See How Your Heart Health Can Be Impacted By Gum Disease


by Charles Neshah - Date: 2007-02-06 - Word Count: 411 Share This!

It is on qualified account that scientist have connected gum diseases with poor heart health. So this is another important reason for you to begin to, without fail, implement healthy dental practice for yourself and members of your family.

If you are one of the adults who are careless about their dental care, that means that children in your care are condemned to dental diseases. Because if you do not brush and floss and visit the dentist regularly, it is very unlikely that you will inculcate such important dental practices into your child or ward, thereby exposing them to heart diseases later in their lives.

To know that dental health care, a primary lesson in life, is being greatly overlooked is very worrisome. How is it that people grow up and still harbor the same fear they had of the dentist as children in spite of the consequences of dental care neglect?

Hear this: The common gum disease known as Gingivitis which symptoms include swollen and red gum, bleeding and bad breath, if not treated can progress into Periodontitis. This is the very last stages of gum disease that begins to poison other body organs, especially your blood, the blood vessels and the heart leading to either stroke or heart attack. Now, who wants to get into such health problems because they failed to do ordinary brush and flossing on a regular basis?

Although gum disease can be caused by other factors such as pregnancy, birth control pills, high blood pressure, diabetes, malocclusion and smoking, the primary cause is still failure to maintain normal and regular dental hygiene.

For both short and long term healthy life for you and your family, prevent gum diseases by practicing the elementary oral hygiene you were taught in elementary school:

Brush your teeth and get your family members to do the same as a rule, twice daily.Floss your teeth, at least, once a dayEat fresh food such as green vegetables and other fresh protein rich foodUse nutritional supplements to augment the natural nutrients in your foodEliminate smoking, sugary snacks and sticky sweets from you and yoursVisit the dentist, at least, once six months for check up and general cleaning of your mouth and all that is in it.

You can find more information online to enable you chose suitable dental products for your daily dental health care practice. But please be careful and choose wisely what and were you make your purchases online. Some dental care products can be of questionable manufacture.


Related Tags: tooth whitening, gum disease, periodontitis, malocclusion

Neshah writes for your sound health - For more information on oral hygiene and resourceful links visit either Opalescence Tooth Whitening Success or Confident Opalescence Smiles Blog.

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