Have not read original papers, but do not doubt the potential associations.
Have not read original papers, but do not doubt the potential associations. It's already been shown that oral health and heart health are linked. AND YET dental care is STILL not considered important enough to just roll into health care coverage.
People can die from an untreated oral abscess, although these days they mostly end up in the hospital via the emergency room requiring surgery and i.v. antibiotics. Oh, but that's their fault for not brushing their teeth. Yeah, actually, even people with good tooth care can have problems, although obviously they have fewer in general.
Not to mention that it is still culturally rampant to teach everyone to fear the dentist, or to consider them somehow not trained healthcare providers. Look at the picture in the article. Is that encouraging you to go to the dentist? They really aren't barber-surgeons anymore, not in this country, anyway.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/04/20/these-oral-bacteria-might-increase-your-chances-of-getting-pancreatic-cancer/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/04/20/these-oral-bacteria-might-increase-your-chances-of-getting-pancreatic-cancer
People can die from an untreated oral abscess, although these days they mostly end up in the hospital via the emergency room requiring surgery and i.v. antibiotics. Oh, but that's their fault for not brushing their teeth. Yeah, actually, even people with good tooth care can have problems, although obviously they have fewer in general.
Not to mention that it is still culturally rampant to teach everyone to fear the dentist, or to consider them somehow not trained healthcare providers. Look at the picture in the article. Is that encouraging you to go to the dentist? They really aren't barber-surgeons anymore, not in this country, anyway.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/04/20/these-oral-bacteria-might-increase-your-chances-of-getting-pancreatic-cancer/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/04/20/these-oral-bacteria-might-increase-your-chances-of-getting-pancreatic-cancer
We were just discussing this in the car this morning. Because of my son's cleft, all of the orthodontia he's gone through over the last couple of years has been covered under medical instead of dental. We initially paid a couple hundred for the first set of molds and pictures, etc. so they could determine "need" or whatever, and since then it has just been copays for all the monthly visits. Ultimately, we are paying a few hundred bucks (maybe close to $1000 by the time were all done) out of pocket, as opposed to the $1,500 lifetime coverage under dental (which would have basically been phase I before actual braces were even introduced) and then been SOL for everything else. I am grateful to have the coverage we do, but I still think that is a dumb concept for everyone else.
ReplyDeleteI just hope Helen's adult teeth come in as perfectly as her baby ones.