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Take care of your oral health and protect your whole body

Take care of your oral health and protect your whole body

The name itself says: peri means around and donto, tooth. That is, periodontal is what we call the structure that is around the tooth. It has two main functions: gum protection and support, mainly given by the alveolar bone. Periodontal diseases are infectious and inflammatory diseases that have as their main causative agent bacterial plaque, which lies on the surface of the tooth and within the gingival sulcus. This inflammation leads to the destruction of the tissues surrounding the tooth, forming the periodontal pockets, which become large reservoirs of bacteria.

Signs of the disease

The first signs of the disease are: bleeding, swelling and color changes of the gingiva , which becomes more reddish. At an earlier stage, there may be a change in the position of the teeth, and even their softening, which if not treated can be lost. Periodontal disease occurs most often without the individual feeling pain.

Treatment

"Preventive attitudes involving periodic control and maintenance are essential to achieving periodontal health"

Treatment is the best way to stabilize the disease. Preventive attitudes involving periodic control and maintenance appointments are essential to achieving periodontal health. In these opportunities, the use of dental floss, toothbrush, interdental brush and electric toothbrush should be reinforced, which will remove the plaque mechanically. The chemical control through rinsing solutions for mouthwashes can be an auxiliary alternative in some situation that limits the mechanical removal of plaque.

Relation to systemic diseases

Recent studies have pointed out periodontal diseases as risk factors for diseases (which affect other organs): heart disease, respiratory disease, diabetes mellitus, osteoporosis, cancer - a finding found in a study published in the June issue of the British Medical Journal - and even for the birth of preterm and underweight babies. The relationship of periodontal disease as a risk factor for systemic diseases occurred in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. But now, after dozens of studies that point to this association - either by a direct pathway, where gum bacteria enter the bloodstream and reach other organs at a distance, or indirectly, by stimulating chemical agents of inflammation to travel throughout the body.

Contrary to what may seem, gum diseases are very common in the population, especially over 40 years of age. Unfortunately the diagnosis of the disease is not always carried out in its initial phase, which certainly makes treatment and control of the disease more difficult. Epidemiological data, published in Revista Periodontia (2007) of the Brazilian Society of Periodontology, present prevalence rates of 65 to 92% in the general population. Based on these findings, many authors point to periodontal disease as the major cause of tooth loss in adulthood, affecting three out of four individuals at some point in their life.

Why taking care of the mouth is not just an attention to teeth and gums, is also to take care of your health as a whole.


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