Diabetes

Treating gum disease could ease the symptoms of type 2 diabetes

Treating gum disease could help people with type 2 diabetes manage their blood glucose levels and may reduce their risk…

Dentistry

What you’ve missed this week

Missed out on this week’s dental news? No problem, here’s what happened over the past seven days… GDC raises concerns…

Dentistry

Diabetes can increase chances of developing oral cancer

Women who suffer with diabetes face a much greater chance of developing oral cancer, new research shows. The research found…

Oral health

British Society of Periodontology launches gum health awareness campaign

The British Society of Periodontology (BSP) has launched its gum health awareness campaign for 2017. It is part of an…

Oral health

Screening dental patients for diabetes ‘worthwhile’

Screening dental patients for diabetes would be ‘worthwhile’, a study published in the BMJ has found. The article, titled ‘Periodontitis as…

Oral health

Oral health needs for type 2 diabetics

Dentists should be included in the treatment plan for type 2 diabetics, Michael Watson says. With the diabetes ‘time bomb’…

Oral health

Type 2 diabetes ‘timebomb’ prompts call on government to ‘take dentistry seriously’

England looks set to reach five million type 2 diabetes diagnoses by 2020 – five years sooner than previously thought…

Oral health

Investment in dental health of diabetic patients could save NHS millions

Tackling the dental health of those suffering with diabetes has been found to create substantial savings in further medical treatments,…

Oral health

Investment in dental health of diabetic patients could save NHS millions

Treating the dental health of those suffering with diabetes early could save money in the longer term. New research looked…

Dentistry

University to research turmeric’s anti-cancer properties

The University of Brighton has been awarded £148,600 to find new ways to deliver anti-cancer properties from the spice turmeric…

Oral health

Diabetes – Michael Watson’s perspective as a patient

Last Monday I spent an away day at a football stadium to educate myself in managing my type two diabetes. Organised…

Dentistry