Routine Dental Check To Reduce The Risk of Heart Attack. Caring for and cleaning your teeth regularly is indeed trivial and often go unnoticed. However, it turns out it can give a pretty serious impact on health in general. Visits to the dentist at least twice a year can help to reduce the risk of suffering a heart attack or stroke. This is a study of a group of researchers from the Veterans General Hospital in Taipei, Taiwan.
Protection from heart disease and stroke is more apparent in study participants who received dental examinations at least once a year. Have teeth cleaned regularly by a health care professional can to reduce the growth of bacteria that cause inflammation. Bacteria can cause inflammation of the conditions that lead to the development of heart disease or stroke.
Brushing your teeth regularly and regularly can help remove the sticky layer of biofilm and easily attached to the tooth. Biofilm layer contains bacteria and is known as plaque. Plaque that has hardened because of calcified called tartar (calculus).
Calculus can only be eliminated with tartar cleaning (scaling) is performed by health professionals. By using a process called scaling, the dentist can remove the calculus above and below the gum line. Calculus above the gum line called supragingival calculus. While calculus is located below the gingival line referred to as subgingival calculus.
Previous studies have shown that there is a connection between chronic inflammation of gum disease, and the development of heart disease. However, these studies are observational only. In the new study, researchers looked at more than 100,000 people who have no history of heart problems or stroke during an average of 7 years.
Among the study participants are more than 51,000 adults who had received at least one time cleaning tartar by health professionals. And the rest is the group that received no cleaning tartar by health professionals. The study showed among participants who have made tartar cleaning twice a year for 2 years, the risk for heart attacks declined by 24 percent, and reduced stroke risk by 13 percent.

November 29th, 2011
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