Q&A: Dental health and bone health

Your teeth and dental health can tell you a surprising amount about your bone health and overall heath. Dr. Susan Brown of the Center for Better Bones explains how to read signs your teeth and gums may be sending you.

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Why are receding gums a sign of bone loss? 00:48
What is periodontal disease? 3:12
What tips are there to prevent periodontal disease? 6:15
Is it true that you get receding gums from brushing too hard? 8:55
Can swishing coconut oil or sesame oil in the mouth help with your teeth? 11:03
If I have been diagnosed with osteopenia, what else should I be doing besides taking vitamin D? 12:28
How does being on Prolia effect dental care? 14:09
Can too much vitamin D result in deficiency of other vitamin and minerals? 16:26

Transcription:
one this is dr. Susan Brown at the
Center for better bones really happy to
be with you again today we're going to
have this opportunity to talk about a
bone that we rarely don't think about or
we don't hear much mention about this is
a bone the only bone that you can easily
see within the human body well you might
have guessed already that's the jaw bone
the jaw bone is the most visible bone
and the health of the jaw bone and the
health of the oral cavity can tell us a
lot about the health of the body when I
first wrote my book better bones better
body 20 years ago I pointed out the fact
that receding gums were a sign of bone
loss and receding gums in particular
predicted the bone loss in the spine now
you might say why is that it's because
the jaw bone and the spine have very
similar type of bone this kind of spongy
trabecular bone
if you've ever broken into a chicken
bone you know this is a hard outside
layer that's more cortical tough bone
and there's inside bone marrow and a
spongy bone that spongy bone has lots of
surface area and it's the first bone to
sacrifice itself when the body needs
more calcium magnesium alkalizing
compounds it's very metabolically active
it turns over a lot and so that's also
why we learn we break our spines or have
spinal fractures much much much younger
in life than we have hip fractures
because of the different types of bone
so the bone in the jaw is very similar
to the bone in the spine and when you're
losing jawbone you're losing spine I
became so interested in this when I'm in
my 30s the dentist told me you have
receding gums you should go see a
periodontist I said wow I was smart
enough then to know that there was a
link between this bone and the rest of
my body and actually the average woman
around 3035 begins to have receding gums
in this country so it's not unusual but
it's something that you can monitor and
you can actually monitor yourself when
you look at the teeth and you might see
of the route showing that is a sign of
receding gums remember the old story
with horses they look in the mouth and
age by the teeth of so so that is you
can check it out yourself and you should
certainly when you go to the dentist see
hey hey Doc how are my gums coming along
are they nice and healthy
are they receding if the receding have
him help you monitor our better bones
program is excellent to stop receding...