People with gum disease can have up to 25% higher risk of heart disease than people with good dental health. Apparently, gum disease was liked to a heart attack, because of the mouth bacteria, that can trigger chronic inflammation in your blood vessels. “If you have disease in the vessels in one place in your body, you have them in other vessels as well,” Dr. Wood says.
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