In honor of October’s designated status as National Dental Hygiene Month, we’d like to share an excellent video we recently ran across – “Gums to Guts: Periodontal Medicine,” Professor Mark Ryder’s talk on oral health and its relationship to the body’s systematic health.
It not only offers great visuals and useful info on markers of health and disease; it supports the importance of seeing the mouth as an integrated part of the body, not a separate feature.
If it’s been awhile since your last hygiene visit and exam, remember this key message: The mouth is a gateway to the body and has much to do with what’s going on in your body. Good oral health not only supports good body health and wellness; it’s a key factor in it.