DrBicuspid (6/7, Busch) reports a new study suggests that “patients who receive dental care prior to advanced cardiac interventions, including heart transplants, may not be at greater risk of death or adverse events.” After conducting “a retrospective chart review” that “included 305 end-stage heart failure patients evaluated by the hospital …
AEGIS Dental Network reported that the second annual national survey from CareQuest Institute for Oral Health found that many Americans “are still not getting the dental care they need and disparities in oral health care persist.” The State of Oral Health Equity in America survey, included “more than 5,000 participants …
The rate of untreated caries was 21.3% among US adults, researchers reported in The Journal of the American Dental Association. The study assessed data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey from 2017 to 2020, ADA News reported. “There is a substantial unmet health care need in the U.S. …
A study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology found that teenagers with a higher body mass index had close to 9% greater risk for type 2 diabetes and 0.8% greater risk for having a heart attack in their 30s and 40s, compared with those who had a …
Medwire News reported that in a survey involving 1,190 people with diabetes, researchers discovered several areas where respondents “wished for greater knowledge or different behavior from their healthcare providers.” For instance, “the respondents often felt that their healthcare providers had an incomplete understanding of the barriers they faced when managing …
Noting that a study published earlier in the year in Science Advances found Porphyromonas gingivalis (Pg) may play a role in the development of Alzheimer’s, New Atlas reports researchers have “followed this line of investigation further,” exploring “the relationship between Pg and Alzheimer’s by examining brain samples of deceased subjects, both …
HealthDay reports data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics reveal that “14 percent of U.S adults have diabetes – 10 percent know it and more than four percent are undiagnosed.” Epidemiologist and lead researcher Mark Eberhardt, PhD, of the NCHS, said, “Diabetes remains …
TIME (8/15, Ducharme) reports that on Thursday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released updated human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination recommendations. According to the article, “The CDC reaffirmed that its prior recommendations for kids stand: boys and girls should get their first dose of the HPV vaccine when …
Dental caries, commonly known as tooth decay, is the single most common chronic childhood disease. In fact, it is an infectious disease. Mothers with cavities can transmit caries-producing oral bacteria to their babies when they clean pacifiers by sticking them in their own mouths or by sharing spoons. According to …
The internet can be a great way to find valuable information! Unfortunately, you can also find very misleading if just not completely false information! The American Dental Association has a great app called “Symptom Checker”. it is available at http://www.mouthhealthy.org/en/Symptom-Checker#. It is available to anyone and can help you determine what …
