The Vital Link Between Oral Health and Overall Well-being

Oral hygiene 0:00 0
“is there a link between our oral health and our fertility? Yes, this is some of the newest research that's coming out and they found that over 90% of men who wasn't able to conceive with their partners had oral disease but those who got treated there was a 70% improvement in pregnancy.”

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Oral hygiene 0:14 0
“if a woman has gum disease it takes them 2 months longer to conceive.”

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Oral hygiene 0:31 0
“more than 90% of diseases can be traced back to our microbiomes and we now understand that having an imbalance oral microbiome increases your risk of high blood pressure, heart disease, Alzheimer's, rheumatoid arthritis and even men who have gum disease are 2.85 times more likely to have erectile dysfunction.”

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Oral hygiene 0:50 0
“there's oral bacteria that can make cancer more aggressive and harder to treat as well.”

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Oral hygiene 1:06 0
“I had a patient who had terrible arthritis and terrible gum disease and when I treated the gum disease her rum arthritis got better to the point where she was actually able to walk again.”

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Oral hygiene 2:05 0
“the mouth is the gateway to the rest of the body and if they really want to achieve full body health it starts with the mouth first.”

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Oral hygiene 5:22 0
“the World Health Organization has come out saying that 3.5 billion people have some sort of oral disease”

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Oral hygiene 5:29 0
“10% of our world population are suffering from severe gum disease which makes gum disease one of the most prevalent inflammatory conditions in the whole body.”

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Oral hygiene 6:57 0
“We Now understand that more than 90% of diseases can be traced back to an imbalanced microbiome.”

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Oral hygiene 7:08 0
“it's got connections with infertility, heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer's, rheumatoid arthritis, and the list goes on erectile dysfunction.”

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Oral hygiene 10:44 0
“the research paper which was titled could there be a link between oral hygiene and severity of covid infections was the first research paper to link gum disease with worse covid complications”

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Oral hygiene 11:32 0
“if I have a bad or a unhealthy oral microbiome I'm nine times more likely to end up in ICU with covid complications”

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Oral hygiene 12:27 0
“most of them didn't die from the virus itself you no one really died from covid-19 they died from complications so the number one complication was actually a bacterial infection”

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Oral hygiene 16:09 0
“is that a lot of people have impacted wisdom teeth so this is basically imagine your teeth are all upright your wisdom tooth is coming out at a completely horizontal angle and it's pushing on the rest of the teeth it's an absolute nightmare as a dentist to take out it's even more of a nightmare for a patient to have to endure”

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Nutrition 16:31 0
“because the diets have changed a lot more children are needing orthodontic treatment now as well just because they have crowded teeth teeth are overlapping”

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Oral hygiene 16:46 0
“cavemen didn't have dentists they didn't have braces they didn't even use toothpaste but they didn't die from gum disease or Decay or crowded teeth”

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Nutrition 19:23 0
“if you had a caveman diet then potentially you might not need toothpaste floss or even a toothbrush”

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Nutrition 20:01 0
“with a lot of the food that we eat now um they have a lot more sugar in them and that will impact the acidity of your saliva and essentially what decay is is uh you have sugar or you have some sort of carbohydrates and you've got this bacteria in your mouth and they feed on that sugar and as they feed on that Sugar they release acid”

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Oral hygiene 21:25 0
“it's how your body responds to that bacteria and the strains of bacteria that you have as well so for every bacteria um there'll be multiple strains and some of those strains can be really aggressive and really horrible for your mouth and other strains are completely fine and are not going to cause you any problems.”

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Oral hygiene 21:44 0
“when I developed my test what we did is we looked at strains so we looked at the strains of certain bacteria um and we would be able to differentiate between patients who had the really bad strains and the really good strains but then also we looked at the ratio of good and bad bacteria in someone's mouth so they're diverse as well as their genetic mutations and also their inflammation.”

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Oral hygiene 23:18 0
“the oral microbiome if someone doesn't go in there and mechanically disrupt the bacteria and the plaque in your mouth then that bacteria can stay forever.”

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Oral hygiene 24:22 0
“the two ways that oral health impacts overall health are by the spreading of bacteria and the other Central issue is it causes inflammation.”

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Oral hygiene 26:42 0
“what happens in an imbalanced oral microbiome is that shift changes so you get higher levels of bad bacteria and you don't have enough good bacteria these bad bacteria firstly yes they can travel elsewhere to the rest of your body as you discussed the second is that they can release inflammatory markers so they basically release inflammation and this inflammation can travel from your mouth to the rest of your body and contribute to inflammation elsewhere”

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Oral hygiene 28:14 0
“people with rheumatoid arthritis are eight times more likely to develop gum disease than patients without rheumatoid arthritis”

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Oral hygiene 31:07 0
“if you have gum disease you are at a 20% higher chance of high blood pressure”

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Oral hygiene 32:13 0
“people with inflammatory gum disease were twice as likely to have a heart attack and three times as likely to have a stroke than those without inflammatory gum disease.”

