No Link Between Heart Disease and Gum Disease

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The article is here:

http://health.usnews.com/health-news...se-experts-say

Unfortunately good oral hygiene will not help cardiovascular health. This was a hot topic in dentistry for the last few years. How will this news affect the profession?

As long as people want to actually keep their OWN teeth (and the vast majority of the patient's in my office seem to want to!) I don't think this will effect the profession very much, if at all.

The only real potential issue that I could see happening would be some insurance companies refusing to pay for more intensive perio treatment (i.e. scaling and root planing, quadrant surgery, etc). The evidence that regular cleanings is more cost effective from a caries detection and hence treatment standpoint is still there though

Makes me wonder... If someone is willing to take good care of their teeth, are they more likely to take good care of their body as well?

Originally Posted by Bereno

Makes me wonder... If someone is willing to take good care of their teeth, are they more likely to take good care of their body as well?

You ever see a hot girl with bad teeth... major turn-off

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXttW9GgNb8

Originally Posted by mike3kgt

You ever see a hot girl with bad teeth... major turn-off

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXttW9GgNb8

Lol, that looks fake, but who knows!! haha

The key word in my post is "tend"; I am curious of there is a relationship between those who are likely to have good oral hygiene and those who are likely to take good care of their health.

I didn't read the entire scientific study but from the abstract and conclusion it looks like we can still say there may be a link due to the nature of chronic inflammation.
There are very few studies that we can infer causation when it comes to the etiology of disease. There are so many factors involved.....

We all know that smoking can lead to cancer, yet we cannot infer direct causation based on the fact that we can't conduct a random study on human beings.