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Dentist as Destiny Part 3: Can treating your gums lower your blood sugar?

The dentist you choose is shaping your destiny. Here are Parts 1 and 2 if you’d like to read them. This is Part 3 of 8 — today, we talk about your blood sugar. Back to our two people. Same age, same genes, same diet, but one sees a dentist focused on the whole-body and a root cause approach, while the other picked a perfectly nice conventional drill-and-fill dentist. In people with diabetes and gum disease, getting their gum disease under control was shown to improve their HbA1c by a meaningful amount. Researchers pooled 35 trials for a 2022 Cochrane review, examining more than 3,000 peo...

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