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Article: Your mouth: a window to your overall health.
- Article from:
- The Exceptional Parent
- Article date:
- May 1, 2008
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If your son had an abscess, yellow pus, inflamed tissue, or live bacteria on his face, would you take him to the doctor right away? Of course you would! But often, when the same condition occurs inside a person's mouth, where it is not so easily seen, it goes untreated for years and years. Routinely, other conditions that have "silent" symptoms are treated--conditions like high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol, and cancers. However, dental conditions often go ignored. It is unfortunate that oral health is frequently overlooked by patients and physicians alike, because oral health is not just a cosmetic or a grooming issue. Rather, oral health is linked to total ...