A Link Between Alzheimer's Disease and Oral Inflammation: The Dental Hygienist's Role

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The general population may not understand that inflammation anywhere in the body must be mediated throughout the whole organism to be effective at the site of inflammation itself. When a person gets a headache, he or she might take a pill that results in relief. However, the person may not even think about how the swallowing of a pain pill for any kind of pain results in relief of the headache!
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Our patients learn this from us through repeated maintenance visits if they are lucky. Lucky, because as dental hygienists we tend to focus on keeping the mouth clean, as expected, but possibly neglect the links to systemic health...
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