The mouth body connection

Periodontal (gum) disease affects approximately 85% of adults today with only a few noticeable signs or symptoms whereby most people do not even realize that they have it.  It may lead not only to tooth loss, but to other diseases and problems, such as:

• Heart disease:  periodontal disease predisposes you to becoming twice as likely to suffer from coronary artery disease and stroke.
• Low birth weight/pre-term babies.
• Poses a serious threat to people whose health is compromised by diabetes, respiratory diseases, or osteoporosis.
• Infecting others and your family members through saliva.

Don’t Ignore Your Oral Health If you value your oral as well as your overall health, and you have any of the following symptoms, seek advice from a dental professional immediately:

• Pain in your mouth
• your gums ever bleed when you brush your teeth or when you eat hard food
• spaces developing between your teeth
• your gums feel swollen or tender
• your gums are receding (pulling back from your teeth) or your teeth appear longer than before
• you have persistent bad breath
• you have noticed a change in the way your teeth fit together when you bite
• you develop sores in your mouth that do not get better within two weeks
• you have noticed pus between your teeth and gums

If you have any of the symptoms described above, you may have periodontal disease.

So if you have heart disease, diabetes, respiratory disease, osteoporosis, or are thinking of becoming pregnant; have a family member evaluated Treatment of gum disease in its earliest stages has an excellent success rate, so the earlier you seek treatment, the better the chance for success.  We utilize many comfortable, successful, and easy treatments for gum disease, and the majority of treatments do not require being numb.  These state-of-the-art procedures include lasers and microsonics (works by not even having to touch your teeth and replaces the outdated method of scraping your teeth), oral antibiotics, and special anti-microbial rinses.  With treatment success being so easy to achieve, you should not hesitate to seek an  evaluation and/or treatment immediately!