by: Christine Zafra

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If you have periodontitis, make sure you visit your dentist often for treatment. Studies show that you are in great risk of other health problems too like heart disease and blood infection. However, you must be doubly careful if you have diabetes. Another research done by the experts at the University Dental School and Hospital in Ireland states that almost two-thirds of diabetic patients do not know that they have an increased risk of periodontitis. Of course they were aware about the heart, eye and kidney problems associated with diabetes, but only 33 percent knew that periodontitis had something to do with their current disease.

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