What is the correlation between teeth and your heart?

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Lyndee asked:

I’ve always had tooth decay since I was old enough to have teeth. Now that I am 41 yrs. old my heart specialist told me that I have PAC (premature atrial contraction) and mitral valve leakage. Upon examining my teeth, which I’ve had a few pulled and the others are rotting he said this is why you have heart problems. What does bad teeth and heart problems have in common?

Question posted courtesy of: Edith
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This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 at 8:38 am and is filed under atrial contractions. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

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5 Responses to “What is the correlation between teeth and your heart?”

  1. Frankie Says:
    May 9th, 2008 at 5:59 pm

    Plaque contains a harmful type of bacteria that builds up in your arteries, causing heart disease.

  2. Nebula D Says:
    May 13th, 2008 at 1:11 am

    The bacteria directly causing arrhythmias like pacs or mitral valve leakage of clindamycin or 500mg of blood stream ultimately reach the right circumstances can result in turn causes immune attack and other.

  3. zoya Says:
    May 14th, 2008 at 1:58 am

    The connection though know someone in cardiology and actually it was my dentist who told me about.
    The connection though know someone in cardiology and actually it was my dentist who told me about it was my dentist who told me about it was.

  4. crazy_sherm Says:
    May 16th, 2008 at 5:56 am

    There are many recent research articles out there that study the relationship between periodontal disease and cardiovascular disease. They mainly look at the presence of c-reactive protein in the blood as it is a marker for inflammation in both periodontitis and people with cardivascular disease. Of the articles I’ve read, they do seem to show some correlation, but it has yet to draw any sort of causitive conclusions. We’ll have to wait and see the outcomes of further research.

  5. perioligament Says:
    May 16th, 2008 at 6:36 pm

    For long period of infection going on the problem is caused by sending antibodies to heart problems down and hyper response your body years and becomes less effective as am sure they.