The Mouth-Body Connection: Unveiling the Hidden Links
Discover how oral health influences overall well-being, uncovering the hidden links between periodontal disease and chronic conditions to empower preventive care and improve patient outcomes.
Course Objectives:
- Review the relationship between periodontal disease and diabetes, osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease, and other chronic disease
- Chronic disease progression and occurrence in Canada
- Prevention vs. Treatment of chronic disease
Presented by: Dr. Luisa Schuldt
Speaker
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Dr. Luisa SchuldtD.D.S., M.Sc., F.R.C.D. (C), Periodontist, ProsthodontistDr. Luisa A. Schuldt is a double certified dental specialist, being a Fellow of the Royal College of Dentists of Canada, in both Periodontics and Prosthodontics. She has been in full-time private practice, limited to prosthodontics and implant dentistry since 2000. She completed a graduate program in Prosthodontics in 2007 and pursued additional training in implant dentistry. She led a high-performing team for 15 years before her interest in widening her scope of surgical skills lead her to return to graduate school and specialize again by completing a Diploma in Periodontics and Master of Science Degree in Craniofacial Science from the University of British Columbia in 2017.
