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Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 4 Years (www.popularmechanics.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 58 points 10 months ago (3 children)

A tooth infection can easily spread to your brain and kill you. It's a very short path.

But even if your teeth are just regular bad, that affects how you can eat, and eating is kind of important to living.

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  • [–] 21 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Research has also shown a link between dental bacteria and heart disease. Not sure if it’s causation or correlation, but keeping your dental microbiome healthy seems to have benefits throughout the body.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    There are larger, more established correlational studies that show a link between dental health and overall physical health as well. There needs to be much more study done but preliminary evidence would suggest that preventive dental care provides for a cheaper overall health cost for a person over their lifetime.

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