Oral bacteria cause disease in other parts of the body besides the gums.
All correlation. People who have bad teeth/gums generally don’t take care of their bodies....thus have more heart disease, cancer, diabetes, COPD, addictions.....and higher mortality.
This is true.
A well known heart surgeon examined the hearts of many patients and found in 98-99% of them with heart disease, they had bacteriafrom the mouth there causing problems.
Root canals being one of the primary ways harmful mouth bacteria travel down into that area of the body.
Put your heart where your mouth is.
I have spent approximately $20,000 over 20 years on periodontal bills. Quadrant cleaning, root planing, you name it. I’m amazed that I have any teeth at all. But I have most of them and my gums are quite stable these days.
Gum disease also has a correlation to old age cognitive diseases.
In that case, though, it is also possible that personal neglect of dental care - related to cognitive disease - has caused the gum disease in the first place.
floss every damn day
Correlation is not causation, so is it that bad gums are a factor in heart attacks & diabetes, or just that people who don’t take care of themselves just tend to have poor general health and more health problems.
This makes it sound like if you are optimal weight, diet, exercise, floss, get your teeth cleaned regularly, and are medically fine and you somehow develop gum disease then... PLOP! you die of a heart attack.
I am not buying it.
It sounds more to me like the same types of people who don’t do anything to maintain their physical health don’t do anything to maintain their oral health either. Correlation, not causation.
But what do I know? I am not a brilliant medical scientist like Fauci and the Covid vaccine makers.
I thought it was the other way around. That severe gum disease caused heart problems.
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Gum lines are a direct access to the bloodstream. Patients with high dental plaque are shown to also have a very high risk of arterial plague.
Example only...My dad’s mouth was an absolute plaque factory. He died at 69 with 90% plaque blockage of both sides of his heart. His widow removed all her teeth and is alive at 95. Same house. Same diet.
If your gums bleed when brushing, there are a few things happening. You have bacteria in your gums...we all do, but are infected. The bacteria has direct access to your bloodstream.
There are also good studies showing that patients who removed all of their teeth are at a lower risk of heart disease.
Some will simply dismiss these findings by parroting the latest trending claim of “correlation doesn’t price causation”, however, the studies alone show enough evidence that those who push the above claim, either haven’t read the studies, or are simply in denial.
...that is all
Whats really funny is that they could develop a vaccine that kills the bacteria that causes tooth decay. But you will never see that.
But of course treatments at cost will continue to abound.