Losing Weight Can Protect Your Smile yet. Wolf, r DONTIU People have a new reason to stick to their New Year's resolution. Losing that excess weight will do more than just make you look good! Researchers from University at Buffalo found that Obesity is a significant predictor for Periodontal Disease. Furthermore, the results of this national study suggested that gum inflammation, bone destruction and tooth loss increased proportionally with insulin resistance. Insulin helps keep our weight balanced and provides us with energy. The trouble occurs when we don't produce enough, or our bodies don't know how to use it. People with higher body mass produce proteins that lead to inflammation and insulin resistance. These proteins are also produced when a periodontal infection occurs, and can leak into our bloodstream. Diabetics with Periodontal Disease have also been shown to have more complications than diabetics with little or no periodontal disease. "The presence of periodontal infection combined with obesity can contribute to type 2 diabetes and its complications, such as heart, kidney and eye disease," said Steve L. Wolf, DDS a Periodontist and AAP member. "The good news is that treating gum disease helps our body's ability to regulate insulin use." Drs. Michael Chopp and Stan Elias Tumor Fighters from page 33 plinary diagnostic center," says Brown, where patients can be tested and treated for problems with walking/balance, memory, pain and spinal disorders. "It will be a big deal in West Bloomfield:' Rosenblum promises. "The community can bring their parents — or themselves!' Communal Response "We certainly welcome the initiative and look forward to working with them:' says Linda Blumberg, director of the Commission on Jewish Elder Care Services for the Detroit Jewish com- munity. "It's no question that it's an enrich- ment," says Carole Rosenberg, who heads Jewish Home for the Aged, based in West Bloomfield. "We have dialogues with Henry Ford all the time!' Henry Ford's neurosurgery and neu- rology departments rank 21st among neuroscience programs in the nation on US News & World Report's 2006 America's Best Hospitals list. Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minn.) and Johns Hopkins (Baltimore) are one and two; the University of Michigan ranks 15th; William Beaumont, Royal Oak is 27th and Beaumont, Troy, is 45th. The HFH neurosurgery depart- ment administers and does some types of surgery at Royal Oak and Troy Beaumont hospitals, Rosenblum reports. Expansion of the Henry Ford Neuroscience Institute into the suburbs coincides with the tremendous break- throughs being made in the neurosci- ence field. "When we were in medical school, we were taught that the brain cells you had were those you would die with': says Elias, who chairs the neurology department and stroke center, one of 11 in the country funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). But Chopp's researchers rather rou- tinely induce the production of new brain cells and brain rewiring and remodeling on the molecular and ani- mal level with the aim of getting them into the human population as quickly as possible. "The goal of our research is to move directly to the patient:' says Chopp, who was awarded the first NIH grant in the country aimed at developing therapies to remodel brains injured from stroke and other brain trauma. "I can call Mark or Stan and move this into the clinic!' "We're seeing shrinking of tumors we've never seen before,' Rosenblum says. Brickner Drug Prominently displayed on his office wall are two pictures of the cancerous tumor that attacked the brain of Stewart Brickner, a West Bloomfield resident and township trustee. One shows the massive tumor; the other how it shrank below the level of detection after treat- ment with what Rosenblum now calls the "Brickner Drug." (See related story.) "Brain cancer," Rosenblum says, "is the worst cancer there is. But you're starting to see what happened when a cure for acute leukemia in children was developed. This is the start of that transition." At the same time, Elias oversees clini- cal trials in stroke prevention as well as new therapies that allow intervention even in strokes that aren't treated within the previously requisite three hours. "One can be treated with Viagra or statins days after stroke and there is a significant reduction in neurological deficit and a significant induction of new brain cells',' Chopp says. "We were first to use cell-based thera- pies to treat strokes and tumor," Chopp says. "We use the term 'turbo charge the brain.' We do very high-tech stuff. We have developed the laboratory model to simulate stroke. I go all over the world to present our work!' 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