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title: 'Why Dental Care Needs to be Better and How Wally Health is Reinventing The Dental Care Experience, with Tyler Burnett, CEO and Co-Founder Of Wally Health'
type: 'episode'
url: 'https://doc.social/episodes/why-dental-care-needs-to-be-better-and-how-wally-health-is-reinventing-the-dental-care-experience-with-tyler-burnett-ceo-and-co-founder-of-wally-health'
show: 'A Healthy Idea'
show_url: 'https://doc.social/podcasts/a-healthy-idea'
published: '2021-05-14'
audio: 'https://anchor.fm/s/491c3c4/podcast/play/33451327/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2021-4-14%2F221c6f7e-ad20-7725-1fa6-4edf32382560.mp3'
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# Why Dental Care Needs to be Better and How Wally Health is Reinventing The Dental Care Experience, with Tyler Burnett, CEO and Co-Founder Of Wally Health

Wally Health is the one-stop shop for oral care. Wally is reinventing the end-to-end dental care experience with personalized, accessible, and affordable dental products delivered to your front door. Consider Wally Health the Hims & Her…

## Summary

[Wally Health](//hiwally.co?ref=pod0513) is the one-stop shop for oral care. Wally is reinventing the end-to-end dental care experience with personalized, accessible, and affordable dental products delivered to your front door. Consider Wally Health the Hims & Hers of dental care.

[Tyler ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyburnett/)is a mission-driven entrepreneur who previously co-founded Western Canada's largest private digital OOH media company (exit to Canada's 3rd largest co). After receiving a dental treatment plan for 8 fillings, when he actually only needed one, he and his co-founders began building a solution to solve the current oral care crisis.

Topics we discuss today:

- Why proper oral care starts at home

- The Billion Dollar Market for Unnecessary tooth fillings

- Why is dental health so important?

- Differences between Canadian and US dental care.

- What does an “ideal” dental experience look like?

- What dental products should consumers avoid?

- As a B2C product, how do you get yourself in front of customers?

Shocking Facts about Dental Care:

- According to the CDC, an estimated 1 in 4 adults aged 20 - 44 have an untreated cavity. ([Source](https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/dental.htm))

- A study in 2011 found that an estimated fifty percent of Americans avoid going to the dentist out of fear or anxiety. ([Source](https://identitydental.com/ethical-dental-marketing-company-desperate-times-backyard-dentists/#:~:text=A%20recent%20study%20by%20the,roughly%20about%20150%20million%20people.))

- In 2018, 42% of surveyed Americans don't see a dentist as often as they would like ([Source](https://www.ada.org/en/publications/ada-news/2018-archive/march/survey-more-americans-want-to-visit-the-dentist#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20survey%2C%2042,the%20ophthalmologist%20(17%20percent).))

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