Baby Boomers Brush Your Teeth-Save Your Heart
Baby Boomers Brush Your Teeth-Save Your Heart by reducing the number of inflamed and infected sites in your mouth, you may reduce your overall inflammatory burden and thus reduce your risk for cardiovascular disease.
Most doctors agree and have known for years that gum disease and heart disease are linked, but they have yet to reach agreement on the exact reasons behind the connection. That is why doctors look inside your mouth when they examine you.
Heart disease patients often have several risk factors such as high cholesterol or poor diet, making it impossible to single out bad dental health as a contributing factor. More research needs to be done.
Heart disease is our nation’s top killer, claiming a staggering 450,000 lives in 2004, according to the American Heart Association. This is especially important to Baby Boomers, as we start to lose our teeth , the older we get.
Although it’s unknown how many of those deaths are linked to gum disease, oral pathologist Dr. Dwight Weathers of Emory University, suspects that the number would be high, “given that 85 percent of people over age 65 and probably half of people younger than that have some form of periodontal disease…now do you get it, Baby Boomers?
Dr. Steven Offenbacher, a University of North Carolina research professor, states that poor dental health is so prevalent that the number of lives saved by eliminating gum disease worldwide would “definitely be in the hundreds of thousands.
For the complete article on “Baby Boomers Brush Your Teeth-Save Your Heart,” go to CNN News.
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