Researchers are exploring the connection between oral health and joint health—with surprising results
While the dental and medical professions remain separate disciplines with little cross-consultation, the mouth is the gateway to the body. It offers a warm, wet habitat for 700-plus species of bacteria that has been likened to a metropolis, second in size only to the gut microbiome.
Trouble starts when something tips the balance. Inflammation changes that ecosystem, triggering the rise of dysbiosis, Van Dyke says. Poor dental hygiene or medical conditions including rheumatoid arthritis impact this bacterial ecosystem in the mouth, allowing virulent species suchGiven the opportunity, these bad-actor microbes grow out of control, much like invasive species, infecting tissue below the gumline.
While still early, convincing data is emerging that people with periodontitis are at greater risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis and other inflammatory illnesses. Van Dyke adds that those with both systemic disease and oral disease are potentially in the crosshairs for other health “events,” such as worsening diabetes, heart attack, or joint flare-ups.
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