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Oral hygiene 32:23 0
“another study also showed that when you treated someone's gum disease their levels of CRP significantly reduced.”

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Oral hygiene 34:09 0
“men who have periodontal disease are 2.85 times more likely to suffer from erectile dysfunction.”

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Oral hygiene 36:17 0
“women who had breast cancer had very high levels of the specific oral bacteria called Fusobacterium nucleatum in their breast.”

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Oral hygiene 37:54 0
“I was reading about a study in mice that linked that oral bacteria to tumor growth.”

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Oral hygiene 38:01 0
“It's that specific oral bacteria, the fusobacteria nucleatum, which has been shown to accelerate tumor growth within mice but also for colorectal cancer and breast cancer as well.”

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Oral hygiene 39:38 0
“Poor oral hygiene, some of us genetically will have higher levels of it. It's what we eat, it's who we're kissing, it's what we're breathing in.”

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Nutrition 40:04 0
“Green tea is extremely effective at killing Fusobacterium nucleatum.”

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Oral hygiene 41:27 0
“Coffee does dry your mouth out, and so you have reduced saliva and that can actually cause problems for the oral microbiome.”

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Oral hygiene 43:45 0
“for example something like your Coke or or fanto or whatever it's also um very acidic um and it can actually cause erosion as well so this is essentially where the outer layer of your tooth so the enamel is just worn away from having lots and lots of these fizzy drinks”

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Oral hygiene 44:49 0
“if you have gum disease for more than 10 years you have a 70% increased chance of developing Alzheimer's”

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Oral hygiene 45:35 0
“there are certain oral bacteria so uh one called pen jaalis and that's one of the worst oral bacteria I would say out of all of them so this genalis is able to travel from your mouth to your brain it's only it's quite close by anyway and what's unique about this bacteria is it's able to cross the barrier between in your brain so the blood brain barrier um and it releases these toxic enzymes so these enzymes are called gingi paints and they're imagine these like horrible firefighter things and they can break down neurons they can break down um a lot of brain tissue and so when they looked at the cerebral spinal fluid and the Brain fluid or tissue of Alzheimer's sufferers they found that 97% of them had these toxic enzymes these Ginger pains in their brains compared to zero for the patients who did not have Alzheimer's”

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Oral hygiene 49:04 0
“like that oral bacteria ping jaalis and those Ginger paines you can get rid of ping jaalis really easily again if you tested it you can even test for Gingy pains um and then you can get rid of the bacteria before it starts causing problems”

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Mental health 49:45 0
“on the subject matter of the brain is there a link between my mental health depression anxiety and my oral microbiome so again there's been a lot of research um I think it's difficult for something like mental health and um and gum disease which you know with the Chicken and the Egg which one came first um because one of the issues is if you have a decline in your mental health you are less likely to take care of your oral health um and therefore that can exacerbate issues”

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Stress management 52:17 0
“is there a relationship between stress and my oral health so if I'm more stressed and my cortisol levels are higher is that going to make everything in my mouth worse yes it even outside of the lifestyle CH choices I might make in such a state yes just that stress will increase your inflammatory markers your inflammation um it also will dry your mouth out and all of those things will be linked”

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Oral hygiene 54:33 0
“so she works at our clinic and um we run it together with our mother and um she is very very hot on um mouth breathing and what she mainly does is she basically tries to stop children in particular from breathing with their mouths open and what she has found is that most of her patients um who come to her um are mouth breathers they often have some sort of um ADHD they have or some sort of attention deficit um they are uh bed wetters they grind their teeth a lot of the time um and they have a whole Cascade of other problems”

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Oral hygiene 55:37 0
“a lot of adults are mouth breathers because their teeth do not meet correctly or their jaws are in the incorrect position and uh at that point it is quite difficult to move the Jaws into the correct position or to get the teeth to close in a way so that the lips are at rest and you breathe with your nose instead of your mouth”

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Oral hygiene 56:20 0
“is there a link between the health of my oral microbiome and whether I breathe through my nose or mouth because James was explaining to me that the nose is affected like a a filter system yeah there's a certain temperature in there yeah um there's like sinuses and stuff which are have some kind of mucus which helps to catch bacteria so if I'm breathing through my mouth am I more likely to have a unhealthy oral microbiome 100% so exactly the same thing you're you're you've got a filter in your nose and so it will stop a lot of bad things from coming through but the mouth uh there is no filter I mean you breathe it in it goes straight into your lungs so there's no way of stopping anything”

