June 21, 2008
Ask Your Physician To Share Lab Results With Your Dentist
Ask your physician about sharing your lab test results with your dentist. Add that you also want copies for yourself so you can have a thorough picture of the status of your diabetes and its management. It’s a perfectly appropriate request, though not one that is often made.
Your lab tests are not just your physician’s business. They’re important markers of what’s happening in your body. You need to know just what your lab tests show and have that interpreted by your physician if all the acronyms and numbers are confusing. Plus you need to know what those numbers mean to your health.
Your lab tests show whether you are prediabetic or whether you actually have diabetes. If you do have diabetes, the tests measure of the severity of the disease. The severity of your diabetes affects your treatment strategy.
When your diabetes symptoms are out of control you not only feel worse but you’re at greater risk for gum disease as well as heart disease and stroke. In turn, gum disease can make your overall diabetes management more difficult, putting you at continued risk for heart disease or stroke.
It is truly a vicious circle, and that’s why it’s so important that you work with your physician and dentist as a team, and that you all have the same information to work from.
Did you know that there is a closed loop between your dental health and your ability to successfully manage your blood sugar? For more diabetes information, get your free five-lesson mini-course on diabetes and your teeth at DentistryForDiabetics.com.
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