psychcentral.com
62%
541
Gum Disease May Be Linked to Later Dementia
Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.“We looked at people’s dental health over a 20-year period and found that people with the most severe gum disease at the start of our study had about twice the risk for mild cognitive impairment or dementia by the end,” said study author Ryan T. Demmer, Ph.D., M.P.H., of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health in Minneapolis.“However, the good news was that people with minimal tooth loss and mild gum disease were no more likely to develop thinking problems or dementia than people with no dental problems.”The research involved 8,275 people with an average age of 63 who did not have dementia at the beginning of the study.
