November is National Diabetes Month

Diabetes, Heart Disease, Stokes, Migraines, Chronic Daily Headaches, Tension-Type Headaches, Sinus Problems, Snoring and Sleep Apnea are just a few of the areas where patients benefit from Dental Treatment addressing Medical Disorders.

Medical problems and dental problems are closely tied together and successful treatment requires blending of medicine and dentistry. A major concern for diabetics is the presence on periodontal disease that has been shown to make control of blood sugar which is much more difficult to control and can even push a borderline patient into requiring drug treatment. Dr Ira L Shapira and Dr Mark J Amidei treat dental patients and address the medical concerns associated to those dental problems. They use an ND-YAG laser to treat periodontal conditions with minimally invasive comfortable laser treatment and are a leader in utilizing velscope tissue fluorescent technology for early detection and diagnosis of oral cancer.

Patients with diabetes have always known that they are more prone to decay and periodontal disease when their diabetes is not controlled but recently it was not common knowledge that gum disease worsened diabetes. This is no surprise to Dr Ira L Shapira who was a frequent lecturer at the American Academy of Anti-Aging medicine and who has a chapter in a textbook on Anti-Aging Medicine titled Anti-Aging Dentistry: An Overview of How Dentistry Relates to Longevity and Quality of Life. He was a pioneer in educating physicians about the oral systemic connections of periodontal disease and diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure and other medical disorders.

Dr Shapira has been blending Dentistry and Medicine in his practice for over 25 years and he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Rush Medical School in the 1980's where he did research on the relation of jaw position in sleep apnea patients. He is the Dental Editor of Sleep and Health Journal that is dedicated to helping patients find medical answers in a language they can understand. There are several excellent articles in the Journal pertaining to treatment of sleep apnea and TMJ disorders and headaches. SUFFER NO MORE: Dealing with the Great Impostor should be read by every patient who has TMD or headaches of any type. It can be found at http://www.sleepandhealth.com/story/suffer-no-more-dealing-great-impostor as well as an article originally published in Contact, a publication of the American Equilibration Society on Neuromuscular Dentistry. That article can be found at the following link; http://www.sleepandhealth.com/neuromuscular-dentistry

Sleep and Health Journal was founded as a print journal by Dr Alexander Golbin but has recently been converted into an online journal and archives as well as new information can be found at Sleepandhealth.com