63. How Your Dental Health Is Connected to Your Entire Body

This episodes explores the interconnected relationship of oral health and other bodily systems with dental professional Christine Horton.

Christine Horton is a National Board Certified Women’s Health Coach and dental hygienist with a special interest in PMOS | PCOS. She serves as Programs and Advocacy Co-Director for the PCOS Awareness Association. As the founder of Fusion Health Coaching, she brings the medical, dental, and lifestyle pieces together for a true whole person approach to health. She lives with PMOS herself, so this work is personal as well as professional, and she’s on a mission to help women feel heard and finally put the pieces together.

Christine's Links:

Website: https://fusionhealthcoach.com/
YouTube: @PMOS.PCOSGlowHygienist
https://youtube.com/@pmos.pcosglowhygienist
LinkedIn: Christine Horton
https://www.linkedin.com/in/christine-horton-fusionhealthcoach/
Instagram: @pmos.pcosglowhygienist
https://www.instagram.co/pmos.pcosglowhygienist

Research in this Episode:

Cochrane Review (Simpson et al., 2022)
Periodontal treatment and glycemic control in type 2 diabetes, pooling 35 randomized trials
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK589504/

Companion RCT for the number: D'Aiuto et al., Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology (2018). 264 patients, HbA1c 0.6% lower at 12 months.
https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10064324/

Chen et al., Journal of Periodontology (2024)
Periodontitis and mortality in patients with cardiovascular disease, NHANES cohort of 2,135 people. All-cause mortality was 25% higher (HR 1.25).
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37469140/

Sanghvi et al., JACC: Advances (2024)
Periodontal disease and cardiovascular disease, UK Biobank, 481,915 people. Gum disease was self-reported. HR 1.09 for incident coronary artery disease.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39290820/

American Heart Association Scientific Statement (Tran et al., Circulation)
Periodontal Disease and Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease
https://professional.heart.org/en/guidelines-statements/periodontal-disease-and-atherosclerotic-cardiovascular-disease-a-scientificcir0000000000001390

Dr. Darian's Links:

Website: https://doctordarianparker.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/darianparker/

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