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Dentist's chair is a good place to conduct medical tests
During a visit to the dentist for you in the future, may not be the only goal to validate your teeth.
Study showed that dental clinics can be good places to find out the health problems of chronic patients. And by asking some questions on the sick or make a quick check, and the dentist can identify those who are at risk for diseases such as diabetes.
Said Sheila Strauss, a professor at New York University College of Nursing, who was the lead author of the study that "the dental clinic may be a good place to really identify or detect diseases, and the dentist, in turn, converts the patient to primary health care centers for further follow-up and testing required.
Strauss led the study on Americans to make medical research for ways how to detect undiagnosed cases of diabetes. The American Diabetes Association estimates that 7 million people of Americans have diabetes and non-Mchkchin of the disease, and 79 million others with introductions to diabetes, which leads to diabetes if left untreated.
And Sheila Strauss added that "This is not to diagnose the disease, this test can be a simple For the patient complete the questionnaire in the dentist"
Patients with diabetes face a high risk of the population in general, gum disease, and Strauss said that the people who are diagnosed with diabetes they see the dentist.
Strauss and her colleagues used data from the Ministry of Health and Human Services of America in 2008, the work of the national survey of health so that people were asked about their health, were selected a sample of children and adults and the number was 31.262.
In the survey which was conducted on adults, 1 / 4 of the group did not receive primary health care. But of that group 1 / 4 visited the dental clinic.
Among children, the proportion was similar not to receive primary care, but a third of them see our dentist.
The study, expected at the national level, that 7 million children and 13 million adults have only visited the dentist. Although the vast majority of them have health insurance, which indicates that money is not an obstacle.
Said Strauss, along with diabetes, people asked the dentists for obesity, high blood pressure and drug abuse.
She added that "this is not information for the diagnosis." "This may be simply testing helps the patient to complete the questionnaire in the dentist's office," and the patient's doctor recommends review of primary health care centers.
Not be easy for dentists to examine patients sometimes under certain health conditions where Barash said André, Chairman of the Board of Dentistry at Winthrop University Hospital in New York. That "the separation gap is the Sunni world and the medical world to a large extent at the present time."
But Barash, such as Strauss, and this rift is believed that it should be closed. Said Barash: "This paper is a boon to our cause, because it is simply proof is an easy way for the extent of assistance that can provide dentists, and we are talking here about millions of people." And added, "may be detected for diseases earlier, can be exposed to patients to the medical system in the earlier. "
Barash admitted that there are barriers to inspect the offices of recruitment programs for the dental. I said dental education has not changed much over the past decade, teachers are reluctant to add courses outside the subject and seems to oral health. Moreover, the insurance companies do not pay to spend extra time dentists and examination of patients' health in general. Each of these trends need to change.
Said Barash, who leads a study on sugar in the blood in the laboratories of offices teeth for diabetes and its consequences: "Soon, we can prove data to prove that the dental office is to develop appropriate health care for the detection of the disease, and the sooner we overcome these barriers, the better."
During a visit to the dentist for you in the future, may not be the only goal to validate your teeth.
Study showed that dental clinics can be good places to find out the health problems of chronic patients. And by asking some questions on the sick or make a quick check, and the dentist can identify those who are at risk for diseases such as diabetes.
Said Sheila Strauss, a professor at New York University College of Nursing, who was the lead author of the study that "the dental clinic may be a good place to really identify or detect diseases, and the dentist, in turn, converts the patient to primary health care centers for further follow-up and testing required.
Strauss led the study on Americans to make medical research for ways how to detect undiagnosed cases of diabetes. The American Diabetes Association estimates that 7 million people of Americans have diabetes and non-Mchkchin of the disease, and 79 million others with introductions to diabetes, which leads to diabetes if left untreated.
And Sheila Strauss added that "This is not to diagnose the disease, this test can be a simple For the patient complete the questionnaire in the dentist"
Patients with diabetes face a high risk of the population in general, gum disease, and Strauss said that the people who are diagnosed with diabetes they see the dentist.
Strauss and her colleagues used data from the Ministry of Health and Human Services of America in 2008, the work of the national survey of health so that people were asked about their health, were selected a sample of children and adults and the number was 31.262.
In the survey which was conducted on adults, 1 / 4 of the group did not receive primary health care. But of that group 1 / 4 visited the dental clinic.
Among children, the proportion was similar not to receive primary care, but a third of them see our dentist.
The study, expected at the national level, that 7 million children and 13 million adults have only visited the dentist. Although the vast majority of them have health insurance, which indicates that money is not an obstacle.
Said Strauss, along with diabetes, people asked the dentists for obesity, high blood pressure and drug abuse.
She added that "this is not information for the diagnosis." "This may be simply testing helps the patient to complete the questionnaire in the dentist's office," and the patient's doctor recommends review of primary health care centers.
Not be easy for dentists to examine patients sometimes under certain health conditions where Barash said André, Chairman of the Board of Dentistry at Winthrop University Hospital in New York. That "the separation gap is the Sunni world and the medical world to a large extent at the present time."
But Barash, such as Strauss, and this rift is believed that it should be closed. Said Barash: "This paper is a boon to our cause, because it is simply proof is an easy way for the extent of assistance that can provide dentists, and we are talking here about millions of people." And added, "may be detected for diseases earlier, can be exposed to patients to the medical system in the earlier. "
Barash admitted that there are barriers to inspect the offices of recruitment programs for the dental. I said dental education has not changed much over the past decade, teachers are reluctant to add courses outside the subject and seems to oral health. Moreover, the insurance companies do not pay to spend extra time dentists and examination of patients' health in general. Each of these trends need to change.
Said Barash, who leads a study on sugar in the blood in the laboratories of offices teeth for diabetes and its consequences: "Soon, we can prove data to prove that the dental office is to develop appropriate health care for the detection of the disease, and the sooner we overcome these barriers, the better."
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