“In the short term, that can be helpful, but if it continues, it can lead to chronic inflammation.”
And Dr Mosley isn’t the only expert to warn of the risks that come with poor dental hygiene.
Also speaking on the podcast, Dr Sim K. Singhrao, from the University of Central Lancashire School of Dentistry, looked at the implications first-hand.
Dr Singhrao said: “We examined Alzheimer’s disease brains and non-Alzheimer’s disease brains in the laboratory, looking for signatures of DNA from these bacteria from the gum, as well as any proteins that might be associated with them.
“And we found they were exclusively within the Alzheimer’s disease brains and not in the non-Alzheimer’s control brains.”
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