Body

Raymond G. Hatland D.D.S.

Having a healthy mouth can be critically important for you to be successful at improving the health of your entire body. Besides the obvious threat that oral diseases has to your teeth, gums and your ability to chew food well, there are many chronic and degenerative disease processes throughout the body that can be greatly aggravated by unhealthy conditions in your mouth.

Most gum disease is a slow, usually painless and even symptom free bacterial infection that gradually destroys your gums and the bone that holds your teeth. Eventually if the disease process is not stopped the teeth become loose, sometimes painful and have to be extracted.