Watch Your Mouth! WVIZ/PBS ideastream
Watch Your Mouth! WVIZ/PBS ideastream
– a new kind of partnership –
ideastream in collaboration with NetWellness and other multimedia partners presents Be Well: Watch Your Mouth!
NetWellness and ideastream are partnering to bring more understanding to the health and medical issues you care about. Launched in 1995, NetWellness is a consumer information website from Case Western Reserve University, The Ohio State University and the NetWellness.org. ideastream is a non-profit public broadcasting organization including WVIZ/PBS, 90.3 WCPN, WCLV and other educational and public service media. Be Well: Watch Your Mouth! is part of ideastream’s ongoing multiple-media coverage on important health issues presented in collaboration with The Plain Dealer and NetWellness. Through this partnership, you will be able to explore ideastream’s programs as NetWellness puts in-depth information at your fingertips.
ideastream’s series, Watch Your Mouth! explains how oral health not only affects your mouth but your whole body, with mounting evidence connecting gum disease to debilitating and costly problems including diabetes, heart disease, and premature birth.
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Feagler & Friends
Watch Your Mouth!
–Barriers to Care
–Common Dental Problems
–Gum Disease – Unborn Danger & Beyond
–Treatment & Prevention
NewsDepth
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The story of local artist Tom Csapo whose artistic skills are in demand in the medical field. It takes a small lab team ten days to fully customize one patient’s set of teeth. Even in this high-tech world, the molding is done solely by hand.
Find additional information on this topic from NetWellness:
- For Irreparably Damaged Teeth, Dental Implants Offer Safe and Permanent Fix
- Gum Graft Surgery: Indications, Success Rate and Possible Complications
- Dentures
Feagler & Friends
Dick Feagler interviews a local Dr. Andre Mickels, an endodontist at Case Western Reserve University about the link between oral health and over-all health and previews an excerpt from the up-coming TV special Watch Your Mouth!
Watch Your Mouth!
Barriers to Care
For most people, anxiety and fear create the main barrier to care. We examine the dreaded sights, smells and sounds that cause such dread and get a glimpse of the latest techniques dentists are using to combat fear and control pain.
Find additional information on this topic from NetWellness:
Common Dental Problems
This segment explores and explains the anatomy of the most common dental problems including tooth decay; abscesses that lead to root canals; and gingivitis, also known as gum disease.
Find additional information on this topic from NetWellness:
- Burning Mouth Syndrome
- Common Mouth and Tongue Conditions
- Common Signs of Dental Disease and Dry Mouth
- Crowns, Bridges, Dentures, Implants
- Mucocele
- Overbite
- Things That Go Bump in the Mouth
- What Causes White Patches in the Mouth and Tongue?
Cancer
- Oral Cancer Overview
- Oral Health – Tobacco Use and Oral Cancer
- Oral Health Care for the Cancer Patient
Root Canals
- Root Canals Overview
- Is a Root Canal Necessary For a Tooth With No Pain?
- Root Canal 10 Years Ago, Pain Resumes
Gums and Gingivitis
Anesthesia
Mouth Pain: What to Eat
- Guidelines for Pureed Meals – Proper Nutrition on a Pureed Diet
- Recipes for Pureed Foods – Beverages, Shakes and Desserts
- Recipes for Pureed Meals – Breakfast, Fruit and Yogurt Blends
- Recipes for Pureed Foods – Entrees, Vegetables, and Salads
- Recipes for Pureed Meals – Soups
Kids and Seniors
Gum Disease – Unborn Danger & Beyond
Pegged as a “silent epidemic,” gum disease now affects one in 10 adults and one in five people over the age of 65. It’s on the rise and a problem linked to much more than tooth loss. The bacteria which cause gum infections can travel to other parts of the body and wreak havoc. In addition, the chronic inflammation that persists with severe gum disease can cause other damaging changes in the body. People with gum disease are almost twice as likely to have heart disease; and evidence continues to mount that the bacteria causing gum disease may play some role in premature births.
Find additional information on this topic from NetWellness:
- Kids Dental Health – What to Do, When to Do It
- Gum Diseases Overview
- Gum Disease and Pregnancy
- Gum Disease Can Lead to an Unhealthy Heart
- Head and Neck Cancer Overview
This segment examines how and why the health of the teeth and gums has not been given the same priority as the rest of the body when it comes to health care priorities and insurance coverage. This segment also looks at the best tools for preventing decay and gum disease.
Find additional information on this topic from NetWellness:
- Daily Oral Hygiene Routine
- Dental and Oral Health Overview
- Oral Cancer Overview
- Pediatric Dentists: Caring for Your Child’s Teeth
- When Is a Root Canal Needed?
NewsDepth
A segment especially designed for middle school aged students concerning the link between oral health and over all health and why daily brushing and flossing are still the best way to avoid oral health problems.
Find additional information on this topic from NetWellness:
- Pediatric Dentists: Caring for your Child’s Teeth
- Dental and Oral Health: Relationship to General Health
- Gum Disease Can Lead to an Unhealthy Heart
- Dental Phobias in Teens
- Oral Health – Tobacco Use and Oral Cancer
- Daily Oral Hygiene Routine
For more information:
Go to the Dental and Oral Health Center health topic.