teeth warn
Periodontal disease is an alarm sign that something is not right in glucose metabolism.Diabetes?Not necessarily, but the state of the gums may be a warning that you have to take care of yourself.
For the first time, dentists have appeared in a diabetes congress to star in a specific session on the relationship between periodontal disease and type 2 diabetes. "One of the multiple complications of diabetes is a significantly higher risk of periodontitis," he saysMaria E. Ryan, from the Sonty Brook University (Nueva Cork)."When a person suffers from an oral infection and inflammation, as with other infections, it is much more difficult to control glucose levels."Consequently, it is known that treating periodontitis is a valid strategy to reduce A1C levels, a frequent measure of glucose level, in a period of two or three months.
The tank between dental and systemic health can be found in the prediabetic phase: “We have obtained evidence that the severity of the periodontal disease is associated with the highest levels of insulin resistance, often the precursor of type 2 diabetes, as well as withhigher levels of A1C, ”he added.
He underlined the importance of these findings his colleague George W. Taylor, of the University of Michigan, for whom “given the numerous studies that show that glycemic control results in the reduction of diabetic complications, there is a potential treatment in periodontal therapyTo control the disease and, therefore, reduce the risk of such complications. ”