Quaternary prevention, diabetes and periodontal disease

• Main Author: Júlia Maria Guilherme Ribeiro Antunes
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Asociación Nacional de Psicología Evolutiva y Educativa de la Infancia Adolescencia Mayores y Discapacidad 2020-06-01
• Series: INFAD
• Subjects: prevenção quaternária; diabetes; doença periodontal
• Online Access: http://www.infad.eu/RevistaINFAD/OJS/index.php/IJODAEP/article/view/1851

Diabetes, which is estimated to affect 552 million people on the planet in 2030, as well as periodontal disease, considered its sixth complication, draw both of them, a very uncertain and gloomy future in terms of Quality of Life and Public Health! Nobody imagined  that the precious sugar, refined successively, more and more, obtained with the barbarous slavery installed with the Discoveries, would finally become the greatest omnipresent poison in the Societies of our time! Diabetes and its complications are bi-directionally related to periodontitis and its exacerbations, that is, one makes the other’s situation worse! The word represents the great tool for operationalizing Quaternary Prevention that has come in recent years to give hope to all those who wish to look at the health / disease problem again. In this context and avoiding the growing current of overdiagnosis, overmedicalization, overtreatment, overscreenings, overinformation, we will all simply improve the understanding, practice and collaboration of people and societies, in the sense that we all change lifestyles harmful to the appearance of these problems of so prevalent in today’s world and so unsettling for tomorrow’s, with Positive Psychology and more Knowledge!