Treatment of Periodontal Disease Starts with Inflammation Reduction

It’s never too late to start controlling your oral health. Nowadays there are a lot of new ways of treating gum infection and preventing the associated diseases. One of the main dental problems you should be afraid of is periodontal disease. This condition is highly associated with inflammation of your gum that can cause a lot of pockets between the gum and your teeth. That is why food you eat can trap into these pockets and can turn into fuel for infection.

This sort of inflammation can have a lot of stages of progression and can lead to jawbone erosion. If you do not take any prevention measures on this stage, a lot of other diseases such as cancer, memory loss, type 2 diabetes can follow. According to the research those people who have gum disease are more likely to get pancreatic cancer along with kidney cancer.

Nowadays, a lot of dental treatments are centered on improving your dental health and dentists usually prescribe antibiotics to exclude any chance of gum disease. But some dental professionals consider this approach to be wrong and they offer to treat inflammation first. These dentists usually prescribe to take aspirin and DHA omega 3.

This way of treating gum diseases is rather effective and as a result these gum pockets are getting thinner and the main causes of infection are eliminated. Along with this treatment, a patient needs to reduce the intake of inflammatory foods. Plus, physical activity on a daily basis is an obligatory condition for improving your dental and health.

That is why a lot of companies organize projects that promote healthy lifestyles for their employees. It is a fact that a lot of employees benefit from these programs as their productivity is increased and healthcare costs reduced. The bills for dental care will not be so high and each patient will feel healthier.

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