In 2010, severe periodontitis was the sixth most prevalent condition in the world affecting 743 million people worldwide. Between 1990 and 2010, the global age-standardized prevalence of severe periodontitis was static at 11.2%.
Apparently those numbers have never been calculated before. Puts them in the top ten.
The most prevalent conditions, as established by the World Health Organization: iron-deficiency anemia, hearing loss, migraine, low vision, asthma, diabetes mellitus, osteoarthritis (OA), and unipolar depressive disorders.Not to put too fine a point on this- but all of those can be caused by chronic periodontal infection. Which is communicable dammit.
