Oral-systemic health: The time is now!
The research is exploding. Just over the last year, research has found:Read the whole thing.
It appears up to 50% of heart attacks are triggered by oral pathogens.
Addressing visual and microbial periodontal disease slows if not reverses CIMT progression. (cardiac thickening)
Six oral spirochetes appear to be causal of Alzheimer's.
P. gingivalis, an oral bacterium, raises risk for a heart attack by 13.6 times when present -- that's twice the risk of a heavy smoker!
Periodontal disease is as big a risk as high blood pressure for strokes.
(actually... the fact that the mouth affects systemic health has been known since the dawn of civilization, a lot of these specifics have been documented for a hundred years, but don't think about that- the time really is now...)
