Dental Insurance Kids – Undiagnosed Diabetes
Dentists Can Help to Identify People With Undiagnosed Diabetes
A study on identifying unrecognized diabetes and pre-diabetes in a dental setting found that dental visits represented a chance to intervene in the diabetes epidemic by identifying individuals with diabetes or pre-diabetes who are unaware of their condition. Since Periodontal disease is an early complication of diabetes, about 70 percent of U.S. adults see a dentist at least once a year. Said Dr. Ira Lamster, dean of the College of Dental Medicine and senior author of the study. Study Published in the Journal of Dental Research