11 Quotes by Raymond White

Women planning on getting pregnant should be certain to get their teeth and mouth checked and certainly shouldn't forget about their wisdom teeth, ... No one thought of checking women of this age for periodontal disease because no one would have thought it could be a problem.

This was a surprise to us, since most people assumed that you don't get periodontal problems until you are age 35 or 40. We found it's more prevalent than anyone believed at a much younger age than anyone had thought.

Part of the reason we were asked to spearhead these trials was that research at UNC and elsewhere showed that the inflammation in the mouth that periodontal infections cause promoted inflammation in other parts of the body,

The conventional wisdom is that people who have gum disease typically don't have a problem until they are 35 or 40 years old, ... We found it is much more prevalent than anyone believed at a much younger age than anyone thought.

We went to Lynn's home and were there when Lynn's husband told the children, ... Lynn was a sweetheart. She and George attended the morning service when they were here for Labor Day.

People assume that if you don't have any symptoms, you're OK, ... What we're saying is that's not necessarily the case.

This fits in with the idea that if you have chronic inflammation someplace, you're at greater risk for negative health outcomes, in this case preterm birth,

Everybody seems very positive to working with us.

The basic message here is that people have periodontal problems much earlier than anybody thought, ... Many of us thought there were no problems until patients had symptoms. And nobody looked very hard at people under 35. But younger people -- especially those planning to keep their wisdom teeth -- should be evaluated carefully at 25 or earlier instead of 35.