The health of the mouth is the window to the health of the body. We need to know what medications because of possible interactions with any anesthetics, products etc… Most all medications side effect is Dry Mouth. We can advise you on what can help. We also can advise you if any of your medications have any interactions with each other. We see you more than you PCP. If a pt recently had joint replacement surgery, heart issues etc… We need to know about it because it compromises the care that I will be doing today. We do it to protect our patients. Etc…..blah….blah….you get the point.
What Hygenius said!!
I always mention the correlation s between oral disease and physical disease, ie: diabetes, heart disease, inhalation pneumonia in the elderly and the new info showing a possible link with oral bacteria and cognitive impairment.
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