{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Sleep Matters Podcast","title":"TMD, OSA, PRF, & the Importance of Taking Action With Dr. Jamison Spencer","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3234,"description":"Dentists take the course. Fill the notebook. Nod at all the right moments.\nThen they go home and do nothing with it.\nDr. Jamison Spencer has watched that happen for 25 years, and in this episode he tells Dr. Erin Elliott and Jason Tierney exactly why it keeps happening. Along the way: PRF and why he refuses to stop talking about it, the fear that keeps good dentists from helping obvious patients, an AADSM membership number that should bother all of us, why direct-to-consumer companies aren't the villain, and his new book, which he cheerfully calls a cookbook.\nFair warning. If you've been getting ready to get ready on dental sleep medicine, this one stings a little.\nWhat's on the Menu\nThe myth of \"20 years of experience\"\nPRF, and why there's no smoke and mirrors\nWhy courses don't change practices\nThe \"what ifs\" that stop good dentists cold\n3,000 members. 200,000+ dentists.\nDirect-to-consumer as proof of demand\nTreat 100 people before you touch insurance\nPractical Dental Sleep Medicine (free audiobook code inside)\n\"20 Years of Experience\" Is Sometimes One Year, Twenty Times\n\nSpencer's been saying it for years:\n\"There's a big difference between 20 years of experience and one year of experience repeated 20 times.\"\nHe watched it play out when sleep showed up. A chunk of the TMD world called it a fad and put their heads down. The people paying attention noticed that a lot of TMJ patients also had sleep apnea, and you can't unsee that.\nThen he nearly did the exact same thing to himself.\nA Spencer Study Club member kept pushing him to look at PRF. Spencer had lived through prolotherapy, wasn't impressed, and blew him off. The guy kept coming back. Spencer finally bought the book, went into the literature, found more evidence than he expected, and started doing it.\nTwenty-five years in and he still got talked out of a position he was certain about. That's the point.\nPRF: No Smoke and Mirrors\n\nThe thing Spencer likes most about PRF is how boring the mechanics are. Draw the...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/52Qaaw05xuFHPCIyraqjh64o9mT1jbe9VlOf6cHLHwE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zMzg4/ZGE2MTI3YzQwNTcw/ZTRjYjBkNjBkZTZl/NTEyOC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}