Is periodontal (gum and bone around the tooth) disease related to Alzheimer's disease

Abstract

This is what this research published in this website: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aau3333

is looking into.

Scientists have found that the main bacteria responsible for periodontal disease is found in the brain of the Alzheimer's disease patients.

What you can do it to keep your mouth free of food as soon as you finish eating. You can use your tongue to clean your teeth, you can swish the water in your mouth before swallowing it as we all drink water and that is an easy way to clean teeth. And you can use tooth pick to clean between your teeth as soon as finished eating. There are ample different kinds of them in the market.

And you must floss every night before brushing and brush after as when we sleep, we do not have as much saliva to clean our mouth, we do not drink water, our tongue is not moving and if there is food there, then it is party time for bacteria.

Brush in the morning before eating as well as it reduces the number of bacteria accommodated in our mouth during the night.

We always have bacteria in our mouth as it is the biggest opening of the body with the environment. Leaving food in our mouth will make them stronger, mutating to more vicious kind and multiplying. Depriving them from food will weaken them.

You have to visit your dentist to have the hardened bacteria scaled off. Bacteria are very smart. They absorb calcium which is in our saliva as the bone and teeth need it. They make walls of calcium around themselves and you can not remove them with flossing or brushing. Though you can make them weak by depriving them from the food.

There we can help.

There are mouthwashes especial for the patients with periodontal diseases. Ask us about what kind as not all of them are useful.

I hope this helps.

Happy Wednesday,

Dr. Khoshand