Last month we reported forward the ...

Last month we reported forward the link between healthy gum and heart disease. Here's in addition another reason to visit the dentist. According to the November 2000 issue of the Journal of the American Dental Association, flows from a panoramic dental radiograph (wide-angle X-ray) done in succession a 67-year-old woman showed that calcium deposits were clogging her carotid arteries. The woman had shown no signs or symptoms of carotid artery disease, a potentially life-threatening condition.

The patient favorably underwent surgery to remove the plaque that was blocking the relations flow in her arteries.

According to the National blow Association, approximately 730,000 strokes appear each year in the U One-half of them be the effect from the buildup of plaque and fatty deposits in the arteries.

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