Gear Up to Be the Leaders in Preventive Medicine

In Health, She's Touching Lives by Dr. Jill Wade

Gear up, team! Dentistry is becoming the starting place for preventive medicine. We are on the front lines and set to be the leaders in confronting chronic illnesses.

What a time to be a part of the dental profession! I wake up every day so thankful I chose dentistry over medicine. How many other professions have a chance to help so many with a transformation? No matter if you are directly working in the mouth, helping patients schedule for what they need, or helping offices perform their passion . . . this profession needs to gear up as leaders in medicine!

Science and the Mouth

That’s why I want to share with you this most exciting article, hot off the presses as of Jan 23rd, 2019.

“We may finally know what causes Alzheimer’s – and know how to stop it.”
Newsscientist.com

Yes . . . our good old nemesis Porphyromonas Gingivalis is a causative influencer of Alzheimer’s and dementia. At my practice we have been watching this potential link for awhile and have been referring to it as Type III diabetes.

“The bacteria and it’s enzymes were found at higher levels in those who had experienced worse cognitive decline.”

Leaders in DNA Testing

For those of you utilizing oral DNA testing, Porphyromonas Gingivalis is one of the four bad guys listed as a high-risk pathogen. Dentistry is now going to play an influential role that can help predict potential dementia and/or help delay dementia.

Once again, effective and consistent professional periodontal therapy will help keep that bacterial burden down. Such an easy procedure to help with controlling chronic inflammation in the body right here in our zone of genius. I have always believed that the hygiene department is the foundation of a dental practice, and this news only supports it more.

Gear Up for the Next Wave

Rise up out of your mommy-coma. The time has come for you to gear up for what is to come and prepare yourself now to ride the wave of preventive medicine. We really can and will be leaders in this field! And in fact, it should be just as good, if not better, than the golden years of cosmetic dentistry.

How is that, you ask? Because when you understand that optimizing someone’s oral health helps someone’s over-all health and well-being, you have just opened back up comprehensive dentistry and strategy.

Leaders in Prevention

All procedures, products and therapies are back on the table, folks. As we speak, I am already setting the stones on how stem cells protocols will be utilized in the dental field. This is our pathway to regenerative and preventive medicine.

For several years now, we have been instrumental in helping physicians reverse cardiovascular disease and control diabetes, all by reducing inflammation and bacterial burden.

This is what I mean by us stepping forward and becoming todays and tomorrows leaders in prevention. Medical results will depend on dental procedures and therapy.

Questions to Ask Yourself

  • How do you need to GEAR UP?
  • Do you need to learn more about wellness dentistry and the scientific links?
  • Understand how Oral DNA works?
  • Improve your techniques on periodontal therapy?
  • Re-ignite the fire of the hygiene aspect of your training and coaching?
  • Bump up the relationships and connections to your dental practices because your products or services with bring value to an office ready to gear up?

Now is the time to wake up and gear up DeWERS! We represent the entrepreneurs – that first wave of influencers that will set the tone for our whole profession. Let’s rise up to the challenge and show the world we care!

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