Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Diabetes and Your Dental Health

According to the medical statistics, some health afflictions such as diabetes and heart disease rank very high on the national medical budget.   Insurance companies are allocating ever increasing expenses to cope with the epidemic proportions of such diseases.  It is easy to see why enormous efforts are subventioned for medical research to find modalities of control and understand the cause/effect mechanism of these degenerative diseases and their effect on the body.


Not long ago, independent medical studies have shown and been repeatedly confirmed that these degenerative diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, immunological disease and other metabolic disfunctions are correlated with gum diseases.  The microorganisms populating the gum pockets around teeth have been found to influence, stimulate and aggravate these degenerative diseases.


All the food we consume and the air we breathe is loaded with bacteria.  Under normal circumstances our immune system would intercept and annihilate these bacterial intruders without any impact to our health.


The problem, of course, starts when the concentration of such bacterial colonies increases past the capacity of our immune system.  When gum pockets deepen with the increasing retention of plaque and calculus due to complex causes, the dramatic explosion of bacterial. . . (continue reading on my website)

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