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The mouth, the forgotten guardian of health

Maintaining good dental hygiene throughout your life helps you maintain a beautiful smile and strong teeth. But not only that. The importance of these everyday gestures actually surpasses our mouths… “Many connections have been made between oral health and general health.”emphasizes Pr: Géraldine Lesca, head of the department of oral medicine at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris.

Good oral health helps protect the heart, joints, pancreas, kidneys, brain… and even for pregnant women, the unborn baby. And it goes “both ways”claims the specialist: if our oral health affects our general health, then it can also be affected by the difficulties that arise, however far…

The main culprits

The connection between oral health and general health is sometimes direct. Thus, periodontitis, a disease associated with the colonization of deep areas by certain bacteria…

Source: Le Figaro

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