June 22, 2008
Ask Your Physician To Discuss Your Diabetes With Your Dentist
Ask your physician to have a “medical professional to medical professional” discussion or correspondence with your dentist about any special problems you’re having with your diabetes.
This conversation should include several points. Chief among them are:
· What level of diabetes management you’ve achieved
· How best to cooperate for your overall health
· Any other specific points about your condition that would help your dentist better treat your gum disease or other periodontal issues
If you’re just starting out on building a medical team, this is a crucial step. Shared information is key to creating the best treatment plan for your diabetes.
When your physician and your dentist communicate, you’ll have the benefit of the observations of two well-trained medical professionals who know you and know your health history and diabetes issues.
We recently introduced a tool that we hope will help open this doctor-to-doctor dialogue. It’s a free online newsletter that provides both dental and medical professionals with summaries of recent scientific research that confirms the two-way link between diabetes and periodontal disease.
Titled Informed, this newsletter also provides clinical insights for each group of medical professionals about these co-occurring diseases. Dentists will find background on diabetes and physicians will find information about the two-way linkages with periodontal disease, which are mainly centered on the inflammation response cascade.
It’s our way of starting the cross-disciplinary conversation that absolutely has to happen if we’re ever going to get a handle on the diabetes epidemic.
Please feel free to tell your physician about Informed. It’s available free by clicking here. Or, if you want to take the web address to your physician, it’s http://dentistryfordiabetics.com/media/index.htm.
For more diabetes information, get your free report that includes 10 fascinating health, nutrition, exercise, eating plan tips and strategies at DentistryForDiabetics.com.
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