Tooth Loss Increases Cancer Risks

Tooth loss is not only very unappealing, it is also extremely unhealthy: a new research study published in the Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention journal found a tight connection between tooth loss and increasing risks of developing 3 forms of cancer (esophageal, head and neck, and lung). Until now, the team from Aichi Cancer Center in Nagoya and Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan, could only guess that bacterial infection and inflammation caused by poor oral h... Read »

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