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Podcast: The Healthy Mouth Movement Podcast
Episode: EP 57 : Your Mouth, is the portal into Your Body
Description: Just how can your mouth affect your body, to start you need to understand what happens in your mouth. Plaque and bacteria buildup on teeth the longer they go undisturbed the more they multiply. When you eat or drink you feed them creating an acid making both your teeth and gums susceptible to infection. The immune system intervenes to attack the bacterial infection to keep the gums from becoming inflamed and bleeding. If the infection is allowed to continue without disruption the inflammation continues.Dental infections are silent; you do not feel them until a later stage. It...