Teeth in poor condition, poor dental hygiene and bleeding gums can lead straight to the heart disease.

Teeth in poor condition, poor dental hygiene and bleeding gums can lead straight to the heart disease.
Heart disease is usually associated with smoking, obesity and high cholesterol. But Professor Howard Jenkinson of the University of Bristol, cited by the company of Microbiology, contradicts that idea admitted: "whether you are healthy and thin, you multiply your chances of heart disease if your teeth are in poor condition. "

As recalled by microbiologists at the University of Bristol and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, not washing your teeth regularly causes bleeding gums, which opens the door to hundreds of the body of bacteria, up to 700, which inhabit the mouth.

Thus, bleeding gums allow bacteria access to blood vessels, where they will stick to the platelets (blood components used for clotting) and cause "a clotting inside the vessels, preventing blood from partially return to the heart and at risk of a heart attack.

Another team, led by Professor Greg Seymour of the University of Otago Dunedin, New Zealand, has also studied the link between bacteria from an unhealthy mouth and atherosclerosis (furring of the arteries) .

She focused her research on the role that could play "stress proteins" produced when cells are exposed to any stress, inflammation, toxins, oxygen deprivation and water ...

The role of "stress proteins" is to help other proteins to move through cell membranes. Normally the immune system does not react to stress proteins of the individual, but his reaction to those from pathogens, in this case the bacteria in the mouth, causes a reaction to all the stress proteins. Then "the white blood cells accumulate in the tissues of the arteries, causing