By Martha Henriques
Your teeth and gums have a wide-ranging impact on your health, from your risk of Alzheimer’s to diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Crowded, misaligned and riddled with cavities and inflamed gums, our teeth are infamous for their flaws. The modern human is unusual in the level of painstaking, daily intervention that we need to make sure our teeth and gums don’t become diseased.
Far from being confined to a toothache or sore gums, our oral health affects everything from our diet to our overall wellbeing and the risk of death of any cause in a given year.
This is because diseases of the mouth don’t always stay in the mouth. A close link is emerging between oral health and some of the world’s most pressing diseases, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes and Alzheimer’s, underscoring the mouth’s role as a mirror of health and disease, and a sentinel for our overall wellbeing.
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