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Date: September 10th, 2011
by: Christine Zafra
Stress can be very harmful to a person’s health. There are a lot of illnesses and diseases associated with stress from a simple migraine to heart attack, these illnesses can be experienced by the person who undergoes stress. But aside from these, new studies show that periodontal disease can also be linked with stress. Researchers from the University College of London studied a total of 34,000 people and found out that those who have stress related “wear and tear” on their bodies were most likely to get periodontal diseases and other stress related diseases. Aside from these, they also looked at the income level of the people and the allostatic loads of the subjects, that is, the adapting mechanism of the person’s body to stress.
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Date: September 10th, 2011
Some people think that if we just had even more dentists, there wouldn’t be an access to care problem. But all numbers of the dentists is not the main issue-it’s where they’re located, how many people are able to treat and whether all the people can afford treatment or whether there’s a way to pay for their care. Some places, even some individual communities have helped place the dentists in rural or urban underserved areas through stipends, loan forgiveness and other incentives. The American Dental Association is still expanding their team approach for delivering the care by creating a community dental health coordinator.
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Date: September 10th, 2011
No matter how much free care the dentists give, any problem won’t be solve by volunteerism. Charities are not a health care system. That’s why all the dental organizations and our colleagues in medicine and public health continuously advocate for repairing the broken system which is supposed to provide oral health care to all low-income and other disadvantaged populations.
The state dental society’s works constantly with their legislatures and health agencies to increase their funding for dental services in Medicaid and to raise awareness and the importance of oral health to overall health. Everyone has a stake in all this issue. All the pain from untreated dental decay results in lost school and work hours.