Brushing helps more than your teeth.You've you've Contraction of you have. you've you have you've have heard for years that brushing after meals is good for your teeth. But now comes additional research that shows bad dental hygiene dental hygiene n. The practice of keeping the mouth, teeth, and gums clean and healthy to prevent disease. Also called oral hygiene. can cause other health problems, too. New research has shown that strokes are up to 60 percent more likely to occur in older adults who have lost 10 to 19 teeth when compared with People who have lost fewer teeth. In theory, bacteria residing in the gums because of poor dental-care habits could lead to a variety of chemical events in your body, and eventually cause inflammation inflammation, reaction of the body to injury or to infectious, allergic, or chemical irritation. The symptoms are redness, swelling, heat, and pain resulting from dilation of the blood vessels in the affected part with loss of plasma and leucocytes (white blood in the body. And inflammation is a leading contributor to arteriosclerosis arteriosclerosis (ärtĭr'ēōsklərō`sis), general term for a condition characterized by thickening, hardening, and loss of elasticity of the walls of the blood vessels. . (Stroke) |
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