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- And yet dental insurance is de-linked from standard health insurance.by fakedang
- I think I first saw something saying scientists had found a link there about twenty years ago. There's a lot of evidence of something going on though some uncertainty to the exact mechanism.by tim333
- Anyone who is worried about their gum inflammation should consider going on metformin. I had bleeding gums for my entire adult life. In my late 60s I was put on metformin for pre-diabetes. A year later all traces of gum inflammation have disappeared. This is a known side effect of metformin usage. You can look up the studies. It is one reason why metformin is being researched as an anti-aging drug.by cleandreams
- by fortran77
- This has been an ongoing area of research for at least a decade in Alzheimer's. People with worse teeth/gums get Alzheimer's more often and decline quicker.
But no one has been able to disentangle the causality -- is it the oral bacteria, or is it that people in the early stages of dementia take worse care of their teeth?