MOLAR Maricopa Country Oral Health Leaders Advocates and Resources

Mouth and Endocrine System

What is the endocrine system? The system of glands, each of which secretes a type of hormone directly into the bloodstream to regulate the body.

Click on the links below to learn more about the connections between your hormones and oral health.

• How Menopause Affects Oral Health, and What We Can Do About It  

• Women and Oral Health: Hormones and Periodontal Diseases

• Effects of Hormones on Oral Health

• Diabetes and Dental Care: Guide to a healthy mouth

• New Frontiers in Diabetes: The Oral Health Connection 

• Diabetes and Oral Health

• Study Links Poor Oral Health to Pancreatic Cancer

• Hormones and Women's Oral Health

• Hormones and Oral Health