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by Hannah Wilkins2 views·Updated Nov 21, 2021
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  1. Hi everyone.
  2. My name is Hannah Wilkins and I'm here with glory rosario and
  3. we're going to talk about gastroesophageal reflux disease and dental erosion.
  4. So I'm gonna call it good for short and I'll start by explaining what exactly it is.
  5. Then we'll get into how its symptoms can have a negative
  6. impact on the oral environment and lead to dental erosion.
  7. We'll explain some of the treatments that are available
  8. to control guard and what treatments we can provide us
  9. future dental hygienists to minimize the effects of dental erosion.
  10. As we know,
  11. preventative oral health health care is a huge part of
  12. our career and in order to do this effectively,
  13. we need to have a good understanding of how
  14. certain systemic diseases can impact the oral environment.
  15. This way we can identify early warning signs of disease and be
  16. able to better protect and maintain the oral health of our clients.
  17. So let's get started. What is good?
  18. GERD is chronic acid reflux
  19. when we're looking at the
  20. stomach.
  21. There's this muscle at the opening called
  22. the lower esophageal sphincter and it opens,
  23. allowing food and liquid into the stomach and should close to prevent leakage.
  24. Back up
  25. acid reflex. Is
  26. the backflow of these contents past this barrier and into the esophagus.
  27. If this happens frequently enough
  28. then this muscle will wear down and weekend and we are left with good. That is good.
  29. So it's pretty common and it affects 20%
  30. of the adult population in the high-income countries,
  31. Acid Reflex is even more common with 40% of the adult population experiencing it.
  32. So we are guaranteed to come across this in our offices and we
  33. need to have a good understanding of how it affects the oral environment.
  34. That being said, we're going to start by looking at why it starts how it starts
  35. and GERD is actually hereditary.
  36. So people can be born with certain
  37. stomach abnormalities that can enable acid reflux
  38. along with that our diet plays a huge part if we're eating foods that are high in fat,
  39. spicy foods, drinking alcohol, carbonated drinks, caffeine.
  40. These are all things that can enhance
  41. acid reflex,
  42. along with those the nicotine in cigarettes can relax the lower
  43. dr, which
  44. in turn enables us.