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Ensure A Healthy Mouth With Regular Periodontal Screening

February 16th, 2008

Three in four adults from 35 years old up have some form of gum disease. This is according to the new clinical research and reveals that gum disease poses a far greater threat to health than just losing a tooth. Gum disease may actually increase your risk for a variety of health concerns including heart attacks, low birth weight babies, diabetes and stroke. It was furthermore stressed that people with chronically infected gums have twice as much heart disease as the rest of us. We have an imperative to treat gum disease – to save not only teeth but also patients. Moreover, if gum disease is compared to high blood pressure – it’s painless and only becomes evident when it’s quite severe. Gum disease warning signs include red, swollen, tender, bleeding or receding gums: loose teeth: persistent bad breath: changes in tooth position: and the development of pockets between gums and teeth. It used to be that your dentist could only diagnose periodontal disease from x-rays that showed loss of bone around the teeth. The exciting news is that gum disease or periodontal disease can now be successfully treated before teeth get loose from bone loss. Your hygienist and dentist can measure the pockets and bleeding points around your teeth and institute non-surgical treatment of gum disease before you suffer the irreversible bone destruction it would cause.

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