Heavy and insidious disease osteoporosis can be diagnosed long before the patient's first symptoms manifest. It is enough to examine the records to the dentist.
Dentists from the University of Manchester have developed a technology called Osteodent, which recognizes people prone to osteoporosis . The program examines the scans of the patient's teeth and puts on their basis almost surefire diagnosis. Moreover, the disease may begin only after many years following analysis.
Osteoporosis , Which affects about 7 million Russians, it is a disease of the bones. Their density decreases, causing bones become more brittle and prone to fracture. Until recently, medicine had no means of early detection of the disease, and the diagnosis was made after the first fracture, when the treatment is ineffective.
However, British scientists have found that the thinning of the bones of the jaw, generally well marked on the x-rays that make before treatment, can predict the decrease in bone density in other parts of the body. Researchers analyzed more than 5000 shots in patients aged 15 to 94 years. Women up to 42 do not notice any changes in bone density, but later it began to decrease.
Scientists have selected images with visible signs of reduced bone density, and then tested these people further. It was found that the density of the other bones of the body is also reduced. On the basis of these data and we have created a program Osteodent, identifying people who are at risk because of the threat of osteoporosis.
"Dentists have a huge advantage, because it is in their power now accounts for risk patients due to the development of osteoporosis, - says study author Professor Hugh Devin. - Osteodent could save lives, because early diagnosis and initiation of treatment are very important in this disease" .
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