Dental health is important for our mental and cognitive health, research shows.
Emerging evidence suggests that what goes on in our mouth can affect what goes on in our brain — and may even potentially affect our risk for dementia., professor in geriatric dentistry at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.
Severe periodontal disease — chronic inflammation of and damage to the gums and bone that support the teeth — affects about 19 percent of people older than 15 or more than 1 billion people worldwide, according to a 2022 World Health Organization . More research is needed, but recent observational studies have suggested that oral health may be a modifiable risk factor for Alzheimer’s, the most common type of dementia.Scientists are still working out whether and how the health of our mouths and minds meld, but they have identified two potential culprits that might explain how gum disease could lead to Alzheimer’s disease: bacteria and inflammation.
Other more recent longitudinal studies also found that a higher incidence of tooth loss was associated with cognitive decline. In one of 60 patients with mild to moderate dementia, periodontitis was associated with a sixfold increase in cognitive decline.Another study, in 2017, of almost 28,000 Taiwanese patients reported that having chronic periodontal disease for 10 or more years corresponded to a 1.7 times increase in the
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