Periodontal

In this week's Homerun Slides, understanding the importance of oral health and alternatives to surgical options for treatment.

Study of 40-year trend focused on three ethnic groups prone to dental complications.

A female patient on insulin, 67 years of age, required more and more insulin to manage her glucose levels. She was eating healthily, exercising, monitoring, and taking her insulin as prescribed. I asked her when she had last seen her dentist. She confessed that this was one part of her …

Score proposed to help facilitate diagnosis among population that infrequently sees primary physicians… As a part of campaigns to alleviate the health and financial burdens of undiagnosed diabetes, and because many Americans regularly visit their dentists, but not medical doctors, diabetes screening in dental offices has emerged as a promising …

David Levy, MD, FRCP Introduction Infections in patients with diabetes are a persistent trap for both the inexperienced and world-wise physician. Whenever someone with diabetes presents unwell, always consider the possibility of infection. High blood glucose levels predispose to some acute infections, especially postoperatively, but other mechanisms are involved, for example …

Dental visits may allow for diabetes screening and monitoring glucose control in at-risk patients… A new study suggests that using gingival crevicular blood, collected during dental visits, for HbA1c testing produced values that were nearly identical to those obtained using finger stick blood. Correlation was 0.991 between the HbA1c values …

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According to multiple studies, diabetics are at an increased risk of severe periodontitis. This association relationship appears to be bi-direction, meaning the presence of periodontal disease may hinder glycemic control in diabetes….

Severity of periodontal disease between type 1 and type 2 diabetes patients….

In a new trial, researchers find that normal periodontal therapy doesn’t improve glycemic control for patients with type 2 diabetes. However, our Advisory Board member, Maria Ryan, DDS, PH.D, has a somewhat different take on these results….