A beautiful smile is golden. And years of life, too. More and more studies are finding unexpected links between oral health and chronic conditions such as cardiovascular disease and degenerative brain.
If questioning one hundred Portuguese, only one is not going to complain about the state of health of your teeth. Subdued belong to the study on oral health presented by the Portuguese Society of Stomatology and Dental Medicine (SPEMD) and refer to more than 13 thousand surveys conducted during 2006. Diagnosis was established again, and swept vastly negative adults and children alike, which shows that education for oral health has benefited teeth Portuguese.
Main problems: decay, filled teeth, missing teeth, infections. Of the eight to 16 years, 47% of children have dental caries in permanent teeth, 16% had infections, tenderness or pain, but only 50% sought treatment. Adults aged 17 to 30 years are the most decayed teeth present - an average of 3.45. Thirty-eight percent we experience pain or abscesses and 71% periodontal problems, but only 42% tried to solve these problems with dental treatment.
This "allergic" to the dentist's chair away from the Portuguese of the average citizen, the most recent survey shows that the annual check up more often in Europeans is exactly the health of teeth. You can not guess what is causing this exemplary preventive behavior of European citizens, but attendance can shine a lot more than tooth enamel.
A study published in the journal Heart of September shows that the more caries and missing teeth have a young adult, the greater the risk of cardiovascular disease in the future. The article suggests that the bacteria lodged in the mouth can get some way into the bloodstream and cause infection or chronic inflammations.
Although not identify a cause-effect relationship, also the American Dental Association admits there is a connection between periodontitis and cardiovascular disease, Ave and bacterial pneumonia. Other studies have found a dangerous relationship between periodontal disease in pregnant women and premature births, and complications of diabetes. Not causing infections in the teeth and mouth can cause increased blood insulin and make chronic disease more difficult to control.
One of the most widely investigations this year, the area of oral health, has the right to highlight the Wall Street journal. Perhaps because it is one of the most deadly cancers and the relevance of the sample: 51 thousand men. Compared with those who had sound mouths, men with gum disease have a 64% greater risk of suffering from pancreatic cancer. Although rare, this risk is more than 36 cases per 100 thousand people.
At the time, researchers from Harvard "accused" to Porphyromonas gingivalis, a bacterium that affects the gums and can also trigger the formation of chemical nitrosamides, a carcinogenic substance in the body.
But neglecting oral health can also be reflected in the brain. A British study conducted around 2500 elderly people found that not having any teeth increases 3.57 times the odds of experiencing some sort of cognitive dysfunction. In addition to the above-mentioned risks from continuous exposure to a bacterial infection, the study of Robert Stewart and Vasant Hirani adds another possible explanation - the poor and unbalanced diet that older people without teeth may tend to keep open the way for degenerative diseases of the brain such as Alzheimer's.
Source: Revista Performance - October 07
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