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...

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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...

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