Whoopie Goldberg speaks about her personal experience with Gum disease and how it can affect your life and health. Gum disease can kill you. Hello and welcome to the view and boy am I glad to be back. Yeah we missed you, and I missed you guys. You look better today! So much better today – emergency gum surgery. You had the chipmunk teeth? I had the chipmunk teeth and whenever you get and infection in your face and it alters the way you look, people do this – I came into work yesterday and everyone looked and went hey! (laughs) how are you? my face was up to here! I was not feeling so good! Her face was so swollen she couldn’t even look down to dial the phone, yeah! Like Joan Rivers face! She can’t look down too poor thing. When Whoopi came through you tried not to have the horror on your face – who beat you? I looked like I had got beat up. Tell you again I said it when I discovered all the minutia in my mouth take care of your teeth and I am embarrassed to say this to people. I have great dental insurance and I did nothing with it for years and years. I let my mouth go and I am paying the price I am losing teeth because I am losing bone and I brought this on myself because I could have prevented it. It is your mouth is connected to your entire system – your immune system if you do not take care of your mouth you are not taking care of your body and It will kill you. What?? Gum disease can kill you? Sounds like an exaggeration – it is not an exaggeration – Whoopi is right! As you saw I don’t know whether you guys know this but about a week ago they finally linked mouth health to heart health. This isn’t that new we’ve (dentists) have known about this for years. Gum disease is chronic inflammatory disease. It has been linked to… Heart disease, Stroke, Premature birth, Pancreatic Cancer – no joke. Gum disease can, I was having a talk with a good family friend and he is a dentist and he said that for the first time in a long time the physicians are actually connecting now – you have cardiologists speaking to dentists and physicians dealing with oral care and there is a good conversation going on between the 2 medical fields which is great. You know listen if you are a certain age we didn’t go to dentist who cared about how you felt ok they went in your mouth and Grrrr! There was no sweetness what so ever dentistry has changed so much. It has! That it is really – they can do it they can take care of it and it is easier to teach your kids and grandkids about it – I am begging you save your own life don’t do what I have done because I am going to lose my teeth and when it happens I will let you know what is going on because they will be fake in my mouth – there is no tooth fairy for adults – yet! Threes no tooth fairy yet! Do your gums bleed ever? They shouldn’t. Do you have bad breath? Do you have any loose teeth? If it’s been a while since you’ve been to the dentist… Make an appointment today! It could add years to your life. It could even save your life – thanks Whoopie!
