Softchalk Podcast 6

Oral health and general health,,,,is there a connection? It may be hard for you to understand that, for the majority of medical history, the teeth and oral health were treated as separate from the rest of our body. The medical and dental professionals practiced as if you could separate an individual at the neck. More current research has made a significant connection between how healthy one's mouth is and how it can directly affect the health of other organs and body systems. So even as dental hygienist, we must understand this connection so we can treat the "whole" person in the dental chair.

The information in this podcast will present current understanding of the oral-systemic connection.

http://pages.iu.edu/~dmlemans/GeneralandOralHealth2013/index.html Links to an external site.