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Baby Those Gums and Help Your Heart!

Human Gum InflamationIt started out as an unconventional theory. But now, more and more scientists, physicians and dentists are seeing the connection between gum disease and potentially fatal heart attacks.

What would a problem with your gums have in common with an ailing heart? Researchers began by looking at heart attack patients and deciding what physical symptoms contributed to the attack in the first place. Their conclusions: inflammation, and infection. Then they set out to identify what might cause such inflammation and infection.

High blood pressure, high cholesterol, cigarette smoking, and obesity have long been recognized as obvious culprits. But various research studies have reported data that links the presence of gum disease to the kind of inflammation connected with heart disease.

As dental professionals, quite naturally we care about your teeth and gums. But we’re concerned with the rest of you as well! If you’re interested in learning more about the increasingly clear link between perio and heart attack, ask us about it at your next appointment. We’ll be happy to provide details—and maybe even a solution.

Sudden Fatal Heart Attack Warning Signals

It’s a frightening thought that adults sometimes die of sudden, unexpected heart attacks with no apparent previous symptoms. But there are risk factors for coronary artery disease (CAD) that ought not be ignored. They include:

  • Inactivity
  • Obesity
  • Family history of CAD
  • Smoking
  • High cholesterol
  • Diabetes
  • And now we know—Gum disease

About Yuri Kaneda, DDS

Dr. Yuri Kaneda was born in Japan and immigrated to the US when she was 4 years old with her family. She lived in Ohio, Nebraska, and Illinois before finally settling in the San Diego area. A graduate of Bonita Vista High School, she went on to the University of California Berkeley where she obtained her Bachelors in Microbiology and Immunology. After working for 2 years in growth plate research at University of California San Diego, she went to the University of California San Francisco Dental School for her Doctor of Dental Surgery degree. Upon graduation, she returned to San Diego where she worked as an associate in the practice of Drs. Morimoto and Yaryan, her childhood dentist. She then started her own practice in 1995 and has been at her present location since 1999 which happens to be across the street from her high school!

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