Regular Dental Care Can Help Prevent Major Health Problems

I'm lying in bed watching the news, and there's Dr. Sanjay Gupta, chief medical correspondent for the health and medical unit at CNN, saying something about how regular brushing and flossing of your teeth can help prevent cancer. I didn't catch it all, so I decided to go online and check it out. Before I could do so, however, my wife says that she recently thought she heard something about how regular dental care, flossing, brushing and so on, could prevent heart disease.

Sounds a little weird, doesn't it? Brushing and flossing can help prevent cancer AND heart disease?

Well, I checked out a few sites, and it looks like it's the real deal. In fact, not only does regular dental care such as brushing and flossing stand out as a means of helping your body protect itself against cancer and heart disease, but taking care of your teeth can also provide some support in preventing stroke and diabetes as well!

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How Better Dental Care May Improve Your Health

A host of doctors, dentists, researchers and other oral specialists have been actively searching and doing surveys to determine what the effects of oral care, or the lack of it, may have on a person's general health.

Fact is, there is mounting evidence that there may be a direct connection between periodontal disease (chronic infection of the gums) and several other medical problems, some of which can be life threatening. Researchers seem to agree that the general health of an individual can be directly related to the healthy or unhealthy condition of a person's mouth. It is believed that bacteria in the mouth can be spread into the blood stream with the result that diseases can flow into the heart, the lungs, arteries and other parts of the body.

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