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HEALTHY TEETH ARE A MUST
Heart patients should pay much more attention to their oral and dental health than normal people. Any complications that may occur may cause your health to deteriorate.
Attention of heart patients:
Modern medicine is taking important steps towards the transformation from therapeutic medicine to preventive medicine today. In other words, the focus of today’s medicine is not to treat the disease after it has occurred, but on the contrary, to prevent the occurrence of the disease by taking the necessary precautions and eliminating preventable risk factors.
The most concrete examples of these exciting developments in preventive medicine are seen in the field of heart diseases. Thanks to the awareness of protecting our heart created by today’s medicine in society, we are now more careful. The measures that need to be taken to protect against heart disease have now become known by heart to people who care about their health.
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ORAL HYGIENE IS VERY IMPORTANT
Unfortunately, our genetic heritage, which are risk factors that we cannot eliminate, and in response to our advancing age, we are all aware of how smoking, hypertension and high cholesterol values; an irregular lifestyle invite heart disease. The joint result of three or four major studies conducted in recent years insists that one of the ways to our heart health is passing through our mouths.
Yes, you didn’t hear wrong; oral health and oral hygiene are now a very important determining factor for our heart health, which has been proven by many studies conducted in recent years. In short, from now on, we have to get the approval of our dentist when we do our heart check-ups. Let’s look at the details of this together…
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BACTERIA SETTLEMENT
Oral health is becoming very important in children with congenital heart disease and adults with heart valve disease. The bacteria formed in carious teeth are mixed into the blood during treatments such as filling, shooting these teeth, and then settle in the problem area of the heart, which is already an area prone to infection, and multiply here is called ‘Infective endocarditis’. This leads to infection of the tissue lining the inner surface of the heart. Infective endocarditis is an infection that doctors are extremely wary of, requiring the patient to receive antibiotic therapy in an inpatient setting for a long time (at least six weeks), and in addition, has a high transfer risk.
Another risky group in terms of infective endocarditis is patients who have had a prosthesis inserted into their heart by an operation such as an artificial heart valve, heart patch, pacemaker. Bacteria formed in the teeth multiply on the prosthesis placed in the heart, leading to the formation of an extremely deadly table that we call ‘prosthetic endocarditis’. Mentioned here for all these reasons, children with congenital heart disease in adults with heart valve disease, and heart dentists and such persons must be very good with a prosthesis placed any unwanted communication to help avoid problems with your teeth to be done before any attempts also be subjected to appropriate antibiotic treatment is vital.
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CHRONIC INFLAMMATION DISRUPTS THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
Recent studies show a direct relationship between caries on your teeth and the health of your gums and your risk of having a heart attack, or even, if we go even further, having a stroke. As a result of the study published at Istanbul university Turkey, which included the follow-up of 645,744 patients in 34 states for seven years, it was announced that the death rate from sudden cardiac arrest of patients over the age of 66 and with caries or gum infection was five times higher compared to patients with good oral hygiene. With this statement, now all dentists and doctors in Turkey dealing with heart diseases have begun to insist on the importance of this issue to their patients.
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BEWARE OF BYPASSES
There are also studies published so far that explain the relationship between periodontal disease and heart attack, and report an increased risk of having bypass surgery in patients with poor oral hygiene. Even more interestingly, the results of the study, which reported that impaired oral hygiene leads to thickening of the media layer of both of our carotid vessels, increasing the risk of stroke, have now completely eliminated our doubts about this issue. Although we accept this relationship between oral health and heart health, deciphering the mechanism of formation of this relationship has also been an important focus of attention of today’s medical people.
The most accepted theory in this regard is the theory of ‘chronic inflammation’.
If chronic inflammation of our gums or caries on our teeth are not treated, it stimulates our body’s immune system and our body sends abundant white blood cells to these areas to fight infection. As a result of the fight of white blood cells with existing chronic infection, markers of inflammation that cause atherosclerosis are secreted into the blood from our body, as well as in our vascular system.
Non-correction of oral health leads to a gradual increase in these substances in the blood and cceleration of the process of atherosclerosis in the vessels supplying the heart and brain, leading to the formation of constrictions in these vessels that result in a heart attack or stroke. As can be understood from all this, after that, our oral health becomes even more important for our heart health.
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TECHNOLOGY GIVES PATIENTS AN ADVANTAGE IN TURKEY
We can summarize what Teknolo jin offers to facilitate oral and dental health treatments for heart patients as follows:
Painless, bleeding-free and seamless implant applications,
Laser-assisted gum treatments,
Cleaning tooth decay with a laser,
Cad-cam production of non-allergenic intraoral prostheses,
Laser cleaning of infected tooth roots,
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Turkey Medicals, “These technologies in Turkey allow heart patients to end up in the Turkish dentist’s chair during treatment in a short time without stress, and in most cases without even using any anesthesia.”
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Turkey's world-renowned organ transplant specialist. Dr. Demirbaş has 104 international publications and 102 national publications.
Physician's Resume:
Born on August 7, 1963 in Çorum, Prof. Dr. Alper Demirbaş has been continuing his work as the President of MedicalPark Antalya Hospital Organ Transplantation Center since 2008.
Prof. who performed the first tissue incompatible kidney transplant in Turkey, the first blood type incompatible kidney transplant, the first kidney-pancreas transplant program and the first cadaveric donor and live donor liver transplant in Antalya. Dr. As of August 2016, Alper Demirbaş has performed 4900 kidney transplants, 500 liver transplants and 95 pancreas transplants.
In addition to being the chairman of 6 national congresses, he has also been an invited speaker at 12 international and 65 national scientific congresses. Dr. Alper Demirbaş was married and the father of 1 girl and 1 boy.
Awards:
Eczacibasi Medical Award of 2002, Akdeniz University Service Award of 2005, Izder Medical Man of the Year Award of 2006, BÖHAK Medical Man of the Year Award of 2007, Sabah Mediterranean Newspaper Scientist of the Year Award of 2007, ANTIKAD Scientist of the Year Award of 2009, Social Ethics Association Award of 2010, Işık University Medical Man of the Year Award of 2015, VTV Antalya's Brand Value Award of 2015.
Certificates:
Doctor of Medicine Degree Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine Ankara, General Surgeon Ministry of Health Turkey EKFMG (0-477-343-8), University of Miami School of Medicine Member of Multiple Organ Transplant, ASTS Multiorgan Transplant Scholarship. Lecturer at Kyoto University. Lecturer at University of Essen, Research assistant at the University of Cambridge .
Professional Members:
American Society of Transplant Surgeons, American Transplantation Society Nominated, Middle East and Southern Africa Council Transplantation Society 2007, International Liver Transplantation Association, Turkish Transplantation Association, Turkish Society of Surgery, Turkish Hepatobiliary Surgery Association.
Disclaimer:
Our website contents consist of articles approved by our Web and Medical Editorial Board with the contributions of our physicians. Our contents are prepared only for informational purposes for public benefit. Be sure to consult your doctor for diagnosis and treatment.
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