Dental health has always been a big problem in our life, because in my impression, people of my age have a lot of dental problems. This is related to our nutritional status when we were young, and our hygiene Habits like brushing your teeth.
Therefore, many people have dental caries. In addition, when some people brush their teeth, their gums bleed, which is a manifestation of periodontal disease. However, because going to the dentistry is a very scary thing, the high-frequency "squeaky" sound of drilling equipment makes many people discouraged. Therefore, many people have dental diseases, so they procrastinate.
However, we must tell everyone that if you have dental disease, you must see it as soon as possible, otherwise, various bacteria and other microorganisms will breed in the oral cavity, which will cause many diseases throughout the body! It is estimated that these diseases, you have never even thought about, will be related to dental disease! Next, let's introduce it to you. Friends with bad teeth should take a closer look.
Chinese medicine believes that people are a whole. If we look at this issue from a holistic perspective, we can understand it better.
1. People with dental diseases, such as dental caries, periodontitis and other diseases, have a much higher rate of heart disease than ordinary people.
Periodontal disease was associated with a 19 per cent increased risk of heart disease, rising to 44 per cent for those under 65, the study showed. Western medicine believes that the culprit may be the inflammation associated with gum disease, as it can enter the circulatory system and eventually affect the heart.
There are also scholars abroad who have observed 12,000 people. After an 8-year study, they found that compared with those who brush their teeth twice a day, those who "seldom brush their teeth or never brush their teeth" are less likely to have a heart attack, stroke or stroke. Their risk of developing other diseases increased by 70%.
Therefore, it is now recognized by the medical community that the pathogenic bacteria of oral diseases and the toxins they produce can invade the blood, produce related antibodies, lectins, etc., and aggravate or cause heart diseases such as subacute infective endocarditis and coronary heart disease. A large number of studies have confirmed that periodontitis is an independent risk factor for acute attack of coronary heart disease, and it is significantly related to acute attack or overall mortality.
I have seen such case reports, that is, the dental disease has not been treated for a long time, which caused the inflammation of the heart, and finally the patient died.
In the view of traditional Chinese medicine, this kind of dental infection is also a kind of exogenous evil, which is hidden in the body and builds a nest between the teeth in the mouth for a long time. Once the conditions are ripe, the exogenous pathogens will go deep, enter the Wei Qi, nourish the blood, spread in the six meridians, and affect various viscera. This kind of heart disease caused by dental disease should be caused by exogenous evils directly entering the Heart Meridian, entering the blood system, and causing great harm.
Therefore, people with heart disease, if they have poor oral hygiene and dental disease, if the dental disease can be cured, it is very likely that the heart will have a chance to recover, and some patients even gradually recover from heart disease. lair.
2. Gum disease can also cause cerebrovascular disease.
The reason is the same as before, periodontitis can also induce ischemic stroke. A large number of studies have shown that periodontitis is a risk factor for stroke, coronary heart disease and myocardial infarction. Indeed, the degree of harm was greater than that of smoking and independent of other known risk factors. This is mainly because the teeth are on the head and closer to the brain. Therefore, the long-term infection of the teeth and gums makes the cerebral blood vessels more susceptible to this distance.
3. Oral hygiene can cause arthritis and even cervical spine problems.
Oral diseases can cause various arthritis. This is an indisputable fact. Because of oral infection, various bacteria-carrying emboli flow into the blood, which will cause the body's immune response. This immune response is especially obvious in the joints. Therefore, Oral disease can cause arthritis. The cervical spine is located very close to the oral cavity. In fact, diseases of the oral cavity and throat will directly affect the cervical spine, because the inflammation here will cause qi and blood stasis, and the accumulation of toxins. Therefore, when other conditions are met, oral cavity People with diseases and throat diseases are more prone to cervical spine problems. There are relatively few people reporting this situation, but some medical workers have also raised such a point of view. I personally firmly believe that there is a close relationship between the two.
