{"id":3106,"date":"2018-08-03T12:00:42","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T17:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oraldna.com\/trends-in-salivary-testing\/?p=3106"},"modified":"2021-05-19T16:49:35","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T21:49:35","slug":"patient-with-dental-pain-periodontal-disease-high-blood-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oraldna.com\/trends-in-salivary-testing\/index.php\/2018\/08\/03\/patient-with-dental-pain-periodontal-disease-high-blood-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Patient with Dental Pain, Periodontal Disease & High Blood Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Challenge:<\/strong> To address the dental concerns to resolve patient\u2019s dental pain. To educate the patient on the connection between dental health and overall health.<\/p>\n

Background:<\/strong> The patient is a 37-year-old male who presented with a dental pain emergency. The home care is poor and patient has history of only seeking dental care for emergencies. Medically, the patient has hypothyroidism, hypertension, high cholesterol and significant difficulty breathing while asleep. The blood pressure reading on 1\/29\/2018 was 156\/105. During the periodontal assessment, generalized heavy bleeding with probe depths measuring 4-8 mm were recorded.<\/p>\n

Solution:<\/strong> We referred the patient for medical evaluation to address the elevated blood pressure reading. We collected a specimen for OralDNA\u00ae Labs\u2019 MyPerioPath\u00ae on 1\/29\/2018 to determine the bacterial cause of the periodontal inflammation. The periodontal therapy consisted of scaling and root planing with laser decontamination and irrigation. The recommended systemic antibiotic of Amoxicillin and Metronidazole was taken and completed by the patient in 10 days. Extensive education on the mouth-body connection and home care instruction was addressed during several appointments. A MyPerioProgress\u00ae, a post-therapy MyPerioPath\u00ae was secured on 5\/9\/2018.<\/p>\n

Results:<\/strong> \u201cImproved but not quite there yet.\u201d Despite the patient\u2019s noncompliance to the referral for medical evaluation, the patient\u2019s blood pressure decreased post therapy. At his first appointment, the blood pressure reading was 156\/105 and he had generalized moderate to severe inflammation with spongy, unhealthy gingiva.\u00a0 At the last periodontal maintenance, the blood pressure reading was 119\/82.\u00a0 He still has generalized moderate inflammation, but the improvement in heart health is encouraging.\u00a0 He has had some pocket depth decrease as well.\u00a0 The patient is now going to see our periodontist for an additional evaluation.\u00a0 We are still insisting a medical evaluation be completed along with periodontal care as well as sleep apnea treatment at this office.\u00a0 We are not all of the way there, but the patient has improved his compliance for appointments and his oral hygiene is improving.\u00a0 We will continue to help the patient get the care he needs in order to help him to be happier and healthier overall!<\/p>\n

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We are not all of the way there, we continue to help the patient get the care he needs in order to help him to be happier and healthier overall!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":3153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,57,10,110],"tags":[9,37,17,76,3],"class_list":["post-3106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-case-study","category-oral-systemic","category-periodontal-disease","category-salivary-diagnostics","tag-bacterial-testing","tag-cardiovascular-disease","tag-oral-systemic-connection","tag-periodontal-disease","tag-salivary-diagnostics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.oraldna.com\/trends-in-salivary-testing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Falcon-Park-Logo.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7W16z-O6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oraldna.com\/trends-in-salivary-testing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oraldna.com\/trends-in-salivary-testing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oraldna.com\/trends-in-salivary-testing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oraldna.com\/trends-in-salivary-testing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oraldna.com\/trends-in-salivary-testing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3106"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.oraldna.com\/trends-in-salivary-testing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7651,"href":"https:\/\/www.oraldna.com\/trends-in-salivary-testing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106\/revisions\/7651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oraldna.com\/trends-in-salivary-testing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oraldna.com\/trends-in-salivary-testing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oraldna.com\/trends-in-salivary-testing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oraldna.com\/trends-in-salivary-testing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}