Does brushing your teeth protect once morest systemic diseases?
Various bacteriawhich is particularly severe infections in the mouth occur seem the risk for systemic diseases to increase and also to negatively influence the course of such diseases.
In a new study involving experts from Karolinska Institutet a comprehensive analysis of microbial diversity in samples from oral infections was performed. In this way, oral microbiota might be determined that may influence systemic diseases. The results were published in the journal “Microbiology Spectrum” released.
Link between bacteria and oral infections
The researchers analyzed overall 1,014 samples of 469 women and 545 men. The bacteria were identified, which are most common in severe mouth infections appear.
The samples were from people with severe oral infections and were collected at Karolinska University Hospital in Sweden between 2010 and 2020.
„We report here for the first time the microbial composition of bacterial infections from samples collected over a ten-year period in Stockholm County‘ said the study author Professor Margaret Sällberg Chen in a press release.
Systemic diseases caused by oral bacteria
Various earlier research projects have already established that there are connections between the oral health and diseases such as Krebscardiovascular diseases, Diabetes and Alzheimer’s, the team explains.
The current study now shows, “that several bacterial infections related to systemic diseases are constantly present and some of them even in Stockholm in the last ten years have increased“, so Professor Sällberg Chen.
In the samples taken were the most common bacterial strains so-called Firmicutes, Bacteroidetes, Proteobacteria and Actinobacteria. The most common bacterial genera were Streptococcus spp, Prevotella spp and Staphylococcus spp.
Ein Trendanstieg war laut den Forschenden bei Streptococcus anginosus, Streptococcus mitis, Streptococcus sanguinis, Eikenella corrodens, Actinomyces spp., Aggregatibacter aphrophilus, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Granulicatella adiacens, Enterococcus faecalis und Klebsiella spp. to establish
Underlying diseases caused by dental infections
The new results provide insights into the diversity and prevalence of harmful bacteria oral infections and it becomes clear what role bacterial infections in the mouth can play in systemic diseases.
According to Professor Sällberg Chen, it is very likely that bacteria that are found in the mouth and cause damage there also damage the tissues in the mouth others Damage parts of the body as the infection spreads.
However, this was a single-centre epidemiological study, so further larger studies are needed to verify the results Volkan Ozenci.
Özenci also hopes to gain a better understanding of the bacteria that cause oral infections. According to the researchers, diagnostics and therapeutic management might benefit from the findings.(as)
Author and source information
This text corresponds to the requirements of medical specialist literature, medical guidelines and current studies and has been checked by medical professionals.
Sources:
- Khaled Al-Manei, Mahin Ghorbani, Sabrina Naud, Kholod Khalil Al-Manei, Michał J. Sobkowiak, et al.: Clinical Microbial Identification of Severe Oral Infections by MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry in Stockholm County: an 11-Year (2010 to 2020) Epidemiological Investigation; in: Microbiology Spectrum (veröffentlicht 24.11.2022), Microbiology Spectrum
- Karolinska Institutet: Study sheds new light on the link between oral bacteria and diseases (veröffentlicht 24.11.2022), Karolinska Institutet
Important NOTE:
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