Dr. Katie To explains why dentists can't give one-size-fits-all answers about your teeth. Chronic inflammation, Alzheimer's, dementia, and cancer all affect how well you heal, so treatment depends on your whole health picture, not just the tooth in question.
And factor in the whole picture. What's the inflammatory load? How healthy is the patient? What's the health history? And what else is going on? For patients that are very sensitive and their body is already burdened with Alzheimer's or dementia or cancer or any of those types of things, having something additional that's chronic inflammation can cause that patient not to heal well. We wanna make sure we evaluate the entire person, the whole body health. Be wary of anyone on either side who gives a blanket answer without looking at you. I looked up, she said, hey, I think I need this tooth extracted. And I said, well, hold on, let me see. We gather data, and from that data, we absolutely make sure that we're giving that patient an individual treatment plan.
