My thinking is that today, we really don't have much health care, we have disease care. We wait until there are symptoms or indications and THEN we go to the doctor, we start taking medications, and our life quality often goes downhill. Personally, I think that Americans are way overmedicated and under-motivated to take personal responsibility for their health.
Your dental office should be and can be the source of some fabulous health information and motivation (I firmly believe we all know how to live better than we actually do!). But since the dentist gets to see most of his patients much more often than a physician does, we are in a position to catch many disease states really early, before medical interventions are necessary.
We will talk about all of these in depth in future issues, but your dentist should be able to diagnose sleep apnea, periodontal infections, oral cancers, high blood pressure, chronic headache and neckache- so many things, and help you to find a cause and a solution. In the future, we really don't know what sort of changes might be happening in health care, but personally, I feel I have to take care of my own health, to take charge of what happens to me.
Please feel free to join this conversation!
Regards
Rick
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