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Oral hygiene 56:55 0
“a lot of people now are starting to mouth tape um and that's become kind of trendy and cool um it's not the easiest thing to do if it seems a bit weird to tape your mouth at night time um but for anyone who's worried that they breathe with their mouth open mouth taping in my opinion is a really nice way of just like testing it out and seeing whether or not you do breathe with your mouth open because you'll do some mouth taping and you can see whether or not you sleep better so if you have a wearable you can see oh wow my oxygen levels are so much better I had such a deep sleep”

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Oral hygiene 59:40 0
“so actually there's been a few case reports which have shown um uh there's one in particular and I had a patient as well who had this a woman who um had a new partner and she liked to perform oral sex on him and then she came to me because she was complaining of very inflamed gums and she was getting gingivitis and you know it's not something I really ask like I'm not going to be like how's your how's your sex life going these days like so I didn't ask it but she kept on coming back to me no my gums are still inflamed no my gums are still inflamed and then she asked she was like is it maybe because I have a new partner I was like okay maybe you guys are kissing a lot she was like no no no no and and then she explained to me um and then I was like okay fine why don't you go and test and uh ask him whether or not he has any issues um and it turns out that he was having recurrent urinary infections and so actually they were transferring bacteria and…”

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Oral hygiene 1:02:40 0
“yes um so if we look at men to start with um there was a study done and they found so they looked at a group of sub forel men so men who um weren't able to conce CE with their partners and they checked all of their mouths and they found that over 90% of these men had some sort of oral infection or dental disease of some sort going on they split the group into two half the group had the uh treatment that was needed so I don't know if they had gum disease or Decay they they got it fixed and the other half were left to their own devices um after eight months there was a 70% Improvement um in their success for pregnancy the men had their oral infection sorted um and they had a much better Improvement in their sperm quality and motility as well”

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Oral hygiene 1:04:14 0
“yes so um researchers also found that if a woman has gum disease um she is less likely to ovulate um and also she's going to have uh issues with conception so they”

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Oral hygiene 1:04:30 0
“found that woman with gum disease it takes them 2 months longer to conceive versus a woman who doesn't have gum disease”

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Oral hygiene 1:04:57 0
“women who are pregnant and have gum disease are at a much higher risk of pre-term birth so premature babies, low birth weight, and also preclampsia as well.”

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Oral hygiene 1:05:56 0
“they found that there was a 20% reduction in pre-term birth in the woman who had the sugar-free chewing gum compared to the woman who hadn't had it.”

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Gut health 1:10:09 0
“we look at all of the bacteria which has been shown to be the most beneficial in a microbiome so for you you had pretty much High to very high levels of uh good bacteria which is great no problems with that”

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Oral hygiene 1:10:21 0
“we look at bad bacteria so we actually uh look at about 500 different bacteria but then we zoom into the top 20 bad ones which are really associated with things like gum disease Decay bad breath”

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Genetics 1:11:30 0
“We've identified about 10 different genetic mutations which increase your risk of Decay and gum disease so uh for the Decay out of the five genetic mutations we looked at four out of five of them you had”

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Oral hygiene 1:13:42 0
“we give you personalized recommendations so we tell you based on um everything that we've seen the bacteria your mutations what your input from the questionnaire we tell you what toothbrush would be good for you what supplements you should be taking what uh toothpaste floss um everything basically even chew sugar-free gum all of those types of things to um improve your oral health and rebalance your microbiome”

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Oral hygiene 1:16:07 0
“we tell you to have green tea to have honey all of those types of things which have been shown through research to benefit your microbiome in your case specifically”

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Oral hygiene 1:17:04 0
“you should never brush straight after anything acidic or sugary so what you end up doing is is grinding the sugar or the acid into your teeth”

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Oral hygiene 1:17:45 0
“you should never rinse your mouth out with water after you brush your teeth so brush brush brush spit into the Basin and that's it”

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Oral hygiene 1:20:35 0
“this is to show you um what an implant looks like a lot of people don't know what implants look like um and how it looks like if it was within your jaw also what all the roots look like and then also if you look on the other side you can see um this tooth which has the black within it yeah um and it's got like a red bubble at the root of it so this is a tooth that's had a root canal done to it and has an infection at the roots of that tooth so that's an abscess”

