Oral Health and Overall Health – Reliable, easy-to-understand health insights and wellness guidance to support a healthier, more balanced life.
Oral Health and Overall Health explores the strong connection between oral health and the overall functioning of the body. This category highlights how conditions in the mouth such as gum disease, infections, and inflammation can influence or be influenced by systemic diseases like diabetes, heart disease, respiratory conditions, and autoimmune disorders.
It provides evidence-based insights into how maintaining good oral hygiene contributes to better whole-body health, and how underlying medical conditions can impact dental health outcomes.
You learn about the bidirectional relationship between oral and systemic diseases, risk factors that link them, preventive strategies, and the importance of integrated care between medical and dental professionals.
Whether you’re managing a chronic illness or aiming to improve overall wellness, this category helps you understand why oral health is a key part of full-body health and long-term disease prevention.
There are some fishes like the oilfish and escolar that have indigestible wax esters and when we eat these indigestible wax esters, it causes the removal or defecation of oily, orange-colored feces.Ever wondered what is responsible for this? Doctors called it keriorrhea. But how does it come to be? What is in the fish that …
Do you know that apart from normal postures or posturing, we also have postures that are abnormal like the decorticate posture or decerebrate posture? This article reviews the assessment and management of decorticate and decerebrate posturing and highlights the role of medical professionals in evaluating and treating patients with these conditions – abnormal postures. In …
About the Carnetts Sign Carnett’s sign is a clinical finding in which (acute) abdominal discomfort stays unaltered or worsens while the abdominal wall muscles are strained. To tighten the abdominal muscles, the patient may be requested to elevate his or her head and shoulders off the examination table during this section of the examination. Another …
The ‘CVA’…Maybe once or twice, in your life, you might have a kidney or urinary problem or any other problem affecting the bottom bones of your ribs, and during the hospital diagnosis, you must have heard words like CVA, the costovertebral angle, or CVA tenderness. You must have definitely wondered what does this CVA mean? …
What does it mean to have crystals in urine? Crystalluria, or having crystals in urine, can be found during urine testing. It doesn’t always mean you have an infection. Causes include dehydration and taking certain medications. Urine contains a large number of different chemicals. Under some circumstances, these chemicals may solidify into salt crystals. This …