I can give you 100 dentists who say they've got the best method for reducing concussions. Many times I've had them in my office. One brought me a box of cookies. My response to that person and to 20 others is that I'm intrigued, but it's your job to prove to me your idea does what you say it does.

Certainly there is great sensitivity to the issue.

There's a rush to judgment that his death was related to his obesity, and that's an open-ended question. We're trying to answer the questions: Is there obesity in the NFL? And if there is obesity, are the players at more or less or the same risk as their counterparts in the real world? Those are questions we have to answer.

It's something that has not been looked at as carefully as it could have been, in terms of regarding shoes as a protective device. But one year's worth of data does not make it a problem. There can be anomalies.

I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous. But I made sure I got moldings of my old teeth beforehand because I miss them.

Dentists are incapable of asking questions that require a simple yes or no answer