save her vision.
“And you save the eye? Save the eye. Yeah, I mean, that is when I heard that story during the interview,”
I was like, I couldn't imagine going to the dentist, and then going through this whole scenario to find out that, you know, my life was saved because I went to a dentist that did the right thing. And really gave me like a proper diagnostic. So, like that by itself, first of all, I want to just, like, credit to you for providing such a service where you were able to save this person's life. But for the audience member out there that's just kind of like, they're just being introduced
to you for the first time. And I want to take a second here to kind of talk about the wellness center aspect of it, because we kind of hinted at it earlier with, you know, you guys do the Jade Mass, you do the noise canceling headphones, the massage chair that you mentioned, like, talks me a little bit about like just the wellness approach that most dentists, most dental
“offices don't offer. Right. So, I think the things that I've come to appreciate over our career is that”
those extra special touches matter to someone, they just don't know that they exist yet, right? So, if, for instance, you are sensitive to materials and it might be someone who says, they can't take certain types of vitamins and they're allergic to a lot of medicines and things like that, they have an extensive history. Well, they may not know yet that there is a type of test that you can run to look at what type of materials are right for your mouth, who would have
known that's a thing, right? So, some people are reactive to different type of teeth cleaning products or crowns or fillings that just doesn't suit their body chemistry correctly. So,
that person, a type of patient who's never heard of that yet, all there know it, they know so far
is that have inflammation, certain materials have failed and they're looking for a different alternative. So, in that regard, that wellness center is looking at chemistry of the materials, a different way of looking at would be in the wellness center is that we have someone that has their own business that works on lymphatics. So, someone who might say, "I'm trying to detox or I've got a thyroid issue or some gut issues that I want to help." They may not be a tune to their lymphatic system
maybe built up. So, what is your lymphatic system? It's kind of like your oil changing mechanism your body to get rid of all the junk, but how that stems from your mouth is like, "Well, digestion is here and your gums or your periodometer disease can wreak havoc in your body." So, in the wellness center, we would also have a detox specialist. So, someone who was more open-minded till their health care choices is really going to gravitate to our wellness center
because of that. Another way to look at that would be someone who has neck and hip and shoulder issues. They may not equate to that is connected to their jaw and their bite like the engineering or gear system that you referred to. So, having a type of osteopathic physician in our office, it's a part of our team, helps people that have the wrong bite and the jaw muscles aren't firing correctly, which messes up their neck posture, which then intern messes up their shoulder
or their hips. So, it's basically that sort of jaw to neck to body connection. Is another
avenue in our wellness center? One of my, you know, I ask this of all my guests here on the show. We're here at Inside Success, and I want to give an opportunity here. What is Dr. Becky Coats number one key tip for success? Be open-minded to learning more, and I think that is not just
As a professional or a doctor, but be open-minded to learning from the medica...
open-minded to sharing what you know with the medical community. So, it's a given take.
Dentistry and medicine are often times think of separate and actually it's a bridge or it's a connection. So, like your mouth is connected to your cardiovascular system, your heart rhythms, your biome and your mouth, right? The same thing is how you sleep in your breathe is connected to your
“energy. And I think being open-minded to learning is also from a patient or a client perspective”
because you're seeking people that are the expert subject matter. So, be open to the new
information that you are receiving and a lot of what I encourage our clients to do. Our patients is to look at a lot of the videos that we've made on YouTube, this part of our page, that really addresses key points that often are the key questions that people ask us when they're making a new patient appointment. Now, for the audience member out there that wants to look up,
“how do they get to a TMJ+ wellness center? Well, the TMJ+ wellness center. I know that it's”
right next to the WW airport, but work and they find you guys on social media, work and they find you on the internet, work and people locate you. So, our website is TMJ+.com. Of course, we have all of our socials of TMJ+ underscored Dr. Becky Coats. I also have another spin-off of our brand, which is Dr. Jog Dropper, which came about when I was on Good Morning, Texas, and I was doing as it's an ABC affiliate in Dallas. And so, when I've done some shows there,
“when we were talking with our crew behind the scenes and we were talking about what we were”
going to discuss or a patient testimony or they're like, okay, so you're like a doctor, the jaw,
but basically you're helping people with their jaw. So, basically you're dropped the jaw
forward, so you get away from their earring or your open their airway to breathe and I'm like, yes, kind of like that. So, the fun spin-off on social media is also Dr. Jog Dropper. But you can find us on Instagram, even our professional page on LinkedIn, and take talk. So, everywhere. Perfect. Or, I'll make sure, you know, editors. I'm pointing in directions. You guys know to put all of the links to things on the screen somewhere. But Dr. Becky, it has been
an anniversary pleasure. Hi. I'm Haley here on the show. Guys, if you're still tuned in at this point, I want to make sure that you check out Dr. Becky's episode of America's Best Doctors coming out shortly after this podcast episode airs. So, make sure you guys stay tuned for that. It'll be a much deeper dive into her story, into how she became the dentist of 26 years, 26. We're on 26 year career. So, make sure you guys tune in to her episode of America's Best Doctors.
But again, this has been another episode of The Living Your Legacy Podcast. I'm your host, Jason Tyler, and I will catch you guys in the next one.
