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IS TOOTHACHE AND HEART ATTACK RELATED?
Turkey Medicals – a upcoming heart attack should be suspected if a long-lasting and persistent toothache is accompanied by a headache, jaw pain, or sweating.
A study conducted in America has revealed that toothache, no matter how strange it may sound, can be an indicator of a heart attack. Many of you have felt pain in your teeth while experiencing something physically difficult and stressful, and after a little rest, you immediately experienced relief. It may seem very scary to you, but due to the narrowing of the heart that develops as a result of some minor reasons, there may be signs of a heart attack caused by insufficient pumping of oxygenated blood to the heart muscle, which can ignite pain that spreads to the left side of muscle jaw. Patients with a history of heart disease should be careful if they have a sudden toothache (especially in individuals with good oral health), suspecting that they may have a heart attack.
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THE PATIENT UNDERWENT AN ECG IMMEDIATELY
An individual with diabetes and high blood pressure (he had angioplasty once before) was admitted to the hospital with pain in his lower jaw. Because of the unbearable pain in the lower jaw, he held his jaw and told the doctors on duty about his suffering. Due to the history of heart disease that appears in the patient’s information record, the cardiologist and the dentist were invited to the emergency room to consult about the treatment at the same time. Despite the absence of chest pain, heaviness, difficulty breathing, cardiologists advised him to have an ECG because of his previous stories. Reports received after the shooting showed ischemic changes in the heart. According to cardiologists, these changes were not very good changes and were muscle signal that not enough oxygen was going to the tissues and muscles of the heart. Cardiac doctors suspected the condition and recommended coronary angiography to the patient, but the patient did not want to have the recommended treatment because he could not understand the relationship of pain to the heart.
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THEY CAUSE CLOTS
At this heart center in America, doctors say that many people who complain of toothache, just like this patient, do not know that these pains may have a connection with a heart attack, and doctors continue as follows: “Heart diseases and a heart attack take toothache as a symptom. The pain makes itself felt by spreading outward from the teeth or along the jaw, it can even be felt like an earache. If bacteria from the mouth enter the blood vessels, they stick to the accumulation of fat in the arteries and lead to clots that cause coronary heart disease, inflammation of the muscle and heart valves (endocarditis). All this prevents the flow of blood and nutrients, as well as the distribution of oxygen to the heart, which leads to the fact that the heart cannot function properly.” However, it should also be noted that this does not mean that everyone who experiences toothache is at risk of having a heart attack, which is a clear warning.
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But for people with any heart and coronary conditions, especially toothache; it is necessary to pay extra attention if it is accompanied by headache, jaw pain or sweating.
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TOO MUCH IN WOMEN
Until a few years ago, health professionals specializing in this subject were not aware that some bacteria that enter the blood vessels through the gums can cause strokes and heart attacks. Toothache remains one of the symptoms of caution. But researchers; head, jaw and facial pain, which is available in the region, a condition of insufficient blood flow to the heart muscle or the only symptom of a heart attack, and says it was 10 times more women than men. ‘If the pain persists persistently, it may be a heart attack,’ heart experts say. Classic heart attack symptoms involved with head, face and jaw pain that is felt in the throat symptoms between pain; lower jaw left, right, lower jaw, ears, teeth and jaw joints that is emphatically emphasize. In general, not every toothache will result in a heart attack, but if it does, then it can be life-threatening. Dentists and physicians should play an important role in emphasizing that all unexplained facial, jaw and skull pain should be an indicator for a heart attack. There have been some relationships between our oral health and our heart health that we have known for many in. But this information was not intended to protect our heart health, but to protect our heart, which already has a structural disorder and/ or has undergone surgery for this reason. The most important thing is to tell these people how important oral and dental health is for them, to prevent tooth decay and gum disease.
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746 THOUSAND PATIENTS WERE EXAMINED
Hold on tight, because recent studies have shown a direct relationship between caries on your teeth and the health of your gums and the risk of having a heart attack or even, if we go even further, a stroke. As a result of the study published in Japan just three months ago, which included the follow-up of 746,024 patients in 42 states for seven years, it was announced that patients over the age of 65 and with caries or gum infection had a five-fold higher death rate due to sudden cardiac arrest compared to patients with good oral hygiene. However, now all dentists and doctors dealing with heart diseases have begun to insist on the importance of this issue to their patients. In addition, until now have not been published describing the relationship between periodontal disease and heart attack, bypass surgery, the risk of damaged oral hygiene in patients with impaired oral hygiene and even more interesting that reported an increase in both the carotid artery increases the risk of stroke by causing it to thicken the layer of media and our results of a study that states that no longer our suspicions in this area is completely eliminated.
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ANTIBIOTICS SHOULD BE USED BEFORE TREATMENT
Oral health is becoming very important in children with congenital heart disease and adults with heart valve disease. The bacteria formed in carious teeth enter the blood during treatments such as filling and shooting these teeth, and then settle in the problem area of the heart, which is already an area prone to infection, and multiply here, leading to infection of the tissue covering the inner surface of the heart, which we call ‘Infective Endocarditis’. Infective endocarditis is an infection with a high risk of vital activity. Another risky group in terms of infective endocarditis is patients who have had a prosthesis inserted into their heart with 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’. It is vital that such patients are in very good communication with dentists and undergo appropriate antibiotic treatment before any attempts to be made to the teeth to prevent such unwanted problems.
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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.
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