Diets Bad For The Teeth Are Also Bad For The Body

Saturday, July 11, 2009 - 23:14 in Health & Medicine

Dental disease reveals very early on that eating habits are putting a person at risk for systemic disease. Because chronic medical disease takes decades to become severe enough to be detected in screening tests, dental diseases may provide plenty of lead-time to change harmful eating habits and thereby decrease the risk of developing the other diseases of civilization.

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