Are your teeth healthy? 90% of adults suffer from periodontitis!

Do you really know your teeth? Are they really healthy? According to statistics, the proportion of periodontitis among adults over 30 years old in my country accounts for 90% of the population.

Can periodontitis cause tooth loss?

Even if the teeth are bleeding, painful, or periodontitis is found on a physical examination, many people don't take dental problems seriously. Because it is not immediately life-threatening. But in fact, like cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, periodontitis is also a chronic disease.

If it is not treated in time, as the age increases, the periodontal tissue will gradually shrink, exposing the teeth, making the teeth look very long, easy to loosen, and eventually fall off before the age.

The loss of teeth not only affects the appearance, but also affects digestion and even causes heart disease.

Periodontitis can cause cerebral thrombosis?

As the saying goes, "disease enters from the mouth", "eat well and smell good". It shows that the health of the teeth is closely related to the health of the whole body.

Don't underestimate periodontal disease. From a small perspective, periodontitis causes local bleeding, redness, swelling, hot pain, or loose teeth. But overall, the sum of the periodontal surface area of the 32 teeth in the oral cavity should not be underestimated. If inflammation occurs, it will become a large lesion and endanger health.

Periodontitis bacteria can be a source of bacteria in the cardiovascular system, causing disease. The latest study found that the genes of some bacteria in some patients with cerebral thrombosis are the same as those of periodontal bacteria. This suggests that periodontal bacteria can enter other organs through blood circulation, and then slowly form thrombus with bacteria as the core in blood vessels.

Previous reports have shown that periodontitis is closely related to bacterial endocarditis, thrombosis, and chronic obstructive emphysema. The symptoms of periodontitis and chronic obstructive emphysema can affect each other and even aggravate; and the treatment of periodontitis can also help relieve the symptoms of chronic obstructive emphysema.

Stem cells from your own teeth could treat periodontitis

There are so many people suffering from periodontitis, but the specific etiology is not yet clear in the medical field. The occurrence of periodontitis is related to economic level, sanitary conditions, immune inflammation, gene regulation, local microenvironment, and oral flora, which can be described as comprehensive factors.

At the same time, the methods for treating periodontitis are also very limited, including scaling and scaling, etc., which only stay on the surface of the teeth. But the current treatment of periodontitis with dental pulp stem cell injections offers new hope.

Dental pulp stem cells can reduce periodontal inflammation, restore the regeneration ability of local tissues, grow new tissues, and help rebalance the local microenvironment, thereby treating periodontitis.

Dental pulp stem cell therapy for periodontitis refers to taking out stem cells from one's own teeth, culturing and expanding them in vitro, and then injecting the stem cells into the tissues around the teeth with periodontitis.

The method of stem cell treatment of periodontitis has now completed various preclinical studies, and it can be used for the treatment of periodontitis after the national drug declaration.

In addition, people should keep their lost teeth since childhood, because these teeth contain precious dental pulp stem cells, which can be used for stem cell therapy. At present, our country is also actively establishing a dental bank to store the teeth of Chinese people and assist in the research of stomatology.

Is snoring also related to oral problems?

Snoring is a symptom of sleep-disordered breathing. Oral jaw deformities, velopharyngeal muscles, and tongue suffixes can block the airway and cause sleep-disordered breathing. Therefore, oral problems are also one of the causes of snoring.

In this case, the sleep-disordered breathing of these people can be treated by wearing orthotics to open the breathing passage.

"Dry mouth" is actually an autoimmune disease?

Sjogren's syndrome is a chronic inflammatory autoimmune disease that mainly damages the exocrine glands. After the disease, symptoms may appear in the immune, blood, nervous, respiratory, and urinary systems. The parotid gland of the oral cavity is an exocrine gland, so it is also the target of disease invasion, so patients will experience symptoms such as decreased saliva and dry mouth.

A mouthful of crystal clear and white teeth is not only directly related to everyone's smile image and physical health, but also directly related to everyone's temperament and self-confidence, subtly affecting our daily work and life status. Therefore, how to make teeth healthier and more beautiful has become a hot topic that more and more people pay attention to.