Dental Treatment in Systemic Diseases

Since the Egyptians, dentists have been defined as "diagnosers". Even at that time, they represented dentists and medical doctors separately in hieroglyphic script. We can easily understand the importance of dentists in general health from these definitions.

We have all often heard the saying, “The mouth is the mirror of the whole body.”

Did you know that sometimes when you go to the dentist for a dental problem, you can actually get a lot of information about the health of your body?

As dentists, we have the perspective of "There is no disease, there is only the patient" as Ibn Sina said, and because we know the importance of the mouth in the body, we see that the body is a whole and the oral environment is a messenger to us by experiencing different patients.

For example; Your veneers have been changed, and there is redness and bleeding in a local area in your mouth that does not go away despite the normal healing process. This may indicate that you have allergic problems in your body.

If you have had your general dental treatments done and continue to have pain despite the expected average healing process, you may have fibromyalgia.

We often see that eighty percent of our patients, especially those who have problems with their entire jaw closure, also have problems with their spine. This situation can also progress as a result of single or double-sided tooth loss causing a spinal problem.

Delay in the healing process or abnormal tissue healing observed after surgical procedures (wisdom tooth extraction, implant surgery, etc.) in our patients,

• Vitamin D deficiency
• Vitamin K deficiency
• It makes us think that there is a suspicion of diabetes or a problem with the healing factors.

We always prefer to work with our partner physicians for these types of patients.

We have some patients who come to us with complaints of persistent toothache. These patients may have been examined by several dentists and no problems were found in their teeth, or the patient may have referred them for pain and had root canal treatment, but their pain still has not gone away. In such patients, a detailed patient history (anamnesis) is taken and conditions such as migraine, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis are definitely questioned, and then we refer them to our physician colleagues with whom we work as partners.

The body gives us information about everything; sometimes what seems like a wisdom toothache can be an ear infection.

Therefore, correct diagnosis and planning are very important in observing the well-being of our patients.

The body is a whole and evaluating the whole body together is very important in this sense.

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