Hello and welcome back to ACRAC. I'm Jed Wolfaw and we've got a really great show for you today.

I'm thrilled to have with me, Dr. Jay Grimes, who is a board certified pediatric dentist and a

board certified dental anesthesiologist. She's in private practice in Delaware and I'll tell you

a lot of you I'm sure listening didn't know as did I that dental anesthesiology was its own

specialty. And so when Jay contacted me I thought this is really interesting. There's probably a

lot of people out there like me who don't know that this is that this exists and would be really

interested to learn as I was about the differences and similarities between training and anesthesiology

and dental anesthesiology and we'll talk about that today. So we're going to hear from Jay about

what this specialty is like, how she got involved and then how a dentist might go about deciding

whether to do their own sedation, whether to hire a dental anesthesiologist, but the pros and cons

that are. I think it's going to be a great discussion. So Jay, welcome to the show.

Thanks so much for having me. Always listen to this show in residency and still a listener. So I'm

really excited to be here. Great. Fantastic. Well, so let's start by just asking you to introduce

yourself a little. I gave a little background, but talk about how you got where you are and what exactly

you do. Yep. So as he mentioned, my name is Jay. I am a dentist went to University of Maryland

for dental school and then liked general dentistry, but was just felt like there was something more.

I really like working with kids and special needs. So I decided to do a one year general residency

to just kind of feel out the field of dentistry and learn a little bit more about it. I then decided

to specialize in pediatric dentistry. I love working with kids. I love working with special needs.

But when I was in my pediatric dental residency, we do get a training in like minimal and moderate

sedation, but I realized that wasn't quite enough. So then I went ahead and applied for a three year

residency and dental anesthesiology. And that was an amazing experience. And I've graduated in June

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