Tooth Loss Sign It Want Dementia

Easily forgotten is typical symptoms of dementia in people is caused by damage to brain cells. But before symptoms appear, the damage has already begun. Tooth loss in adults is often marks the beginning of the decline of brain function.

 

Unlike the milk teeth in children, the permanent teeth in adults would not date itself but rather triggered something else. One of the factors that trigger tooth loss is a problem with the teeth, gums and mouth.
Neuroscientists from Japan, Dr. Nozomi Okamoto in his latest research reveals that the health condition of the gums that is the cause of tooth loss is closely associated with the risk of dementia. He concluded that after researching the 6000 elderly aged 65 years and over.

According to him, an infection that occurs in the gums can lead to certain compounds that trigger inflammation. These compounds can be carried by the bloodstream to other places including the brain and cause inflammation in the network.

Inflammation that occurs in brain tissue can cause the death of nerve cells are almost entirely centered there. Damage to the nerves of memory and cognitive impairment is a major cause of dementia in adults and the elderly.

Dr. Nozomi reveal, elderly people who have teeth that are still incomplete have the lowest risk for having dementia. In contrast, the elderly who have no teeth or have lost some of his teeth have high risk to become senescent more rapidly.

"The loss of receptors around the teeth closely related to the death of certain neurons in the brain, which will trigger a decline in cognitive function," said Dr. Nozomi quoted as saying by AP.

Results were published in the journal Behavioral and Brain Functions some time ago.