If our eyes are the windows to our soul, then our mouth is the entry way to our body and the teeth may well be the windows to our health, according to hanging evidence that suggests there is a strong link between them. Which is something I have been saying as a managing dentist for many years.
If the scientists are right : and the evidence is becoming hard to ignore : our teeth's health can play a big part in our risk of heart disease, stroke, diabetes and even the fitness of a newborn child. And this may be only the tip of the iceberg.
"There's a whole lot of research out there at the moment trying to spotlight the links between teeth's health and the health in both directions : poor teeth's health influencing the health and poor the InstaHard Reviews influencing teeth's health, inches says Medical professional Matthew Hopcraft, director of the Australian Dental Association Victorian Part Inc.
It's not surprising really. The whole body is connected, but for way too long people and medicine have thought about the mouth as being a separate area of the body and that dentists work in isolation from other body. That clearly doesn't make any sense anymore, anatomically or physiologically as the mouth and teeth are a part of you and are linked with the body by a vast many blood vessels and sensors supply, plus all our food and drinks enter the body via the mouth.
It seems that poor teeth's health, and in particular the presence of inflammation in the form of periodontal disease, increases your risk of heart disease as well as stroke. A research conducted by the University of Queensland found that it was the bacteria found in the mouth, and more specifically in infected gums, that are so damaging. The group surely could locate T cells that are reactive to mouth bacteria in the arteries of people with atherosclerosis, where damage to the arteries is the effect of a build-up of oily deposits.
Finding mouth bacteria inside coronary arteries in people with heart disease is not something you would be ready to find but bacteria from the mouth sitting in a blood vessel in the heart suggests that this is where the link between periodontal disease and heart disease is coming from. As the mouth acts as a kind of site, allowing bacteria traveling through the body to other body parts especially in a person with periodontal disease as the blood vessels become more swollen and more permeable, and more likely to allow bacteria or microbe toxins from the infected gums into the body where they happen to be other body parts.
Our gums are too much neglected, despite the fact that the fitness of your gums can be just as important as the fitness of your teeth. In fact, it can be hard to have healthy teeth without healthy gums.
Less is known about the link between periodontal disease and diabetes, but the evidence is hanging. People are now start to do the research and understand the links much more closely and it appears there may be a link between periodontal disease and diabetes, but it's probably more the other way around. Thus people with diabetes are more at risk from developing periodontal disease or periodontal disease becoming more aggressive and causing more problems due to the altered immune response experienced by people with diabetes that makes them more susceptible to the bacteria that cause periodontal disease. Inadequately controlled people suffering from diabetes often end up having the microvascular system, so the small blood vessels really do not work so well, which affects that this gums respond and heal to periodontal disease.