Mt. Kisco NY Dentist Reveals The Key To Life Long Health-The Mouth Body Connection

Your body is an intricately balanced ecosystem of interconnected parts and every one of those parts plays an essential role in the preservation of the whole. So if something goes wrong in one part of your body, it has consequences felt throughout the entire body. No other bodily system exemplifies this idea better than the mouth, which acts as a window into the general health of the entire body. Dental professionals have named this holistic approach the mouth-body connection.

Gum Disease: An Inflammatory Condition

Periodontitis, or advanced gum disease, impacts approximately 75% of the American population. Causes for the disease include the use of tobacco products, stress, certain medications, and even hormonal and genetic factors. As gum disease worsens, your body tries to fight off the infection by producing an inflammatory response which causes the gums to become red, swollen, and sore. If left untreated by a dental professional, the inflammation could spread to the jawbone, weakening tooth roots, and causing tooth loss.

Gum Disease and the Health of the Whole Body

Emerging research from the American Academy of Periodontology suggests that your oral health provides a reliable indication of your general health and scientists have effectively established a link between periodontal disease and other inflammatory disorders in the body. This means that if you suffer from gum disease you may also suffer from health problems such as heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and kidney disease as you age.

Ensuring Your Lifelong Health

The power to maintain optimum oral health – and thereby maintain the health of the whole body – is in your hands. Establish a consistent and thorough at-home dental hygiene regimen. This includes brushing in the morning and evening, flossing once a day, and using an antiseptic mouthwash in the evenings. Look for changes you can make in your diet. Incorporate nutritious, anti-inflammatory foods into your diet and eliminate foods such as white sugar, refined flour, and excess salt. Moreover, visit your dentist on a regular basis for routine checkups and cleanings.  After a routine dental hygiene visit it takes the bacteria approximately three months to repopulate pockets around teeth to a level where they are destructive to bone and supporting structures.  This is why a professional cleaning every three months is one of the best things you can do for yourself.

Schedule an Appointment

Concerned you may be suffering from gum disease? We encourage you to schedule an appointment with Dr. Abel by calling our Mount Kisco NY dentist office at (914) 241-2242. We serve Mount Kisco, NY and surrounding areas.

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Non-Surgical Treatment of Gum Disease-Mount Kisco, NY

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN ADVISED TO WATCH FOR SIGNS OF GUM DISEASE?

Chances are, if you’ve ever visited a dentist, you’ve been checked—to some extent—for symptoms of this problem. Here at Westchester Dental Care in Mount Kisco, NY, for many of our patients, a routine check up typically reveals healthy, disease-free gums. We’re glad for that… But sometimes people with healthy gums forget that it’s still important to regularly look for early signs of a problem.

If you have early signs of gum disease, the best thing that can be done is to take care of it before it gets out of hand. For many of you that may mean being well informed about gum disease, including symptoms to watch for.

Gum disease can be divided into three stages which can range from a simple amount of gum inflammation to major tissue damage and tooth loss. It’s been said before, but as a reminder, the sooner periodontal disease is caught the more we can do to successfully reverse the affects. Unfortunately, gum disease usually doesn’t hurt until sufficient damage has been done. At this stage, people often lose teeth. The bacteria associated with gum disease has also been linked to heart disease including heart attacks, Alzheimer’s Disease, strokes, Diabetes, osteoporosis, respiratory disease, digestive disorders, rheumatoid arthritis, kidney disease, certain cancers like kidney and pancreatic, and low pre-term birth weight babies. Having this bacterial infection in your mouth puts you at serious, often life threatening risk!

If you are experiencing any of these symptoms that are listed below, you may be at risk, and it is critical that you have a dental examination.  Eight out of ten Americans has some form of gum disease.  Are you one of those eight?  It may be as easy to correct as having your teeth professionally cleaned.

• Gums bleed easily while flossing or brushing

• Swollen, red or tender gums

• Receding or separated gums that are exposing teeth

• Changes in how your teeth fit together

• Constant bad breath or unpleasant taste in your mouth

If you have dental insurance, routine dental hygiene visits and exams are often covered at 100%. Also, if you have dental insurance, your 2011 benefits will be expiring in about 6 weeks. Now is the time to call our office at (914) 241-2242 to get in before the end of the year.

We are conveniently located right across the street from the Mount Kisco Medical Group at 103 South Bedford Road in Mount Kisco. Don’t lose your benefits. Do this for yourself! Dental problems never get better with time.

As our way to welcome new patients who schedule their exam and dental hygiene visit before the end of the year, we will provide FREE teeth whitening. That’s a $600 value at no cost to you. You will have pretty white teeth for the holidays!

Again, call our office today at (914) 241-2242 and be sure to check out our website at www.WestchesterTopDentist.com for more great dental information!