Brian L. Mealey, DDS, MS, is a professor and director of the graduate program in the Department of Periodontics at the University of Texas Health Science Center School of Dentistry at San Antonio. He has published more than 100 articles, abstracts, and textbook chapters in the scientific literature, with an emphasis on the relationships between oral and systemic health.
Oral health professionals should have a basic understanding of glycemic monitoring and management to best serve patients with this common chronic disease.
Brian Mealey, DDS, MS, talks about the increasing incidence of diabetes, the propensity for many to go undiagnosed, and how these factors affect the practice of dental hygiene.