Research was performed by Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine.
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Of course, more work will need to be done to validate this connection as well as what might be done about it.
However, this is just one more indicator of how important your dental health and how it correlates to the rest of your body.
Keeping your teeth and gums healthy and clean is very important.
This is true not only to protect your teeth and gums, avoid tooth loss and prevent expensive treatments, but also for the rest of your body.
Researchers have found connections between dental disease and cancer, lung infections, heart disease, stroke, diabetes and a host of other diseases.
They have been noticing these connections for years, no decades. But, it is still hard to understand the mechanisms behind these.
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That's where that saying, "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth". Comes from.
You see, your dental health is vitally important to the rest of the body's health and to your longevity as well. Does this mean that you need great dental health to live longer?
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