Gum Disease Causes Instant Death

Many people brush gum disease off as something minor.

Other than vanity, what harm does it really do?

A lot of harm actually!

And if you get COVID-19, your gum disease can turn deadly.

Not just a little deadly—881% more deadly than if you didn’t have gum disease, according to a new study in the Journal of Clinical Periodontology.

Gum disease, more formally called periodontitis, is a condition in which your gums and the bones that support them become infected with bacteria.

It causes inflammation, swollen and bloody gums, an erosion of gums, and tooth loss.

The reason that a team led by Canadian researchers thought to ask the question about the relationship between gum disease and COVID-19 is that COVID is related to an extreme inflammatory response throughout the body.

Similarly, by distributing the bacteria and inflammation in your mouth through your blood vessels, gum disease is also associated with such systemic inflammation.

This begs the question of whether gum disease can cause COVID-19 to be more serious than it would’ve been if this extra inflammation had not been added to the mix.

To investigate, these researchers used the national electronic health records of the State of Qatar, since the health information of all citizens and residents is recorded here.

They split their subjects into several groups: those who died of COVID, those who were placed in intensive care, those who received assisted ventilation, and those who were discharged without complications.

The researchers also obtained dental radiographs to assess the presence and severity of gum disease.

In their 568 subjects, they discovered alarming trends. Compared to those with healthy gums, those with gum disease were much more likely to have worse COVID outcomes.

1. They were 8.81 times more likely to die.
2. They were 3.54 times more likely to be admitted to ICU.
3. They were 4.57 times more likely to need assisted ventilation.

Blood samples from the gum disease patients revealed higher levels of chemicals linked to worse disease outcomes, such as white blood cells (immune cells), D-dimer (a chemical that prevents blood clotting), and C-reactive protein (an inflammatory chemical).

The authors offered two hypotheses for why gum disease patients contracted such severe COVID-19.

First, the inflammation and bacteria in your gums can easily enter your bloodstream through cavities in the gums of people with gum disease. This causes another layer of inflammation above what is caused by COVID.

Second, the virus can enter the bloodstream more quickly and directly from the mouth through these gum cavities.

This is just one more study proving that gum disease is no joking matter: it needs to be treated as soon as possible.

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