Long Island Periodontist reveals how to avoid Cut and Stitch Gum Surgery

Long Island Periodontist David Scharf reveals how to avoid cut and stitch gum surgery. For people who need a periodontist on Long Island this video contains important information.

Gum Disease and Heart Disease | Periodontist Long Island | Gum Laser

In last week's New York Times Jane Brody wrote an article entitled "New Thinking on How to Protect the Heart." In it she mentions how elevated levels of a marker called C reactive protein is a significant risk factor for heart attack. She also discusses the effect of periodontal or gum inflammation has on health. Studies in the periodontal literature have shown over and over again that if you take a patient with periodontal disease and high levels of C reactive protein and treat their periodontal disease the levels of C reactive protein reduce. Wow. The mouth really is attached to the rest of the body. The old thinking was that neglecting the teeth only resulted in a loss of teeth. The new reality is that neglecting the mouth may result in loss of days of your life!! I have copied the whole article below for you. Stay warm and Happy New Year. To learn about laser periodontal therapy visit us on the web. To learn about Periodontal disease visit us. If you are looking for a Long Island Periodontist you can click to learn about Dr. Scharf

Here is the link to the NY Times article

Perioodntal Disease and Alzheimers | Periodontist Long Island

INFLAMMATION LINKED TO ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE

Exposure to inflammation early in life quadruples one’s risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, said researchers in a presentation on June 19 at the first Alzheimer’s Association International Conference on Prevention of Dementia in Washington.

A research team led by Margaret Gatz, Ph.D. (a professor of psychology at the University of Southern California) and including researchers from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, sifted through data on the 20,000 participants in the Swedish Twin Registry and found 109 "discordant" pairs of twins in which only one twin had been diagnosed with dementia.

Previous studies by Dr. Gatz and colleagues have shown that Alzheimer’s disease is strongly genetic; if one twin has the disease, his or her identical twin has a 60 percent chance of developing it.

Information about participants’ education, activities and health histories came from surveys they completed in the 1960s, when the registry was created, as well as from hospital discharge records. The surveys included questions about loose or missing teeth. Researchers used the answers to the dental-related questions to build a crude indicator of periodontal disease.

They concluded that an inflammatory burden early in life, as represented by chronic periodontal disease, might have severe consequences later. "If what we’re indexing with periodontal disease is some kind of inflammatory burden, then it is probably speaking to general health conditions," said Dr. Gatz.

If the link between inflammation and periodontal disease is confirmed, researchers said it would add inflammatory burden to the short list of preventable risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease.

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