4. Oral problems can cause diabetes and pancreatic cancer.
A large number of research results have shown that periodontitis and diabetes have a two-way relationship and are high risk factors for each other. Medical workers have found that in people with diabetes, the incidence of periodontal disease is high, and the lesion damage is serious and progresses more rapidly. Before, it was always believed that diabetes caused oral diseases, but now more and more studies have shown that this effect is likely to be bidirectional, that is, oral diseases make the blood infected, and blood clots with bacteria spread In the whole body, it will affect the pancreas and cause pathological changes.
At the 2016 American Cancer Society annual meeting, researchers at NYU Medical Center presented findings that the presence of certain bacteria in the mouth may reveal an increased risk of pancreatic cancer.
The researchers found that men and women whose oral microbiome included P. gingivalis had a 59 percent higher risk of developing pancreatic cancer than those who did not include this bacterial group. Likewise, people whose oral microbiome contained A. actinomycetes were at least 50 percent more likely to develop pancreatic cancer. Both types of bacteria are associated with periodontitis, or gingivitis.
It is a pity that the current research staff only want to study these two bacterial indicators as a screening method for pancreatic cancer. In fact, I think it should be the direction of treatment, at least the direction of early intervention, because my judgment is this, the infection of oral diseases is a kind of external evil, which will invade the body, if it can be blocked, It can reduce the pathogenic factors affecting the pancreas.
Now I have a very clear judgment that, in addition to dietary and nutritional factors, there are two unexpected causes of pancreas problems: emotional and oral diseases.
5. Oral diseases can cause esophageal cancer.
This is probably something that everyone did not expect, but as long as you read more medical reports, you will find that medical workers have done a lot of research. For example, foreign studies have shown that Porphyromonas gingivalis, which causes periodontitis, It can induce squamous cell carcinoma, and esophageal cancer is the most common squamous cell carcinoma.
Because the mouth is connected to the esophagus, polluted blood can easily reach the esophagus first. Medical statistics show that people with oral diseases have a significantly increased rate of esophageal cancer.
6. Oral diseases have an impact on pregnant women and fetuses.
Current research has proven that periodontal disease is one of the risk factors for low birth weight babies. This is a conclusion drawn from medical data, but the specific connection between the two is still being explored. Studies have shown that the risk rate of premature delivery and low birth weight babies in pregnant women with severe periodontitis is 7.5 times that of pregnant women with normal periodontal teeth. This factor is even greater than the impact of smoking and drinking on low birth weight babies. The impact is relatively large.
7. Oral disease can cause kidney disease.
The kidney disease mentioned here is chronic nephritis. Nephritis is essentially an immune disease. If the dental disease is not treated in time, infection lesions will be formed in the root of the tooth, and various complicated pollutants such as bacteria-carrying emboli will enter the blood circulation. When they come to the glomerulus, they will be deposited in the glomerular basement membrane, causing Immune response, this immune response is chronic nephritis. From the point of view of Chinese medicine, it is the invasion of external evils, entering the Wei Qi and blood, causing damp heat to hide in the kidney meridian, causing kidney disease.
After reading this, those friends who have teeth or gums and diseases, should they be secretly terrified? Yes, I wrote this article just to attract everyone's attention. If you have oral diseases, you should go to a professional hospital for treatment as soon as possible.
Many people don't know where their disease comes from. How did I get this disease?
In fact, there are many reasons that you have not thought of or seen. You must know that the human body is a whole, and a single trigger affects the whole body. If a problem occurs in one place, it will cause a chain reaction in other places. If you don't pay attention to a small problem, it will cause successive reactions in various parts, and eventually lead to big problems.
When writing this article, I borrowed the research results of many Western medical workers. Many people will ask, you are a Chinese medicine doctor, why use Western medicine?
In fact, as I have said many times, in my heart, nothing is nothing, and all explorations of life and disease are beneficial. In the previous study on the relationship between oral diseases and heart disease, foreign scholars counted 12,000 people. I think this kind of exploration is valuable, and I respect it. In fact, for the health of patients, why must Chinese and Western medicines be divided? Let's work hard together!
