Bacteria in the mouth had been thought to possibly increase heart issues. But, most likely after heart surgery, you might be on blood thinners, and this could be very serious if you need dental work done, dental surgery.
For many years, I had to take antibiotics before having dental work done as I have a heart murmur. That expectation has changed now.
It is amazing to us that medical physicians look down on dentists when everything that comes into the body has to come in through the mouth, surgery that is done on the mouth has to be done on a part of the body that has to be CONTINUED to be used after surgery daily and continually while healing, unlike surgery in the rest of the body, all surgical adhesives were developed by dentists, as were surgical metal implant materials. The muscles of the mouth, jaw, and tongue are far more complex than almost any other part of the body and the mouth is the only place where the skeleton sticks through the skin. . . into the dirtiest place of the environment. Medical Physicians ignore the medicine of the mouth and it's environment and what effects they have on the body. Their education is woeful when it comes to oral issues.
We know that ORAL spirochetes are the cause of many diseases in the body, but getting funding to find out much more about how that happens is like, ahem, pulling teeth. 95% of all Alzheimer's brains are swarming with Oral Spirochetes when autopsied . . . and the other 5%, they didn't look. The plaques are filled with the dead bodies of oral spirochetes as a framework that holds the other crud that makes up the plaques in such things as Coronary Artery Disease, Peripheral Artery Disease, Adult Onset Diabetes, and every where else we've looked at plaque related diseases.
These are all long term etiology diseases that take 20-30 years to develop and require, we think, bleeding gums for the oral spirochetes to gain access to the blood system.
Having bleeding gums is equal to having an open sore the size of the palm of your hand. It's a super-highway into the blood stream for bacteria from the mouth because the seals around the teeth are compromised.