Oral health must be part of our diabetes response


RECENT media reports on how small, sustainable lifestyle habits can make a meaningful difference in preventing and managing diabetes are timely.

However, one important area remains too often overlooked: oral health. It is high time we stopped treating the mouth as separate from the rest of the body.

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