As you’re doing your best to address your daily nutrition, your lifestyle, to consider recommendations from your physician, and to learn more about how diabetes will affect your overall wellbeing, you may forget to consider how diabetes will affect your oral health. Will you need to change your usual approach to dental care? Is there something you should be doing differently to ensure your smile remains healthy or is it all business as usual? Allow us to share a few details that will give you the expert knowledge you need.
Detail #1: Home Care Is Extremely Important
If you neglect your home care, plaque will accumulate on your teeth and will migrate beneath gum tissue. As plaque builds and hardens into immovable tartar (we can remove it but you cannot), you are increasing your risk of decay, periodontal disease, and more. When you combine this with diabetes (a disease that yields a lowered ability to fight off infection and difficulty with the healing process), that risk of oral health problems multiplies greatly.
Detail #2: Care With Us Is Extremely Important
As you’ve noticed, ridding your smile of plaque and debris and watching it for the development of issues like inflammation or infection is essential. Keep your oral health safe with diabetes by coming to see us every six months (or more often if we suggest it).
Detail #3: Keeping Your Diabetes Under Control Is…
You guessed it: Extremely important. Remember that when you keep your blood sugar under control, your worries about your oral health become significantly slimmer. The concern about a greatly increased chance of tooth decay and the like goes back to normal, so you can rest assured that your usual (excellent) habits are providing you with the protection you usually enjoy.
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Visit us for the information you need regarding how to best protect your smile. Come in for a visit in Conroe, TX by scheduling a visit with the Dental Centre of Conroe by calling (936) 441-4600. We serve patients from Conroe, Houston, The Woodlands, Willis, Montgomery, Magnolia, Huntsville, and the neighboring communities.
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