Gingivitis: How to recognize gingivitis When you bite into an apple or brush your teeth, your gums bleed. Then you could have gingivitis. We explain how you can recognize gingivitis and what you can do about it....
aMMP-8 test: early detection preserves teeth & implants You have a new implant and want to keep it? A pious wish - which sometimes remains unheard. The loss of implants is still part of everyday life in dentistry. A simple saliva test that...
Correlation between periodontitis and diabetes Diabetes is one of the most common diseases in Germany. More than six million patients officially suffer from this metabolic disease. However, the number of unreported cases is estimated to be much higher. Besides the...
Arteriosclerosis and periodontitis - when the mouth makes you sick In the vernacular, the veins "calcify". In medicine, this is called arteriosclerosis, a chronic inflammation of the arteries. If the arteries that supply blood to tissues, muscles and organs become...
Periodontitis and osteoporosis - two distant relatives Osteoporosis is a skeletal disease in which bones lose stability and break more easily. The triggers for bone loss are low mineral salt levels, low...
