Losing Weight Can Protect Your Smile

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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

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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!'

Although further studies are needed, people should remember that
living a healthy life style, along with daily brushing, flossing and visiting your
Dentist or Periodontist is always in fashion!

YOUR SMILE IS OUR

STEVE L. WOLF, D.D.S.

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