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Oral hygiene 1:21:14 0
“when our teeth get stained what we often do is we'll take some sort of whitening toothpaste or we'll go to a dentist or a hygienist or something and ask them to whiten our teeth”

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Oral hygiene 1:21:53 0
“be very careful with a lot of those whitening toothpaste because they can be quite abrasive and damage the enamel actually so it's kind of like exfoliating your teeth but your teeth don't grow back so if you keep on exfoliating and and getting rid of that surface layer of enamel over a long amount of time that can be quite an issue and quite problematic you get sensitive teeth”

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Oral hygiene 1:22:25 0
“you should do that professionally um don't go and buy some overthe counter online thing um because a lot of the time either they don't have the the right percentages and they can actually damage the teeth and the gums uh really badly”

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Gut health 1:24:03 0
“probiotics are basically good bacteria so um not everyone needs them but a probiotic uh essentially will uh put good bacteria into the microbiome and if it's got the right environment to live in then it will continue to grow there basically if you're eating the right things”

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Oral hygiene 1:25:22 0
“Straws are very important to use for sugar and also for acid so drinking through a straw actually helps you bypass all of your teeth.”

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Oral hygiene 1:26:10 0
“Smoking and vaping neither of them are good for the oral microbiome. It goes back to dry mouth so smoking will dry your mouth out and then you don't have the saliva and the saliva can't do what it wants to it stops vascularization so it stops blood flow to your mouth.”

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Oral hygiene 1:27:14 0
“We have a clinic in central London called the Health Society. We opened about a year and a half ago now and our aim was to put the mouth back into the body to explain to patients exactly what's going on in their mouth and we can do that through microbiome testing other saliva tests.”

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Oral hygiene 1:30:30 0
“so you can go to your dentist and you can get a saliva test and that could flag up issues with your heart or diabetes and you will go and see your diabetologist um and we link everything together”

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Oral hygiene 1:30:55 0
“I've never heard about any of this stuff before and I do this job you know I've done it quite a few times now so I've spoken to a lot of Health experts that talk about the brain or I know infertility or um the gut microbiome but never one that looks at the body and our overall picture of Hell through the front door or the lens of our oral microbiome”

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Introduction to Oral Hygiene and Fertility

Oral hygiene is increasingly recognized as essential to overall health and specific conditions such as fertility. Emerging research highlights a notable link between oral health and fertility in both males and females. Poor oral health, especially gum disease, may significantly impact conception rates and quality of sperm in men. Reports suggest a 70% improvement in pregnancy rates following treatment for oral conditions, and a marked delay in conception—about two months—in women with gum disease.

Oral Health and Systemic Diseases

The microbiome in our mouths plays a complex role in overall health, influencing the risk for conditions from erectile dysfunction to cardiovascular diseases to Alzheimer’s. It’s reported that the imbalance in oral microbiome can exacerbate several systemic diseases, increasing risks significantly, e.g., men with gum disease are nearly three times more likely to encounter erectile dysfunction. Beyond fertility, poor oral health can increase risks for notable conditions such as heart attacks, strokes, and high blood pressure.

Impact of Gum Disease

Treating gum disease can not only improve fertility rates but also reduce high levels of systemic inflammation markers like C-reactive protein (CRP), closely linked to heart-related ailments. Periodontal health is a predictor of other severe conditions, including cancerous developments and neurological disorders like Alzheimer’s Disease, influenced by bacteria crossing from dental regions into brain tissues.

The Importance of Oral Hygiene Practices

Regular dental care acts preventively; maintaining good oral hygiene can mitigate the progression of diseases oral bacteria could exacerbate. Engaging in thorough dental care routines and managing conditions such as gum disease are practical steps to potentially reduce systemic health issues. Effective dental health interventions — such as the use of sugar-free chewing gums — have been highlighted for managing and improving conditions like pre-term birth risks during pregnancy.

Oral Microbiome’s Broader Health Connections

The oral microbiome’s condition has broad implications for overall health, with a poor oral ecosystem potentially exacerbating or even initiating systemic disease through mechanisms like inflammation. It’s vital to understand that the health of our mouth can affect far more than our teeth and gums, influencing general physiological health and illnesses ranging from rheumatoid arthritis to serious infections seen in conditions like COVID-19.

Conclusion

Overall, the research and clinical observations underscore the significant influence of oral health on broader health outcomes. These connections between oral bacterial profiles and systemic diseases highlight the necessity for comprehensive oral hygiene and regular dental check-ups as fundamental not only for dental health but as critical measures in managing and preventing a diverse array of health conditions. Education on the impact of oral health, aligned with improved public health measures, could be vital in reducing the prevalence and impact of many severe health issues.