Waiting for a warning call ?

Talk to a Dentist Now!

Do we know how important our dental health is?

The mouth is the gateway to your entire body, food and nutrition all begin their journey from the mouth. Still, our mouth remains last when it comes to general health and wellbeing. Dental health is almost an ignored subject when we think about overall health. Half the population suffers from gum disease and tooth decay. Today, decayed teeth are so common that we consider them to be normal.

 

The health profession has long understood the link between gum disease, heart disease, and diabetes including the fact that diseases that originate in the mouth has consequences for the entire body, yet the healthcare profession has failed to address the cause because conventional medicine often treats oral disease and systemic disease separately about the management of chronic illness.

 

With this I could recall an incident that happened a few years back when I met a patient named Suresh, he was referred by a cardiologist to get consent from a general dentist whether he can go for bypass surgery or not, patients usually need dental clearance before any major surgeries because bacterial infections in the mouth can spread to the rest of the body, so surgeons need to know that the person they operate on isn’t more vulnerable to complications.

 

I could sense his anxiety and took a few minutes to understand his problem, he explained everything with a big grin and that grin was something to see, his oral status was completely a disaster zone he had only a couple of teeth left so his smile consisted of gums and one tooth that is almost poking up and another at the back was his eating tooth.

 

Both happened to be extracted as they were infected badly, and be assured to come back for denture after his bypass surgery.

After a month when we called him for follow-up check-up, we got to know he passed away because his oral infections had already spread enough and he couldn’t get through his surgery.

 

By this we realize, Mr. Suresh’s dental disease was severe, but he wasn’t concerned about it which took his life. His 30 minutes visit, twice a year to a dentist might have given him some more life.

 

I have become used to seeing people with a mouth that was much further damaged, the more I got to know my patients, the more I discovered how little people understood the dental disease and how it affects their lives.

 

I saw plenty of patients who had fine educations and impressive career but whose mouth was in disaster. It was common for them to have broken, missing or crooked teeth, swollen gums and infected wisdom teeth, they don’t visit the dentist until unless they get a warning call (PAIN). Do they do the same with general check-up?

dental problems

BUT, Why?? I often see the patient forcing us to do filling even when he had swelling in his mouth and to give medication just to relieve the pain. I wonder how fair is this does anyone do the same when they have a heart attack? do they tell doctors to do dressing on the chest and give some medication and assure the doctor to come back when it reoccurs?

 

Reason echoes with dental treatment are expensive. It is mentally fixed that dental treatment is expensive, but who is making it expensive? Dental treatment or negligence?

 

Society has made a mind that the mouth is a remote part of health that does not influence our wellbeing. It occurred to me that, People know how to take care of their hearts.

 

They know how to take care of their skin and hair, they have some insight into how to protect most of their major organs but they don’t know how to take care of the organ they eat and talk with, the one that sits in the middle of their face.

 

The mouth is one of our most important organs and its health is crucial to the rest of the body, yet most people don’t appreciate this because medicine and dentistry have somehow become two separate worlds.

 

With this, I end don’t wait for a warning call, do your routine dental check and save yourself, it not only relieves from a lifetime of dental bills, but you’ll be taking the best possible steps to improve your overall health, in total what’s good for the mouth is good for the rest of the body and the way you treat it, the exact way your body will treat you back.

About Author

Share

78 thoughts on “Waiting for a warning call ?

  • Sachin Jois

    Pretty interesting article Dr. Chandana..

  • Mohini

    Eye opener

  • Jena

    Good Article…

  • Thank you for sharing such information with us.

  • Kavya

    Good Article…

  • Shifali

    Good article

  • Pandurang

    Thank you for sharing such information with us.

    View all 1 replies
    • Nadeem

      Nice article.

  • Pawan Mishra

    Very useful information

  • Harshal Nikam

    Very useful

  • Kamarjahan

    Good information

  • Sakinashaikh

    Very useful information

  • pratiksha shukla

    Great information

  • Rashmi

    Very useful

  • Sanket Burte

    Good article

  • Akash

    Very useful information

  • Reshma Patel

    Great and helpful information

  • Sonal Salvi

    Great information very well explained

  • Vivien

    Nice

  • Karishma

    Informative

  • Wilson Fernandes

    Good information

  • Ramla shaikh

    Good information

  • Nashra

    Very useful and great article.

  • Sonal Dhakane

    Amazing article on dental health…

  • Antima Saxena

    I didn’t know that dental health can affect our general health to such an extent! Very informative article. Thank you for sharing

  • Nasir shaikh

    Very useful information

  • Shalvi

    Very nice article . Very informative

  • Aarti

    Very informative. Thank you

  • Tasneem

    Good?

  • Apurva

    Thanks for posting such good information. Very helpful article

  • Shubhangi

    Good information

  • Mukesh Jaiswar

    Before warning get dental checkups.

  • Mahajabin

    Amazingly explained Dr Chandana…people must read it and share it to increase public awareness.

  • Khadija Patrawala

    Very nice article

    View all 1 replies
    • Deepmala prajapati

      Very informative

  • Ankita Aggarwal

    Nicely written

  • Dr priyanka grover

    Nicely useful.

  • Susanna Puthenpurayil

    Informative

  • Almas

    We should visit the dentist atleast every 6 months. It can be a life saver.

  • Hemali Vora

    Very nice article

  • Heni Shah

    Truely relatable article

    View all 1 replies
    • Dr.Aanal

      Very informative in terms of negligence in indian dental patient scenario infact negligence seeking any medical treatments but one thing is there as u delay you are going to bear more complications and heavy costs.

  • Radhika

    Thanks a lot for this. Ur hospitality in such times is commendable. Thanks

  • Sachin

    Nice article

  • vaishnavi

    great information

  • Apeksha vaghani

    Nice article

  • Dr Manisha

    Good information

  • Avinash

    Amazing article thanks for sharing

  • Rohan Subramaniam

    Eye Opener and Reasons to take care of our Dental Health

  • Drsachi

    Enlightening n thanks for sharing this article

  • Esha

    Very well explained. Thank you for such good articles

  • Dr Aditi Joshi

    Very useful article.

  • Chitra

    Very well described articel . Will be helpful for people’s awareness.

  • Bhavana tripathi

    Usefull information.

  • Surbhi banthia

    Well written.

  • Sejal

    Nice sharing

  • Akshata shah

    Very informative

  • Divya shah

    Good article

  • Megha

    Nice info

  • Dr.Jaya

    Useful

  • Kruti

    Useful information

  • Ishani

    Good information

  • Anjali Jaiswal

    Thank you for sharing such information.

  • Kinjal engineer

    Good article

  • Avani telange

    Very helpful ???

  • Dr Swapna Randive

    Nicely written

  • Minakshi tambe

    Very useful information

  • Redes

    Waiting for a sign usually presents with a much severe condition of the disease.
    Routine check up makes it easier

  • Janak thanth

    Nice article??

  • Tanisha Palvia

    Nice information

    View all 1 replies
    • Dipika

      Great article

  • Sunitha BS

    Very well explained

  • Nirali shah

    Nice information

  • Rasika more

    Informative ?

  • Heena

    Good article

  • Aishwarya

    Great article,a must read

  • Ankita

    Must read!!!

  • Zita

    Very well written article and easy to follow.

Leave a Reply to Vivien Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Sabka dentist Clinics