Periodontist

It is always important to understand that disease processes are usually silent until symptoms become noticeable, but by then damage usually has already progressed. How many would die from disease if they could feel it in the beginning? The answer is not through painful symptoms, but through regular professional supervision when no pain is present or when the problem is in the earliest symptomless stages.

Patients who have had any cardiovascular-heart irregularities in the past, prevention of periodontal-gum disease becomes of great importance since cardiovascular-heart disease accounts for the vast majority of deaths in America and worldwide.

It is known that diet, genetics, medication, environmental factors, and untreated gum problems influence the coarse of the cardiovascular-heart system since the draining infection itself is being swallowed and filters into other areas of the body acting as a strong factor and a contributing cause to other multiple diseases as well.

Treating such cases of jaw joint clicking and popping in the early stages can prevent permanent jaw joint deterioration and resulting jaw recession creating a marked change in the facial appearance itself (facial wrinkles, receding chin, loss of facial fullness, lopsided facial symmetry, etc.).

Many of the so called migraines which have not responded to treatment in the past are now being addressed and improved upon through non-invasive TMJ therapy in over half of the previously documented migraine cases. Headaches, dizziness, neck aches, facial pain, ringing and fullness in the ears, difficulty in opening/closing of the mouth, shifting of the bite and clicking of the jaw joints, are just a few additional symptoms that point to TMJ dysfunction.

It has been estimated that over 60% of Americans have experienced varying degrees of frequent headaches and jaw joint clicking. Such headaches and clicking must, of course, be first investigated by a physician, to rule out any medical disease. However, in many cases where no specific reasons or treatment attempts are found by the physician, dysfunction of the jaw joint (TMJ Disfunction) then becomes a very strong candidate for the reasons why the problem exists, despite all attempts to reduce a patient’s continual discomfort.

Untreated periodontal gum and bone disease usually offer the most direct reservoir of these microbes to filter to other parts of the body. Therefore, oral health and prevention of periodontal-gum disease becomes a most important facet for general health of the body and hopeful prevention of disease.

It is known that several of these oral microbes can convert alcohol into cancer-causing substances and when added with other possible irritants, the associations between heavy drinking, poor oral health increases the prevalence of oral and other listed cancers.

Scientists are now increasingly realizing that several forms of cancer, to a great extent, may not be related to long assumed genetic factors, but also to actual tissue injury through infection and resulting inflammation now being associated with cancers being created especially in the lungs and throat, stomach, intestines, colon and digestive tract.

Microbes (bacteria, viruses, fungi) are universally everywhere, for each time we breathe, eat, and swallow, these countless microbes continue into our bodies at all times. However, thankfully, the overwhelming majority do not harm us. Thanks to novel technology and computer capabilities we are reaching a groundbreaking phase of development to discover and identify the prevalence of previous unknown organisms that emanate from the mouth to effect other organs and systems of ou...r body, which may be responsible factors in Alzheimers, osteoporosis, oral cancer and a multitude of other afflictions, which subvert our normal health processes. What is so obvious is that the easiest point of origin of such bacteria rests in the most accessible portal of our body, the mouth, where such microbes are introduced. Therefore, oral health is important in providing our basic health. See more

The incidence of diabetes in America has been growing at alarming rates often driven by compromised life styles (obesity, sedentary habits, etc.) however, a strong factor in reducing such calamity is through health levels in other parts of the body, which influences the body and the resistance to such disease. It has been shown on a continual basis that infection from the gums and teeth feed the diabetic factor and, to complicate matters more intensely, the diabetes also increases the incidents of heart disease and stroke. Therefore, oral health is of the utmost importance to reduce the effects of diabetes, which is the 7th leading cause of death in the U. S.