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How Your Dentist Can Check For Stress


After a thorough examination and diagnosis of oral problems and screening for a linked stress-related disorder, dentists can help patients by referring them to a medical specialist.

"The `team treatment` between dentist and medical specialist ensures both oral and overall health problems are being treated," explains Edward Grace, DDS, MA, FAGD, co-author of an article on stress-related disorders that appears in the November/December 2002 issue of General Dentistry, the clinical, peer-reviewed scientific journal of the AGD.

"It`s hard for most people to identify how much stress they`re experiencing and to what degree it`s affecting their body until they get sick," says Dr. Bastian. "Regular six-month dental checkups are a first-line of defense for detecting stress-related disorders early."



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