Dental hygiene plays an important and vital part keeping our overall health in check.

1. The Dangers of not brushing
Your Teeth

2. Dental hygiene plays an important and vital part keeping our
overall health in check. Most of us are aware that poor
dental hygiene cause of halitosis, or bad breath, as well as
can result to the severe decay of teeth, but can cause gum
disease as well. But did you know that there are other
grave consequences of not brushing your pearly whites?
Let us peer through the cavities – and investigate the
unexpected health issues that are caused of poor dental
hygiene.

3. Pancreatic Cancer
Back in the year 2007, a team of researchers from the
esteemed Harvard School of Public Health was the ones
that first presented strong evidence that links gum disease
and pancreatic cancer. Using the data from over 51,000
people which was gathered since 1986, the Harvard
researchers were able to find that men with a history of
gum disease was susceptible and has a higher risk in
acquiring pancreatic cancer by about 64% against men who
did not acquire gum disease.

4. Heart Disease
Back in 2008, a research conducted by a joint team
composing members from the University of Bristol in the
United Kingdom, and from the Royal College of Surgeons
in Dublin, Ireland, found out that people with bleeding
gums due to poor hygiene could be increasing their risk of
developing heart disease. This is due to bleeding gums –
bacteria from the mouth gains passage to the heart through
sticking themselves to platelets and riding the bloodstream.
This then forms blood clots, which interrupts the normal
blood flow to the heart that triggers a cardiac arrest.

5. And since the mouth is considered by medical experts as the
dirtiest part of the human body, it is no surprise that
cardiovascular disease is currently at the top of known
causes of mortality in the known western world. This cites
oral bacteria such as Streptococcus gordonii and
Streptococcus sanguinis as the common infecting culprits
that promote bacterial infections that lead to a high-risk
factor to develop heart diseases.

6. Alzheimer’s disease
Back in 2010, a clinical study using data from a 20-year
observation and research shed light in uncovering a link
between gum disease and Alzheimer’s disease. The data
showed comparative results of 152 subjects who enrolled
to the Glostrop Aging Study, a study that observes the
psychological, medical, and oral health, detailing
everything over the duration of 20 years that began in the
year 1964 and concluded in 1984. Through comparing
cognitive functions, the researchers found out that gum
disease led to low scores during the testing of cognitive
function.

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