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 Halitosis doesn’t only leave you without friends but its causes (mainly poor dental hygiene) can add to the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
A study conducted in Paris this week revealed that although obesity and high cholesterol were the main culprits of heart disease, failing to properly care for ones teeth and gums could also pose as a contributing risk factor.
Forget about the treadmill and diets because it was agreed at a meeting of the Society of General Microbiology in Dublin that with up to 700 different types of bacteria in the human mouth, failing to clean your mouth and teeth can lead to them flourishing.
Howard Jenkins from the University in Bristol did stress that although much of the bacteria in the mouth was essential to good health, others could act as catalysts leading to diseases of the arteries. Just think of bacteria entering the blood stream though bleeding gums, etc.
He adds that once inside the blood stream, these bacteria bind to platelets. Platelets as we know function as our sentries to fight against infections. It is suggested that this is one reason why antibiotics do not always work in the treatment of infectious heart diseases.
In a different study conducted by Greg Seymour and his team of researchers from the University of Otago in New Zealand, it was discovered that mouth bacteria does indeed cause the hardening of arteries or atherosclerosis.
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