Denté

@dr.radhealth is on the cover of the Denté Sustainable Dentistry Issue 2026. And the contributors making this issue what it is are just as worth knowing.

Dr. Kayla LeBeau grew up with a father who talked about seed oils, mouth breathing, and synthetic dyes long before any of that was considered serious. She used to roll her eyes. By the time she finished dental school at UCSF and completed a GPR residency treating medically complex patients and head and neck cancer cases in the OR, she understood he had not been behind. He had just been early.

That inheritance shows in how she practises. Every patient who sits in her chair gets the same first question, whether they came in for veneers or because their jaw has been clicking for a decade. What is this mouth telling me about how the whole system is functioning? And what does it actually need before we talk about how it looks?

Her piece for this issue is the most personal thing we have published in a long time. It covers airway, aesthetics, biological protocol, amalgam removal, CBCTs, and a father's molar that she still thinks about. It is written the way the best clinical thinking sounds when someone finally stops performing and just tells the truth.

The mouth has been telling us everything all along. Most of us just are not asking.

Issue coming soon.

@dr.lebeau