Two important pieces of dental health advice for people with hypoglycaemia

If you have hypoglycaemia, this condition could make it more challenging for you to protect your teeth and gums from damage. If you are concerned about your dental health, you might find the advice below to be helpful.

Do not wait for a standard appointment at your dentist's practice if you break a tooth but are not in pain.

If a healthy person breaks some of their teeth, they do not necessarily have to immediately undergo treatment as long as they are not experiencing high levels of pain and the roots of the affected teeth are still attached. Instead, in this situation, it is usually safe for the person with the broken teeth to wait until an appointment becomes available at their dental clinic.

However, if you suffer from hypoglycaemia and you break a tooth, you must find a clinic that offers emergency treatment immediately, even if you are in virtually no pain and the tooth appears to still be connected. The reason for this is as follows; many people with this condition experience bouts of oral numbness, which can become more severe when their blood sugar levels drop particularly low.

If you happen to be struggling to keep your blood sugar levels high enough on the day when your tooth breaks, the oral numbness caused by your health condition could result in you not feeling pain, even though the tooth's nerves are damaged and require urgent treatment. If in this situation, you choose to rely upon your senses when debating whether or not you should get help right away, you could end up delaying treatment that needs to be carried out as soon as possible.

Waiting a few days could lead to the pulp in the broken tooth getting infected and the nerves in this area being permanently damaged. As such, if you ever end up in this situation with broken teeth, it is critical to get help from a dentist sooner, rather than later.

Clean your teeth after consuming glucose tablets to raise your blood sugar.

People with hypoglycaemia need to consume carbohydrates fairly regularly throughout the day; if they don't do this, they may experience all of the distressing side-effects of this condition, including shaking, sweating and dizziness. If, like a lot of people with this condition, you keep glucose tablets in your pocket so that you can quickly raise your blood sugar when you feel it dropping, then it is important to be mindful of how these tablets might affect your dental health.

Dentists routinely caution their patients against consuming sweets due to the fact that eating sugary foods can cause and accelerate tooth decay and increase people's susceptibility to gum inflammation and disease. If are worried about experiencing these issues, you might want to pack a foldable toothbrush and a miniature pack of floss in your pocket, along with your glucose tablets, so that you can quickly remove any residual sugar from your mouth after eating them. By minimising the amount of time your teeth spend coated in this sugary substance, you may be able to avoid the aforementioned dental problems.