2023-12-29 00:44:00
Viruses, fungi, nearly 700 species of bacteria… They all reside in our oral cavity. Our hygiene is therefore very important, especially since taking good care of our oral microbiome would help keep certain diseases at bay, notably Alzheimer’s, as explained New Scientist. The scientific journal invites us to rethink our relationship with our oral health, because a consensus is emerging on the fact that taking care of it might be the underestimated secret to a longer and healthier life.
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Neglecting oral hygiene can lead to the bad bacteria that reside in our mouth spreading throughout the body and causing or exacerbating problems ranging from cardiovascular disease to cancer, including Alzheimer’s disease. and arthritis. On the contrary, taking care of your hygiene helps you avoid declining health. There are habits to adopt to keep our oral microbiome in perfect condition, insists New Scientist which particularly highlights the importance of paying particular attention to your gums.
A vaccine once morest gum disease
Among the things to do when you develop gum-related inflammation: “Deep cleaning below the gums, in which dentists use special instruments to scrape plaque, tartar and bacteria from below the gum line. Antibiotics, gum surgery or extraction of certain teeth are also possible options,” the journal reports. There is even a vaccine once morest gum disease that dentist Eric Reynolds of the University of Melbourne, Australia, is developing. After a test on mice, the dentist now plans to carry out effects on humans.
Other scientists may even be working on more radical interventions, such as the fecal transplant carried out for the intestinal microbiota. A team of anthropologists has identified a series of beneficial microbes in the mouths of our ancestors (who obviously had fewer dental problems), as well as in those of healthy volunteers. “We know that there are people today who eat a lot of sugar, never brush their teeth, never go to the dentist and who, miraculously, have never had a cavity,” says researcher Laura Weyrich. “These are the people we recruit as donors for oral microbiome transplantation. »
Scientists have successfully performed transplants in rats, but more work is needed before the technology can be applied to humans. The researcher also urges caution regarding the results, because we simply don’t know what will happen if we introduce microbes that lived in the mouths of our ancestors into a modern mouth.
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