
No wonder that many people associate a visit to the dentist with extreme pain, blood, and an annoying buzzing sound that echoes in our ears. However, it is clear that if anyone thinks this is because it never reached the office of a dentist, at least in the last fifty or sixty years.
Oral hygiene is important, and often being relegated in terms of health for unjustified reasons. What people do not realize is the importance of oral health means going beyond the teeth themselves, but also the responsibility of the individual’s overall health.
This has been demonstrated in a study carried out by the School of Public Health at Harvard and the University of Puerto Rico, where he has been associated with oral health hygiene and general health of the body, relating it to factors ranging from obesity to heart attacks.
This conclusion emerges from analysis of the health of 37,000 men, who were studied over sixteen years her quality of life and is related to oral health. In cases of people with a BMI over 30 was appreciated by 29% higher risk of dental diseases.
In addition, those with heart disease were also related oral health. The element playing a key role here was to inflammation, which is caused by oral diseases and directly affects the probability of suffering a heart attack.
What to do? Oral health is nothing easier than you think. Think you brush your teeth do not take more than three minutes, and flossing no more than a minute. This is four minutes in total. If you eat five times a day become twenty minutes, that within that there are 1440 minutes in a day are really very short time.