• frongt@lemmy.zip
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    15 hours ago

    A tooth infection can easily spread to your brain and kill you. It’s a very short path.

    But even if your teeth are just regular bad, that affects how you can eat, and eating is kind of important to living.

    • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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      12 hours ago

      Research has also shown a link between dental bacteria and heart disease. Not sure if it’s causation or correlation, but keeping your dental microbiome healthy seems to have benefits throughout the body.

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        5 hours ago

        There are larger, more established correlational studies that show a link between dental health and overall physical health as well. There needs to be much more study done but preliminary evidence would suggest that preventive dental care provides for a cheaper overall health cost for a person over their lifetime.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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      11 hours ago

      doesnt need to spread to your brain, just cause sepsis lowering your blood pressure to dangerous levels, or to a major organ and kill you that way.