Gum Disease: Keeping Your Diabetic Teeth Fix Both Diabetes and Gum Disease At Same Time

"Based on the research and information I have on August 06 the following makes sense to me," Harlan Jacobsen Copyright © 2006

According to the FDA, "More than 75 percent of Americans over 35 have some form of gum disease. In its earliest stage, your gums might swell and bleed easily.

At its worst, you might lose your teeth.

That FDA release was written for the average Joe.....

Gum disease thrives with an uncontrolled high blood sugar diabetic because this high sugar high acid condition mouth is the perfect breeding ground for gum disease, root canals and tooth loss.

Dentists are being alerted to suggest patients with high numbers of root canals be tested for diabetes.

One of the chronic sources of hidden inflammation can be an undiagnosed periodontal infection.

Which came first the chicken or the egg?

Studies have also shown that with severe periodontal disease it will increase blood sugar,

Therefore if you have periodontal disease and get rid of it, this really helps your diabetes problem and lessons your chances of advancing to diabetes complications.

The other side of the coin is If diabetic high blood sugar is left unchecked, bacteria developing into periodontal disease destroy bone and connective tissue, then your teeth often become loose and may have to be removed.

Such gum disease is the leading cause of all adult tooth loss, not just diabetics.

 

A recent small study show diabetics who use the standard treatment for moderately inflamed gums around the teeth -- periodontitis- by their dentist can help keep their blood sugar levels under control, dropping A1c an average of 1.5 points.

My mouth was a sore spot with me and I was very upset that I was having 2 or 3 root canals per year.

In case you are not familiar with that term...you are aware that you get your teeth filled to stop a tooth from decaying and before it is destroyed.

Now you have a choice...

pull the tooth or get a root canal and a cap...

This realistic looking magic cap goes over your dead tooth, when the lab is finally finished and supposedly your chances of keeping this jacketed tooth for over four of five years is about 50-50.

Your billfold is also about $1,500 lighter for the full jacketed, everything modern science can offer.

Since going on the caveman diet, my mouth feels entirely different. is not an issue of any kind for the last year, almost a miracle change..

However, since going on the chocolate heavy program...(no sugar) I have noticed some difference and will report on that later).

His excuse was he thought it was just cause I was ignoring their demands (bugging me) to brush and floss more.

Absolutely no dental problems.

Nothing you do to get your sugar in balance will work well until you get that fixed if it exists.

This resistance and resulting high insulin damage problem developed due to the high consumption over a period of years, of sugar, flour, and highly processed, refined and man made oils, fats and food.

Which we assume and hope you have long since corrected.

Diabetes does not cause Alzheimer's nor the other way around.,

Alzheimer's disease, it now, looks to be, a formerly unrecognized form or version of diabetes sugar disorder of the brain, much like what we know as the traditional "Diabetes of the nervous system and body cells".

Note: Your author also finds it interesting that a recent discovery indicates the brain has its own very small insulin manufacturing system.

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