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Here's some interesting info I found last week-
Systemic Diseases Caused by Oral Infection
The incidence of bacteremia following dental procedures such as tooth extraction, endodontic treatment, periodontal surgery, and root scaling has been well documented. Bacteremia after dental extraction, third-molar surgery, dental scaling, endodontic treatment, and bilateral tonsillectomy has been studied by means of lysis-filtration of blood samples with subsequent aerobic and anaerobic incubation. Bacteremia was observed in 100% of the patients after dental extraction, in 70% after dental scaling, in 55% after third-molar surgery, in 20% after endodontic treatment, and in 55% after bilateral tonsillectomy. Anaerobes were isolated more frequently than facultative anaerobic bacteria. Another study involving 735 children undergoing treatment for extensive dental decay found that 9% of the children had detectable bacteremias before the start of dental treatment. In addition, a variety of hygiene and conservative procedures, including brushing of the teeth, increased the prevalence of bacteremias from 17 to 40%. Anesthetic and surgical procedures increased the occurrence of bacteremias from 15 to 97%. One recent study by Debelian et al. used phenotypic and genetic methods to trace microorganisms released into the bloodstream during and after endodontic treatment back to their presumed source, the root canal. Microbiological samples were taken from the root canals of 26 patients with asymptomatic apical periodontitis of single-rooted teeth. Blood was drawn from the patients during and 10 min after endodontic therapy. All root canals contained anaerobic bacteria. In group I, where the first three root canal reamers were used to a level 2 mm beyond the apical foramen of the tooth, Propionibacterium acnes, Peptostreptococcus prevotii, Fusobacterium nucleatum, Prevotella intermedia, andSaccharomyces cerevisiae were recovered from the blood. In group 2, where instrumentation ended inside the root canal, P. intermedia, Actinomyces israelii, Streptococcus intermedius, and Streptococcus sanguis were isolated from the blood.No wonder I have been battling a migraine and sleep attack all day.
As stated above, dissemination of oral microorganisms into the bloodstream is common, and less than 1 min after an oral procedure, organisms from the infected site may have reached the heart, lungs, and peripheral blood capillary system.
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And it's probably why I have been having "impulse control problems" lately. Ha.
