Synergy Between Dental Health and General Health
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Do You Have Synergy?
Dental health and general health are connected. Eating a well balanced diet does lead to benefits with your overall physical health. A balanced diet is getting the right types and amounts of food and drinks to supply nutritional energy for maintaining your body cells, tissues and organs supporting normal growth and development.
Certain physical maladies can have linkage to dental health such as heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis and rheumatoid arthritis through inflammation of an individual’s gums or known as periodontal disease.
Without proper dental care bacteria collect on your teeth and under your gum line making you susceptible to infection in the form of gum disease. As your immune system fights the infection your gums inflame and without treatment this inflammation continues intensifying.
Diabetes, which is growing substantially in the general population due to the high consumption of sugar in almost everything we eat increases your chances of developing periodontal disease. On the other hand; people who have periodontal disease have a harder time controlling their blood sugar levels.
If you have heart disease periodontal disease and stroke form a relationship by aggravating the condition. Researchers have found that people with gum disease were twice as likely to die from a heart attack and three times as likely to have a stroke.
By eliminating gum disease you will improve your overall health. While eliminating your periodontal disease isn’t likely to cure your diabetes or heart condition it will alleviate one of the mitigating factors leading to these diseases.
Daily flossing and brushing is one of the best ways you can take to improve your health in combination with eating a healthy diet, exercising and not smoking.
At the dental practice of Glenn Reit DDS, if you have periodontal disease we will be able to diagnose it and formulate a treatment plan to move you back to a more healthy oral environment. Sometimes it’s only a thorough cleaning, or a more advanced root planning to prevent graduating into full periodontal surgery.
Call us today at 212 517 9000 to schedule an appointment
You and your teeth will be glad you did
Looking for a Dentist in the Upper East Side?
At the practice of Glenn Reit DDS; we provide quality care in a relaxed, comfortable, clean and safe environment. Please contact us today at 212 517 9000 for this or any other of your dental needs. We look forward to seeing and taking care of you!
