Developed
in collaboration with Larry Coffee, DDS, the esteemed dentist who founded the
Dental Lifeline Network, a national nonprofit organization that provides
critical dental therapies to needy disabled, elderly, and medically fragile
individuals through volunteer dentists, this series of fact sheets explains the
interrelationship between oral health and major medical conditions, such as
diabetes, heart disease and cancer.
Each
fact sheet offers important oral health tips for persons living with these
medical conditions, as well as their caregivers, advocates, and health care
providers. While individual prevention and management of oral and dental
disease are important in the context of certain underlying health problems,
access to affordable dental coverage and care can be absolutely vital as well.
This latter component is one that too many Medicare beneficiaries currently
lack. We hope these fact sheets will serve to illustrate why the meaning of
health care needs to include oral health care, and why oral health benefits
should be added to Medicare.
- Fact Sheet - The Dental and Heart Disease Relationship
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