Dr Bonnie360 explores how the oral microbiome interacts with the rest of the body, a possilbe mechanism for how gum disease may cause systemic diseases.
Most people have personal reasons to practice good oral hygiene, whether to get a whiter smile, have minty fresh breath to impress a date, or just to prevent cavities that require an unfun visit to the dentist. But most people are unaware that good oral hygiene is vital to maintaining
New understanding of the oral microbiome is changing our ideas about oral health and disease, and is pertinent to our thinking about the role of the oral microbiome in systemic disease, including autoimmune diseases.
Salivary diagnostics may be a cheaper, faster and better way to diagnose certain diseases. Already effective in oral cancer and Sjogren’s syndrome, researchers are looking to expand the potential of using saliva. Blood tests and biopsies are invasive, expensive, and time-consuming to collect and