Wellness
Why Wellness?
Dental professionals know that the mouth is a window into the health of the rest of the body. It can show signs of systemic disease or infection before they are visible elsewhere. But do patients understand this too? A Wellness Program can assist dentists in educating patients on the oral systemic health connection and preparing patients for their health discussion with the dental team. Teach your patients that regular visits to the dentist do not just maintain oral health, but may help prevent serious health conditions and maintain optimal overall wellbeing.
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Helpful Links
- Total Health Patient Education Materials
- Order Total Health Materials
- Wellness Education for Dental Professionals
- Periodontal Disease and Overall Health: A Clinician’s Guide
- American Academy for Oral Systemic Health
- Making the Connection
- Dental hygiene practice: Is there a new model?
- Women's fertility linked to oral health
- Oral Cancer
- Oral Cancer Foundation
- Never Do Just an "Oral Cancer" Exam
- Cancer Screening with Light Imaging
- Oral Cancer Study Results
- Sleep Disorders
- American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine
- Dentists treat patients for sleep disorders
- Oral appliance therapy effective on sleep apnea
- Sleep Disorders and Dentistry's Role
- Snoring and sleep apnea: Are they a nuisance or disease continuum?
- Heart Disease
- Researchers ID protein linking oral bacteria and heart disease
- Diabetes
- Dentists can help ID patients with undiagnosed diabetes
- Diabetes Risk Assessment
- Gum Disease and Diabetes
- Should dentists screen for diabetes?
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Trina Wheeler
Henry Schein Sales Consultant
Wellness education is one way I’ve been able to help practices improve both recare and treatment acceptance. To implement a Wellness Program in a practice, I start by meeting with the entire dental team to review...
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