There are profound links between diabetes and gum disease – the evidence just keeps mounting up. A new study shows Diabetes treatment improves periodontal disease inflammation in patients. In this instance, an intensive treatment for type 2 diabetes significantly improved blood sugar control and PISA.

What is PISA? An indicator of gum disease inflammation. This research was recently published in the journal Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism.

“A collaborative research team between the Graduate Schools of Dentistry, Medicine, and Engineering at Osaka University administered a two-week intensive diabetes treatment to 29 type 2 diabetes patients, analyzing systemic, and dental indicators before and after treatment.”
– Moe Inoue, Akito Sakanaka, Naoto Katakami, Masahiro Furuno, Hitoshi Nishizawa, Kazuo Omori, Naohiro Taya, Asuka Ishikawa, Shota Mayumi, Emiko Tanaka Isomura, Hiroki Takeuchi, Atsuo Amano, Iichiro Shimomura, Eiichiro Fukusaki, Masae Kuboniwa. Periodontal tissue susceptibility to glycaemic control in type 2 diabetes. Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, 2024

Getting Treated For Diabetes Early Saves Lives & Improves Oral Health

Do diabetes and gum disease go together like sugar in beverages, like sedentary living and dying young? There appears to be this hand in glove relationship between these two conditions, these two diseases. Both are modern scourges affecting large numbers of human beings globally.

“537 million adults (20-79 years) are living with diabetes – 1 in 10. This number is predicted to rise to 643 million by 2030 and 783 million by 2045. Over 3 in 4 adults with diabetes live in low- and middle-income countries.”
– Diabetes Atlas

“Severe periodontal diseases are estimated to affect around 19% of the global adult population, representing more than 1 billion cases worldwide.”
– Who International

Intensive Diabetes Treatment Improves Periodontal Disease In Study

Medical scientists are looking to understand the correlation between type 2 diabetes and periodontal disease. It is suspected that these kinds of finding will advance our understanding and therapeutic options for both diseases. Inflammation is involved fundamentally in both conditions. It is known that the treatment of periodontal disease improves blood glucose control, but the effects of diabetes treatment on gum disease had remained largely unknown.

“These research findings are expected to advance our understanding of the mechanisms underlying the relationship between diabetes and periodontal disease,” says senior author Masae Kuboniwa. “This study demonstrates that improving periodontal disease in diabetic patients requires not only periodontal treatment but also early diabetes management. We anticipate that promoting collaboration between medical and dental care from the early stages of diabetes can significantly contribute to preventing the onset and progression of periodontal disease in diabetic patients.”
– Science Daily

The Importance Of Exercise For People Living With Diabetes

Diabetes can be a challenging condition to manage, as it is often associated with obesity. Many individuals with Diabetes type 2 experience fatigue and mobility issues. The importance of exercise for those with diabetes is paramount but, also, challenging. The prevalence of the disease is exacerbated by our modern lifestyles and diets. Sedentary living, with many of us remaining seated for large parts of our day due to working behind desks, driving vehicles everywhere instead of walking or cycling, and eating too much processed and sugary foods is a major cause factor.

The dramatic increase in the amount of screen time now experienced by the average human living in modern Western cities is particularly worrying for the prevalence of health issues like diabetes and gum disease. Put simply, too many of us are sitting on our behinds and stuffing our faces with unhealthy food choices. If our bodies do not move, ambulate, and get enough exercise our metabolism and blood flow become ill equipped to cope with the input of excessive sugars and carbohydrates. This is why exercise becomes such a crucial element in returning human beings to health. Our wellbeing is not best served by the many labour saving devices that technology has put between us and our lives.

Walking is what we do best, if given half a chance, but too many of us grow up thinking that walking somewhere is so passe. Why not drive the car there instead? How do you get your heart rate up when you are always sitting down in your comfort zone? Similarly, living in air conditioned comfort constantly is not great for our health either. Perspiring is good for our skin and for eliminating stuff from our bodies. We were not designed to live in stasis.

Diabetes sufferers, in consultation with their GPS and specialists should embark upon a gentle monitored exercise program.
“Over 37 million Americans have diabetes, and 90-95% of that population are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Lifestyle interventions, such as a healthy diet and a regular physical activity program, are methods to manage diabetes. “
– ingyi Qian, Qian Xiao, Michael P. Walkup, Mace Coday, Melissa L. Erickson, Jessica Unick, John M. Jakicic, Kun Hu, Frank A.J.L. Scheer, Roeland J.W. Middelbeek. Association of Timing of Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity With Changes in Glycemic Control Over 4 Years in Adults With Type 2 Diabetes From the Look AHEAD Trial. Diabetes Care, 2023

Too Much Junk Food Consumed In Australia

It seems, that many of us have lost our way, perhaps not the shown the way due to poor parenting or just not listening, and really poor diets and lifestyle choices have been the result. The lack of guidance and control upon food manufacturing, in terms of producing healthy foods, by our governments, has not helped either. If making profits are the only consideration in this equation, we are letting ourselves down and our children. For too long we, as a society, have looked the other way when it comes to the proliferation of fast food outlets and processed foods items in our supermarkets and convenience stores. Our health departments and public hospitals via our tax dollars have had to pay the heavy price for this irresponsibility around unhealthy food consumption within our communities. It is not rocket science to realise this but political partisanship, corruption and neglect have resulted in an absence of doing something about this over many years. Dentists know this and doctors too – they run around picking up the pieces and in the case of type 2 diabetes it is most often too late. The horse has already bolted. We spend vast amounts of money attempting to find cures for chronic conditions that in reality can only be avoided by changes to lifestyle behaviours and diets. Why? Because nobody has the courage to stand up and tell the truth and actually do something about it. Vested interests have their snouts in the trough. Political party donations and all the greasing of the wheels.

“The food industry manufactures products that are often energy dense and nutrient poor, high in salt, saturated fat and sugar, and heavily marketed and promoted, encouraging high levels of consumption.

‘Junk foods’ are encompassed by the term ‘discretionary foods’ as used in the Australian Dietary Guidelines (the ADG). Discretionary foods are those that are ‘not necessary to provide the nutrients that the body needs, many of which are high in saturated fat, sugar and/or salt, and are therefore described as energy dense.’[i] Examples of discretionary foods provided by the ADG – crisps, pies, cakes, biscuits, processed meats, commercial burgers, pizza, potato chips, lollies, sugar-sweetened drinks – are almost exclusively foods that are considered to be highly processed.”
– Live Lighter

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