Posts Tagged ‘General health’
Recent research links periodontal disease with other body
A growing number of scientific research indicates a possible link between severe gum disease (periodontitis) and other conditions of the human body.
While research to this date can not yet conclusively determine the exact cause and mechanisms that are given this relationship, the evidence clearly suggests that the benefits of a healthy mouth may go beyond a good appearance.
Therefore, Colgate Palmolive, joining forces with the Latin American Diabetes Association (ALAD), the Federación Mexicana de Diabetes, the Mexican Society of Cardiology, the Mexican Dental Association, the College of Dental Surgeons and the National Center of Epidemiological Surveillance and Control Diseases of the Ministry of Health (CENAVE) organized a seminar to discuss the importance of oral health and its possible relationship to overall health.
In this seminar every doctor put it, from the perspective of their specialty, the problems of poor oral hygiene and its possible relationship to general health.
The Pan American Health Organization recognizes in its Regional Plan for oral health in the next 10 years “and important connection between oral health and the health of the body:” overwhelming scientific evidence suggests the interrelationship between oral health and general health. There are common risk factors and chronic oral diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events.” Read the rest of this entry »
Benefits of early treatment in orthodontics
Another good reason to say yes to early treatment in orthodontics is that the child will reap the benefits at many levels.
• simplify and shorten or avoid the more complex treatment in adolescence;
• preserve capital dental (extractions of teeth, premolars and wisdom teeth, amputated up to a quarter of Heritage Dental, eight teeth);
• avoid the painful transition from surgery as an adult in case of atrophy of the jaws (action required when a missed period of growth, eg in cases of prognathism);
• intervene in children by an appliance or simple techniques, much less stringent than the rings at a time when he is receptive, and avoid disrupting the teenager who already suffers from many difficulties without it being necessary ‘add more; Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Adolescence, Adult, Children, Dental, General health, Mouth, Mouth breathing, Orthodontics, Sleep apnea, Treatment | 
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