Signal (hidden) reveals problem that “weakens body capacities”

AND if going to the dentist reveal more than the a state of dental health? At the outset, it will not reveal cases of arthrosis or other muscle changes. However, a dental routine consultation can be much more elucidative when it comes to other types of health problems.

Scientific evidence suggests that mouth may reveal several early signs associated with systemic diseases, e.g. through changes that go unnoticed. 

To reduce the probability of developing other health problems besides caries, it is ideal to have oral health routine consultations on time.

An early diagnosis, as well as the consequent adoption of measures, may be decisive steps to reduce the risk of other health complications.

But after all, what is the health problem that the mouth can hide? 

What is the relationship between oral health and diabetes?

To Science Alert, one of the authors of the oral study and epidemiologist, Fernando Valentim Bitencourt, clarifies that, from now on, “we cannot look at oral health and diabetes as two distinct and isolated areas.”.

To explain this phenomenon, experts speak of a “bidirectional relationship”, where the periodontitis causes persistent inflammation in the mouth and, as a consequence, “inflammatory bacteria and molecules can enter the bloodstream through damaged gingival tissue, contributing to inflammation of other parts of the body”.

This inflammation, as they describe, may end up “interfer in body response to insulin, the hormone that helps transfer glucose from blood to cells – this insulin resistance “a defining feature of type 2 diabetes”, add.

But after all, how can you discover indicators of diabetes through the “hidden sign in the mouth”?

The same as the gum problem can trigger other health problemsIn other cases, it also represents a clear indicator of other existing problems. When detecting signs such as those described, you should be tested for diseases such as diabetes, as “persistently high blood sugar” may explain these wounds.

In addition to visible or sometimes more hidden signs, this condition may “delay healing and weaken the body’s ability to fight infections, leaving people with diabetes more vulnerable to gingival diseases”.

To confirm this premise, an older study published in the Dentistry Journal, cited by the same source, reveals that “people with type 2 diabetes had lower saliva flow and higher prevalence of severe caries than those without diabetes”.