February Podcast Covers New Paradigm for Dental Exam

  • by AGD Staff
  • Feb 22, 2021
2-22-21_PodcastThis month’s AGD Podcast Series features Timothy Donley, DDS, MSD, a specialist in private practice in periodontics and implantology from Bowling Green, Kentucky. He joined AGD Podcast Host Wes S. Blakeslee, DMD, FAGD, to discuss the oral-overall health connection and emerging evidence about this link. During this podcast, the discussion revolves around the evidence linking oral inflammation and cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Donley describes the public health toll that these diseases take on the population and suggests that incorporating cardiovascular and diabetic screening in the dental office is not only prudent, but also the responsibility of the dental profession as healers.

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