The oral-systemic health connection : a guide to patient care /

This book "gathers the latest scientific information on the associations between the oral environment and overall health. With careful analysis, the authors weigh the latest evidence about the relationships between oral infections and systemic diseases and conditions such as diabetes, cancer, o...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Glick, Michael (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago : Quintessence Publishing Co, Inc, [2014]
Subjects:	Mouth > Diseases > Complications. Mouth > Infections > Complications. Oral manifestations of general diseases. Mouth > Care and hygiene. Dental hygiene. Oral medicine. Oral Health Diagnosis, Oral Preventive Dentistry > methods Risk Factors Oral Manifestations Oral Medicine Bouche > Maladies > Complications et séquelles. Bouche > Infections > Complications et séquelles. Manifestations buccales des maladies. Bouche > Soins et hygiène. Hygiène dentaire. Stomatologie.

Table of Contents:

Screening for heart disease, diabetes, and HIV in a dental setting
Causation, association, and oral health/systemic disease connections
Mechanism-based salivary diagnostics : oral-systemic connectivity
The traveling oral microbiome
The mechanisms behind oral-systemic interactions
Oral health and diabetes
The cardiovascular system and oral infections
Obesity : the oral-systemic connection
Pneumonia and oral pathogens
Periodontal infections and adverse pregnancy outcomes
Oral complications in immunocompromised patients
Osteoporosis : its controversies, treatments, and complications
Oral manifestations of systemic diseases.