Health Concerns Your Dentist Might Detect Yahoo! Health contributor, Laura Tedesco, gives us a brief and clear rundown of what some of the health conditions your dentist might be able to detect by a simple dental exam. She touches on diabetes, heart disease, dementia, osteoporosis, and acid reflux disease. The link between two health […]
Diabetes and Your Oral Health Maintaining good oral hygiene pays off for everyone that does it, even more so for people experiencing medical issues like diabetes. Diabetes is a metabolic disease in which the body’s inability to produce any or enough insulin causes elevated levels of glucose, a form of sugar, in the blood. Having […]
What Dentists Can Tell About Your Health Just By Looking In Your Mouth It’s interesting to note that your dentist is able to get clues to your overall health simply by examining your mouth. Not only can they tell if you have oral cancer but they are able to get hints of pregnancy, anemia, stress, […]