Diabetes, Oral Health, and Nutrition: Interrelationships, Innovations, and Interventions

Your patients with diabetes are more likely to

• develop periodontal disease
• have more severe periodontal disease and
• lose more teeth

 

Your patients with severe periodontal disease are more likely to

• eat less fiber
• eat more fat and refined sugars because they’re easier to chew
• have worse glycemic control
• and be at higher risk for severe diabetic complications

How do you disrupt this vicious circle in your dental or primary care practice?

  Find out in JPEC's Dental Care Center, built around our Web-based educational activity, Diabetes, Oral Health, and Nutrition: Interrelationships, Innovations, and Interventions. Dental and primary care professionals can earn up to 2.0 CDE/CE/CME credits by participating in the activity and learning more about the connection between periodontal disease and diabetes and how to address it in their practices.

  Click on the activity title link and start earning free credits today. If the link doesn’t work, just copy the URL below and paste it into your browser: http://www.joslin.org/DiabetesOralHealth.
Use http://www.jpec.joslin.org/  to reach JPEC’s login page.