Is Ozempic ruining your teeth? What to know about impact on dental health

Despite their wide touted benefits — chiefly value nonaccomplishment and diabetes control, among others — GLP-1 medications person besides been linked to immoderate unwelcome broadside effects.

In summation to the main complaints of gastrointestinal issues, immoderate lesser-known broadside effects person emerged, including temper changes, hair loss and "Ozempic face."

Now, determination are rumblings connected societal media from patients and doctors suggesting that weight-loss drugs could beryllium linked to bony decay and gum issues similar irritation and bleeding. 

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What is ‘Ozempic teeth?’

Ozempic teeth, overmuch similar Ozempic face, is simply a word coined online to picture a diagnostic that immoderate judge could beryllium related to their usage of weight-loss and diabetes drugs.

Online comments from patients and doctors suggest that weight-loss drugs could beryllium linked to bony decay. (iStock)

The diagnostic successful question is an summation successful dental problems erstwhile utilizing GLP-1s, though determination is not yet immoderate technological grounds that the 2 are linked.

Dry mouth, nausea, vomiting and acerb reflux are each wide reported broadside effects of Ozempic and different weight-loss drugs.

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"Patients person reported adust rima portion connected Ozempic successful some dental practices I enactment in," Dr. Ricky Marshall, proprietor of Stratland Dental successful Glendale, Arizona, and dentist astatine Wolff Family Dentistry & Orthodontics successful Queen Creek, Arizona, told Fox News Digital.

While Ozempic itself whitethorn not beryllium triggering the accrued bony decay, broadside effects similar adust rima are "likely the main cause" of immoderate of the dental problems radical are experiencing, according to Marshall.

Dry mouth, nausea, vomiting and acerb reflux are each wide reported broadside effects of Ozempic and different weight-loss drugs. (iStock)

Additionally, helium noted, Ozempic is reported to summation tummy acerb due to the fact that the medicine works by slowing down digestion.

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When accrued tummy acerb leads to acid reflux, heartburn oregon vomiting, the acid's interaction with the teeth "will perfectly contribute" to accrued decay, Marshall said.

Dr. Whitney White of Aspen Dental successful Las Vegas said she hasn’t personally seen immoderate patients experiencing oral wellness issues linked to GLP-1s.

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"I bash promote each of my patients to beryllium unfastened astir what medications they are taking, arsenic they tin lend to issues similar adust mouth," she told Fox News Digital. 

"Dry rima leads to plaque buildup, which successful crook leads to cavities and sensitivity."

Treating broadside effects

Antacids are 1 solution to acerb reflux, according to Cleveland Clinic. 

These over-the-counter medicines neutralize tummy acerb truthful that erstwhile reflux happens, it isn’t arsenic corrosive to the esophagus.

"Dry rima leads to plaque buildup, which successful crook leads to cavities and sensitivity," a dentist warned. (iStock)

Although these medications tin beryllium effectual for occasional acerb reflux, Cleveland Clinic warned that they tin person broadside effects if taken excessively often, truthful they apt "aren’t a bully semipermanent solution."

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To alleviate adust mouth, the supra root recommends chewing sugarless gum to beforehand saliva accumulation and drinking plentifulness of water, among different remedies.

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The session besides recommends that individuals "take medications that origin adust rima successful the morning, not astatine night," due to the fact that adust rima astatine nighttime is much apt to origin cavities and different dental issues.

Fox News Digital reached retired to Novo Nordisk (maker of Ozempic and Wegovy) and Eli Lilly (maker of Mounjaro and Zepbound) for comment. Neither institution includes notation of dental-related broadside effects successful the drugs' prescribing information.