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Top Teeth Tips with Dr Milad the Singing Dentist
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e has a huge social media presence, with 157k subscribers on YouTube, 653k followers on Facebook, 298k followers on Instagram, 155k on TikTok and 11k followers on Twitter, but Dr Milad Shadrooh isn’t a pop star – he’s a dentist. The Principal Dentist and Owner at Chequers Dental in Basingstoke, Dr Milad, as he’s known to his patients, started on his unconventional root – sorry, route – to fame when he had time to spare waiting for a root canal patient to arrive. “One day in 2015 a song came on the radio and I started freestyling to it, but talking about dentistry, because I had a root canal patient that never turned up and about 45 minutes to spare!” he says. “I parodied Drake’s Hotline Bling and sent it to my friend who is also 62 | Healthy Child with Dr Ranj Singh
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a dentist. He was like "Dude, this is hilarious, you’ve got to put it online", but I didn’t want to as I thought it was a bit jokey and that dentists have a certain reputation to uphold. “My friend put it up without me knowing and the reception was crazy, other dentists soon started sharing it and saying how funny it was – particularly my mad eyebrows which started doing their own thing!
MAD MEDIA Now Dr Milad’s a hit with his patients as well as with the thousands of subscribers to his social media channels. “My social media content is all about fun and making people smile!”, he says, “it’s just me and my personality. I show almost none of my dentistry; I don’t use it to promote my clinic. Yet I’ve
got people coming from all over now just because they just want to see me! It’s crazy!” But enteraining as Dr Milad’s videos are, there’s a serious side to his work. His latest online performances include Coronavirus Baby, a rap about COVID-19 based on Vanilla Ice’s Ice Ice Baby, Gappy, a send-up of Happy by Pharrell Williams, and Sweet Eater, a parody of Cheerleader by Omi, warning about the dangers of sugar – “Ooh, I think that I’ve found myself a sweet eater – there’s always a new hole when I see her”. Then there’s our favourite – Return of the Plaque, a parody of Return of the Mack by Mark Morrison. So we asked Dr Milad to give us some good oral health advice and to bust a few persistent myths. Here’s what the Singing Dentist told us:
Image of Dr Shadrooh courtesy of The Can Group
Dr Milad Shadrooh is the Principal Dentist and Owner at Chequers Dental in Basingstoke – but you probably know him better as The Singing Dentist!
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