How Autoimmune Disease Shows Up in the Dental Chair with Dr. Natalia Trehan

About this episode

This episode discusses how autoimmune diseases can present in the dental office and their implications for oral health.

Join Elevated GP: www.theelevatedgp.com Register for the live meeting: https://www.theelevatedgp.com/ElevationSummit Download the Injection Molding Guide: https://www.theelevatedgp.com/IMpdf What happens when a patient's oral symptoms are actually the first warning signs of a much larger systemic health issue? In this episode of Digital Dentist Digest , Dr. Melissa Seibert welcomes Dr. Natalia Trahan, Assistant Professor at the Medical University of South Carolina , for a deep and clinically relevant conversation on the relationship between systemic disease and oral health. Dr. Trahan specializes in oral medicine, pathology, and radiology, with a strong focus on the intersection of oral and systemic disease. Together, they discuss how conditions like Sjögren's Disease , Rheumatoid Arthritis , Fibromyalgia , Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome , Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis , and Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome can present first in the dental office—often before a formal medical diagnosis is made. This episode explores practical diagnostic strategies for identifying oral manifestations of autoimmune disease, including xerostomia, hyposalivation, chronic parotitis, recurrent…

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Melissa Seibert

Guest: Dr. Natalia Trahan

Topics covered

• autoimmune disease
• oral health
• systemic health issues
• diagnostic strategies
• oral manifestations
• dental symptoms

Keywords

• Sjögren's Disease
• Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Fibromyalgia
• Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
• Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
• Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome
• xerostomia
• TMJ degeneration
• chronic parotitis

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Medical University of South Carolina, Elevated GP, Dental Digest Institute, Elevation Summit

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