I never said that the plaques on the teeth and the plaques in the blood vessels and arteries or elsewhere are the same, or even that dental plaques are caused by spirochete infection. They aren’t. Spirochetes along with many other oral fauna hide under dental plaques making them hard to get at when attempting to clean out without first removing the plaque.
As for the body’s immune system’s ability to handle these bacteria, we’ve watched a single oral spirochete invade a healthy leukocyte and over the space of a couple hours, kill the leukocyte, then leave to go on about its business. That doesn’t bode well for the normal mode of defense for bacteria.
Our head doctor, one of the top dental implantologists in the world, has more alphabet soup following his title than we can fit on his letter head, as do many of the other dentists, medical doctors, and medical and dental professors who have been signing on to these findings. Read the peer-reviewed papers cited by Dr. Judit McKlosky, M.D., President of the European Alzheimer’s Prevention Society, which my 2011 FreeRepublic post linked. There have been more since then.
I didn’t mean to imply that that YOU didn’t know the difference between the types of plaque. I was merely stating that for the lay people on this thread to differentiate the types of plaque and how dental health can affect your overall health.