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The 18th international symposium on Dental hygiene was held in Glasgow on the first three days of July 2010. The international federation has several aims including to promote and co-ordinate the exchange of knowledge and information about the profession, its education, and its practice, which translates to hygienists as a good chance to catch up with all the gossip! And of course to further our knowledge and pass it on to our colleagues and patients. The conference had a very varied format including workshop sessions and smaller lectures on a huge variety of subjects, ranging from enamel therapy to everything you wanted to know about consumer products but were afraid to ask! As you can imagine, this entailed several pages of scribbling as we picked up on the nuggets of information so I have divided my blogs into mini blogs to help get the most out of these current concepts.
Oral and systemic link
There has been a tremendous amount of research recently into the effects of plaque on systemic disease and also the effect of medical condition in the oral cavity and links have been established between periodontal disease and:
Osteoporosis
Endometriosis
Cancer
Gastritis
Rheumatoid arthritis
Chronic nephritis
Diabetes
Interestingly more than 50% of the causes of endocarditis have not been identified and only 15.1% of cases caused by the organisms in the oral cavity. There also seems to be a genetic link between cardiovascular disease and periodontal disease.
The links with Diabetes have been reported for many years now and we know that periodontal disease reduces the efficacy of insulin and periodontal treatment leads to an improvement in glycaemic control in type 2 diabetics. It is now becoming more relevant to screen patients showing signs of increasing periodontal desease, for diabetes. http://www.absolute-dental.co.uk/treatments/preventive.html
The 18th international symposium on Dental hygiene was held in Glasgow on the first three days of July 2010. The international federation has several aims including to promote and co-ordinate the exchange of knowledge and information about the profession, its education, and its practice, which translates to hygienists as a good chance to catch up with all the gossip! And of course to further our knowledge and pass it on to our colleagues and patients. The conference had a very varied format including workshop sessions and smaller lectures on a huge variety of subjects, ranging from enamel therapy to everything you wanted to know about consumer products but were afraid to ask! As you can imagine, this entailed several pages of scribbling as we picked up on the nuggets of information so I have divided my blogs into mini blogs to help get the most out of these current concepts.
Oral and systemic link
There has been a tremendous amount of research recently into the effects of plaque on systemic disease and also the effect of medical condition in the oral cavity and links have been established between periodontal disease and:
Osteoporosis
Endometriosis
Cancer
Gastritis
Rheumatoid arthritis
Chronic nephritis
Diabetes
Interestingly more than 50% of the causes of endocarditis have not been identified and only 15.1% of cases caused by the organisms in the oral cavity. There also seems to be a genetic link between cardiovascular disease and periodontal disease.
The links with Diabetes have been reported for many years now and we know that periodontal disease reduces the efficacy of insulin and periodontal treatment leads to an improvement in glycaemic control in type 2 diabetics. It is now becoming more relevant to screen patients showing signs of increasing periodontal desease, for diabetes. http://www.absolute-dental.co.uk/treatments/preventive.html
Good info on the oral-systemic link. Hygiene services are the heart of modern dental care.
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