What Dentists Know About Your Body and Your Health
A dentist is often inadvertently overlooked as a medical professional who has insight to the health of your entire body, but current research is proving more and more that a this professional’s look inside of your mouth is a window to future and present health issues.
Dentists are often inadvertently overlooked as medical professionals who has insight to your overall health,
but research is proving more and more that a this professional’s look inside of your mouth is a window to future and present health issues. If you do not have a good and frequent relationship with your dentist, now is a good time to start.
Dental conditions are among the most commonly overlooked health related conditions in the human body. People seem to think that the mouth is independent of the rest of the body; however, the mouth can not only be an indicator of what is going on in the rest of the body, but poor mouth health can affect a person’s entire well-being. Knowledge is power, and power is a healthy mouth.
An infection of the gums is often thought of as a minor or even an aesthetic issue, but the truth is that inflamed gums are not the problem. They are rather the indicator that something more serious is going on in the body. Dentists who are aware of chronic inflamed gums have good reason to be suspicious of other pending health problems, and dentists are becoming more and more central in diagnosing such conditions as insulin resistance, glucose disorders, and other diabetic like issues including diabetes itself.
If the issue at hand is the reciprocal, that is if the problem with your gums persists because of poor mouth care, you are doing harm to your entire body not just to the immediate area of your teeth and gums. Inflamed gums due to infection in the mouth do not discriminate.
Once your gums and mouth are infected, the simple act of brushing alone is enough to set infection and plaque roaming into your blood stream and to your heart, and what happens when infection and plaque make their way to the heart and build up? If you do not already know the answer to that question, do yourself a favor and do not find out the hard way that poor mouth health can lead to heart disease.
Evidence has never been clearer that he mouth is indeed a portal to your health. Gum disease is also known to effect gestation as certain situations in a decaying mouth emulate the body’s ability to identify with labor thus causing labor to be premature. The aforementioned heart disease is also in good company with strokes, heart attacks, and osteoporosis when it comes to diseases and conditions that are worsened and even caused from poor mouth care.
